I don't get why Kyoko doesn't dress herself up? Like she wants to be top actress and someone "worth" Ren so why isn't she dressing more professionally? Like they literally called her an middle schooler
I think she means being "worthy" as in terms of acting skill, experience and maturity. She's still a very young woman. She's still green, and with no stylist, sense of style or the finances to focus anywhere else other than growing in terms of acting career.
Maybe it fits that she's not immediately changing who she is.
Since we've grown over the years waiting for the manga to progress (lol it's been well over a decade for me) I understand it feels frustrating to feel not much has changed in Kyoko. She's still finding her footing and the manga is still set way back unlike now in 2025.
I thought that as an asian woman, being called middle schooler are normal
Maybe it's more like the face than the style
A lot of asian girl have babyface
My neighbors already 38 she still looks like she's in her 20
And for country like japan, Korea, china
Their beauty standards for woman are if her face look like she always 17 years old
Just look at AKB48 (I only know about them) they wear school girl clothes even when a lot of them already in their 20, it's what japanese men want probably
I'm an asian woman and being called middle schooler is not normal.
Your neighbor looks like in her 20's to you by your standards of aging but to us she might look her age. Some just have a face that looks youthful, some don't, even for asians.
Kyoko absolutely doesn't even look like a middleschooler. I still am tired of her style though, I want some stylish Y2K ╥﹏╥
Omg! There's a Taiwanese Live action Drama!!! And Choi Si Won is in it?! This is News to me!
Also yeah Kyoko not dressing up like other women her age does feels like it's leaning towards the trope. I still think it's due to her not so normal upbringing. She wasn't raised with care from her mother, nor did she have other female relatives to learn from. Shou's parents did raise her with care but still, there must have been some reservations. Kyoko is not their child, they had a business to run, they did not have any daughters themselves, their style also seem more traditional.
And in the earlier chapters, it's shown that she doesn't know how to spend money on herself, she thinks all the pretty clothes are too fancy and "high class" for her, that she's not deserving to wear them. Again, she's a young woman who has a low self-worth and is just starting to build her sense of self.
She still has a long way to grow and it's taking a long ass time for us ヽ(´ー`)ノ
Her way of escapisim through her delusions are one way of her masking her low sense of self-worth. But that's just me Clocking in and analysing her thought process.











I got Axe baited, I saw in one edit that he was using and an big ass axe and I thought it so cool and new bc mc usually use swords (/TДT)/
Oh that's when they Chopped wood in the forest I think.
But you got me thinking too. I need an Axe Wielder MC Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
No that was when that big guy was injured and mc took his axe and killed the one that injured him(i think)
And ikr that would be Hella cool and hot.