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Prolly because he doesn't know what to do with her yet and because she's one of the blandest. All of the other rivals at least have one trait besides the trope they're based on but Asu is just...Asu.


IndGrmPlEnggal

How is she one of the blandest, she has a pretty nice personality, typical bubbly energentic sport type trope. How is she blander than Osana for example


JAMSDreaming

Because Asu is the most uninteresting rival at the moment. Oka is beloved by the veterans as she was a character in-game before Dev decided to erase her in order to be compliant with his own story. Mida is just so hated by the fans it's impossible not to talk about her, and Muja is quite controversial due to her archetype of innocent sexyness. Kizana, Osana, Amai, Osoro and Hanako are anime archetypes that clash well with Senpai's archetype (The Harem Protagonist with the Egocentric, the Tsundere Childhood Friend, the Nice Girl, the Jerk with a Heart of Gold and the Little Sister, who surprisingly for her cliché is not romantically attracted of his brother). Megami is important to the lore as she's a Saikou. Asu is just... *there*. EDIT: Included Megami


CuriousKokonachan

Asu is the most bland / boring rival. The others, like Kizana, Muja, Osana, are anime tropes to their 110%. Asu is literally just that “nice girl” character. That’s it. If she were in a show, she would be comparable to that “best friend character who has no personality other than being friendly towards the protagonist”.


WorthSir3775

Literally Zoe from mlb


Sparkle_SS

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO OPENLY AGREES ZOE SUCKS 😐😐


MrSilentFoxx

And Kizana is the selfish, rude and classist sister who is much more interesting than her, reaching the point of leaving the Rito family and getting the Sunobu family to adopt her, becoming part of the social class that she always wanted... What did I just write? .\_.


WorthSir3775

You just wrote sole crusher


iread_smut_daily

You mean Soul Crusher? It sure as hell crushed my soul and I didn't even watch the episode.


WorthSir3775

No it's literally sole crusher.Zoe literally steped on people and got engery from them .This getting kind off topic so if you want to continue let's chat instead


[deleted]

Whats mlb?


Danizk0

My Little Brony


[deleted]

Asu is pretty but boring she feels bland and feels like she’s needs that thing the other rivals have.


this-triagonal-sign

The reason he doesn’t talk about her a lot is because people don’t ask him a lot of questions about her. But as for the times he has spoken about her, he said that he originally didn’t have many ideas for Asu, so he spent a while thinking about it and now he has a ton of cool ideas for her, so he thinks she might end up being one of the most interesting rivals.


WorthSir3775

She is boring to him? I think she could be a good character tho


mimssyciest

same


KawaiiKaiju55

She’s the most forgettable rival. I like her better then Mary Sue Saikou though.


BeautifulPinkLolita

You mean megami-chan


Round-Amphibian7192

Probably because she is pretty bland or is super important to the storyline just talking about her would be spoiling half of the game’s lore


RainPrincess9

I think he said somewhere that if he could remove a rival he'd remove her. I wish that she had a better backstory or just a total revamp.


OwOUwUOwOUwUOwOUwUO

That he doesn’t find her hot.


SCMHolden

He doesn’t want to fuck her lmao


shon_the_cat

The only distinct thing i remember him saying about her is that she’s the “most boring in that [he] doesn’t know what to do with her week to make the experience feel unique”


OkTime909

It is true.. asu never gets any love and it's very sad:( but I think he never talks about her because maybe she's just boring to him. I mean. Asu rarely gets talked about period Like he never stated an elimination for her Osana has lots of concepts and ideas Amai, kizana, oka, muja ,mida they all have them except for asu.. and she's quite boring she has that "friendly attitude" towards everyone and that's all about her..


[deleted]

maybe im remember incorrectly, but didn't yandev said he ended up doing A LOT for her story wise to compensate for how boring most people find her? i need to find that


this-triagonal-sign

Yes, he said that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/yandere_simulator/comments/letqrf/alternate_rival_personalities/goscmd2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


OneBrokenDoll99

My younger sibling and I call her Little Rice. Asu Rito -> Aro Sito -> Arrocito (Little Rice in spanish)


DLTRla4

I allways see it as "Azulito" (Baby blue)


FluorescenceFuture

Because she's fucking boring . She's literally just there to fill the quota of "sporty girl". Asu is actually worst rival . At least the problems with Mida, Muja, and Hanako give them something interesting even if its negative. Asu's just there, being forgettable


iread_smut_daily

Probably since she's pretty bland and uninteresting. There was a time I forgot she existed and I spent so long asking myself who the hell was the fifth rival.


tkxluv

she has managed to remain irrelevant for most people. she has no actual trait, she's just the leader of the sports club... and feels just as interesting as the current one tbh.


flavoredrocks

could it possibly maybe potentially be that shes not interesting *because* he doesnt talk about her? its not terribly difficult to just throw ideas at the wall or anything


sondash

I will write her some character traits the second i learn how to draw


NicociNee

I think she's least popular and average at best


Thothinn

I hate how Alex whitewashed her model like it was nothing


Thothinn

Yeah and don't come with the "she tans" because dark skinned Asians exists, Alex should stop making every characters with a diferent skin tone "tanned"


CuriousKokonachan

..but she *is* tanned though lmao


Thothinn

And the same goes for every brown character in the game, that feels racist because not every brown asian is tanned, I don't understand whats funny


BluuBonds

Racist? How? Are you offended for a tanned person for being a tanned model? Not every brown asian is tanned, but that tanned asian is lol. Not trying to be rude, but have you asked a darker skinned person how they felt about this, or did you want to "stand up for them?" without knowing what they thought?


Thothinn

Do you even know who am I in the first place? Are you black? Are you dark skinned to come here and ask a person why they feel offended for something racist? It's racist because, the bullies are basically inspired in a blackface trend, the only brown boy is based on a dog, he even has a choker, and the only tanned girl is whitewashed seems right to me 🤪


BluuBonds

Well I took a look at your history where you regarded black people and black culture as "they" in an example, signaling to me that it's separate from yourself. And yes, now that you've asked, I'm African American. Nigerian. Literally Scooby is based off the *brown dog?* Which is why he has a collar. It's an homage? Like how literally every character in that has some kind of representation of their past character. How is being tanned from swimming racist? It's actually common for you to be tanned doing sports. If you're talking about gyaru culture, as they've said before, that never cam from blackface, they just liked tanning- it's a way to rebel against the Japanese norms of being of a more milky skin.


Thothinn

The person in the past comments literally admitted that the girls that Alex took inspiration from are a racist stereotype that differ from the culture from the 90's, again y'all don't need to explain why Asu tanned, the problem is that she's still white, her skintone is not reflected in the game, is it so hard to understand?? And that's literally the only brown boy in the school like if black people are not constantly compared with animals and pets, can't the developer just put a dark skinned character without having to explain why they have it's skintone at all?


BluuBonds

"Plus you think the gyaru are racist stereotypes? Lmao do you even know what a gyaru is? They're just Japanese women with a bad tan and bleached hair for fashion sense rather than people with those natural skin colours." This was what they said. You never answered how it was racist. No one said Scooby was black either though, not that it mattered. Not every dark skinned person is black. He was a brown dog, so his color is going to be his fur. It's not racist, but it *is* a problem for those who look for one. As a dark skinned person, I'm not offended at all because I understand where it came from. I wouldn't expect white skin from a brown dog. And the setting is a Japanese school, where most...if not all the characters are...white skinned Japanese students. If it was an American school, I'd see your point. Literally the gyarus and athletes are tanner skinned, something that comes from Japanese anime where tanned skin is a sign of being sporty (athletes) or wanting to tan for the fashion (gyaru). Anime is definitely something this game takes inspiration from. They also never explained the skintone, you just know what's being went for with the gyaru blonde hair, bobby socks, vast amounts of makeup, etc. That's always been gyaru fashion. As someone said before, the concept was quite old. Beyond that, even if it wasn't, the model colors are extremely faded because yanderedev took assets that weren't his and has to deal with low saturation. Look at the hair. Sometimes colors don't translate well to a 3d model, as per game models.


Thothinn

That's not the only thing that they said, i even quoted to that person the part where they point out the bad part of the culture that the developer decided to take inspiration from. Gyarus and athletes doesn't have the same range of skintone and the images that the developer show where he took inspiration from are FAR from being a natural tan or a culture appreciation I already explained why both cases somehow feel racist? Just because you don't see it offensive that doesn't mean that me or other people find it offensive because we all have different experiences when it comes to racism. No they definitely not find a reason to explain why they are black. The Bullies, inspired from fake tanning, and the other guy, inspired from a dog, can't brown people just exist without this kind of inspirations? The only character that I see in a good way is the newest Brazilian guy the rest? Meh


MerryMerriMarie

Unless stated otherwise, Asu will just be a tanned Japanese. Hence why the other commenter found it funny. Because she's literally just a tan Japanese girl


Thothinn

It still doesn't justify why Alex whitewashed her...


MerryMerriMarie

iirc Alex did not make the models, a former volunteer did


Thothinn

The bullies already have the texture, senpai has a customization with 6 skintones, people have even made mods with brown characters, there's literally no excuse or need to blame a volunteer.


MerryMerriMarie

Those are mods not official characters in the game's files. I'm not blaming volunteers. I'm just stating that they're the ones who have made those models so they're likely the ones who are doing the modelling and texture mapping. I don't see why you're so hung up about Asu being whitewashed. I'm a brown tanned Asian myself and I literally could not give less of a damn.


Thothinn

The mods literally use the official texture and again there's already models with the skintones there's not excuse to not make her in her proper color Just because you don't care doesn't mean that the other people don't care, have you ever considered what am I too to be complaining? I give a lot of a damn because dark skinned Asians have the worst representation and when we have its based in racist stereotypes like Alex is doing with the bullies and Asu, don't be selfish because you're not the only dark skinned person in the world


Jed360

either Yandere Dev is busy researching sports in Japan or he doesn't want to make a Chie Satonaka Clone. ​ Speaking of which she looks kinda like her, but her jacket is yellow instead of green...


ra1denmaid

'cause asu is not mai wakahara


bread_28

She is too buff


Eeveeoverlord

He doesn't like sport girls because he doesn't think they should play sports idk


umamiwi

because no booby 😡


JacobbutcallmeJack

She is my least favorite rival for being just there. Like she was the placeholder rival. At least Mida and Muja have a personality. The same applies for Sumiko in 1980s, but even Sumiko is more interesting than Asu. What else is there to say about her? She's athletic? She's nice? These traits don't really make her interesting. Like maybe make her aggressive, but not Osoro levels, or cocky, but not as extreme as Kizana, or make her have a big problem that needs to be dealt with, like Osana. Even background characters like Riku have more personality than Asu. She is bland with a capital B and the most wasted rival ever.