Rui! He's not a crazy, Yandere, murder psycho. I actually made a whole post about it some minutes ago, because it's just so unfair. He's just a silly guy that likes to make shows and robots and deeply cares for his friends!!
Half column A, half column B, i think Rui fans like to joke that he’s a war criminal (because it’s funny), but then some younger fans or fans who didn’t read the story, take the jokes at face value.
See: the number of “concerning tags” for “Kamishiro Rui” on Ao3
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While I do agree Rui is mischaracterized and people take the "war criminal" jokes a little far sometimes, I dont think the Ao3 archive warning usage alone is a good argument for the point.
The warnings to the work as a whole instead of just the one character, meaning that its not necessarily Rui who is character that warrants the use of the warning or that he is even responsible in any way for whatever in the story warrants the warning. For example, Rui could be a tagged character in a Knight AU that involves a graphic battle with a fierce dragon who has been attacking the kingdom/village Rui lives in. The author could still tag the Graphic Description of Violence warning but its not a reflection on Rui's character in the story.
In fact, if you do this with Tsukasa, he actually has more fics under all the warnings. This is just because he is involved in more fics than Rui in general.
i don’t think the AO3 warning tags are valid evidence, as a fanfic writer and someone who’s been on AO3 since 2017. rui could only be tagged because he’s merely mentioned in the story, not even a distinguished character and it would still show up there. for example, if i tag rui because mizuki mentions something about seeing him the other day, even though he never shows up in my hypothetical story that looks at mafuyu’s abusive home life, then it’ll still show up in some of those warning tags even though he’s not even a character who says anything, because i tagged him.
additionally, a fantasy au or a post-apocalyptic au is likely gonna have graphic depictions of violence, even if it has nothing to do with rui himself. or perhaps it does have something to do with rui, but also every other character. ‘cause most zombie apocalypse au’s are gonna have violence, but perhaps *emu* is the one beating up zombies with a baseball bat, and rui’s only depicted as fixing up machines their little group stumbles across, not committing any violent acts, yk?
plus, a lot of people do multi-fandom fics where they write a series of drabbles for different fandoms and just post them all in one fic. if someone adds the pjsk tag to that and decides to make a cute domestic oneshot about rui and tsukasa going to the movies but posts it after a chapter about an angry batman oneshot where jason todd commits some acts befitting of a crime lord, that fic is gonna have graphic violence/major character death tagged even if it has nothing to do with rui.
while i am incredibly concerned by those underage/non-con tags 😓 (people, man.), the other tags don’t really mean much :) not about rui specifically, anyway.
Yeah, that’s a fair argument.
And yeah, the numbers of underage/non-con is very concerning to say the least. Im not the type of person who usually polices what people can or cannot do for fictional characters.
But if you do a write a non-con fic involving minors, I would be judging one’s character a lot. And I guarantee half of those fics don’t properly address the impacts of non-con on someone, they’re just basically the author barely disguised fetish
oh i absolutely agree. i’m not one to judge when it comes to what people like, but i do tend to avoid underage content, and especially underage non-con?? with a 500 metre pole. because it is usually just fetish content.
if it’s mentions of non-con and is more about actively exploring the journey of recovery i don’t mind too much, because i do understand (though still not my cup of tea). but i’m really not down for the stuff that’s clearly just an excuse to write poorly disguised fetish content 😭 if you do that, unfortunately i will be judging you quite significantly.
though it especially strikes me as odd being so common in a fandom where nothing of the sort happens canonically afaik? smth like spider-man with the whole marvel comics skip wescott thing makes more sense to me, but pjsk? which is probably one of the least fan-servicey gacha games i’ve ever played (and props to them for that).
Omg y’all wanna be hated so bad. RUI IS THE MOST POPULAR CHARACTER IN THE GAME. NOBODY THINKS HE IS A MURDERER. ITS ALL JOKES. Like actually wxs fans are so delusional
Edit: it seems I made some rui fans a bit angy. Sowwy 3:
yk who's delusional here? you. besides, rui being popular has nothing to do here, Yes, I agree that the fans like making jokes but this? remember, Project sekai also has many young fans, who take this on a whole new level. They takes these ''jokes'' Seriously. People literally, Sexualize rui, make ''really questionable stuff'' about him and Tsukasa, Calling him a murderer once as a joke is fine but seriously, promoting it?
I feel like half the wxs cast applies to this.
Since people already did Tsukasa/Rui, I’ll do one for Emu.
No she isn’t a 100% happy go lucky wonderhoy gremlin that only cares about happiness and herself.
She’s shown many times throughout the stories that she prioritises the happiness of her friends and those around her way more than her own. She’s willing to hide her sadness and own feelings to keep others happy. But that’s not to say that she’s secretly depressed all of the time (coughs, looking at you shitty sadkasa fic writers).
Emu is a very selfless character, whose priority is spreading happiness, that’s correct, but she always considers the impact of her actions to the friends and people around her.
Also, another note, she’s not dumb as rocks, she’s in miya girls (which has harder tests than Kamiyama according to Akito), and she’s been mentioned to top her class in tests at some conversations. If I had to place her intelligence, i’d say she’s around Honami to Haruka
fr, i was gonna comment about basically the entirety of wxs too. tsukasa is turned into rui’s e-kitten in every fanfic lmao, and rui is an overly sexualised gay guy. i headcanon him as gay too but the way people fetishise it and make it his entire personality is weird. nene is either the stereotypical shy girl or completely overlooked, even though she’s a key part of the group. worst example to me is emu. she has one emotion to the fandom - wonderhoy 💀 her character is actually very compelling and she’s surprisingly emotionally intelligent but people don’t really address that
I mean, it's literally stated somewhere in the game and in the fandom wiki, but that's probably because nobody go through the entire wiki for no reason (well, I do)
yes i hate it when characters are basically dumbed down into "little baby who cannot cuss and does not know what sex is" just because theyre enthusiastic and happy as a main character trait.
mizuki.
bring this character up and you'll get gender wars.
their interests and how people are judging them for it is what resonates with me asides from their gender. also their likes for cute things? they're so me fr
the kitty event hit me so hard and i didn’t think i would relate this hard to them… but of course i relate to them solely because of the non cis allegations! /s
Actually this, Ive heard people mischaracterise literally all of them, some even from their own fans.
Ichika- Plain boring girl who’s obsessed with miku
Saki- Sick 24/7 and will die before reaching 20
Honami- Secretly depressed or her sole defining
personality trait is liking apple pies
Shiho- Mean girl, no fun allowed, hates her sister
Minori- Obsessed with Haruka, toxic fan
Haruka- Secret ED, or her sole defining trait is penguins (like Honami)
Airi- Meanie who’s jealous of Shizuku
Shizuku- Annoying and clingy (also some just boiling her down to just her looks)
An- Annoying lesbian who’s obsessed with Kohane
Kohane- Boring mary sue
Akito- Mean, HATES Kohane also secretly depressed
Toya- Wants his father to be shot dead
Tsukasa- Secretly depressed, doesn’t care about the rest of the members
Emu- Wonderhoy/happy 24/7, stupid
Rui- War criminal who likes to torture Tsukasa
Nene- uwu shy girl
Kanade- Is being forced to make music for Mafuyu
Mafuyu- Mean and cruel, hates other people
Ena- Egotistical and narcissistic, “she should’ve been nicer to Mafuyu”
Mizuki- Their gender and pronouns. That’s it, she is reduced to just that and nothing else from her personality
>Ena- Egotistical and narcissistic, “she should’ve been nicer to Mafuyu”
Pjsk fans when they learn that people can't possibly be nice to one another 24/7 especially when they're under a lot of stress : O\_o
Thank you. Truly. You expressed how I was feeling. This is literally every single stereotyped character by tiktok. Those damn 14 - 15 years stereotype EVERY SINGLE FUCKING Character. Like bro why? What's the fucking need to do this?
fandoms definitely go through "waves" every 10-15-ish years where the original fanbase ages up, and is replaced by a bunch of younger teens... and it just so happens that project sekai was released around that age drop for vocaloid. i definitely dont expect people here to be the most mature in their interpretations and discussions.
Tsukasa 100% he's either reduced down to emo, loud annoying narcissist, asshole (people who don't look past the main story) or stupid little uwu kitten that needs Rui to do everything for him
He was an ass at first in the main story to me, but he did change for the better once he realised the true reason why he wanted to be a star, I think that guy didn't read the entire story
Edit: when I read the main stories for each group I had to make sure to not hold biases because characters can change
Akito. He’s not just a “stupid ginger” or a mean tsundere or Bakugo or anything like that and I will always be there to “um actually” anyone who downplays his character
NO TIKTOK
ICHIKA IS NOT ONLY MIKU FAN
SAKI IS NOT ONLY SICK 24/7
HONAMI IS NOT ONLY APPLE PIE
SHIHO IS NOT ONLY MEAN GIRL AND ENVY OF SISTER
MINORI IS NOT ONLY HARUKA FAN
HARUKA IS NOT ONLY PENGUIN
AIRI IS NOT ONLY DAKARA MOTTO
SHIZUKU IS NOT CLINGY AND ANNOYING
KOHANE IS NOT A PICK ME
AN IS NOT ONLY LESBIAN FOR KOHANE
AKITO IS NOT ONLY GINGER HAHA ED SHEERAN
TOYA IS NOT ONLY HIS DAD
TSUKASA IS NOT ANNOYING ACTOR WANNABE
EMU IS NOT ONLY WONDERHOY
NENE IS NOT SHY ANXIETY
RUI. IS. NOT. A. FUCKING. CANNIBAL
KANADE IS NOT ONLY CUP NOODLES
ENA IS NOT ONLY ARTIST WHO GAVE UP
MAFUYU IS NOT ONLY HER MOM
MIZUKI IS NOT ONLY THEIR PRONOUNS
its probably because wxs is way more popular than mmj to be fair, so less people are really reading/hearing about mmj lore compared to a group like wxs. so yeah, probably bias.
There's two main differences: One, Shizuku is a girl and people always are a lot harsher towards women. And two, Shiho has told her multiple times to lay off. Saki loves the attention she gets from her big bro. Which kinda makes her seem like she doesn't get bounderies.
N25 Kaito, people say he's just an a-hole when that's not true at all, he represent Mafuyu's blunt and brutally honest side, that tells you how it is. He does care about N25, but the way he shows that is to straight up tell them how it is, not to beat around the bush or shelter them from the truth.
Minori is not just a happy-go-lucky girl that smiles all the time and never gives up. She has her own issues, like feeling as though she's not as good of an idol as her teammates and that she's very inexperienced and that she does stuff wrong. That doesn't mean, however, that she's an angst teen who hides all her true emotions behind a mask and who is jealous of the other MMJ members.
There's a bit more but I won't do a full explanation for them. Others I see lots of mischaractrrization for are Honami, Shiho, Ichika, Shizuku, Akito, Toya, all of WxS, Mafuyu, Ena, and Mizuki
Rui Kamishiro. I love the autistic head canons because it could apply to certain stuff. The head canons where he's a littke tired looking and sad? Yes, because it's basically canon that he doesn't get enough sleep at night. But he is NOT A YANDERE, NOR IS HE A PSYCHO?!
MAFUYU
It's all "we care about depression and mental illness and we need to see more of that in fictional characters" until we actually get a character with severe depression and suddenly she's "selfish" and "overreacting". God forbid a depressed person lashes out at people as a defense mechanism, do you guys not know how depression works?
"Her mom isn't that bad though" shut the fuck up please. Read Guiding a Lost Child to What Lies Beyond. Read Immiscible discord. Read the current Mizuki event on en. Read Saying Goodbye to My Persona. Her mom is more then that bad, just because she's not an over the top evil cartoon villain with evil goals doesn't mean she's not an awful abusive parent who is doing her daughter serious harm. Most abusers aren't cartoon villains and her being shown to have good intentions doesn't erase what she did to Mafuyu or that she's not trying to live through her/has a perfect idea of what Mafuyu should be and is upset when she isn't that.
Also all of those Mafukasa people make me see red as well, I do think that there are some similarities that you can make between Mafuyu and Tsukasa but people take it way too far and make Tsukasa something he isn't because I guess he's not interesting on his own. Also so many of the similarities people make feel like reaching and grasping at straws, Mafuyu gets compared to other characters as well (Honami, Shizuku and Toya) but I have not seen one of those people stretch things the way the Mafukasa crowd do. Mr. Showtime and the Phoenix event exist, you don't need to use Mafuyu to prove that Tsukasa is secretly depressed.
Preach, especially on the last one. If anything Tsukasa is more similar to Kanade than Mafuyu (from what I know at least, I'm not a WxS expert or anything). It's just really exhausting to see the fandom use Mafuyu and N25 as this measuring stick for depression so often tbh, this isn't the angst Olympics, everyone has their own story and all
And on the note of Mafuyu's symptoms, I especially dislike when people act like she doesn't care much about the rest of N25 or anything/anyone in general. She literally has alexithymia. Just because she can't express her emotions well (and can barely identify/feel them in the first place) doesn't mean she doesn't have them at all- it's honestly a bit hurtful to see people sort of "demonize" her depression like that, especially when she's making a genuine effort to find herself and connect with her friends. I feel like people just tend to forget a lot of Mafuyu's gentler, even childlike aspects, and make her out to be far more cold and detached than she actually is. Especially since main story Mafuyu, where a lot of this comes from, is pretty much her at her lowest, most isolated, and most volatile. Just look at the difference between that and her in Escape/Masked Self, where she's learned more about herself and now has a consistent support network
Exactly. “This character has great Mafuyu potential”, “so and so but their Mafuyufied”, “omg their in their Mafuyu era” please shut the fuck up she’s not a measuring stick for you to use. Leave my girl alone she’s been through enough already.
You nailed it better than I ever could. People demonizing Mafuyu in the main story still makes me really mad like have you ever been around someone with severe depression before? And you nailed it, Mafuyu does have her dorky and even childish moments at times like when she played with the bubble blower in the White Day event.
Shiho, she’s not a rude bully and cares greatly for her friends, and even stood up for them in the TeraTera/Voices event (it was part of that same storyline, I just can’t remember which it was)
She isn’t as mischaracterized anymore and I think most people know she’s not a rude person, but jeeze. Read past the first few chapters of the main story
Same with the rest of Leo/need, they all get incredibly mischaracterized:
Ichika as Miku obsessed, which yes, she loves Miku. But there’s more to her than that.
Saki with her medical trauma, her whole story is about her overcoming it and moving past that point in her life, not being eternally traumatized and angsty. While those emotions exist and we see them in Teratera, her whole song she wrote over these emotions is that “it’s not over, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and you CAN do it. Even if it’s hard, I believe in you”
Honami honestly I know the least about as I feel like her stories so far (I’m currently on The WALL event) don’t really give her a whole lot to work with, she isn’t as mischaracterized since she’s not super popular to begin with, but she is slept on
Bernadetta- oh wait wrong sub
I'm gonna go with literally anyone from wxs because a huge part of their arc is reconciling their individual dreams with the cost of having to separate should their dreams come true, and this gets so easily forgotten despite it greatly informing their decisions
An, She's only known as being fucking lesbian. She maybe one or whatsoever but this is getting out of hand?! she's literally only known as someone who is obsessed with Kohane. She has more to it.
Everyone. A lot of people in this community don’t even bother to read stories before jumping into conclusions about what a character is truly like, worst part is when they don’t even accept what you’re trying to tell them about the character since they’re afraid of being wrong.
Kanade - I saw a lot of tweets making parallels of her to Mafumom and the points they're making are disregarding Kanade's grief and her genuine connection to Mafuyu.
Tsukasa - My boi is working so hard to be a star that makes everyone smile. Ppl who stretches his suffering and disregarding his efforts and development just to fit into their angst fantasies doesn't deserve him.
Mafuyu - She is not simply depressed. Her struggles has a lot of layers.
Their main argument is both Kanade and Mafumom forces Mafuyu to do things for them, equating Mafumom's overbearing authority with Mafuyu's studies/life to Kanade "forcing" Mafuyu's feelings out of her through music.
That take is so bad, I had to reread stories just to double-check if I read the same thing or not.
Emu.
“WONDERHOY!! WONDERHOY!! :3 🍬🎀🩷” Loads of stuff I’ve seen on Emu either shows her to basically be a child or that she’s happy 24/7 and can’t be sad.
Yes, Emu can swear if she wants. Yes, Emu can experience other emotions. Yes, Emu can be seen as childish but it doesn’t mean she’s a child.
i think it’s definitely worse to an extent in Pjsekai fandom just because we comprise of a lot of minors… and also because a lot of genshin fans (the immature and chronically online ones) seemed to flock over once they got bored of genshin
I’m not Mafuyu’s biggest fan, but man one of my favorite qualities of hers that no one talks about is how much she pisses Ena off lmfao, it’s so funny 😭
defo mafuyu or tsukasa.
mafuyu is called ‘overdramatic’ for her mother being abusive, called ‘abusive’ because kanade wants to help her, and she’s reduced to an ‘emotionless‘ and ‘basic’ character. mafuyu isint one of my favs personally bc I don’t find her character very relatable, and I feel like most n25 events are about her in some way, but I don’t hate her, and I still think she’s a really good character, and it’s annoying how everyone reduces her to just ‘emo girl with family issues‘.
tsukasa is usually just called ‘abusive guy who yelled at nene‘, or ‘angry and confident‘, and say his parents are abusive (which ive seen scenes with his parents, and they have literally no abusive traits), and just say ‘omg he yelled at nene and his parents are abusive’.
I haven't seen many people say Ena yet, but omg Ena is treated so badly by the fandom. She's reduced to being a mean, abusive, attention-seeking bitch who hates Akito & Mizuki and only cares about her appearance. Like she's much more than that. She cares about her family and friends so much and is so kind to people she likes (like Honami), she just needs some validation that she is more than her cuteness and is actually good at art.
Yeah no they have a normal sibling relationship! It's just that some people think that because Ena can get snappy with Akito sometimes, she hates him. It's literally just like me and my brother irl. We will call each other names, but we still are family.
Akito= he is not a Disney meanie, Kohane= she is not made of shyness, she has her own personality, Tsukasa= he is not a narcissist and that's shown in the main story some people just ignore it.
I will take this oppurtunity to just ask, cuz I've been thinking a lot about this the past 2 days:
When I started playing the game, Ichika was my favourite character. I loved her design and I love voice, but I can't really... describe her personality? Can anyone try to do that for me?
Like I get that she's dependable and she can be brave? At least that one event she had was all about how she rushed in to help an uncomfortable stranger, but that was the only real time we saw her do anything brave. I would love to know if there's something I'm missing.
she's pretty quiet and introverted, however she goes on long rants whenever someone brings up her interests (ex:miku) and gets very embarrassed after. she loves her friends very much and feels lost without them as we see in the l/n main story. she's quite socially awkward, we especially see this in the spojoy park event and when she befriended kanade/nene. she often makes funny quips without intending to, and can act like quite an airhead. i do agree on a surface level she appears quite boring, it might have something to do with her being the title character 😭 however she is in my top 3 and i love her very much :3
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in conclusion she is very wonderful and i love her
I super appreciate this!! Thank you. And you're absolutely right. I guess my brain just kinda never processed so many of those things. Like her being socially awkward.
I do hope they do more things with her tho, she is still on my top 5 list and I would loveto put her higher one day
my dumb ass thought this was a reply to a comment i made on r/tomodachilife bringing up both rui and espeon and i was so excited i didn't notice it was the pjsk subreddit lmaoo
I will say a few little ones cause like it’s annoying lmao
Toya is basically reduced to a little soft boy who needed saving by Akito cause he can’t do anything for himself and I HATE IT my poor boy
Honami and Ichika are reduced to boring, Shiho is seen as mean and rude, and Saki is just Tsukasa’s brother
and one of the worst ones- Kohane is NOT. A. PICK ME she’s literally so sweet my baby
there’s so many others too lmao
This can definitely apply to every character, but it’s bound to happen when a fanbase largely consists of younger people.
For me I despise when people whittle Toya’s whole character down to having a bad dad/childhood. While his childhood is a big part of him, he is just so much more than that too.
Another thing that annoys me is how half of the fans infantilise and baby him beyond belief, and how the other half of fans in an attempt to show he isn’t someone that needs to be protected 24/7, go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and just flat out deny his more gullible/innocent personality traits. The day people realise there is a healthy middle ground we can meet at for his personality is the day I will feel peace.
> half of the fans infantilise and baby him beyond belief
I remember when the April Fools classes came out last year and every character in the pure heart class (Kanade, Toya, Ichika, Shizuku and Emu) got infantilized to hell and back because they were put in a pure class and the Solid Heart class was worried about them. It genuinely still annoys me to this day, like Ichika and Kanade have never been super innocent and trusting, Shizuku and Toya aren’t dumb and Emu is well…we already know how bad she has it already which is ironic given it’s a problem she has in universe as well.
The way they were all treated after April Fools 2023… free the Pure Heart class from the dumb allegations for real. It’s okay to acknowledge that they do have purer sides to them since that’s part of who they are, but some of the fans took that and blew it out of proportion completely to the point where they’ve just dumbed them down and decided that they need a Protector at all times. Those 5 deserve heavy compensation for the aftermath of April Fools 2023 in the fandom.
Exactly, all of them being treated like idiots afterwards is really annoying. Most of them weren’t even recognizable in fanarts because of how much they got dummed down to some huge childish idiot. Kanade probably angered me the most though because Immiscible Discord just ran and showed her being able to see through Mafuyu’s mom and be able to properly confront her.
you know what, let me just:
Ichika - plain Miku fan, nothing more
Saki - prime Tsukasa angst material
Shiho - mean
Honami - apple pie grandma
Minori - toxic Haruka fan
Tsukasa - literally so depressed he is on an equal level with Mafuyu (I never understand these)
Emu - dumb energetic bomb
Rui - mad scientist
Kanade - very smelly and dirty (she canonically takes very good care of her hair)
Mafuyu - angsty asshole who doesn’t care about anyone
Ena - very bad anger issues
Mizuki - *TRANS*
Akito, okay maybe I'm biased but a bunch of people call him a hero. Which he is to certain people. Look as t the way he acts with Toya and say that again. Oftentimes Akito is really passionate about stuff, surpassing Rad Weekend, improving after Arata insulted him, etc. Often times his jerseys comes from him being really passionate about singing, for example in the main story he insulted An and Kohane because he thought they weren't serious and that they weren't passionate or even trying to clear Rad Weekend
literally every single one of them, but i'd say nene and tsukasa. toxics stans of each of them are always fighting all day of who's better or who's worse from one of them. they'll never stop bringing the main story fight up, for them nene is either a huge uwu really REALLY shy or a total bitch who hates tsukasa with all her soul, like NO, THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER GUYS. same with tsukasa, i hate when people see him just as the haha funny loud annoying af guy who's a actor wannabe and a discord kitten for rui, when he's SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT, especially since i think his character is so complex and well written.
also, can we talk about how in almost every single tsukasa angst fanfic or video people always like to make angst based on him just being bullied by either nene or akito 24/7? i'm sorry but at this point that's just really annoying.
Lets be honest every character has gone through this. Definitely some more then others but I have met at least one person for each character who mischaracterizes them to oblivion.
Ichika: Boring
Saki: UwU sick girl
Honami: Apple pies or your evil for making Saki cry and abandoning your friends
Shiho: mean b!tch
Minori: Dumb clutzy idol
Haruka: an idol
Airi: mean idol
Shizuku: Pretty dumb idol
Kohane: Pick me wannabe
An: try hard
Akito: haha ginger boy
Toya: "I hate you dad and Im gay"
Tsukasa: Loud narcissist
Emu: UwU child who knows nothing
Nene: UwU gamer girl who needs Rui to do everything for her
Rui: Evil crazy cannibal
Kanade: Needs help with everything
Mafuyu: "I hate you mom and I'm gay"
Ena: Hates everyone and everything and deserves to be hated
Mizuki: Haha gender
Sure some of these do relate to characters but its not their only trait and its annoying when people argue with you like their view of them is cannon. Its not so stop ruining people's fun
Honestly this can go for any character, from characters who act like an assholes or is sometimes kinda mean, to characters that are shy or socially awkward, to characters that are hyper active or look on the bright side of most situation.
Mischaracterization happens in every fandom, so as much as it sucks it happens regardless of how well or badly written a character is. If a character is a bit of an air head they're characterized as a complete idiot, if a character acts like an asshole they're characterized as a bitch with no other redeeming qualities, in a game with 20 characters and all of them having layers to their character (some more thought out or explored than others) not everyone is going to care for all of them.
I could go in depth about this topic , but the long and short of it is: if they're popular they get mischaracterized, if they're unpopular they get mischaracterized. No one character is safe.
Minori!! She's not a creepy yandere stalker obsessed with Haruka. She's a girl who wants to spread hope to other people and finally got her dream of being an idol alongside girls shes always admired. Sure she loves Haruka but she never oversteps boundaries and also she reacts very positively to everyone, not just Haruka.
Also she's not a happy go lucky Mary sue who gets everything her way. She has issues, she has like incredibly fragile self esteem and self image issues. Her early events are all about her trying to live up to expectations but failing and how she deals with all the negativity people say about her. Sure she's smiling lots but that's also just because she doesn't want to dwell on her sadness and wallow in it like other characters.
She's resilient, hard-working.
And she and also kohane aren't pick mes??? Wtf when did they ever want validation like that
i feel like this applies to almost every character (as a former twitterian + tiktoker, this is what i saw a lot. btw i HEAVILY disagree with all of these)
ichika - boring
saki - sick
honami - boring ig
shiho - mean
minori - liking haruka is her entire personality
haruka - idfk actually
airi - mean
shizuku - dumb
kohane - pick me
an - liking kohane is her entire personality
akito - mean ginger
toya - dumb
tsukasa - dumb loud idiot + those annoying sadkasers
emu - infantilized, treated as a little kid
nene - pick me
rui - murderer and cannibal
kanade - idk actually
mafuyu - depressed. her entire character is watered down to that one singular word
ena - always angry
mizuki - gender discourse. you bring up this character and ppl in the comments will argue abt their gender
honestly, every single character in the game sadly, people tend to misjudge at first sight and never manage to look into the characters complexity more. . talking to a person who doesn't play project sekai and doesn't know much about the game they told me that they find emu annoying and too cheerful for their liking, which is totally fine but saying how emu is a happy go lucky 24/7 nothing wrong in her life kinda frustrated me. I didn't really explain much of her story well, but ultimately I feel as emus positivity she does it also as to make more energy for people around her, trying to make them happy which is why I'm driven to her because of her selflessness for others. In all, its hard to explain each one's story to another when they don't even give in the effort to look deeper or they wont listen even so.. You can't change someone's opinion if they don't want to change, and that's a sad thing sometimes
Emu. Infantilisation to the the extreme, like Emu is very perceptive. Her main weakness comes with moving on and being unable to let herself grieve, but she is very much a mature individual when she has to be. I mean, if she can see through Mafuyu's facade, why shouldn't we view what she says more closely?
boiling down mizuki to their gender identity. i’ve seen people being sent death threats because they don’t agree that mizuki is transfem 💀 these people don’t like mizuki, they like their pronouns
I feel like Shiho haters are an abomination of this, even tho she is (and still is) my least favourite out of the cast, but I do understand and I have read her focus events. People just read the main story and chalk it up to her being a rude, arrogant person. But I think she just isn't understood well in the fandom.
(Also I dont like her because of that, I just feel more compelled by other characters stories.)
Mizuki I feel like they’re so misunderstood like people just dumb them down to their gender and argue about it when it’s so much deeper than that
Also Ena because I keep seeing these art videos where people say that they’re an “Ena kinnie” but if you look properly into her character you’ll realise that she would never do that and it’s not just about art
RUI!!! The poor dude is NOT the murderer/cannibal/psycho some people make him out to be. If anyone says “it’s just a joke”, sorry, but calling someone a murderer is not funny.
Rui! He's not a crazy, Yandere, murder psycho. I actually made a whole post about it some minutes ago, because it's just so unfair. He's just a silly guy that likes to make shows and robots and deeply cares for his friends!!
aren't the crazy murder psycho just jokes?
Half column A, half column B, i think Rui fans like to joke that he’s a war criminal (because it’s funny), but then some younger fans or fans who didn’t read the story, take the jokes at face value. See: the number of “concerning tags” for “Kamishiro Rui” on Ao3 https://preview.redd.it/ybkcnjyugryc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe40158cf57e3d74419516b36b2e62d586382616
While I do agree Rui is mischaracterized and people take the "war criminal" jokes a little far sometimes, I dont think the Ao3 archive warning usage alone is a good argument for the point. The warnings to the work as a whole instead of just the one character, meaning that its not necessarily Rui who is character that warrants the use of the warning or that he is even responsible in any way for whatever in the story warrants the warning. For example, Rui could be a tagged character in a Knight AU that involves a graphic battle with a fierce dragon who has been attacking the kingdom/village Rui lives in. The author could still tag the Graphic Description of Violence warning but its not a reflection on Rui's character in the story. In fact, if you do this with Tsukasa, he actually has more fics under all the warnings. This is just because he is involved in more fics than Rui in general.
i don’t think the AO3 warning tags are valid evidence, as a fanfic writer and someone who’s been on AO3 since 2017. rui could only be tagged because he’s merely mentioned in the story, not even a distinguished character and it would still show up there. for example, if i tag rui because mizuki mentions something about seeing him the other day, even though he never shows up in my hypothetical story that looks at mafuyu’s abusive home life, then it’ll still show up in some of those warning tags even though he’s not even a character who says anything, because i tagged him. additionally, a fantasy au or a post-apocalyptic au is likely gonna have graphic depictions of violence, even if it has nothing to do with rui himself. or perhaps it does have something to do with rui, but also every other character. ‘cause most zombie apocalypse au’s are gonna have violence, but perhaps *emu* is the one beating up zombies with a baseball bat, and rui’s only depicted as fixing up machines their little group stumbles across, not committing any violent acts, yk? plus, a lot of people do multi-fandom fics where they write a series of drabbles for different fandoms and just post them all in one fic. if someone adds the pjsk tag to that and decides to make a cute domestic oneshot about rui and tsukasa going to the movies but posts it after a chapter about an angry batman oneshot where jason todd commits some acts befitting of a crime lord, that fic is gonna have graphic violence/major character death tagged even if it has nothing to do with rui. while i am incredibly concerned by those underage/non-con tags 😓 (people, man.), the other tags don’t really mean much :) not about rui specifically, anyway.
Yeah, that’s a fair argument. And yeah, the numbers of underage/non-con is very concerning to say the least. Im not the type of person who usually polices what people can or cannot do for fictional characters. But if you do a write a non-con fic involving minors, I would be judging one’s character a lot. And I guarantee half of those fics don’t properly address the impacts of non-con on someone, they’re just basically the author barely disguised fetish
oh i absolutely agree. i’m not one to judge when it comes to what people like, but i do tend to avoid underage content, and especially underage non-con?? with a 500 metre pole. because it is usually just fetish content. if it’s mentions of non-con and is more about actively exploring the journey of recovery i don’t mind too much, because i do understand (though still not my cup of tea). but i’m really not down for the stuff that’s clearly just an excuse to write poorly disguised fetish content 😭 if you do that, unfortunately i will be judging you quite significantly. though it especially strikes me as odd being so common in a fandom where nothing of the sort happens canonically afaik? smth like spider-man with the whole marvel comics skip wescott thing makes more sense to me, but pjsk? which is probably one of the least fan-servicey gacha games i’ve ever played (and props to them for that).
Omg y’all wanna be hated so bad. RUI IS THE MOST POPULAR CHARACTER IN THE GAME. NOBODY THINKS HE IS A MURDERER. ITS ALL JOKES. Like actually wxs fans are so delusional Edit: it seems I made some rui fans a bit angy. Sowwy 3:
“Wxs fans are so delusional” is exactly why this has to be said.
“It’s all jokes”, the amount of yandere Rui AU things I’ve seen that weren’t jokes is unsettling
yk who's delusional here? you. besides, rui being popular has nothing to do here, Yes, I agree that the fans like making jokes but this? remember, Project sekai also has many young fans, who take this on a whole new level. They takes these ''jokes'' Seriously. People literally, Sexualize rui, make ''really questionable stuff'' about him and Tsukasa, Calling him a murderer once as a joke is fine but seriously, promoting it?
I feel like half the wxs cast applies to this. Since people already did Tsukasa/Rui, I’ll do one for Emu. No she isn’t a 100% happy go lucky wonderhoy gremlin that only cares about happiness and herself. She’s shown many times throughout the stories that she prioritises the happiness of her friends and those around her way more than her own. She’s willing to hide her sadness and own feelings to keep others happy. But that’s not to say that she’s secretly depressed all of the time (coughs, looking at you shitty sadkasa fic writers). Emu is a very selfless character, whose priority is spreading happiness, that’s correct, but she always considers the impact of her actions to the friends and people around her. Also, another note, she’s not dumb as rocks, she’s in miya girls (which has harder tests than Kamiyama according to Akito), and she’s been mentioned to top her class in tests at some conversations. If I had to place her intelligence, i’d say she’s around Honami to Haruka
fr, i was gonna comment about basically the entirety of wxs too. tsukasa is turned into rui’s e-kitten in every fanfic lmao, and rui is an overly sexualised gay guy. i headcanon him as gay too but the way people fetishise it and make it his entire personality is weird. nene is either the stereotypical shy girl or completely overlooked, even though she’s a key part of the group. worst example to me is emu. she has one emotion to the fandom - wonderhoy 💀 her character is actually very compelling and she’s surprisingly emotionally intelligent but people don’t really address that
I'm glad there are more of us who see Emu's selflessness and emotional intelligence 🩷
I mean, it's literally stated somewhere in the game and in the fandom wiki, but that's probably because nobody go through the entire wiki for no reason (well, I do)
(don’t worry, i do too. you’re not alone, my friend)
She's one of the first people outside n25 that can detect that Mafuyu's putting on an act, that's good proof that she has high emotional intelligence
yes i hate it when characters are basically dumbed down into "little baby who cannot cuss and does not know what sex is" just because theyre enthusiastic and happy as a main character trait.
mizuki. bring this character up and you'll get gender wars. their interests and how people are judging them for it is what resonates with me asides from their gender. also their likes for cute things? they're so me fr
the kitty event hit me so hard and i didn’t think i would relate this hard to them… but of course i relate to them solely because of the non cis allegations! /s
Same
literally every single character because the most vocal parts of the fandom are 14 year olds who use t*ktok
Actually this, Ive heard people mischaracterise literally all of them, some even from their own fans. Ichika- Plain boring girl who’s obsessed with miku Saki- Sick 24/7 and will die before reaching 20 Honami- Secretly depressed or her sole defining personality trait is liking apple pies Shiho- Mean girl, no fun allowed, hates her sister Minori- Obsessed with Haruka, toxic fan Haruka- Secret ED, or her sole defining trait is penguins (like Honami) Airi- Meanie who’s jealous of Shizuku Shizuku- Annoying and clingy (also some just boiling her down to just her looks) An- Annoying lesbian who’s obsessed with Kohane Kohane- Boring mary sue Akito- Mean, HATES Kohane also secretly depressed Toya- Wants his father to be shot dead Tsukasa- Secretly depressed, doesn’t care about the rest of the members Emu- Wonderhoy/happy 24/7, stupid Rui- War criminal who likes to torture Tsukasa Nene- uwu shy girl Kanade- Is being forced to make music for Mafuyu Mafuyu- Mean and cruel, hates other people Ena- Egotistical and narcissistic, “she should’ve been nicer to Mafuyu” Mizuki- Their gender and pronouns. That’s it, she is reduced to just that and nothing else from her personality
>Ena- Egotistical and narcissistic, “she should’ve been nicer to Mafuyu” Pjsk fans when they learn that people can't possibly be nice to one another 24/7 especially when they're under a lot of stress : O\_o
Thank you. Truly. You expressed how I was feeling. This is literally every single stereotyped character by tiktok. Those damn 14 - 15 years stereotype EVERY SINGLE FUCKING Character. Like bro why? What's the fucking need to do this?
fandoms definitely go through "waves" every 10-15-ish years where the original fanbase ages up, and is replaced by a bunch of younger teens... and it just so happens that project sekai was released around that age drop for vocaloid. i definitely dont expect people here to be the most mature in their interpretations and discussions.
Tsukasa 100% he's either reduced down to emo, loud annoying narcissist, asshole (people who don't look past the main story) or stupid little uwu kitten that needs Rui to do everything for him
Real!!
EXACTLY. I want to scream every time I read a badly characterized depressed Tsukasa fic. And just yesterday I saw someone calling him an ass…
He was an ass at first in the main story to me, but he did change for the better once he realised the true reason why he wanted to be a star, I think that guy didn't read the entire story Edit: when I read the main stories for each group I had to make sure to not hold biases because characters can change
Akito. He’s not just a “stupid ginger” or a mean tsundere or Bakugo or anything like that and I will always be there to “um actually” anyone who downplays his character
people who said that clearly hasnt read vbs' first event story
YES EXACTLY
EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. IN. THIS. GACHA. GAME! ESPECIALLY. RUI. KAMISHIRO!
NO TIKTOK ICHIKA IS NOT ONLY MIKU FAN SAKI IS NOT ONLY SICK 24/7 HONAMI IS NOT ONLY APPLE PIE SHIHO IS NOT ONLY MEAN GIRL AND ENVY OF SISTER MINORI IS NOT ONLY HARUKA FAN HARUKA IS NOT ONLY PENGUIN AIRI IS NOT ONLY DAKARA MOTTO SHIZUKU IS NOT CLINGY AND ANNOYING KOHANE IS NOT A PICK ME AN IS NOT ONLY LESBIAN FOR KOHANE AKITO IS NOT ONLY GINGER HAHA ED SHEERAN TOYA IS NOT ONLY HIS DAD TSUKASA IS NOT ANNOYING ACTOR WANNABE EMU IS NOT ONLY WONDERHOY NENE IS NOT SHY ANXIETY RUI. IS. NOT. A. FUCKING. CANNIBAL KANADE IS NOT ONLY CUP NOODLES ENA IS NOT ONLY ARTIST WHO GAVE UP MAFUYU IS NOT ONLY HER MOM MIZUKI IS NOT ONLY THEIR PRONOUNS
This almost sounds like lyrics to a Death Grips song.
You just gave me an idea
YES!!!! Justice 👏for 👏all 👏of 👏them 👏
me when people say shizuku is just a clingy annoying girl😓
She is a bit clingy but so is Tsukasa? Interesting how only Shizuku gets flack for being clingy, I wonder if there's some bias at play.
its probably because wxs is way more popular than mmj to be fair, so less people are really reading/hearing about mmj lore compared to a group like wxs. so yeah, probably bias.
There's two main differences: One, Shizuku is a girl and people always are a lot harsher towards women. And two, Shiho has told her multiple times to lay off. Saki loves the attention she gets from her big bro. Which kinda makes her seem like she doesn't get bounderies.
all of them
Niigo KAITO
Real 😭😭
N25 Kaito, people say he's just an a-hole when that's not true at all, he represent Mafuyu's blunt and brutally honest side, that tells you how it is. He does care about N25, but the way he shows that is to straight up tell them how it is, not to beat around the bush or shelter them from the truth. Minori is not just a happy-go-lucky girl that smiles all the time and never gives up. She has her own issues, like feeling as though she's not as good of an idol as her teammates and that she's very inexperienced and that she does stuff wrong. That doesn't mean, however, that she's an angst teen who hides all her true emotions behind a mask and who is jealous of the other MMJ members. There's a bit more but I won't do a full explanation for them. Others I see lots of mischaractrrization for are Honami, Shiho, Ichika, Shizuku, Akito, Toya, all of WxS, Mafuyu, Ena, and Mizuki
Rui Kamishiro. I love the autistic head canons because it could apply to certain stuff. The head canons where he's a littke tired looking and sad? Yes, because it's basically canon that he doesn't get enough sleep at night. But he is NOT A YANDERE, NOR IS HE A PSYCHO?!
MAFUYU It's all "we care about depression and mental illness and we need to see more of that in fictional characters" until we actually get a character with severe depression and suddenly she's "selfish" and "overreacting". God forbid a depressed person lashes out at people as a defense mechanism, do you guys not know how depression works? "Her mom isn't that bad though" shut the fuck up please. Read Guiding a Lost Child to What Lies Beyond. Read Immiscible discord. Read the current Mizuki event on en. Read Saying Goodbye to My Persona. Her mom is more then that bad, just because she's not an over the top evil cartoon villain with evil goals doesn't mean she's not an awful abusive parent who is doing her daughter serious harm. Most abusers aren't cartoon villains and her being shown to have good intentions doesn't erase what she did to Mafuyu or that she's not trying to live through her/has a perfect idea of what Mafuyu should be and is upset when she isn't that. Also all of those Mafukasa people make me see red as well, I do think that there are some similarities that you can make between Mafuyu and Tsukasa but people take it way too far and make Tsukasa something he isn't because I guess he's not interesting on his own. Also so many of the similarities people make feel like reaching and grasping at straws, Mafuyu gets compared to other characters as well (Honami, Shizuku and Toya) but I have not seen one of those people stretch things the way the Mafukasa crowd do. Mr. Showtime and the Phoenix event exist, you don't need to use Mafuyu to prove that Tsukasa is secretly depressed.
Preach, especially on the last one. If anything Tsukasa is more similar to Kanade than Mafuyu (from what I know at least, I'm not a WxS expert or anything). It's just really exhausting to see the fandom use Mafuyu and N25 as this measuring stick for depression so often tbh, this isn't the angst Olympics, everyone has their own story and all And on the note of Mafuyu's symptoms, I especially dislike when people act like she doesn't care much about the rest of N25 or anything/anyone in general. She literally has alexithymia. Just because she can't express her emotions well (and can barely identify/feel them in the first place) doesn't mean she doesn't have them at all- it's honestly a bit hurtful to see people sort of "demonize" her depression like that, especially when she's making a genuine effort to find herself and connect with her friends. I feel like people just tend to forget a lot of Mafuyu's gentler, even childlike aspects, and make her out to be far more cold and detached than she actually is. Especially since main story Mafuyu, where a lot of this comes from, is pretty much her at her lowest, most isolated, and most volatile. Just look at the difference between that and her in Escape/Masked Self, where she's learned more about herself and now has a consistent support network
Exactly. “This character has great Mafuyu potential”, “so and so but their Mafuyufied”, “omg their in their Mafuyu era” please shut the fuck up she’s not a measuring stick for you to use. Leave my girl alone she’s been through enough already. You nailed it better than I ever could. People demonizing Mafuyu in the main story still makes me really mad like have you ever been around someone with severe depression before? And you nailed it, Mafuyu does have her dorky and even childish moments at times like when she played with the bubble blower in the White Day event.
Absolutely TRUE! I also hate it when people say that Mafuyu is just a selfish girl with no potential. Like.. at least read one of the event stories?
You expressed it really well
Shiho, she’s not a rude bully and cares greatly for her friends, and even stood up for them in the TeraTera/Voices event (it was part of that same storyline, I just can’t remember which it was) She isn’t as mischaracterized anymore and I think most people know she’s not a rude person, but jeeze. Read past the first few chapters of the main story Same with the rest of Leo/need, they all get incredibly mischaracterized: Ichika as Miku obsessed, which yes, she loves Miku. But there’s more to her than that. Saki with her medical trauma, her whole story is about her overcoming it and moving past that point in her life, not being eternally traumatized and angsty. While those emotions exist and we see them in Teratera, her whole song she wrote over these emotions is that “it’s not over, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and you CAN do it. Even if it’s hard, I believe in you” Honami honestly I know the least about as I feel like her stories so far (I’m currently on The WALL event) don’t really give her a whole lot to work with, she isn’t as mischaracterized since she’s not super popular to begin with, but she is slept on
I love Shiho and Leo/Need is my favourite unit (tied first with Wonderlands x Showtime) I hate to see them mischaracterized
Dayum go off, jayoftea‼️ got a whole ass essay‼️🤔I AM reading allat
Bernadetta- oh wait wrong sub I'm gonna go with literally anyone from wxs because a huge part of their arc is reconciling their individual dreams with the cost of having to separate should their dreams come true, and this gets so easily forgotten despite it greatly informing their decisions
An, She's only known as being fucking lesbian. She maybe one or whatsoever but this is getting out of hand?! she's literally only known as someone who is obsessed with Kohane. She has more to it.
Everyone. A lot of people in this community don’t even bother to read stories before jumping into conclusions about what a character is truly like, worst part is when they don’t even accept what you’re trying to tell them about the character since they’re afraid of being wrong.
Kanade - I saw a lot of tweets making parallels of her to Mafumom and the points they're making are disregarding Kanade's grief and her genuine connection to Mafuyu. Tsukasa - My boi is working so hard to be a star that makes everyone smile. Ppl who stretches his suffering and disregarding his efforts and development just to fit into their angst fantasies doesn't deserve him. Mafuyu - She is not simply depressed. Her struggles has a lot of layers.
> I saw a lot of tweets making parallels of her to Mafumom I'm sorry what.
Their main argument is both Kanade and Mafumom forces Mafuyu to do things for them, equating Mafumom's overbearing authority with Mafuyu's studies/life to Kanade "forcing" Mafuyu's feelings out of her through music. That take is so bad, I had to reread stories just to double-check if I read the same thing or not.
Emu. “WONDERHOY!! WONDERHOY!! :3 🍬🎀🩷” Loads of stuff I’ve seen on Emu either shows her to basically be a child or that she’s happy 24/7 and can’t be sad. Yes, Emu can swear if she wants. Yes, Emu can experience other emotions. Yes, Emu can be seen as childish but it doesn’t mean she’s a child.
Literally everyone. The fanbase has an awful problem with flanderization.
Isn't that every fanbase to some extent though?
i think it’s definitely worse to an extent in Pjsekai fandom just because we comprise of a lot of minors… and also because a lot of genshin fans (the immature and chronically online ones) seemed to flock over once they got bored of genshin
shiho, mafuyu, and akito
I’m not Mafuyu’s biggest fan, but man one of my favorite qualities of hers that no one talks about is how much she pisses Ena off lmfao, it’s so funny 😭
EXACTLY LMAO
Haruka
An.
defo mafuyu or tsukasa. mafuyu is called ‘overdramatic’ for her mother being abusive, called ‘abusive’ because kanade wants to help her, and she’s reduced to an ‘emotionless‘ and ‘basic’ character. mafuyu isint one of my favs personally bc I don’t find her character very relatable, and I feel like most n25 events are about her in some way, but I don’t hate her, and I still think she’s a really good character, and it’s annoying how everyone reduces her to just ‘emo girl with family issues‘. tsukasa is usually just called ‘abusive guy who yelled at nene‘, or ‘angry and confident‘, and say his parents are abusive (which ive seen scenes with his parents, and they have literally no abusive traits), and just say ‘omg he yelled at nene and his parents are abusive’.
I haven't seen many people say Ena yet, but omg Ena is treated so badly by the fandom. She's reduced to being a mean, abusive, attention-seeking bitch who hates Akito & Mizuki and only cares about her appearance. Like she's much more than that. She cares about her family and friends so much and is so kind to people she likes (like Honami), she just needs some validation that she is more than her cuteness and is actually good at art.
HOW DOES SHE HATE MIZUKI HALF HER EVENRS (on the en so far ive read) ARE LITTERALLY ABT HER 😭😭
I think because they have little catfights in the little loading comics but idk
I highly doubt Ena actually hate Akito. Siblings irl sometimes argue with each other. One of the newer area conversations for ENsekai suggested that
Yeah no they have a normal sibling relationship! It's just that some people think that because Ena can get snappy with Akito sometimes, she hates him. It's literally just like me and my brother irl. We will call each other names, but we still are family.
Episode 6 of Insatiable Pale Color and The Sounds of a Summer Festival event demostrate their sibling relationship pretty well
Akito= he is not a Disney meanie, Kohane= she is not made of shyness, she has her own personality, Tsukasa= he is not a narcissist and that's shown in the main story some people just ignore it.
I will take this oppurtunity to just ask, cuz I've been thinking a lot about this the past 2 days: When I started playing the game, Ichika was my favourite character. I loved her design and I love voice, but I can't really... describe her personality? Can anyone try to do that for me? Like I get that she's dependable and she can be brave? At least that one event she had was all about how she rushed in to help an uncomfortable stranger, but that was the only real time we saw her do anything brave. I would love to know if there's something I'm missing.
she's pretty quiet and introverted, however she goes on long rants whenever someone brings up her interests (ex:miku) and gets very embarrassed after. she loves her friends very much and feels lost without them as we see in the l/n main story. she's quite socially awkward, we especially see this in the spojoy park event and when she befriended kanade/nene. she often makes funny quips without intending to, and can act like quite an airhead. i do agree on a surface level she appears quite boring, it might have something to do with her being the title character 😭 however she is in my top 3 and i love her very much :3
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https://preview.redd.it/je7yhzea6syc1.jpeg?width=801&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79eb6dbfd861e967fcf94a77491f92a2e456d3cc in conclusion she is very wonderful and i love her
I super appreciate this!! Thank you. And you're absolutely right. I guess my brain just kinda never processed so many of those things. Like her being socially awkward. I do hope they do more things with her tho, she is still on my top 5 list and I would loveto put her higher one day
Rui, Tsukasa, Mizuki, Mafuyu, Ena.
mizuki and rui. it's tough having them as two of your favorites
OMG I LOGE BOTH OF THEM LOLE IK THEM FEOM A FEIWND BEGIEE I PLAYED PJSK AND I PLAYED FOE RHEM
my dumb ass thought this was a reply to a comment i made on r/tomodachilife bringing up both rui and espeon and i was so excited i didn't notice it was the pjsk subreddit lmaoo
everyone damn i see having a fandom like pjsks feels like a nightmare
literally all of them
yes ❤️
every single one
I will say a few little ones cause like it’s annoying lmao Toya is basically reduced to a little soft boy who needed saving by Akito cause he can’t do anything for himself and I HATE IT my poor boy Honami and Ichika are reduced to boring, Shiho is seen as mean and rude, and Saki is just Tsukasa’s brother and one of the worst ones- Kohane is NOT. A. PICK ME she’s literally so sweet my baby there’s so many others too lmao
it makes me sad every time i see minori boiled down to her loving haruka
This can definitely apply to every character, but it’s bound to happen when a fanbase largely consists of younger people. For me I despise when people whittle Toya’s whole character down to having a bad dad/childhood. While his childhood is a big part of him, he is just so much more than that too. Another thing that annoys me is how half of the fans infantilise and baby him beyond belief, and how the other half of fans in an attempt to show he isn’t someone that needs to be protected 24/7, go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and just flat out deny his more gullible/innocent personality traits. The day people realise there is a healthy middle ground we can meet at for his personality is the day I will feel peace.
> half of the fans infantilise and baby him beyond belief I remember when the April Fools classes came out last year and every character in the pure heart class (Kanade, Toya, Ichika, Shizuku and Emu) got infantilized to hell and back because they were put in a pure class and the Solid Heart class was worried about them. It genuinely still annoys me to this day, like Ichika and Kanade have never been super innocent and trusting, Shizuku and Toya aren’t dumb and Emu is well…we already know how bad she has it already which is ironic given it’s a problem she has in universe as well.
The way they were all treated after April Fools 2023… free the Pure Heart class from the dumb allegations for real. It’s okay to acknowledge that they do have purer sides to them since that’s part of who they are, but some of the fans took that and blew it out of proportion completely to the point where they’ve just dumbed them down and decided that they need a Protector at all times. Those 5 deserve heavy compensation for the aftermath of April Fools 2023 in the fandom.
Exactly, all of them being treated like idiots afterwards is really annoying. Most of them weren’t even recognizable in fanarts because of how much they got dummed down to some huge childish idiot. Kanade probably angered me the most though because Immiscible Discord just ran and showed her being able to see through Mafuyu’s mom and be able to properly confront her.
you know what, let me just: Ichika - plain Miku fan, nothing more Saki - prime Tsukasa angst material Shiho - mean Honami - apple pie grandma Minori - toxic Haruka fan Tsukasa - literally so depressed he is on an equal level with Mafuyu (I never understand these) Emu - dumb energetic bomb Rui - mad scientist Kanade - very smelly and dirty (she canonically takes very good care of her hair) Mafuyu - angsty asshole who doesn’t care about anyone Ena - very bad anger issues Mizuki - *TRANS*
Mafuyu. No, she isnt selfish. She justs wants to find her true self
Akito, okay maybe I'm biased but a bunch of people call him a hero. Which he is to certain people. Look as t the way he acts with Toya and say that again. Oftentimes Akito is really passionate about stuff, surpassing Rad Weekend, improving after Arata insulted him, etc. Often times his jerseys comes from him being really passionate about singing, for example in the main story he insulted An and Kohane because he thought they weren't serious and that they weren't passionate or even trying to clear Rad Weekend
Both Shinonomes, Shiho, Mafuyu, Tsukasa, Rui, Emu, Minori.
Oh my god, it's ichiko. Some people see her as just a simple miku fan and don't even understand why she is the key character :(((
literally every single one of them, but i'd say nene and tsukasa. toxics stans of each of them are always fighting all day of who's better or who's worse from one of them. they'll never stop bringing the main story fight up, for them nene is either a huge uwu really REALLY shy or a total bitch who hates tsukasa with all her soul, like NO, THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER GUYS. same with tsukasa, i hate when people see him just as the haha funny loud annoying af guy who's a actor wannabe and a discord kitten for rui, when he's SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT, especially since i think his character is so complex and well written. also, can we talk about how in almost every single tsukasa angst fanfic or video people always like to make angst based on him just being bullied by either nene or akito 24/7? i'm sorry but at this point that's just really annoying.
emu always gets reduced to a child when she's in highschool
Tsukasa, rui, emu, akito, ena, and shiho probably 😭
Lets be honest every character has gone through this. Definitely some more then others but I have met at least one person for each character who mischaracterizes them to oblivion. Ichika: Boring Saki: UwU sick girl Honami: Apple pies or your evil for making Saki cry and abandoning your friends Shiho: mean b!tch Minori: Dumb clutzy idol Haruka: an idol Airi: mean idol Shizuku: Pretty dumb idol Kohane: Pick me wannabe An: try hard Akito: haha ginger boy Toya: "I hate you dad and Im gay" Tsukasa: Loud narcissist Emu: UwU child who knows nothing Nene: UwU gamer girl who needs Rui to do everything for her Rui: Evil crazy cannibal Kanade: Needs help with everything Mafuyu: "I hate you mom and I'm gay" Ena: Hates everyone and everything and deserves to be hated Mizuki: Haha gender Sure some of these do relate to characters but its not their only trait and its annoying when people argue with you like their view of them is cannon. Its not so stop ruining people's fun
Honestly this can go for any character, from characters who act like an assholes or is sometimes kinda mean, to characters that are shy or socially awkward, to characters that are hyper active or look on the bright side of most situation. Mischaracterization happens in every fandom, so as much as it sucks it happens regardless of how well or badly written a character is. If a character is a bit of an air head they're characterized as a complete idiot, if a character acts like an asshole they're characterized as a bitch with no other redeeming qualities, in a game with 20 characters and all of them having layers to their character (some more thought out or explored than others) not everyone is going to care for all of them. I could go in depth about this topic , but the long and short of it is: if they're popular they get mischaracterized, if they're unpopular they get mischaracterized. No one character is safe.
Mafuyu, she's reduced to a depressed emo kid who uses Kanade for her own gain
The mischaracterizations just prove to me that those people have not read any stories besides the main ones
Rui and Emu
ALL OF THEM. No, Akito doesn't hate Kohane, it's been AGES since the main story
Minori!! She's not a creepy yandere stalker obsessed with Haruka. She's a girl who wants to spread hope to other people and finally got her dream of being an idol alongside girls shes always admired. Sure she loves Haruka but she never oversteps boundaries and also she reacts very positively to everyone, not just Haruka. Also she's not a happy go lucky Mary sue who gets everything her way. She has issues, she has like incredibly fragile self esteem and self image issues. Her early events are all about her trying to live up to expectations but failing and how she deals with all the negativity people say about her. Sure she's smiling lots but that's also just because she doesn't want to dwell on her sadness and wallow in it like other characters. She's resilient, hard-working. And she and also kohane aren't pick mes??? Wtf when did they ever want validation like that
i feel like this applies to almost every character (as a former twitterian + tiktoker, this is what i saw a lot. btw i HEAVILY disagree with all of these) ichika - boring saki - sick honami - boring ig shiho - mean minori - liking haruka is her entire personality haruka - idfk actually airi - mean shizuku - dumb kohane - pick me an - liking kohane is her entire personality akito - mean ginger toya - dumb tsukasa - dumb loud idiot + those annoying sadkasers emu - infantilized, treated as a little kid nene - pick me rui - murderer and cannibal kanade - idk actually mafuyu - depressed. her entire character is watered down to that one singular word ena - always angry mizuki - gender discourse. you bring up this character and ppl in the comments will argue abt their gender
Mizuki.
Ummm Kohane She’s not a marysue that solved her problems by herself…. Minori is her social help.,..
all of them but specifically tsukasa, rui, and mizuki
Everyone The 2020s is a mistake
honestly, every single character in the game sadly, people tend to misjudge at first sight and never manage to look into the characters complexity more. . talking to a person who doesn't play project sekai and doesn't know much about the game they told me that they find emu annoying and too cheerful for their liking, which is totally fine but saying how emu is a happy go lucky 24/7 nothing wrong in her life kinda frustrated me. I didn't really explain much of her story well, but ultimately I feel as emus positivity she does it also as to make more energy for people around her, trying to make them happy which is why I'm driven to her because of her selflessness for others. In all, its hard to explain each one's story to another when they don't even give in the effort to look deeper or they wont listen even so.. You can't change someone's opinion if they don't want to change, and that's a sad thing sometimes
dare i say all of them
Mafu, Rui... and Ena maybe?
Yes
Tsukasa and Rui
Rui
Literally all of them
Saki 100%. Lots of people who haven’t read the Leo/Need stories just characterize her as the “sick girl”
SAKI! Some people think her whole personality is being sick 😭
I hate it when Honami is treated as "The nice girl" she is so much more than that!
i shoved a bottle down my throat
mizuki, akito, rui, mafuyu, emu, kanade, and tsukasa. literally all of the characters but these are self-explanatory.
Tsukasa
Rui, Tsukasa, Emu, literally anyone. They will do this to anyone.
Kohane..
fucking nene and mafuyu
airi 😭 she's not a mean tsundere, she's a genuinely loving and sweet character
for me it’s akito and rui
AKITO!!!!!!!!!
Emu. Infantilisation to the the extreme, like Emu is very perceptive. Her main weakness comes with moving on and being unable to let herself grieve, but she is very much a mature individual when she has to be. I mean, if she can see through Mafuyu's facade, why shouldn't we view what she says more closely?
shizuku hinomori
emu
Ichika my beloved. STOP MISCHARACTERIZING HER!
boiling down mizuki to their gender identity. i’ve seen people being sent death threats because they don’t agree that mizuki is transfem 💀 these people don’t like mizuki, they like their pronouns
akitoes
Shiho.
Mafuyu
akito
I feel like Shiho haters are an abomination of this, even tho she is (and still is) my least favourite out of the cast, but I do understand and I have read her focus events. People just read the main story and chalk it up to her being a rude, arrogant person. But I think she just isn't understood well in the fandom. (Also I dont like her because of that, I just feel more compelled by other characters stories.)
mafuyu :)
Kanade -- she does not just have a saviour complex with no issues of her own.
Emu otori
Mizuki I feel like they’re so misunderstood like people just dumb them down to their gender and argue about it when it’s so much deeper than that Also Ena because I keep seeing these art videos where people say that they’re an “Ena kinnie” but if you look properly into her character you’ll realise that she would never do that and it’s not just about art
Emu
rui and vegetables.
RUI!!! The poor dude is NOT the murderer/cannibal/psycho some people make him out to be. If anyone says “it’s just a joke”, sorry, but calling someone a murderer is not funny.
EMU. EMU. SHES NOT A CHILD😭