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Originally Posted by Kurosu
Incorrect, she never passed her insecurities. The situation is different from before in the treasurer battle. This has less to do about acceptance of herself, and more about her romantic feels towards Zenkichi and the baggage that seems to come with it. It's different because before she needed to convince herself that she mattered, that she needed to live and not die in her twisted vision of the world.
At this point she's conflicted over her purpose for joining the student council and how she feels for Zenkichi over Zenkichi's own happiness of wanting to be with Medaka. It's an evolution of the development of last time, when she wanted to find some usefulness in her.
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You're missing the point. The point is Kumagawa is not in any way nescessary or important for any development to occur in this area, and in-fact is a bit diminishing considering Zenkichi and Kumagawa both had gigantic self-analysis moments that basically sparked their character metamorphosis. Why? Because like you yourself and I have said, she's already over her minus feelings of not wanting to live, the part which was already resolved by both Kumagawa and Zenkichi. No need to even mention how distractive his character is and all to the rest of the plot-elements given that we're talking solely about Emukae.
Instead of Emukae rising above her own insecurities due to her own will, all we get is a section of her being useless and then saved, and her trying to wear Medaka's being as costume. Really Nishio? Didn't you learn anything form Itachi? Still blabbering about how Medaka is perfect? Now you've just made it clear you're using other characters for this end, when you don't have to anymore. I'm impressed by the range Medaka's perfection has, it can ruin other character's development even off-screen. Hell he even brings emphasis to this fact in the flashback. What the fuck, bro. I thought you were going to show us now how Medaka was just a kid like us, not some perfect Goddess of wisdom for all.
Instead of Emukae deciding to not give up on her life and dreams, she just try to sacrifice herlself after a hopeless confession that will most likely be ignored, and wishing happiness for the man she loves with another woman, without even fighting for him. Which means she basically gave-up, and like Medaka said, is not like her. Hence character regression. Considering herself useless and weak from the get-go(being a Minus) when she was able to keep on fighting when Torai, Wani and Naze had to retire is also very contradictory and something she should've surpassed already.
There's good character development, and this was definitely not it. And did, in-fact, regress the character a few steps of what it should be. Now, this was a swing and a miss. It could've gone right, if Nishio did change a few factors here and there.
But since I'm nearly convinced this was all in-favor of Kumagawa's appereance(lol at Minus not working for no clear reasons without even styles being used) for yet to be revealed reasons, at least it's not like Nishio is spiteful of Emukae to go erroneous on her portrayal.