Does anyone find this moment of the new minigram kinda strange? Especially because of how ooc Kotoko is here, and how different it is from the usual lighthearted minigram tone.
We're shown that Kotoko is certainly not enthused with Kazui looking at her and trying to figure out what kind of martial arts she does, so much so that she feels actual discomfort at the situation (there's even a whole ass panel dedicated to her reaction).
And then she immediately jumps into calling him a "pervert", even though we all know that Kazui is not that kind of person at all:
She covers and retreats further into herself, and her first reaction is to call him a "pervert"? She simply could've just told him to stop, but she immediately jumps to "stop looking at me like that", which is a pretty major conclusion to jump to for anyone much less Kazui, who doesn't show any outward hostility towards her or the others.
This minigram is based off of this timeline conversation, and while minigrams aren't considered canon, timelines are. Before, I wasn't sure how to gauge Kotoko's interaction on whether or not she was simply telling him off so he would stop analyzing her, but from the information shown from the minigram, we can now see how uncomfortable she actually was based on her physical reaction:
Idk, it just seems like a strange reaction coming from her of all people, especially since we haven't seen Kotoko react this way to anyone before. We see her keep her cool the majority of the time, except here where she's ooc from her usual self. I do wonder if this detail/timeline convo implicates some kind of traumatic experience she's had in the past. If that's the case, Kazui's actions ended up reminding her of the memory, and that's why she acted the way she did here.
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