![]() She bosses the other players and uses frustrating moves like squeeze plays. At a softball game during the sports tournament, Kotomi takes charge and proceeds to alienate everyone on both sides by treating the friendly and casual event with deadly seriousness. Like Tomoko’s, they are largely self-made. Aside from Kotomi's devotion to the Chibi Lotte Marines, Itō reveals that while Kotomi is sociable, she tends to keep her distance from others, and she always uses the last name with the -san suffix.Ĭhapter 150 provides considerable insight into Kotomi’s social difficulties. ![]() When Tomoki asks Itō about Kotomi, Itō responds with a long rambling description to the irritation of Tomoki. When she overhears Shizuku Hirasawa ask Tomoko which soccer player is her brother during a match, she directly insults her. When she meets Kii, she immediately panics that since a cousins can legally marry, Kii will become a rival. She very publicly accuses Yoshida of being a "slut" in the cafeteria when she sees her with her arm around Tomoki. ![]() In more recent chapters, Kotomi has grown less tolerant of any imagined rival for Tomoki. She can also become friends with her potential rival for Tomoki such as Akari. Despite her sometimes petty-level rivalry with Tomoko, she does not truly hate her. However, she appears a much nicer person to other people. Much of her character is depicted reacting to Tomoko, making her appear resentful, judgmental, and jealous. ![]() If given the chance, she will willingly pontificate upon baseball and her favorite team to anyone. Kotomi is a shy girl but does not have the same difficulty with social interactions that Tomoko has. Her most consistent friend who tries to moderate her behavior when it comes to jealousy over any girl who she imagines also has a crush on Tomoki is Hikari Itō. Yū brings them together in a few chapters, and in the most recent ones they have developed a sort of détente though Tomoko still becomes enraged when reminded of Kotomi's crush. Kotomi does have other friends who support her, including one who also has a crush on Tomoki: Akari Iguchi. Since Tomoko does not really understand relationships, she plays with Kotomi's crush for her brother. Over the course of the story, she and Tomoko often clash over reasons played for comedy. The spin-off manga TomoMote which takes place during their middle-school years shows that she and Tomoko always clashed over attention from Yū, though the animosity appeared initiated by Tomoko. For her part, Tomoko appears to have forgotten about her. When introduced in the manga, Kotomi has a strong dislike for Tomoko which stems from Tomoko comically ruining her attempt to be introduced to Tomoki. ![]() Kotomi was a middle school classmate of Yū and Tomoko. ![]()
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