Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3 Quotes

“The way Twitter works is that when you retweet something, the original tweet shows up on people's timelines with a small note above saying who retweeted it.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“The skills you’ve been teaching me are necessary to become a real character, and they don’t contradict what I really want, so I’d like to continue.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“The mask and the truth, the performance and the real self, the player and the character—their paths diverged according to which side of each dichotomy they valued more.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Mizusawa nodded. “If I put it like Fumiya, every day is like a game, but I’m not really playing. I’m manipulating the controller, but it’s like…I’m not the one moving through the world. Even if I mess up, it’s the character I’m controlling who takes the hit, not me. And when things go well, I’m not the one who feels happy… I’m not the one having fun.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“She pulled the Michael Andi book out of its plastic bag. “If there’s a wonderful, magical person in your life,” she said, hugging the book softly to her chest. “Someone who’s painted your gray world in color…” She looked straight at me and smiled a warm, direct, very human smile. “Then I think you should treasure that relationship.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“I’d always seen the world as the worst kind of a game, a stupid conspiracy created by the normies—but lately, I’d been making an effort to improve my ability in it, one step at a time. I’d gradually been changing my environment, and as I did, my relationships with other people transformed, too. My prejudices faded, and my experience of the world had become something new. The effort I invested in the real world allowed me to do more things and transformed my surroundings.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Kikuchi-san stared at her palms, then smiled a little sadly. “Sometimes…the world I see when I’m reading books looks more beautiful than the real world in front of me. Every time I read a book that makes me feel that way, I’m jealous of the author. After all, the world must look so colorful to them…”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“I felt that life was meaningless if I didn’t stay true to what I really wanted on the one hand, but how could I reconcile that belief with the meaning I’d found from accomplishing those player-perspective goals?”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Yes, what people say they really want can change very easily. You may think you truly want something at one point in time and act accordingly, and then as time passes, the meaning can easily change so you end up contradicting yourself. That’s not at all unusual. You could even say it’s the norm.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Was what a person really wanted always a temporary misconception? Was it really unproductive and meaningless to prioritize what you wanted in life over efficiency?”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“But I don’t think there’s anything you can do about it. People like Shuji and Yuzu are unusual. They’ve got so much going for them, right? And they’re idiots! And Tomozaki-kun is a weird one, too. Ah-ha-ha. That stuff is impossible for normal people! I think all normal people…are acting a little bit. I think…you need to find at least one person you can show your real self to, as a kind of compromise, right? That’s just how I see it, of course!”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“So I think I might understand how you feel. When you never do what you want and never listen to your emotions… When you just do what you think you’re supposed to do, it always gets boring. That…happens to me, too.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“I hope you understand now the important role teasing plays in multiple arenas: becoming a normie, making friends, and establishing equal relationships.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“In the turn-based battles of normie land, apparently there was a round devoted to phone time.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Hinami sounded a little irritated. I wasn’t totally sure why, but I had an idea. The character she’d developed herself wasn’t getting the reviews she’d hoped for, and that was frustrating. After all, for her, this was practically a digital-pet game with me as the pet.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“I wasn’t there, so I can’t say for sure…but my guess is that you were afraid of silence and kept bringing stuff up, or maybe…the topics you’d memorized weren’t a very good fit for her.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Kikuchi-san looked me in the eye very earnestly. Her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were a little moist. “So…I’d like to go out together again…like we did today…” Her fingers curled around the hem of her skirt.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Let me tell you something, dear sister. I may be aiming to move up the social hierarchy, but I’m not going to get rid of my nerdiness. My love for Atafami is eternal.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Simply put, the high school hierarchy is ultimately based on whether a person is able to mess with lots of other people or not.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Yes. It’s a way to build a friendship where you’re at least an equal. Instead of agreeing with the person all the time, you mess with them a little, make some pointed comments, challenge them when you disagree with them. That way, it’s harder for them to treat you like an idiot or mess with you.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“There’s a very common problem non-normies make when they want to change their social status and that is to go along with whatever the normies say.”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3

“Hinami seemed briefly unsure. “I wouldn’t normally buy stuff without a reason, but…this just struck me.” I made a noncommittal sound in response to this uncharacteristic vagueness. So even she wanted things sometimes without a good reason. Or was this all part of the act?”
― Yuki Yaku, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Vol. 3