I need the proseka writers to actually be serious for once and explore Tsukasa’s character beyond being comic relief. These past events of his is just a cycle of him Running into a challenge —> Training to overcome said challenge —> Partially overcomes it or not overcome it entirely with nothing more than “Oh you need to train harder!”.
Tsukasa’s character is so much more than that and it gets ignored. A huge part of his character is him not just being a silly ™️ guy but also a very responsible leader and someone you can trust that’ll lend an ear. He’s someone who is very emotionally intelligent in my opinion (even if he doesn’t realise that) and is someone who can get through to others.
His role as an older brother is also extremely important to his character yet I feel that it is also so very unexplored. There are a lot of instances where it bleeds through to Saki’s and sometimes Toya’s stories, and yes you do have to read Saki’s story to understand Tsukasa, but I wish that it would take the spotlight more in his own events.
I know the “Mafukasa parallels” are very overdone in the fandom but you can’t deny that there are some pretty similar themes in their stories. I think the main difference between them is that Mafuyu’s are inflicted upon by others while Tsukasa is inflicted upon by himself. Why do so many characters that are shown to have struggled during their middle school years have that experience to be explored whilst Tsukasa isn’t??? I don’t think that his experience of when Saki is in the hospital and her illness is so bad she can’t go to school at all wouldn’t leave a lasting effect on him???
I wish he would have more interactions with other characters outside of the people usually associated with him. The mixed events are especially important for a character like Tsukasa due to how much his character rely on other characters. Make him interact with other members of the cast!!!
I think it’d be very interesting to explore in depth his relationship with Leo/need outside the context of Saki, after all, with them being childhood friends with Saki and their falling out in middle school he definitely has to have some sort of opinion on them.
He should interact with characters like Kanade and Ena as well, especially Kanade. Her goal of ‘saving people with music’ is VERY very similar to his goal of ‘bringing smiles with shows’ and I think that should be explored. Ena’s character of her struggles with art could pair well with his story of struggles with acting as well, both being deemed as ‘not having the natural talent’.
And finally some more interactions with Mafuyu, someone who struggles to smile genuinely and someone who wishes to bring others smiles would make for a very compelling dynamic me thinks, even if he doesn’t play an active role in her recovery. I think he’d be a breath of fresh air, a new perspective for Mafuyu, while she brings more understanding to a person’s psyche for Tsukasa.
His childhood should be explored more as well. I don’t think the piano would play much of a role in his character considering it’s not as important to his story like Toya’s is, but you can’t tell me that kid, who was mostly alone in the house due to Saki’s hospital visits, didn’t have any leftover effects, if anything I think that’s the reason for him being able to be naturally independent. I’m pretty sure it’s canon his SEKAI formed very early like Mafuyu too, somewhere in his childhood if I remember correctly. If it’s true it would also be a great opportunity to get to know him more through the perspectives of Miku (& KAITO) when he was younger as well as get some world building on the concept of SEKAIs.