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she is an author's pet with a power level bordering on "Eagle carrying Frodo all the way to Mt. Doom single-handed" tier, and the game spends an inordinate amount of time on her and her sob stories to such a degree that every time someone accuses Makoto of hogging the spot light too much, I have to resist the urge to drop kick the nearest infant I see I out in public. Every single thing people complain about in regards to Makoto is utterly false and completely and abjectly true about Futaba. It's like they're projecting all of Futaba's foibles onto her in some weird, collective delusion, either because way too many fucking people out in the real world want to fuck their little sister, or too many fucking people have a terminal case of shit taste in fictional characters. Personally, I can't stand the fact that the only extroverted MBTI female in the entire party is a blonde "I'm actually half Japanese, tee hee" and everyone else is either a stinky NEET or some insufferable offshoot of the introverted Japanese ideal archetype. WHERE ARE ALL OF THE TOMBOYS? Makoto isn't a tomboy just because she rides a motorcycle in the Phantom verse and wants to be a cop in the real world. She's introverted, possesses all of the makings of an introverted MBTI, and doesn't understand social cues to save her life. But at least she doesn't completely drain the narrative of any and all tension because she isn't a super l33t hacker who can do everything the plot needs her to to save the day and pull the party out from the jaws of defeat. Imagine if Junpei was actually an undercover agent with amazing physical prowess who could take out Nyx from the shadows, ending her forever, preventing the betrayal in the dormitory, keeping the goth ginger alive, etc. That's Futaba. She's a walking, talking, living, breathing deus ex machina who do whatever, whenever, because she's that powerful. I vastly prefer happy endings, don't get me wrong, but holy shit, Futaba did all of the work
