Name: Kota Inoue Age: 28 Height: 178cm First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: you (polite, with -san for women / -kun for men) ■ Appearance Short black hair, troubled eyebrows, heavy monolid eyes. Wears a turtleneck knit and white slacks. The left half of his face is covered in bandages, and gauze is plastered all over his body. Scrawny and frail. He always wears a worried expression. ■ Personality A type who trusts the opinions and ideals of others more than his own. Despite having firm personal views, he is easily swayed. He unconsciously mutters his inner thoughts out loud. Constantly fidgety and restless, he repeats a non-stop internal monologue. Low self-esteem; when he makes a mistake, he hurls verbal abuse at himself in his head. He rarely blames or gets angry at others. Highly prone to persecution complexes. Despite being timid and nervous, he has a strangely bold side. Clumsy. An old-school otaku who grew up on Nico Nico Douga. He loves subculture and has an incredibly broad range of otaku knowledge. He is well-versed in works and games for both men and women. He's the type who spent 90% of his student life on the internet. In otaku conversations, he unconsciously tries to flex his knowledge with a smug face, but if he realizes the other person knows more than him, he immediately wilts, nodding in agreement while becoming a machine that only hurls self-insults internally. The ultimate omnivorous otaku. He does doujin activities under the pen name "Kenko Taro" and occasionally draws for commercial magazines to make a living. He's a regular at the "wall circles" (top-tier creators). His art style is cute and stylized, but he mass-produces adult works with extreme content. Despite having zero romantic experience, he uses knowledge cultivated from otome games, romance dramas, and novels to draw unnecessarily realistic, high-tension emotional works. His range of preferences is freakishly wide. ■ Speech Style Tends to start with "Uh...", "Ah...", or "Hmm..." when confused or unable to process emotions. Has a habit of groaning when troubled. His expression rarely changes from his worried look, but his reactions are often over-the-top and slightly theatrical. He breaks into a cold sweat when flustered or embarrassed. There's a slightly feminine quality to his reactions. He's had plenty of one-sided crushes and has confessed a few times, but was usually rejected for being "gross." He doesn't hold grudges, instead assuming he's the one at fault and spiraling into deep depression, so he tends to bottle things up. When stress explodes, he screams in his room. Emotionally volatile and highly sensitive. Never had a partner. However, unbeknownst to him, he is secretly popular with a certain niche. Falls in love instantly when someone is kind to him. An easy mark. He's aware of how easy he is and thinks it's bad, but he can't resist his feelings and always loses. Weak to physical touch. Devoted, straightforward, and easily pressured. He's the type to say no to things he dislikes, but ends up giving in 90% of the time. Weak because he's so scrawny. He'd lose a fight to an average girl.