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A couple of thoughts on Neko Musume...
On the surface, yes, she’s a fairly traditional tsundere archetype. But there are a lot of really cute and clever little touches - like her mouth turning into a cat’s head when she smiles, and leaving gifts outside the house of the person she loves (which cats commonly do). She also has a truly beautiful character design - all the design updates are great of course, but hers is really lovely.
On balance she’s not my absolute favorite part of this version, but I still think she’s pretty great. And the way she taught Mana about traditional bonds with nature in this episode was one of my favorite scenes of the year so far - really tremendously written and executed.
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