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Originally Posted by LiberLibri
You read "Bungaku Shoujo" series. Take it for example: Nanase uses "Atashi", illustrating her girlish adolescence, while Touko-Sempai does always "Watashi", since she is a perfect icon of a graceful lady, though she is just one year older than Nanase in fact. As a native Japanese speaker born in Tokyo, I get the following impressions when I hear a teenager girl using:
Uchi -> immature, trend-follower
Atashi -> rude, girlish
Watashi -> social, well-educated
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As far as I readed in the serie, I remember 3 'girls'' using ''
atashi''; Nanase, Himekura and Miu.