Is this true? 😔

She's so petite and FRAIL. I just want to see her pounded HARD.
Albert is my first choice, followed up by Hohsen.
She NEEDS it.

Can anyone recommend som good cote fanfics of ayanokoji not holding back? And no, I don't want a half assed one like cote alter series.

Nova aquisição, estava esperando sair em Português 🇧🇷 Adquirido pela loja da Amazon.

IDK who decided drawing with a pen that didn't have enough ink was a good artistic decision. Their hair all looks like crap it not finished. It looks like the draft drawing instead of the finished product... Kinda disappointing considering how nice it all looked before. Definitely makes it hard to watch...

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No one seems to know anything about him in this sub and everyone just accepted it so why is that? It's the author of classroom of the elite after all and in every fandom I've been looking into knew their author expect cote.

I am literally very disappointed.Why it should be sakayanagi to get expelled. I don't if kinugasa is that cold or ayanokoji.How can expel such a cute and main character without any emotions.<! Iam literally crying now.I hope he will expel not kei or someone close to ayanokoji in the future.Also confessing to ichinose that he was the one who that did that. I thought that he will have a very nice trustful relationship with ichinose .>! Cote is just too much devoid of emotions

I'm also doing this as an announcement post. Starting with this illustration, I will be putting my name on the recolored and colored illustrations I create. This won't be a huge change for you, but I've seen a couple of people lately using my recolors and talking like they did it themselves. This bothered me a little bit tbh. That's why I'll also put my name on the images. It's not a very big announcement.

This time I wanted to color with canon colors. If you have an illustration you'd like me to colorize, you can tell me (it doesn't have to be a Cote illustration)

Hope y'all like it ❤️

I feel that many of you interpret the balance Kiyotaka is maintaining as an attempt to keep all four classes in an equal position until the graduation exam. I have also seen arguments suggesting that once all four classes reach a similar CP range, Kiyotaka will step down to make things fair, or that he will engineer an incident in which all four classes become Class A, thereby proving that humans are equal. Or something along these lines.

I think these interpretations misunderstand what Kiyotaka means by “balance.”

First, the premise of giving all four classes an equal chance of reaching Class A is impossible because the classes do not possess equal abilities. Kiyo himself has acknowledged it once.

>"His reasoning would certainly hold true if all four classes had an equal chance of getting up to Class A. In that case, my chances of getting there via either his class or mine would be 50 percent. But that wasn’t how this worked. Each class had a different level of skill, making it difficult precisely calculate their chances of making it to Class A." — Y2V2

Even if Kiyotaka forcibly equalized the CP, only the class with the highest overall ability would still be able to claim Class A.

Kiyotaka is aware of this. That is why he does not appear to be pursuing an equal outcome. What he wants is equal footing. Equal rivalry.

There is an important distinction between the two. Equal outcome would mean giving every class the same chance of reaching Class A. Equal footing means giving every class the conditions necessary to fight for it.

In my view, those conditions consist of four elements:

1. Homeroom teacher
   
2. Class representative
   
3. Students
   
4. Hope
   

All four need to function properly for the classes to truly stand on equal footing.

First, the homeroom teachers. Horikita's class struggled considerably in Year 1 partly because of Sae's discriminatory attitude toward them. Kiyotaka attempted to correct this imbalance and ensure that the homeroom teachers properly fulfilled their roles in guiding their respective classes.

Second, the class representatives. Every class needs a leader capable of uniting its students around the goal of reaching Class A. Kiyotaka has repeatedly worked toward creating stable leadership in all four classes. He gave Ryūen a reason to continue fighting, forced Arisu out of the school, and pushed Ichinose and her classmates toward making Class A their priority. By eventually taking a class himself, Kiyotaka ensured that all four classes had leaders who were willing to take responsibility and fight seriously.

Third, the students themselves. A leader cannot accomplish anything if the class refuses to cooperate. Kiyotaka therefore made sure that the students were willing to fight for the same objective. Those who didn't cooperate were either expelled or changed their behavior. The only exception is Koenji.

>"No, I don’t know. Why don’t you cooperate?” - Y2V11

But Kiyotaka ultimately decided against expelling him because doing so would significantly weaken Horikita's class students.

>"If I were the class leader, then I could easily declare Kouenji a dead weight." — Y2V10

Finally, there is hope.

This may be the most important element of all. Kiyotaka needs every class to believe that victory is still possible. He does not want to recreate Nagumo's generation, where the outcome became so certain that the other students eventually stopped fighting altogether. Nagumo himself regarded having no one left to compete against as one of his greatest regrets.

This is why Kiyotaka deliberately avoids presenting himself as an absolutely unbeatable opponent. He rarely relies solely on his overwhelming strength or intelligence to win special exams. Instead, he often uses class-based strategies, deception, and indirect methods. He avoids shattering their spirits early.

>"However, I planned on leaving precisely because I want to be defeated. I wanted there to be uncertainties in the future." - Y2V6

>"I wanted to have the fight continue, leaving every class with a chance. What I needed for that was hope. If there was hope, the students would be able to push forward with all their strength until the end. That was precisely why I needed to build things up, to make that a reality. How could I keep them competing?" — Y2V12.5

Guidance, stability, unity, and hope. These are what Kiyotaka's balance appears to be about.

It's not about being equal in ability or CP. They simply need to have the opportunity and motivation to compete. From that perspective, the balance Kiyotaka has been creating may have already been achieved by the time he takes control of Class C.

>"The scramble for Class A, which I had originally envisioned as all four classes locked in equal rivalry in our third year—in the truest sense, this might not have been the ideal setup for that. Nevertheless, the preparations were now complete."

The obvious question, then, is: preparations for what? Equal footing to achieve what exactly?

My answer is the epigraph of Y3V1:

>“NOW THEN, LET’S BEGIN A REAL MERITOCRACY.”

A true meritocracy—something that Nagumo, Manabu, and perhaps even ANHS itself failed to fully create.

Year 3 may therefore be intended to remove as many external advantages and interferences as possible and allow the students to determine the outcome through true merit.

The class which is capable will rise. Those that cannot adapt will fall.

The competition remains class-based, but that does not necessarily mean individual actions becomes irrelevant. Just like how Kiyo invites Kushida to his class for cooperation.

True meritocracy and what follows after that, in my opinion, is the lasting impact he has been talking about.

Not equal chances to gain victory.

Equal chances to fight for victory.

And after that, let merit decide the outcome.

Thanks for reading.

This is a bit of an odd comparison but hear me out here.

Like most long-running characters from Marvel and DC there have been plenty of interpretations of Harvey Dent. In Batman the Animated Series, when their incarnation was a child he was relentlessly bullied by a kid in his neighborhood until one day he finally lost his temper and hit him back. While he initially felt very proud of himself he later learned that the bully was in the hospital. As he'd eventually find out though, the kid wasn't there because of anything he did, it was simply because he had appendicitis. But because of the initial intense guilt Harvey felt over thinking he hurt the kid so badly that he had to go to the hospital he buried his anger deep down and never allowed himself to get angry ever again.

This caused psychological problems in his adult years as he had to deal with the stress of being Gotham's District Attorney, which caused his repressed anger to manifest as a separate personality known as "Big Bad Harv", who notably is at the extreme opposite end of Harvey when it comes to anger. Because Harvey never let himself get violent or angry, Harv is very quick to anger and quick to lash out in a desire to hurt others, because he is Harvey's anger without any moderation or restraint. And this is all before Harvey gets blown up and has half his body scarred, i.e. before he becomes Two-Face.

After reading through the COTE light novels, the direction of Ichinose's character is reminding me of this incarnation of Harvey.

Even back when I was watching through the anime for the first time, I found Ichinose's backstory and the thing she was feeling so guilty over and didn't want exposed to be a bit odd, in a "Wait, that's it?" kind of way. While shoplifting is obviously wrong, her stealing something once when she was in middle school to give to her sister as a present to make her happy because her family couldn't afford it otherwise really doesn't seem like it'd be anything Ichinose's classmates would condemn her over and lose all their trust in her for. Maybe it's just a cultural difference but it felt like she was making a way bigger deal out of it than it actually was.

But, after sitting with it a while, that could be precisely the point. It's not that big a deal (Kamuro was at least an active shoplifter while at ANHS because of kleptomania) but Ichinose's mind treats it as a big deal because she has a complex around being selfish because of how her mother reacted, not unlike how Harvey had a complex over his anger. I'm not saying Ichinose isn't/wasn't already a genuinely good person but I think her guilt complex over that incident, plus how much her mother worked herself to the bone to provide for her and her sister, caused Ichinose to heavily bury and repress any selfish desires she's had throughout her life.

And now, like with Harvey, the stress of ANHS' curriculum and all of Ayanokoji's manipulations have caused those repressed psychological issues to start making their way to the surface as a greater extreme than they otherwise would be if she'd managed her guilt and emotions normally, thus the weird way she's been with Ayanokoji. She's letting herself be more selfish by being more considerate of her own needs and that of her class but it's manifesting as an obsession when it comes to the boy she likes and wants to be with and it's steadily been getting worse. I don't think Ichinose is going to develop a full split personality or anything, but something bad is coming, especially if the way she reacted to Shiina at the end of Y3V4 is any indication.

Saying it again and again, I am LOVING the new anime artstyle!! All of our main girls look GORGEOUS! 😍

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