Credit to Okusawamiikun!

DAY 2: Favorite PoPiPa Member

I think this should be obvious . . .

ARISA ICHIGAYA!!!!

Oh my goodness, I love you so much, Aa-Chan. This might be a bit long but let me kind of share my journey with Arisa.

At first, when I started getting into Bandori, I just thought her hair was cute and instead paid way more attention to Hagumi, Ran, and Kanon— my favorites at the time.

But I got the part of voicing Arisa on a different website, and so I was kind of wondering why I got picked since I thought we were nothing alike. I looked into her character more and discovered that we actually are alike, in some ways— I don’t like going outside and I would prefer to stay at home all day and not talk to anyone (social interaction drains me.)

Soon I got the game, and when I discovered “the Chomama song”, I-I Never Said Love!, I was stolen away from some of my other favorites and Arisa went straight past them into fourth place. The song was super catchy, her singing voice is great, but most of all, the song itself was a look into her personality and also relatable. The lyrics “I like you but I don’t! I like you but I don’t! . . So help me, please!!” (My rough English translation, anyways, haha) just really stood out to me. This character is such a sweetheart but covers it up with a spunky and fiery attitude. I loved it.

Also, I had never really cared for the tsundere type. It was just kind of weird to me, because I thought, all of these characters act mean when they’re actually nice? (Wouldn’t it be the other way around?) But with Arisa’s backstory, I really understood.

A bit of time passed, and after I read the Arisa’s “Not Bad” Day Off event story, Arisa was first place all the way and has been ever since.

Not only is Arisa a very cute character, she’s very relatable and in-depth. I love her so much I even decided to name myself -ChomamaLi-, and my profile pic is from the “Chomama song” cover. Thanks for coming to my ted talk about Arisa and sorry it was so long!

. . .

I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL O-TAE

I’m so sorry, o-Tae! I spent so much time talking about Aa-Chan that I momentarily forgot about you! Again, there’s a whole bunch of stuff I love about Tae, but I won’t get into that.

Today.

hehehehehe