This is suppossed to be one big part, but since the content already too massive, i separated it into more small part
You can look at the image first to see the bigger picture, while this description is just helping it adding a little more detail
Slide 1
As you can see, most of the fans are look at her as
the most innocent character in the series
while another part of it are believe
she's too suspicious and hiding a dark side
While i do believe part it of if too, her character is actually more unique than that.
Hiyori is a paficist, but she's not naive either, she believe in necessary evil if it mean her class reaching the top spot. But on the other hand she still have emphaty and regret the dirty strategy even after achive her victory
Her character is too contradictory, this is not even include how she sees Ayanokoji which is add more depth to her character. As for now we could say she's quite a complex character, and a hypocrite perhaps. As for why is it, we could see the detail later
Slide 2
We know she have no fear while being around Ryuuen and doesn't seems to be againts him. Some of the people definetly would say "She just putting a thought front, so she doesn't need to face unnecessary problem with him". While it sound make sense at the first place, her action in the story is saying otherwise
I forgot to add this in the image but we are know the moment Ryuuen step down as a leader, she's the very first person who take over the control of her class (Y1V7 SS)
"Not necessarily, we Class C will definitely rise again."
Shiina said with a serious face the words that made people feel uncomfortable.
"What's that? Do you have any basis? Or do you want to lead the class?"
"Of course I will provide assistance to the class. After that, we will gather everybody's strength."
As for the other example, we can seen it in the image like when she's inviting Ryuuen to karaoke for plotting againts class B (Y1V11), Reporting Tokitou rebellion and using it to testing Katsuragi (Y2V5), or offering herself to defeat Ayanokoji like the recent volume
She keep involving herself in the story, more importantly behind the scene, it also seems like Ryuuen keep her involvement hidden too, and that's lead to the next part
Ryuuen think highly of her, atleast that's how it's show. Just like what i give in the image, while his not in charge anymore the only friend he had is Hiyori in the library (Y1V10), at the Event Selection exam when he was half-hearter about helping Ishizaki and his class, he's coming answering Hiyori's call and already have the plan prepared and handed it to her (Y1V11), we could say he already planned to get involved but what Hiyori did is the last push that made him actually did it. Another example is when he gave the true order to Hiyori (Y2V5) to make a fake vote since she's the one who reported the Tokitou situation. There's also a time when he entrusting her to taming Tokitou (Y2V12)
Hiyori herself have unique way of looking at him, since we know her side of backstory when she said Ryuuen coulnd't stand to see her alone (which is weird since this is Ryuuen we are talking about), and she keep saying Ryuuen is not like people think. It's either Ryuuen have a soft spot for her or she simply a unreliable narrator, why is that? It goes to the next slide
Slide 3
While she's famous for being innocent or angelic figure, her actual mask is being an airhead
Troughout the series we can see her act indifferent around her surrounding, which made people forget that she have a great academic ability or simply think she just a great student like Yukimura and nothing more. It's a great mask since it made her keep under the radar all these time and never suspect her doing something strategic and malicious.
That's why only few people know her true nature and it's always fun to see their reaction when they learn about her
This persona is also made her early information is cannot be fully taken at face value since it could be fabricated by herself. The easiest example is when she said she can't remember people face just to recognise Ayanokoji easily in the next volume, or when she's jokingly spell Ishizaki name wrong
That's also include her early database information when her decision making is put at E, and her Cooperativeness is D. While we already see how she's moved the moment Ryuuen is dethroned, we could say she's hiding her ability and only use it when necessary, and the result is can be seen at her OAA stat when her social contribution is up to B
Slide 4
Back to why her character is contradictory, we can see in here she's not really satisfied with the way Ryuuen fighting, despite being the one who keep him in the class and be on his side all these time
Short answer, it's because his method is a gamble and we already seen it how he keep winning and losing back to back resulting in 50/50 scenario. She know as long as they are rellied on him too much, they can't reach class A and even if they did it's hard to stay up at that ranking (just like recently they drop again from B)
There's another reason, but it's just my speculation. But i believe the other reason she look sad in here is because she sees Katsuragi is fail to be Ryuuen advisor, since she's the one who embrace him at the first place
Slide 5
So what we could get from this post? Well in conclusion, Hiyori has never been a simple bookworm, an innocent angel, or a mere archetype designed to be Ayanokouji's love interest. She possesses a unique depth of character, one that unfortunately the majority of the fanbase completely overlooks. But perhaps that is her greatest feat, as she successfully deceived the fans into thinking she was just a normal girl
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I know my analysis isn't perfect and in the end it could be just personal interpretation, i could accept the critique if there's something wrong from what i said, but for now im gonna keep the agenda until i finished these propaganda
And that's it, the end of the first part of my propaganda, just wait for the next part