Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! is a webcomic that originated on Twitter and is currently being serialized on Nico Nico Seiga's Dora Dora Sharp #. It's scheduled to be adapted into an anime and air in July! The story centers around a kind-hearted, albeit slightly scary-looking senior who is constantly harassed by an annoyingly cute junior. The two share a strange relationship, typical of romantic comedies, where they seem like friends but are practically dating. Let's delve deeper into their relationship, as well as the other characters!
Introduction... What kind of characters are the protagonist, Shinichi Sakurai, and the heroine, Uzaki-chan?
The protagonist, Shinichi Sakurai, is Uzaki-chan's senior. Tall, slightly muscular, and with a mean look in her eyes, she gives off an intimidating impression. As a result, she's somewhat feared at university and has few friends. However, she's a very kind person, so those who know her have a good impression of her. Although she has few friends and tends to be a loner, she likes being alone, so she doesn't mind it at all.
Uzaki-chan, whose real name is Uzaki Hana, is this kind of character
The heroine, Uzaki-chan, also known as Uzaki Hana, is a junior student with a short stature, short hair, and incredible fighting power (bust size). She's a sociable, friendly girl with many friends, but she can easily get carried away with people she trusts, especially her senior. She's an annoyingly cute junior who will appear out of nowhere and start bothering her when the senior is alone.
The elusive Uzaki-chan always appears wherever the senior is.
Senpai enjoys spending time alone in a relaxing space, undisturbed and unconcerned, and is often seen playing alone. That's when Uzaki-chan shows up. After initially teasing the lonely senior with a laugh, she'll want to play with them. Even when I tell her to go away, she doesn't seem to mind, so somehow we end up playing together. This is the usual pattern.
A kind senpai who never treats me rudely
Even though Uzaki-chan can sometimes get annoying and irritate me, she's a kind senpai who never treats me rudely and always plays with me. It's not that she dislikes her that much, but she does feel like her life is being encroached upon. Uzaki herself doesn't think of it as her senior playing with her, but rather as giving attention to a poor, lonely senior.
Annoying junior deserves to suffer
The initial pattern is that Uzaki finds her senior playing alone ⇒ teases her lonely senior and laughs hysterically ⇒ somehow they end up playing together. However, Uzaki often gets hurt or suffers a terrible experience when she gets too cocky. If she didn't, she'd just be annoying, but because she suffers a terrible experience, she's both annoying and cute. Recently, her friends have been arranging things for her, and she's even popped into his house on her own.
Uzaki-chan is invading her senior's life, and here's how she's doing it
At first, she was just annoying him around campus, and he would tag along and hang out with her. But after Uzaki-chan found out where she was working part-time, the owner of the cafe where she was working kindly arranged for Uzaki-chan to work there as well. Furthermore, thanks to the owner's kind gesture, Uzaki-chan discovers Senpai's address, and from then on, she starts hanging out at Senpai's apartment, playing games, and cooking for Senpai, who isn't very good at cooking.
So, what does Uzaki-chan think of Senpai?
Although everyone around them thinks they're dating, Uzaki-chan gets carried away and spreads the word that she's just playing with Senpai, who is "gloomy, friendless, and poor." In reality, she trusts him deeply and is attached to him. She easily falls for Senpai's clumsy hypnosis using a guidebook (apparently mutual trust is important for hypnosis), and even falls asleep next to him even though they're on campus. But if Senpai asks her out, she's willing to go out with him... It's a familiar scenario.
Uzaki-chan Wants to be Confessed to?
Going over to their houses and cooking meals together is practically a dating situation, but they're not aware of it. When this fact is revealed to Uzaki-chan's family, they're like, "Why aren't we dating!?" She was constantly teased, "You like him, don't you?" But Uzaki insisted, "I'm dating him because I feel sorry for him!" and "It's not that I like him, it's that he likes me!" It felt like a familiar scenario.
Uzaki and Senpai met during their high school club activities! Uzaki was like that back then...
Before they were senior and junior in college, they were also senior and junior in high school, and were members of the same swimming club. At the time, Uzaki had short hair, and a friend invited her to become the swimming club's manager. While she's still a secret coward, she was initially completely intimidated by the intimidating senior.
It's only his appearance that's scary; she's completely fine with his arrogant attitude.
However, Uzaki, who wasn't good at swimming, was practicing swimming after club activities. A scary senior happened to pass by and kindly and carefully instructed her. Since there was no sense of intimidation, she realized that he was just scary-looking, but actually a kind, gentle person who would forgive her even if she was a little arrogant. This led to her now behaving in a arrogant manner toward the senior. Also, Uzaki-chan's current way of speaking unconsciously echoes the slang used by her senior in club activities, and her vocabulary changes when she's talking with friends.
[Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!] Summary of the Relationship Between Senior and Uzaki-chan
This time, I introduced the relationship between the senior and protagonist, Sakurai Shinichi, and the annoyingly cute heroine, Uzaki-chan, and I think it's a relationship that's quite romantic and comedic. Uzaki-chan is willing to go out with her senior if he really wants to, but if he confesses, I can see him getting carried away and saying cutesy things, so I don't think he'll confess! I can't wait to see what happens! The highly anticipated Uzaki-chan anime is scheduled to air in July! There have been a lot of delays and other issues due to the coronavirus, but I hope it will be resolved soon!
