Celedam wrote:Respectfully I disagree right back. Maachan isn't eccentric, she's full-blown sociopathic. Rules don't apply to her, and other people exist only to give her attention. If they don't, they become her enemies. She's massively ADHD, she shows very little empathy toward others, and she can barely even look most people in the eye. She should have outgrown such behavior by now, but she hasn't, and the only reason she gets away with it — in fact, gets paid for it — is because she's a cute girl with some talent. The same behavior in almost anyone else of the same age (17!) would get them arrested and/or committed.
Like, I know I'm a huge Masaki fan so my opinion might not matter, but this is a bit excessive of a statement is it not? Do you think that UF* would continue to employee someone who meets such statements no matter how talented or cute they might be? Having done quite a few handshakes with her by this point, and a sign-kai as well, that's not at all how she has come off to me. We hear a lot about her most eccentric of times, because those are the interesting bits, that's not her all the time, especially now that she's older. The sign-kai for example she held a conversation with me, looked me in the eye, smiled, tried really hard to write a message to me in English and then even gave me a compliment. Many of the other girls in MM have also seemed genuinely fond of Masaki, and considering Reina and Riho, two girls who were notoriously not friend-making people, were some of those girls, I don't think the girl you're describing there could have befriended them.
She's not serious when she talks about "enemies". I've never seen her seriously act like she dislikes anyone. She does tend to see rivals in other girls, but that's only because she wants to improve herself. Improving herself is something she's always strived to do. Every time a girl has graduated from MM, she has thought hard about what that girl did to make MM great, and she has tried so hard to take on those elements so that MM can stay strong, she doesn't do it for herself even but for the group. And that's the whole reason that she's increased in popularity among Japanese wota. When she had that interview about talking what Sayumi did for MM and how she wants to try and continue Sayumi's legacy, THAT'S what the japanese wota in Osaka at least were talking about around the time her fans sharply increased, nothing to do with her talent, or how cute she is, it was all about how she had matured.
And your final statement is just ridiculous. What do you think she does? Steal things? Do drugs? Emotionally abuse people to the point that they feel like their worthless and should kill themselves? See things that aren't there? Murder people? What equates to her needing to be arrested or committed to you? Maybe you're just having a joke, or exaggerating things for effect, or maybe you just strongly dislike her, but the words and statements you're using are a bit strong. I try not to start arguments or anything (confrontation is not my strong suit), but if I had read that statement about almost ANYONE I'd have felt a huge reaction. Maybe I'm just falling for pure trolling, but come on
As for the Eri debate. The Eri-like thing about Maachan is how "My Pace" she can be and then the weird conversations she has. Eri's quirkiness was what attracted me to her, and is the same reason why Masaki started to get my attention. I see Yokoyama's Eri-ness as well, but it's a different kind. She's got Eri's spaciness and does look similar. Mizuki-wise, it's the way she carries herself when performing (she's too reserved really for me to see quirkiness at an Eri level, but there IS something about the way they both carry themselves on stage, especially now). So really all three of them channel Eri in different ways.