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#15 Kyotaka Ishimaru

This one might surprise some, because I hardly talked much about Taka all game. But the reason is that I was always expecting Taka to have this moment and develop into something interesting. And he never did.

He is part of a common character archetype. He is the student council guy who is crazy about following rules and wipes the other kids into shape. Some other examples are Gamagoori from Kill la Kill, and Iida from Hero Academia. But those two are much better, because their status as a moral compass allows them to be noble and heroic. They believe in the system when others don't. They can be empathetic and sacrifice themselves for justice. They can have character arcs where they come to terms with the necessity of breaking rules sometimes.

Taka is nothing of that. His main job is to get people not to be late for breakfast. Then he predictably loses his shit about Mondo due to him being a delinquent. Then they do the sauna contest, and he spends the rest of Chapter 2 being Mondo's bro. Then Mondo dies and he goes catathonic. Then he finds a way to simulate Mondo in the AI and turns into a weird super saiyan. Then you think he's going to be an interesting character now, and he dies immediately after. The end.

It feels like the developers didn't know what to do with him, so his arc is a bunch of random events. He doesn't get to be the team's moral compass, because Sakura is much better at that. Taka not only fails to break character, but he doesn't even do the good things about his character properly, because others do for him.