Ooi and Kitakami. Ooi and Kitakami. I looked back at all the Ooi posts here from the early days and you couldn’t walk a step without stumbling over a picture of Ooi clinging to Kitakami, with a lot of them depicting her as a deranged stalker. I feel like if this had been drawn in the early days, then Ooi would have explicitly been handing her gift over to Kitakami.

You still see it, but these days you’re just as likely to see Ooi with the Admiral, maybe even more so, and scaled back from psycho to more general tsundere. And I can’t say for sure, but I also feel like it wasn’t a gradual shift, but happened pretty abruptly at some point, and I wonder what caused the change.

PixelOne said:

Ooi and Kitakami. Ooi and Kitakami. I looked back at all the Ooi posts here from the early days and you couldn’t walk a step without stumbling over a picture of Ooi clinging to Kitakami, with a lot of them depicting her as a deranged stalker. I feel like if this had been drawn in the early days, then Ooi would have explicitly been handing her gift over to Kitakami.

You still see it, but these days you’re just as likely to see Ooi with the Admiral, maybe even more so, and scaled back from psycho to more general tsundere. And I can’t say for sure, but I also feel like it wasn’t a gradual shift, but happened pretty abruptly at some point, and I wonder what caused the change.

She went back to her game depiction rather than the over the top obsessed anime portrayal.

Which is interesting in and of itself, since her anime portrayal was very much inspired by how she was portrayed in fan works.

Lesbian one-sided love creepy stalker used to be a not-uncommon archetype (Ooi and Yamai Ren even have superficial design similarities)

Thank god that's more rare these days. I really liked KTKM and Ooi back in the day so I stewed in butthurt at the extreme meme Ooi became