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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'm super happy to see an Onodera fan club going in this thread, by the way? I always like to think that every character or show or whatever is somebody's favorite, so it genuinely warms my heart to see affection for a character I've always had the (mistaken?) impression was a little unpopular?

Well I've noticed that Yuusuke is a little unpopular, so we're probably in the minority of people who like him. It makes sense that this thread would bring in all his fans who love to have the opportunity to talk about how great and underrated he is, the same way that the Hibiki thread revealed that everybody really loves the Oonamazu arc.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Oh! And here's a fun story! I know Die has poked fun at me in the past for always calling Yuusuke "Yuusuke" instead of Godai, and the reason I started doing that was actually specifically because I remember always seeing people differentiate the two Kuugas as above, which always felt backwards to me, because Yuusuke's name was Yuusuke well before Newsuke's was. It kind of became about more than that over time for me, though, and it was pretty vindicating to do all that Kuuga research and find out both Takatera and Arakawa call him Yuusuke too.

I guess I just call Godai Godai for the same reason I call Tendo, Kusaka and Terui by their surnames, since that's how they're typically addressed by other characters. But I can definitely respect that you call him Yuusuke due to that personal connection you feel with him, since I also make exceptions like that for certain characters who I connect with, like Ryuuga who everybody else calls Banjyou. He's always going to be Ryuuga to me.

Hibiki and his AU counterpart on the other hand.... How do we even distinguish them by name?