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Angelo Gabrini wrote: SyckInsanity wrote: Interesting fact how he wasnt supposed to be that popular, well not that. Something like Hino/Staff didnt know he would be that popular.

That's ridiculous, there's no way they weren't aiming at the fujoshi community with a guy with looks like that

well, it's not like this is the first time it happens. sakuma probably wasn't meant to be that relevant either since all his dialogue for the first game was given to someone else in the anime. or maybe it had to do with them changing his seiyuu (same guy who voiced satan gaul). the point is, somehow he got popular and they kept bringing him back and 10 years later he's practically a staple in inazuma/merch.

ooooooooor, it may be different with mizu cause 10 years ago they didn't know the power their bishies had over fujoshi lmfao. especially since most characters in sesihou and outei and inakuni raimon are conventionally pretty characters, so the fact that this specific bishie somehow stood out among aaaaaall the other bishies makes him kind of special lol.

i guess part of his popularity has to do with what hino said, by his own admission, that they realized mizu got really popular and he didn't mind going back and giving him more scenes as long as it doesn't change the main story.

also, this has probably more to do with ares anime time constraints than with whatever hino said about mizu, but in one of those corocoro interviews, yabuten said he was asked to change the inapen story to something more focused on seishou, i guess that's how it ended up becoming the haizaki and mizukamiya manga instead of the haizaki and kidou manga it was advertised to be.

the thing about mizu is that i feel like they struck  gold with him cause he seems to be popular with fujoshi, fudanshi, fangirls, and fanboys alike for some reason.

it's like the stars aligned for seishou and mizukamiya, pun intended