I'm curious how this girl became the runaway most popular character of the new Idolmaster set.
A mixture of factors, she has big underdog appeal since at the beginning of the story she was literally bottom of the class along with China and Ume so it made people want to root for her. She's a pretty amusing character thanks to her eccentric personality and soft and sometimes deadpan voice, giving her an innate multiplier on any jokes she delivers. The story made many jokes at her expense at first since her total lack of physical stamina, singing ability and coordination meant she could barely perform or even train without keeling over exhausted, which makes it all the more satisfying to see her improve, take the stage for the first time and even go further beyond what anyone ever thought she was capable of.
Her card decks are also typically quite difficult to play compared to other idols; her base HP is among the lowest in the game and her decks usually have stricter activation conditions on their special abilities, so actually playing Hiro is inherently more challenging - tying perfectly into her story depiction. Hiro's producer puts his career on the line gambling on the success of a literal bottom-tier idol despite everyone telling him not to (including Hiro herself).
In the story her in-world fans are even described as "weirdos" lol.
This is a surprisingly apt description of the modern voicesynth fandom. Zundamon has basically become THE voicebank of the youngest zoomers and Gen Alpha crowd ever since her Voicevox bank came out, to the point it's slowly crowding out the old fandom. The English Voicesynth fandom I knew now has to share space with hordes of new fans whose only experience is Zundamon and synthv Teto and only really talk to each other and don't engage with the greater fandom, while pretending to have seen everything the community has a deep emotional engagement with, but I guess that's just the power of Tiktok and Youtube Shorts and their horde of gullible users who endlessly scroll on short feed until they are lost.
I haven't played forsaken so these were hard to tag, especially when choosing whether to use _(forsaken) or _(roblox)... Afaik the only forsaken-original characters are Chance and Two Time, the rest being actual roblox accounts
It felt wrong to tag ryoshu on the last post as Jason Voorhees.. so i made a tag for forsaken jason. idk. who even cares
Okay, where are they gonna get that Zaku, who's gonna hook two no-name chumps up?
One salvages mobile suits for a living, the other solved a design problem that stumped the setting's equivalent of Lockheed Martin. Both managed to steal prototype mobile suits from under their owner's noses. If no one will give them a suit, they'll steal one, and if they can't steal one, they'll make one that puts the competition to shame.
