Was this what one would expect of Mashiro? Though she drew manga herself and was into 2D culture, she could easily say the things otaku were unwilling to admit!
Was Naruto good? Of course it was!
Yet even if otaku knew that, they would never admit it. It couldn't be helped—Naruto had become too mainstream. Even people who were not otaku had more or less heard its name—
That made things difficult for closet otaku. If they said they had never watched Naruto, it was such a mainstream work that even normies had heard something about it.
But if they said they had watched Naruto, they feared that after getting used to discussing it with others, they might accidentally let slip some otaku references and make people suspect that they were otaku...
So of course they would never admit that mainstream manga was interesting! After all, otaku were not the only ones who liked mainstream manga...
At the very least, Eriri, who had not given up on herself, would never admit it even if it killed her.
But for Mashiro, as long as she found a work interesting, she dared to admit it!
Thus, Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at Mashiro, who was calm yet certain. "..."
Mashiro...
Eriri Sawamura: "..."
She had lost. Not only in drawing skill—even in strength of character, she had lost completely.
Meanwhile.
"Interesting?" Erina Nakiri was intrigued as well. "But I think lots of works are more interesting than Naruto..." Well, she did not exactly have much awareness of being an otaku either.
"Mm..." Mashiro Shiina shook her head as soon as she heard that. "Naruto is really interesting, more than I..."
"Um..." Before she could finish, Ai Hayasaka said, "Ladies, weren't we talking about FLAGs? Isn't this going off-topic a little too fast!?"
Erina Nakiri