Ok I've got to get this off my chest

Ranka Lee is the first character in over a decade of watching anime who has viscerally bothered me and who I would go as far as to call WORST GIRL in her show
It's hard to pinpoint exactly why, I think it might just be irrational hatred!!
but here are some sticking points
>she's meant to be a plain or average girl next to Sheryl
I can accept this as a story concept, Ranka is an underdog, but I think I have a hard time swallowing the girl-next-door thing when she's also an amnesiac with a mysterious connection to the Vajra. Plain Jane underdog in the pop music world and "mysterious chosen one" of the Vajra refuse to gel in my brain. You're one or the other sister!
>she's meant to be a plain or average girl next to Sheryl
Ok and this ALSO bothers me because of the brutal reality that being a pop idol is like the one career where you simply cannot merely be a Plain Jane.
The whole thing also highlights the issue of Anime as a lie, which I am usually able to accept and enjoy - it's telling a story about an average looking girl, or at least a girl who doesn't have the same kind of overwhelming presence as Sheryl, except Ranka isn't an average girl, she's an idealized cartoon of an average girl - so it's not the story of a real girl making it in the pop world, it's the story of an idealized anime conception of a Plain Jane girl, who is necessarily cleaner, more designed, and "flawless" than even the most attractive women in real life - she's a FAKE!!!
>creepy/cute Vajra pet thing
>overuse of her songs, esp Aimo
Saw her singing at the Vajra at least 5 times in the course of the show; felt like something you do twice
>intestinal problems
They explain this in the last episode, but I think I saw it coming, or felt it coming
Ranka is connected to the Vajra by her V-type infection intestinal bacteria
It was about halfway through the show I started hating her, and it might have been because of that - the sense that she's somehow infested