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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

Standard disclaimer for the original ending of Hibiki aside, I agree! I really liked Hana as a character, I found her really warm and relatable in a way that a lot of token not-quite-a-love-interest female characters are in the series, and although I don't have an especial problem with Kohana, I didn't really enjoy Den-o half as much after Shiratori's departure.

Yeah, the dumpster fire of an agency that mismanaged her career at the time is a place called A-Team. Hideaki Ito who plays Kamen Rider Eden in the Zero-One movie is one of their top billing actors currently and Yuji Kido who played Ayase/Time Blue in Timeranger is still there. Ryo Yokoyama who was Sakuya/Patren 2 from LuPat was there till last year but seems to have transferred to a new agency. Hopefully in the case of Yokoyama it was end-of-contract stuff and I hope management is different there now cause it was 14 years ago after all. If not, to hell with that agency for messing around with the show and her career. Apparently they made her film Den-O AND do other stuff as well to "further boost her popularity" it seems, which again is a bad move. I guess the party involved with scheduling had no concept of fatigue at all.
At the end the Kohana stuff didn't bother me at all, cause who knows, could have been worse. But yeah, it was unfortunate.