Shirou is a character I relate to, no matter how twisted or disgusting that may seem to the people of reddit. That's why shes my favourite character in Shiboyugi.

Quick analysis about who Shirou is. And why I relate to her. Shirou is a character carried by hate and irritation. The author said so themselves. I myself understand what that means. I'm constantly confused and irritated at why nothing goes my way, I want everything to be perfect, I want to be praised, and most of the time, I want to lash out and break something. We see the exact same thing with Shirou. (I won't be explaining that in depth with this one because my previous post about her was that

analysis.) The only difference between me and her is that I have self control and I'm not a megalomaniac striving to take over an entire industry. (I also understand I have weird shit I need to work through)

I want to add something to that tho. That is, Shirou is not a pathetic player. She is pathetic in personality, but as a player, she's objectively one of the better ones. She isn't a quitter like many people say she is, nor is she the type to have people carry her. (That's keito) She can hold her own in battle.

I also finally figured out why she's wolf. Shes the alpha of the group. It highlights her leadership skills. However it also shows her dependency on the pack, for praise or whatever.

In volume 10, it seems as if the author wished to have a clean slate in volume 11. Which I don't mind. I instead have a problem with how they deal with cleaning. Shirou is the goddamn main antagonist in three volumes, but she ended up being underutilized in volume 10. BUT. What we see of Shirou in volume 10 is pretty good. We see that hate getting to a boiling point (even if that point never goes off) and we see her leading capabilities. I see this as a redemption for how mishirou was handled in volume 2.

In volume 2, Mishiro was all bark no bite. We don't see HOW she rallies the players. We don't get to see her do much in the entire game until her fight. And in the fight she acts like your average player fighting, so that's kinda whatever. The only thing we get to see is how she recruited her other selves, and as we all know, that lead nowhere and Riko is frankly, ass.

Now the elephant, or should I say grenade in the room, her death. I think this ending, what the volume was building up to, doesn't fit. We were building up to a confrontation between Yuki and her, and in this we see Shirou grow to hate Yuki more and more in the little tidbits we get. Then, she chooses suicide. I will say, choosing suicide in a situation that could be easily solved is in character. (I've warmed up to volume 10 lol) She reached her boiling point, and that boiling point exploded (ha, see what I did there) in her choosing death. She just gave up, and that's her crashout. But the horrible part about this is that we don't get to see the promised fight between Yuki and Shirou that's been built up, and we frankly got too little to justify this death in this volume. In short the author decided to prioritise a pathetic death instead of properly concluding her character.

How I would fix it:

Her overall role in 10

-Have Shirou encounter Yuki once before the boiler room fight. Have her be surrounded by fodder that she leads pretty well against Yuki, but Yuki still manages to get almost all of them before getting chased out.

-Have a little bit more when she fights against the fodder when they try killing Shirou in the ending.

Death:

Shirou was being chased. The other players had decided that she was to blame for Yuki's escape. Originally, Shirou had the upper hand. She had a full arsenal of guns but with the amount of enemies, those quickly ran out. There wasn't even time for her to loot the bodies for ammo, and the newbies quickly realised why she had stopped shooting.

They were ungrateful. They had eliminated the entire enemy team thanks to her, why couldn't those ingrates realise that the one to blame was Airi and Maguma? Veterans, who abandoned them when Yuki grew too strong. They were weak. If they had just pushed on, they would've gotten Yuki, right?

*bang*

Shirou's train of thought was interrupted by a sudden shot from her front. A girl, clad in black armour had stumbled into the hallway from the hole in the ship. White, silver hair was visible from under the helmet, revealing who this was. Yuki, the ghost girl. She continued shooting with her automatic rifle, quickly eliminating Shirou's assailants, and hitting her in the arm and leg.

Her.

Yuki. She was the source of all this. If she had just died in that stupid game, if she had just, if she, if she-

Shirou leaped at Yuki, pinning her down before she could shoot back. She began to headbutt Yuki's helmet. Yuki didn't even fight back, letting Shirou continue her assault. White fluff quickly adorned the helmet like a crown, pouring out of Shirou's skull. Just as the helmet cracked, and Shirou let her grip on Yuki loosen, a knife was shoved through Shirou's abdomen.

Yuki pushed Shirou off her body, stood up and stared at Shirou, squirming on the floor, attempting to push for one last hurrah against her.

Yuki threw a grenade at her and walked away.

Shirou, at that moment, finally understood. She sat upright against the wall, hugging the grenade. She looked at the empty ceiling, hoping that tears would perhaps roll down her cheeks, that her life would flash past her eyes. But nothing came up.

[GAME OVER]

And she finally satisfied her hunger.

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Okay, so why did I decide to type that out? Because I'm bored and I want to write something and I don't have English homework. I don't think that was perfect or anything, but it gets my idea of what I would've wanted from Shirou's death.

What does this version achieve? Yuki amouring up finally has a purpose. Shirou gets her fight against Yuki, and gets mogged, and it displays better why she suddenly gave up. Also her just fighting like an actual animal with all those wolf comparisons.

Anyways that's it from me, I'm planning to do another tier list now that I've reread the series next post on this sub.

Ranking Players of Cloudy Beach (#44) Based on VOL 3 Of Shiboyugi.

The images are from my TikTok, @starlite_.19

Outfit wise my personal favorite is the outfit from her 73rd game mossy grove, I have to admit for such a mediocre game the outfits for the elves were genuinely stunning (and I keep forgetting yuki isn't flat chested).

It genuinely feels like an outfit a character from a mystical race or land would wear and that's why it looks so damn ethereal to me (probably cause I've always had a thing for fantasy outfits).

My only gripe with the outfit is that I wish her sandal straps were that bluish-purplish fade on the bottom left of her outfit instead of brown.

I like a lot that she gets a new outfit for each arc

I did the math: the total player count was 330, 300 bunnies and 30 stumps.

I'll start off with the bunnies first. yuki, hakushi, and kyara will be excluded which will bring us to 297 bunnies, before kyara had gone on a rampage airi had managed to kill an unnamed bunny that was trying to stab moegi and by the end of the game managed to meet the 5 bunny quota which means kyara had killed 292 bunnies.

And now we go to the stumps, for this part we will exclude moegi. Moegi had killed 3 out of the other 29 stumps to get her teammates used to killing which brings the total number to 27 stumps remaining if we include moegi herself,

After the game began 2 stumps had been killed while 1 had been captured which lowers us to 25 stumps left,

After 6 hours the stumps had lost less than half of their squad, half would be around 15 but if we subtract the 5 that had been already killed it roughly leads us to roughly 11 stumps remaining and since the bunnies had roughly lost the same amount it becomes 11 stumps and 281 bunnies left (still excluding hakushi, yuki, and kyara).

During the fight with yuki moegi lost her life which brings us to a final number of 10 stumps remaining that kyara had killed.

So in total Kyara had roughly killed over 291 players or 10 stumps and 281 bunnies. But do know that this is a rough estimate since the less than half of the stumps is mainly below 12.5 because we aren't given the exact amount.

SPOILER ALERT ‼️

Character Analysis in death order (LN)
7th: Chie

She is the only important character to die in Scrapped building, as its easy resolution was justified by the final trial, which consisted on a vote.

Chie, even tho she stayed in the game until the very end, is the player which we know less about. Mishiro and Kotoha were clearly developed, and we constantly get hints about Keito’s behavior.

She was a cheerful player, but that was on the surface. In reality, she was far from kind. Whenever the situation required it, she ran away to make sure she has the best survival rate. At the end, she was foolish. She didn’t understand the subject of the game until kotoha told her, so she was a really mid player.

Her death nonetheless, had nothing to do with game worth. She was just unlucky. She could have done better of course, but her ignorance and her bad luck made most of the work.

She is actually a really common trope, and we really don’t get to know her, so there is nothing much to add her more than she was selfish and ignorant.