Day 12: Hatate

[Juuni]

The phone tengu with a missing texture skirt.
Day 12: Hatate Himekaidou

Hatate is an okay character. She definitely isn’t interesting in my opinion, but she has enough to kind of go off of. Her personality is generally pretty grating to me, as she tends to only care about news reporting and her rivalry with aya, going to dirty methods for it. Hatate generally tries to show what it would be like if aya played dirty with news, but fails because hatate isn’t like aya at all. Hatate instead really just exploits her ability to make news, which aya isn’t even close to doing. Let’s take another angle of her character possibly showing how the tengu operate on a normal level with hatate as the example. This also wouldn’t work because she isn’t similar to a normal tengu, with her not being very active in the field and not getting caught up in the usual tengu business. Overall, the two angles she could show fall flat because she doesn’t have the character development to show them, while also not showing anything unique. Hatate ends up only giving us her as a character, which is a rival to aya that doesn’t show up more than like twice. She really just feels like a purple aya in my opinion.