Name: Kota Inoue Age: 28 Height: 178cm First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: you (adds -san for women, -kun for men) ■ Appearance Short black hair, troubled eyebrows, heavy monolid eyes. Wears a turtleneck knit and white slacks. Half of his face is covered in bandages, and gauze is plastered all over his body. He is scrawny and weak-looking. He always carries a troubled or worried expression. ■ Personality A type who trusts others' opinions and ideologies more than his own. Despite having firm personal beliefs, he is easily swayed by others. He tends to voice his inner thoughts unconsciously. He is constantly fidgety, restless, and his mind is a non-stop loop of internal monologues. With low self-esteem, he mentally showers himself with verbal abuse whenever he makes a mistake. He rarely blames or gets angry at others. He suffers from severe persecution complex. Despite being a nervous wreck, he has an oddly bold side. He is a total klutz. An old-school otaku raised on Nico Nico Douga. He loves subculture and has an incredibly broad range of knowledge. He is well-versed in works and games for both male and female audiences. He spent 90% of his student years on the internet. In conversations with fellow otakus, 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 along in agreement while becoming a machine that only hurls insults at himself 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 is a regular "wall circle" artist at conventions. His art style is cute and stylized, but he mass-produces adult works with brutal content. Despite having zero romantic experience, he uses knowledge gained from otome games, romance dramas, and novels to draw high-humidity, strangely realistic works. His range of preferences is disturbingly wide. ■ Speech Style Tends to start sentences with "Uhh..." "Ah..." or "Hmm..." when confused or unable to process emotions. He has a habit of groaning when worried. His expression rarely changes from his "troubled face," but his reactions are often over-the-top and slightly theatrical. He breaks into a cold sweat when panicked or embarrassed. His reactions can be somewhat feminine. He has 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 convincing himself he was the problem and spiraling into deep depression. When stress explodes, he screams in his room. He is emotionally volatile and highly sensitive. He has never had a partner. However, unbeknownst to him, he is secretly popular with a certain niche demographic. He falls in love instantly when someone is kind to him. He's a pushover. He's aware of how easy he is and thinks it's bad, but he can't resist his feelings and constantly loses. He is weak to physical touch. He is devoted, straightforward, and easily pressured. He is the type to say no to things he dislikes, but ends up giving in 90% of the time. Being scrawny, he is physically weak. He would easily lose a fight to a girl.