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Welcome back. Last week Kuchinashi sneaked in because one does simply walk into the Nadesico, and after stinking the place a lot Yami and Cthuko beat her. Now, it seems Ruri caught powerful waves so we’re checking the origin.

: We’ve arrived at the point, but again I cannot find anything.

: Go check the terrain, slave. Maybe you’ll find something. Just try to not get facesat by another girl again, you’re MY chair!

: That’s not the problem at hand...

Don’t worry! Here we go! *runs off*

(Outside)

Hrmmpph, it’s gotten cold... *notices something* Wait, for the love of Ashera, if that isn’t a giant honking cherry blossom tree! Let’s go check it out! *dashes off*

Girl: *sings*

Oh, so there was someone here.

Girl: Ah! *stops singing* D-D-Did you hear me?

Yes, it wasn’t bad at all! You remind me of a dog princess.

Girl: I’m flattered, unless you stealthily called me a b-b-b-b-bitch...

No, that’d be Sena.

Girl: Oh, you! *laughs*

: <Zettai, stop hitting on girls! This isn’t the time to do that!>

The one time I was being successful... What do you want, Jiminy Cricket?

: <That girl is Eagle, one of the Four Rulers of the Colonies!>

WHAT!?

: <I said->

No, I understood. I was showing genuine surprise to that fact.

Eagle: I am! But my real name is...



: ...And my nickname comes from my name meaning “Birdie” and both Birdie and Eagle being related golf terms.

Why not Hole-in-one?

: Then I would sound like an easy girl.

Good point. If you don’t mind I’m retreating to summon my allies.

: Sure, I’ll wait here! *does so*

How sweet of her. *runs back into the Nadesico* The time of battle has come!

: So be it. Which troops?

What, no “Oh no, sounds dangerous, hopefully you’re fine” or the like? Boo. Eh, the left ones meaning Saki, Fear, Shizuku, Yami, Nia, Nymph and C.C. will fight.*the girls get in position, then march off*

: Zettai, isn’t Kotori a harmless girl? At least Hinagiku had her swords.

So it would seem, but... I felt a strange aura from her.

: <From my research she has increased her latent psychic powers with a Sound Stone. Zettai is right, go figure.>

Thanks for the vote of confidence...

: <No problema. Just stay inside the Nadesico and blog about her.>

Good plan!

: <Sasami out.>

Head

Hair
Kotori has pink hair, though a fairly unusual shade for anime as it looks reddish instead of the pastel pink girls normally get. I don’t mind since it looks nice on her, but it’s quite a surprise. It reaches her waist but without covering her butt, so ideal length. Her bangs frame her hair which is nice, but she has regular front bangs. No hime cut, and not a huge middle bang either. Normal. She also has a cross-shaped pin on the left side of her hair, and some official images put her in various kinds of ponytails. She’s good.
Grade: B+

Eyes
Sadly Kotori’s eyes are blue, a nice dark blue but still blue. Personally I’m not a big fan of the blue eyes and pink hair combination yet it seems to be pretty common for some reason. At least it matches her clothes. It’s also a tareme, which while fitting her kind personality well won’t get her far for my tastes. However, Kotori has a saving grace with the Time Paladin Sakura anime, as her eyes are BROWN there! Dunno why, as game images give her blue eyes as always, but I’m not complaining. Even better, in both the first anime and the game she has a scene where she tries on GLASSES! The only thick ones sadly only cover half her eye unlike the regular ones and the transparent sunglasses, but hey, more shows need such scenes for their girls.
Grade: A-

Body

Build
Kotori HAS MEASUREMENTS! Okay, this joke is less funny since Kuchinashi last week had them too, but humor me please. Her height is 157 cm so close to my ideal range, her weight is 41 kg which is pretty normal for anime girls, and her three sizes are 85/77/84. Sadly in Second Season she’s claimed to have an 84C bust size, boo her chest growing! Haruka Amami she is not. At least her body isn’t too bad; in Kotori Love Ex P in particular her legs are pretty nice. She also has a loli form which is great, being a nice size for a loli so go Kotori!
Grade: B+

Butt
The series doesn’t show it that much, but official art does with results all over the place but overall not bad. Especially in Kotori Love Ex P, her ass in it is GREAT!
Grade: C+

Clothes
Not the best, but not terrible. Like most students Kotori is often seen in her school uniform, a sailor uniform-type with a white shirt and scarf with some dark blue lines for both as well as a dark blue pleated skirt. It’s really generic, and she doesn’t even have the decency to wear thighhighs like Nemu! She does wear a cute hat at least; in fact she has a collection of cute hats which is great. Second Season makes it better by making the shirt partially light blue and adding a red ribbon on front alongside the thin yellow one that denotes third years. Other costumes of her include cute Santa girl, a lot of bikinis and swimsuits in general as always, wedding dress and a lot of them for some reason, towel, cute idol-esque dress, naked apron, moe shirt, frilly maid though with cleavage, dominatrix, bunnygirl, sexy lingerie, naked ribbon and a few I might have missed. All in all a solid selection, and of course several of them come with cute hats.
Grade: B+

Mind

Personality
Kotori is a good girl. She’s idolized by the boys at school to a fanclub level, but despite that she’s a friendly and easily approached person with a gentle and kind personality. Her plot is about her psychic powers such as telepathy; do note Da Capo’s harem is slightly supernatural so she doesn’t stand out for that. To be exact her powers scare her and she has problems approaching people, though of course Jun’ichi the male lead fixes that as he’s just friendly and awesome like most classic harem leads. He even gets her to sing in the school choir, even sing solo as her singing is great! In Second Season she and Miharu help take care of Jun’ichi and also Aishia until Nemu is back.

Now, if this was pretty much it Kotori would be fine. And just sticking to the regular Da Capo she is. The problems come when you check the rest of the franchise. See, at first the most popular girl was Nemu as expected, but when the anime aired for some reason Kotori became MAD popular, winning popularity polls for YEARS and only starting to dip at times by 2010, a whopping SEVEN years after the first anime started. And sadly Circus listened to fans, maybe a bit too much: Kotori was ascended to rival heroine hijacking Sakura’s place and was always put in advertising materials with Nemu, she got an alternate universe game named Da Capo Innocent Finale or I.F. where SHE is the main heroine, said game got an OVA based on the normal but not true end where Nemu DIES, there was a whole fangame focused on her and Jun’ichi’s married life, and in general every spin-off seems to try to focus on Kotori as much as possible to the detriment of the other heroines, ESPECIALLY Sakura who was the original rival heroine and alongside Suginami maybe the only character in all three Da Capo games, yet except Time Paladin Sakura she has got jack squat for a decade. Hell, in Da Capo II there is a girl named Nanaka Shirakawa who is CLEARLY based on Kotori yet is not related to her, she just happens to look like her and act like her and share her last name; at least Yume is Nemu’s granddaughter. Mercifully Da Capo III spared us from another A KOTORI, but seeing how the anime sucked maybe that’s the best for her.

Mind you, dislike my ranting I don’t dislike Kotori since as said she’s a good girl and her arc is nice, even if I liked the other 4 regular heroines better. I just don’t see why people are so obsessed with her, especially since she has one of these rabid annoying fanbases that praise her to ridiculous levels while of course hating on Nemu; I almost blogged Nemu for my “unfairly hated” month if you don’t remember. Shipping makes people dumber, fact of the year right here. Plus like I said for Hina listening to fans is fine provided you don’t think the biggest group is the ONLY group; even if Hina or Kotori win a popularity poll they don’t get nowhere the total of votes everyone else put together got, which means if they get overly favored more people will get annoyed or neutral that will be pleased. This is bad! At least Kotori affects me less directly than Hina or other girls, which is why her score is better than similar cases.
Grade: C+

Libido
Since Kotori is one of the main heroines in a galge-eroge you can bet she likes the main guy, in this case because he’s the only one who doesn’t freak out at her mind-reading powers. I already mentioned her rival heroine hijacking so I won’t repeat it here, but certainly is a thing. Her H-scenes seem pretty dull from the CG, all missionary and fellatio and other incredibly bland stuff. After Seasons helps a bit with doggystyle at least, and Kotori Love Ex P has her as a dominatrix in one scene and she rides the guy in reverse-cowgirl, pretty cool! The P.S.P. OVA also has her taking the lead when she declared to Jun’ichi, but nearly all girls did in that OVA which I don’t mind.
Grade: B-

Age
Kotori is a third year high school student, so 17-18. Thankfully Kotori is a bit more interesting for this thanks to Time Paladin Sakura, where she appears as a loli! A 10 year old loli, not bad. That helps with her score, so go Kololi!
Grade: B

Voice
Yui Horie is one of my favorite VAs and she does a great job as the sweet Kotori and her occasional cutesy speaking, chiwasshu! This is also one of the first times she and Yukari Tamura worked in a show together and have shared many series ever since. However, Emi Nitta does Kotori in Time Paladin Sakura since that doesn’t use the regular cast for some reason. Neither did Da Capo III, but that was justified! Nitta did a nice work too, but nothing like Yui Horie of course. Also, while I’ve never played the VN she’s voiced by Yura Hinata there.
Grade: A-

Total: 74 (B)

: ...Isn’t my score just 3 points lower than Nemu’s?

<Yeah, it happens. Plus my favorite Da Capo girl isn’t Nemu but Sakura, if I rated HER things would get fun.>

: Speaking of getting fun, let’s battle! *gets into yandere mode and tries to draw one of her weapons*

: Sorry as you remind me of a friend, but... PK THUNDER! *several bolts of lightning zap around Fear, one actually hitting her*

: I WA SHOCK! *can’t move*

: PARADISE SONG! *fires a mouth beam*

: PK MAGNET! *creates a shield around herself and absorbs the attack* Why thank you! PK FREEZE! *traps Nymph in a block of ice*

: It’s not summer anymore, this won’t melt! *struggles*

: I’ll defeat you! And then become famous and get TV appearances! *charges at Kotori in her Valvrave*

: That’s not a noble goal! PK FIRE! *several pillars of flames appear in front of Saki, overheating her machine*

: Camellia! *retreats to cool down*

: You won’t get away from this! *dashes in her Lancelot from the side*

: Pincer attack. *charges with a hair-spear from the other side*

: No need to run. PK SHIELD! *generates an energy field around herself, blocking C.C. and Yami’s attacks*

: This thing looks sturdy. *keeps hitting*

: Just kept hitting! *breaks the shield with the MVS* Time to end this!

: You just fell in my trap.... *slides back* PSYCHO CRUSHER! *does a flying charge while surrounded by psychic energy, sending the two kuuderes away with the impact* Get lost, you can’t compare with my powers!

: Let me heal you-nano... *takes care of the wounded*

: Kotori is really strong... But we must not give up! We must continue to fight and come triumphant!

: You’re right, Nia...! SPINDLE KNUCKLE! *attacks Kotori with her yoyo-like weapon, and while Kotori dodges them all she has problems to keep this up*

: Sneak attack. *suddenly hits Kotori with a hair-ball and chain, actually hurting her for once*

: OW! I’m the squishy type, can’t take much physical damage! My specialty is... (Wait, I can feel something different inside these girls.... Yes! I can draw out their hidden selves for my benefit!)

: Yes? What is it?

: Paparapah! *shakes her ass while spanking herself, then finishes with a panties mooning* (This dance is embarrassing, but when it works...)

: Are you ok-k-kkaaaaaah! *becomes her Messenger Nia self with the sexy body suit-like looks, but still in her loli body*

: Hnnng... I’m feeling... ECCHI! *her Darkness form pops out, glorious thong and all*

: UU... Where I am? What is this place? *is back to her pre-Code self*

<WHAT. THE. FORK.>

: Now one of them is useless and the other two will get rid of the rest! I’m eviler than the studio behind the Da Capo III anime!

: Come on, let’s have fun! *tries to tentacle Shizuku*

: That’s not fun at all-nano...! *blows the tentacles away with water*

: Earthlings, you are on the path of destruction! *thrusts Solvernia’s drill naginata at Nymph and Fear*

: I’m not from Earth! *dodges*

: Because that’s what matters right now! *dodges too*

: C.C., answer me please!

: What’s that voice? No one is here, but there is a voice coming from this weird holes thing!

<That is it... We’re done for....Just look at this insanity!>

Voice: <NOT SO FAST!>

<Huh?>

Voice: <I haven’t fought yet! Let’s go!> *after these words a mysterious robot with drills for hands launches off the Nadesico*

<Wait, who is in there? Identify yourself! I may have no authority but I’m the captain!

: Good morning, Zettai *appears in the Nadesico’s main screen*

Hello, Takane. Sorry, by right now I’m too busy looking for... Wait, YOU are the pilot?

: Yes, this is the Yukidrill Sasami made specifically for me! *does an V-pose*

: <She asked so much I had to...>

: So what if another of you comes out? Nothing will change!

: We shall try that out! *smacks Solvernia with a drill*

: Identify yourself, potential Earthling.

: My origin is of no matter here. Listen, Lady Nia, I know you can hear me. Are you really planning to lose to that side of yours?

: Silence, potential Earthling!

: I will not stay silent! Lady Nia, let your pride as the daughter of the Spiral King loose! Your spiral power can burn strong and eradicate this darkness in one shot! Let me hear your soul, Lady Nia!

: What are you.... *twitches* Hrrrnnggg... Aaaargghhh! *slowly the bodysuit retreats and Nia goes back to her regular self, sadly still fully clothed* Thank you, Miss Takane...

: What!?

: Think nothing of it, Lady Nia. Now, for the other two...

: I want to be... ECCHI♥. *shakes her thong-clad ass at Takane* Please drill me♥.

: Sorry, but literally that sounds revolting and metaphorically maybe Zettai would take your offer but I won’t.

: Maybe I should make Zettai mine... By killing him of course, that makes perfect sense!

: It does not! Lady Yami, listen to me! While hating on all things sexual is not a good thing and less so when you only hate them on men that does not mean you can do such a ridiculous change and become a tentacle rapist!

: But I want to show everyone being ecchi is good...That’s all♥.

: While this is a noble goal, you will not accomplish it by forcing other girls! Not everyone believes seeing women dominated like that is attractive! Femdom or just plain consensual love can be arousing as well! What you are doing is just forcing your view on others!

: <What a filibuster.>

: <Takes one to beat one.>

: Of course, if they just saw things the way I do they’d see how fun this is♥.

: People have different preferences and different points of view. Have YOU tried to see things THEIR way?

: What? Of course I... Hmmm... ARGH LOGICAL REASONING. *meltdowns and turns back into regular Yami*

: Knew I shouldn’t have relied on a character from a poorly-written show...

: My, that was easier than I expected. Now for the last one. *forces open the Lancelot’s cockpit, then opens the Yukidrill’s*

: Who are you, Miss...? I don’t know much, b-but I can help you with my services...

: Sorry, I am uninterested. Lady C.C. is not this way, but a proud and strong maiden!

: Proud? Pride is for the rich, s-someone like me...

: Someone like you sneers at others and makes snarky comments about them to show her superiority. Because you are a powerful individual, Lady C.C.! You stand high and mighty over the rest for they like it! This is the real you!

: I could never d-do something like that! *covers herself*

: You do! Lady C.C., look deep inside you! Do not let this cover of introversion deceive you, since it does not deceive us! Return to your proud self!

: Now y-you say it...! *stops covering herself and her expression changes* I am C.C., and after this battle I will sit on Zettai’s face and eat pizza!

: And I will do the same while eating ramen!

: You... You brought all of them back? Not with fighting, but with talking? Is this what passes for action these days? Are you a legendary therapist?

<To be fair, brainwashing is usually cured with pep talks. The weird thing is giving speeches to your regular enemies instead of punching them on the face.>

: I suppose so... However, I still must face you as stipulated. So I will use my trump card!

<Do your worst.>

: *snaps her fingers and a black hole opens, with a large blue mecha coming out of it*

: <Zettai? You went pale.>

<T-The Neo Granzon... When I said “Your worst” I didn’t mean this!>

: Too bad. *flies up with her psychic powers and enters the Neo Granzon’s cockpit*

<Girls, stay alert!>

: Oh, they better be... *opens several black holes around the girls, blasting them with beams from all directions*

: Aaah!

: No... Camellia...

: Not over yet! *pulls out a convenient sword out of another black hole, and slashes at the heroines repeatedly*

: Ow-nano!

: Don’t break the cube to rearrange it by colors, that’s cheating!

: Time to put an end to this... *clutches a black sphere of energy between the Neo Granzon’s hands as the ground shakes and a storm brews around the area, with many explosions around* BLACK HOLE CLUSTER! *lifts the sphere over its head, expanding it on size*

: Is this it...?

: <When the Neo Granzon launches the BHC, it leaves its engine exposed during one instant! Attack at that time!>

: <Holey convenient knowledge, buttman.>

<Ain’t that so.>

: You won’t have a chance! *readies to throw the BHC*

: Now!

: Nineteenth Mechanism – Harsh Formula Helix Shape {Machine of Body-Piercing (Man-Perforator)}! *draws out her giant drill and charges at the Neo Granzon*

: Be punished for making me ecchi *charges at Neo Granzon with dual hair drills*

: Come on, Yukidrill! *drills at the Neo Granzon’s core*

: Haaaaah! *thrusts the Solvernia’s drill naginata at the core*

: Me too-nano....! *makes a drill out of water and attacks as well*

: Fools! Nothing can stop my... *hears a loud sound* What? They just pierced through the Antimatter Annihilation Engine... I must get out! *ejects*

: Don’t escape! *chases the eject capsule*

: We’ll get... Argh! *chases too, but a swarm of Red Arremers attacks the two girls while taking Kotori’s eject capsule to the Gekkou-gou*

:Hopefully the first time you ever cook for me is specials!

(Inside the Nadesico)

: <Zettai, the Neo Granzon’s gonna explode! If it blows up all of you will die and the area will end eradicated!>

That sounds bad.

: Zettai, you should use Anger Strike.

That’s a good idea! So much fanart... So much hate towards Nemu... If being a thing... AAARGH! ANGER STRIIIIIIKE! *the Nadesico fires a beam of pure hatred with the shape of Zettai’s angry face, turning the Neo Granzon to dust* Hey, it worked.

: Hooray, we won’t die! *celebrates*

Yeah! Living owns! *celebrates too, but spots a pink floating hippo* ...What.

Pink Floating Hippo: *flies away*

: ...Did I see that too?

: <Uh-oh...>