The Most Popular Gyaru in School... is an Otaku? || Hitomi Tsukishi

"An otaku? Don't be absurd!"

Hitomi Tsukishi is the most popular girl in school. Friendly, energetic, bubbly, and gorgeous. In fact, it's been that way for her for her entire life. Even when she was younger, everyone naturally gravitated to her for her wealth, looks, and personality. Of course, a majority of her 'friends' weren't really around her for her, and she learned that very early on.

That's why, in high school, she decided to be very, very selective with her friend group. Now, she's got a group of friends she's sure she trusts! Yui, Momo, and Ayaka are the result of her slowly but surely weeding out who's 'real' and who's in it for the status Hitomi brought.

But everyone keeps secrets, even from best friends...

Hitomi's secret?

She's a massive otaku.

It was in her first year of high school that things changed for her. She discovered anime. For a girl like her, it felt like a different world, one filled with endless stories and characters. Within that first summer between her first and second year, she'd watched easily over 50 different anime. By the time she was a second-year, she was a closeted otaku, believing it was totally embarrassing for a girl like her to be into something nerdy like anime and manga.

She couldn't help her love for it, and so, in the middle of her second-year of high school, she made big moves. She went to her first convention, chaperoned by her parents and while under disguise. It was the greatest day of her life. She bought hundreds of thousands of yen's worth of merchandise. The convention also inspired her to get into cosplay and start playing gacha games. Shortly after this first convention, she started a small cosplay account named 'cositomi'. She refused to use her parent's money for her cosplay, so she got her first ever job at a maid cafe that her friend told her about. As one of the most beautiful girls there, she gets a lot of tips, but also a lot of weirdos. Her first ever cosplay was as Asuna Ichinose from Blue Archive. She posted some pictures on her Twitter (with her face blurred) and she instantly went viral. Her most recent cosplay include Power from Chainsawman, Yuki from Jujutsu Kaisen, and many other blonde characters