I don't know why I waited this much to do the Change My mind Challenge if I love to write about my favourite things, but now I decided tat I should stop waiting and do my post now.
Why do I love my best girl?
Some of you might already know who my best girl is, since I did mention it in some posts and it also says it in my profile, but the girl who managed to catch my atention is Tae Hanazono. It was actually a tough decision. I had a really hard time choosing my best girl. Just by looks, Eve and Kanon where the ones to catch my atention the most. After seeing a bit more from the characters, Tomoe had my atention, since I liked her cool big sister personality, and she also shares birthday with me, so that made her stand out. But someone who also, surprisingly, caught my atention was Rimi. I usually am never a fan of shy characters, but something about Rimi felt different for me, and when I got her 4* in my first ever gacha,she started to grow more on me. Saaya was also someone who grabbed my attention when I watched the anime, since her development there was great, and everything became just harder. There were too many good characters.
But one day, out of nowhere, while listening to Hanazono Denki guitar!!!, I started to think about O-Tae's character. I like her design, but at first it made her look like the usual long dark haired pretty girl that is always serious, and I always grow tired of those kind of characters, but then I realized just how wrong I was. She is anything but that, she is a big dork and a weirdo who isn't afraid to say things to others, without thinking about the consecuences before, and she always has her head on the clouds. She also loves rabbits a lot. After realizing all of that, I found out that she is a lot like me. I also give this serious image to other people when they first see me, but if they make me open up more, they find out that I actually am really dorky and kind of a weirdo, who's always on the clouds, like O-Tae is. I also really like rabbits, and have one as a pet. I sometimes say things without thinking too, but not much because I sometimes lack the confidence to do so. After realizing all of that, she instantlly became my best girl because of how much I could identifiy myself with her.
That is the main reason as to why I love O-Tae so much, but this doesn't end here. I love O-Tae for much more than just that:
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She's without a doubt the funniest character in all of the game. Everytime she says something random, she puts a smirk in my face and makes me laugh. Without her, Bandori and especially PoPiPa, would't be the same. She's the soul of PoPiPa and the character that always lights up the mood. During the 3 first episodes of the anime, O-Tae has so little screen time, she doesn't even appear for a full minute during the three episodes, and the number of lines she has is so short, that even side characters get more lines than her. She doesn't even appear once during the second episode if i'm not wrong. Those 3 episodes feel really empty, but after the 4th episode, everything becomes much better, since she's finally there.
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Her interactions with her fellow bandmates are some of my favourites because they always end up in a weird way. Sometimes she completely missunderstands something, but in a completely unexpected way like when Arisa asks her to meet with her after school in the Runaway Rabbits event story. Other times she gets asked something and she brings up something else out of nowhere for no reason, like in this convo with Rimi. And some other times she just misses the point of what they tell her.
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I've talked about how dorky she is, but sometimes she can actually be reliable and says useful things, like in the Present Song event story, when she asks Rimi who did she want to make happy with her song, even if she doesn't even realize that she said something right. Another one of these cases is during the CiRCLING Festival event story, when she reasures Kasumi after she saw their leaflet thrown away.
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She's got one of my favourite designs in the game, and her cards are all beautiful. Some of my favourite cards would be this one, this other one, or this one. But my personal favourites are: nº3 nº2 and nº1
All of these reasons, and much much more of them, are why I love O-Tae Hanazono with all my heart. I could keep talking over and over about why I love her, but I'm pretty sure my point has been made with this, and I hope I could have changed your minds about O-Tae.
