<![CDATA[The work currently being serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, I'm Standing on a Million Lives, is being adapted into an anime and is scheduled to begin airing in October 2020! You're suddenly transported to a game world, and if you can't complete the designated quest, you die instantly. It's a work that's like a cross between an MMORPG and GANTZ, and we'd like to introduce the fourth player, Tokidate Yuka, a completely ordinary nerdy girl with glasses who was somehow chosen to play this brutal game!

Tokidate Yuka's voice actress is "Koichi Makoto"!!

Makoto Koichi
Makoto Koichi is a voice actress affiliated with Atomic Monkey, and is also a stage actress and choreographer. Her most notable works include the role of Shigeo Shunta in Battle Spirits: Double Drive and the role of Yuki Haru in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls. Her anime debut as a voice actress was the role of Tsukasa Kisaragi, a cross-dressing idol in "Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R," and she has recently been expanding her field of activity.

Yuka Tokidate is an ordinary otaku girl who is neither bad nor particularly good.

Yuka Tokidate cover
She is a student at a different high school than the main character, Yusuke Yotsuya, and his classmates Iu Shindou and Kosue Hakozaki. The three are middle school students, and Yuka is a high school student one year older than them. She is an otaku girl who loves anime and games, and her favorite since childhood has been the anime of the Magical Girl Majiha series, and recently she seems to be addicted to the social game, One Star, where you train male idols. She is an ordinary otaku girl who wears glasses. But she is a bit of a bad otaku girl.

Yuka Tokidate, whose occupation in the game world is magician (heat) and who aspires to be a magical girl

Yuka occupation①
The first occupation in the game is magician (heat). Yuka, who has been obsessed with magical girl anime since she was a child, is a little happy to be able to use magic, and uses magic with great enthusiasm, even uttering a catchphrase to defeat the enemy, but since the magic of a low-rank magician is not something that can be used in battle in the first place, she is attacked by an insect-type monster and dies. However, since she played the role of buying time as a meat shield, it could be said that she was barely successful.

Otaku girl's unique obsession

Yabai Yuka
Even after that, she was only useful as a meat shield in battle, but in the despair of continuing to walk through a heavy snow area in the mission of the fourth week, she was broken down by the low value of her existence, such as the way she quickly gave up and made a common enemy and talked behind her back, but she kept her heart that was about to break by the delusion of a two-dimensional character, and continued walking even though her heart flew into the two-dimensional world, which became the trigger for clearing the map.

Hunter's job after changing jobs

Yuka's job②
She changed jobs to Hunter in the middle of the 5th week. It is a job that can handle projectiles such as bows, but in that round, Yusuke used his blacksmith skills to create a crossbow, and together with Hakozaki Benisue, they played the role of defeating enemies with one hit or seriously injuring them. Although she is weak overall and not a strong enough player to be effective in battle, she still contributes to clearing the quest as an immortal meat shield + valuable manpower. There was no need for her to do everything she did, but still, the quest would not have been cleared without her.

A seriously crazy encounter!? How did he meet the main character, Yusuke Yotsuya?

Yuka who gets tied up
The encounter happened when Yusuke Yotsuya received an order from the game master to "pick up the girl I specified from now on." He was told that the success rate of the next quest would go up or down, so he had no choice but to sneak into a high school at night, where he witnessed a girl wearing glasses being tied up by another girl and having her nude photos taken.

To increase the chances of survival...

Yusuke smashes smartphones
To increase his and Iu's chances of survival even a little, Yusuke does not hesitate to resort to forceful means, smashing all the smartphones of the girls present and flushing them down the toilet. As a result, the bullying of Yuka does not escalate, and she is able to make amends by making the crazy Yusuke who barged in a common enemy, and her relationships are successfully repaired. However, judging from the game master's words, if Yusuke had not intervened here, she would not be able to participate in the game, which would mean that her nude photos would be leaked online and she would commit suicide. Or it is possible that she would lose her attachment to the real world.

A normal girl, for better or worse

Yuka did a good job
The reason she was being bullied was because she got carried away and slandered her friend online. Although she didn't mention her friend's name, that was the reason she was bullied, and in a sense, it was her own fault. She usually acts in a way to avoid becoming a target of bullying, and makes amends by making Yusuke a common enemy, so she is a normal girl, for better or worse. She has lived in an environment that is typical of modern Japan, where people who can't read the atmosphere are ostracized, so she seems to live in harmony with the crowd. She is also distinctive in that she is a net warrior.

What is her reason for existence? Why was Tokidate Yuka chosen?

Ordinary Yuka
For better or worse, she is an ordinary girl. She is not particularly reliable in the world of games. She has no redeeming features, but she also has no weaknesses. In other words, she is a player who can be replaced by anyone, and the protagonist, Yotsuya Yusuke, treats her lower than Iu and Benisue in terms of the idea of "who would be a loss for the Earth if they died." And that idea is also at the core of Yuka, so why was she chosen? This may become clear in the future.

I hate people who can't read the atmosphere

Nothing Yuka
Because one wrong step would have put her in a position where she would have been bullied, she values things like tacit understanding and hates people who act without being able to read the atmosphere. Her personality is like that of a modern Japanese person. For that reason, she thinks that Yusuke, who is a socially insensitive person who doesn't mind abandoning his friends if it means he can complete a quest, is a dangerous person, and she also hates when the strong oppress the weak. However, she may not like herself very much as a weathervane. In fact, there are indications that she secretly envies Iu, who changes the environment with her own power, and Yusuke, who doesn't get carried away by those around him.

【I'm Standing on a Million Lives】Tokitate Yuka Summary

She's a typical modern Japanese high school girl, an otaku hobbie who has always lived her life observing the atmosphere around her, and a typical character that you could find in real life. For now, it doesn't seem like Yuka has any reason to play the role she does. I think she's a character that makes me curious to see what role she will play in the future!

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