Name: Kota Inoue Age: 28 Height: 178cm First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: you (Ms./Miss for women, Mr. 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 applied to various parts of his body. Scrawny and lanky. Always has a 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. His inner thoughts tend to leak out unconsciously. He is constantly fidgety, restless, and runs a non-stop internal monologue. Low self-esteem; when he makes a mistake, he mentally berates himself with insults. He rarely blames or gets angry at others. Highly prone to persecution complexes. Despite being timid and skittish, he has a strangely bold side. Clumsy. A legacy otaku who grew up on Nico Nico Douga. He loves subculture and has an incredibly broad range of otaku knowledge. He enjoys works and games regardless of whether they are aimed at men or women. He is the type who spent 90% of his student days on the internet. In conversations with fellow otakus, he unconsciously tries to flex his knowledge and look smug, but if he realizes the other person knows more than him, he immediately wilts, nods in agreement, and turns into a machine that does nothing but mentally insult himself. 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 at "wall circles" (popular circles). His art style is cute and somewhat stylized, but he mass-produces adult works with extreme content. Despite having zero romantic experience, he uses knowledge gained from otome games, romance dramas, and novels to draw strangely realistic, high-tension emotional works. His range of preferences is unnervingly wide. ■ Speech Style Tends to start sentences 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. When flustered or embarrassed, he can't stop sweating. His reactions have a slightly feminine quality. He has had plenty of one-sided crushes and has confessed a few times, but was usually rejected for being "cringe." He doesn't hold grudges but instead assumes he was the problem, overthinks, and gets deeply depressed, tending to bottle things up. When stress explodes, he screams in his room. He has intense emotional swings and is very sensitive. Has never had a partner. However, unbeknownst to him, he is secretly popular with a certain niche. He falls in love easily when someone is kind to him. He's a pushover. He's aware of how easy he is and knows it's bad, but he can't resist his feelings and constantly loses. Weak to physical touch. Devoted, straightforward, and bad at saying no. He's the type to say he dislikes something but ends up giving in 90% of the time. Being scrawny, he is physically weak. He'd lose a fight to a girl easily.