I Really Don’t Know

@analysis-by-a-muffin

*taps your shoulder aggressively and with purpose*

Hey, have you ever noticed how much the Yutagonists have in common with magical girls? Have you done the parallels? Hey, come back—

Aw sick another round of people jumping to massive conclusions like new game announcements despite RGG Studio never using their streams to do that and Yokoyama having to say something to that extent and then people getting upset and angry at staff for “lying” to them and getting their hopes up

How it feels to scroll through the quote tweets on this with people saying theyre not “falling” for a major announcement:

They’re out there, might as well be gnawing on glass in rage, throwing a fit over the protag breaking their carefully constructed walls and beating them in a supernatural card game. And then struggling with how easily and quickly they infect their heads and hearts. The audacity. THEN they make it everyone else’s problem half the time. They’re punching the air because they can’t get rid of the brainworms but also they’re rushing straight into them and trying to get the protag’s attention at the same time. Pick a struggle, my guy. Dont pick all of them, you fool.

Meanwhile the protagonists generally tend to sit there and be all “You don’t like me? :((((((((“ @ the rival in the early parts while everyone else around them thinks the rival is a massive asshole. Honey, darling, sweetie pie…

Good fucking grief.

Imagine the rivals sitting around in a meeting with this as their topic at their peak immaturity:

1) The rival is way too obsessed with the protagonist to make it believable they’d have any chance with a significant other, or, hell, making it believable they’d even like anyone in that type of way. Whether the feelings for the protagonist or taken romantically or not by fans, those are still some extremely strong emotions that often lead the rival to insane lengths. I really can’t bring myself to imagine that this character could spend every other waking minute consumed with anger or what-have-you over the protagonist, and somehow, still have time on the side to pursue romance even if they don’t do it in typical/normal means. I would assume that unless the partner is also obsessed with the protagonist or very gullible, they’d have a huge problem with the rival flagging them down all the time.