Until halfway through the dev cycle, she was going to be poor (in the end we decided Owari should be the poor character instead), so poor that she wore a ragged sports uniform missing half of its fabric. As the development progressed, we changed our minds on this, and stuck until the end with the idea of making her a constantly scared character. She’d be a Chinese girl who carried the brain of the lover who revived her everywhere she went. On the first draft of the cast, Tsumiki was going to be a zombie girlcharacter. Komatsuzaki’s comment: Her misfortune started with the zombie girl Tsumiki, like Owari and Souda, is a recycling of a previously unused name, and for Mikan, I just picked a fruit name because I wanted a name that would be difficult to write in kanji. My quest for the unhappiest, most miserable character imaginable was so successful that I found myself feeling terribly sorry for her as well as I wrote… Thanks to some select scenes, many people see her as the fanservice character of the cast, but I personally can’t see her as anything other than the comic relief character.

Excessive clumsiness gets annoying, but I believe that if you double down on it, you get a cute character everyone will feel sorry for. The character was aiming for with Tsumiki was the living image of extreme clumsiness. Kodaka’s comment: The clumsy girl turns tragedy into comedy Enjoy her dealing with the colorful cast of characters around her. Her emotional range goes from the bottom of Earth to the heights of outer space… (laughs) I believe I did good job expressing the fascinating psychological complexity of Mikan Tsukimi, so all of you can enjoy the many different ways to interpret her.

At first glance, Mikan Tsumiki looked like a quiet girl, but once I actually got to voice her, I was shocked to learn how much emotion she was hiding.

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