Kinu inari shoujo is really not for me I works so hard to give her more sibling to play with but she only gave me awkward moment ...
I agree, but both kinus have forced flaws. Imo I think hime (skimpy) kinu is the better ver, strictly off of the choices to raise her that way.
When she struggles with work, you help her, you try to help the family unit by supporting kiyokos parenting since you're not there frequently, you don't lie to her about how the world works, teach her to get help if she needs it, and to be caring for siblings if they need it. When the forced time jump happens, she's able to get along with her mom and family, and she loses some of her original personality yeah but she's also fully prepared for the world and is a balanced person. Trained in self defense, the arts, helping others, and keeping the peace. Story wise she makes more sense, but personality wise she's forced to have daddy issues and treats you like a dad who left to get cigs.
If nakano was wrote like any weebTM anime or vn character that defends his friends or whatever he'd be fine, but he's not, he's annoying and useless and makes her look dumb for seeing anything in him. Kiyoko also mostly metaphorically eyebangs and brown noses him, when so far he has A. had what could have been one of the most important fights in his life and got yeeted into a wall B. Talked about how pathetic we are before going back to writing crap poetry and doing paperwork while giving us difficult tasks for the kitsune like finding a metal stick, so hes wound up being the biggest mark against her character basically.
Inari (farmer) kinu, (favorite of tobs and basically considered the "correct" one) you raise to be an absolute little s*** that screams at her mother how much she hates her, has allowed tantrums, you actually DO act like a dad that went to get cigs and when she has problems, you tell her to do it herself, winds up assaulting a sibling for minor crap. Time jump she basically hisses at everyone and runs into the corn field, comes out loving her pa, her corn, and farmer studly, everyone else is better off fertilizer.
Including farmer novella, kiyoko tries to match her with someone of her class, so kinu decides she don't want none of that so seduces and jumps farmer studly (hitoshi) with no kitsune birth control. Hitoshi does something and fights off a enemy to defend, so thats something, but that's all in a text document in a forum outside the game. In game, hitoshi only appears if farmer is chosen, and is a complete non factor besides blaming him because komari wanted to be a grandma Karen. He's just an accessory foxy ken to foxy farmer Barbie.
When characters have breakdowns during the lovecraft horror fight, kiyoko also starts crying asking what she did wrong to raise her etc, and farmer kinu continues being hateful to her, so if we pretend the weird slap and passing out abuse stuff didn't exist, can make player feel bad or hit close to home, especially with hindsight knowing your character won't be there for some time.
End of the day though they both have forced big issues, both will make you feel like you should have picked the other at some point. You just choose whether you want her to have mommy or daddy issues, and whether you want her to be a den leader or a really good farmer. A farmer that hates her mother, therefore would probably not accept training from her long term in any fashion, makes absolutely no sense though being able to fight off small armies, assassination attempts, and duelists *alone*
