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I came across this female character flowchart the other day. It may not really apply to KS since I think all the female leads meet the criteria for a strong female character, but just for fun... Who would you place and where?

I'd go with Yuuko in the "Adorable Klutz" spot. She's both.

Fubard wrote:I'd go with Yuuko in the "Adorable Klutz" spot. She's both.

Yuuko is definitely an adorable klutz.
I'd say Miki would be most likely to be the "Action Girlfriend"

Steinherz wrote: I'd say Miki would be most likely to be the "Action Girlfriend"

Hells yeah. I would have liked to see some more of that action. She's pretty underwritten. Ahem, make that pretty and underwritten. I think you only talk to her once or twice? In one path? Dagnabbit.

She may have to compete for that "Action Girlfriend" crown against the fastest thing on no legs, though I would probably call Emi more of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Lol Miss Piggy is pictured for "tsundere"

Fubard wrote:I think all the female leads meet the criteria for a strong female character.

Actually, they all represent an idea, barring them from 'strong female character' status.

And most if not all of them land on Perfect Wife if you follow the chart.

Xanatos wrote:

Fubard wrote:I think all the female leads meet the criteria for a strong female character.

Actually, they all represent an idea, barring them from 'strong female character' status.

And most if not all of them land on Perfect Wife if you follow the chart.

Do they? What ideas are they supposed to represent?

None of them are three dimensional in the regular scenes.

Razputin wrote:

Xanatos wrote:

Fubard wrote:I think all the female leads meet the criteria for a strong female character.

Actually, they all represent an idea, barring them from 'strong female character' status.

And most if not all of them land on Perfect Wife if you follow the chart.

Do they? What ideas are they supposed to represent?

It's more the ideas they don't represent. Well-written or not, they exist largely as subversions of popular archetypes. There are also the thematic questions tied to each route around which they seem, intentionally or otherwise, to have been written.

Xanatos wrote:It's more the ideas they don't represent. Well-written or not, they exist largely as subversions of popular archetypes.

Upon further reflection, this makes the sense. I guess when you subvert those archetypes you wind up anchored to them in the process. Ah well, I'm glad they did it. I was expecting cliche, and thoroughly enjoyed not getting what I expected.

Xanatos wrote:And most if not all of them land on Perfect Wife if you follow the chart.

heh heh true enough. Although in Shizune's case, since most of the school seems to dislike her to one degree or another, she winds up as Yoko Ono. Insert "Yoko is tone deaf" joke here.

Fubard wrote: Although in Shizune's case, since most of the school seems to dislike her to one degree or another, she winds up as Yoko Ono. Insert "Yoko is tone deaf" joke here.

Since when does most of the school dislike her?

Xanatos wrote:

Fubard wrote: Although in Shizune's case, since most of the school seems to dislike her to one degree or another, she winds up as Yoko Ono. Insert "Yoko is tone deaf" joke here.

Since when does most of the school dislike her?

I wouldn't say that most of the school dislikes her, but I'm pretty sure it is stated that she scared away the entire student council, which could support that theory. Maybe. Her route is a little fuzzy. I'll have to do it again.

KeiichiO wrote:

Xanatos wrote:

Fubard wrote: Although in Shizune's case, since most of the school seems to dislike her to one degree or another, she winds up as Yoko Ono. Insert "Yoko is tone deaf" joke here.

Since when does most of the school dislike her?

I wouldn't say that most of the school dislikes her, but I'm pretty sure it is stated that she scared away the entire student council, which could support that theory. Maybe. Her route is a little fuzzy. I'll have to do it again.

Sure, if a student council somehow manages to consist of most of the school...

I don't think most of the school dislikes her, I don't think she'd be able to be class representative if people actively hated her, but I definitely think most of the school keeps its distance from her...just beyond the range where they'd run the risk of her dragging them into the zany-scheme-of-the-moment.

Xanatos wrote:Since when does most of the school dislike her?

I got that impression. Not that everyone dislikes her to the degree that, say, Lilly does... But there generally seems to be an air of disappointment whenever she shows up. Snarky comments alluding to "a certain student council president" when she's not around, etc etc. I seem to recall that most characters wind up expressing at least a mild distaste for her at some point.

When she forms The Plastic Hakamichi Band (composed entirely of deaf-mutes, naturally) don't say you weren't warned!

Guest Poster wrote:I don't think most of the school dislikes her, I don't think she'd be able to be class representative if people actively hated her, but I definitely think most of the school keeps its distance from her...just beyond the range where they'd run the risk of her dragging them into the zany-scheme-of-the-moment.

I'd totally watch a show that just featured Shizune getting into zany council-related misadventures every week...