Story Basis:
After being bought from the auctions, you are to choose between five of the auction managers. You choose the 'Angelic Artist' Ota but you're surprised when he shows you a different side of himself he doesn't show to the public. He is anything but 'angelic'.
You enter a whole new world of crazy when he starts treating you like a pet 🐶?! He demands you follow his number one rule: "Obey your master, no matter what". You try to wrap your head around the secret auctions being held at the hotel but you're forbidden from telling another soul.
As time passes, you learn there's more to the devil Ota is and the mask he wears in front of the eyes of the public. His first original art project in four years is being dragged through the mud with numerous scandals.
His Personality:
Known as the 'Angelic Artist' in the eyes of the public, Ota presents himself with his signature 'angelic' smile, polite and well-mannered 😇. However, he's quick to make salty insults the minute he turns his back on them 😈. He only shows his true self to you and the auction managers.
He has no regards to your feelings in the way he treats you as his 'pet' and demands you follow his No.1 rule. He gives you a pet name 'Koro' and treats you like a dog 🐶because he claims you remind him of his dog (probably passed away).
Evidently, he is not a morning person and gets grumpy 😠 when woken up. Most likely because he stays up late working on art projects so he sleeps in late 😴.
He has an easygoing personality and doesn't take most things seriously unless it affects him. For example; he didn't care how it would affect you to have your coworkers misunderstand your 'close' relationship with Ota 😟. In his POV, he had little reaction after hearing you're being harassed by your coworkers from Eisuke because he doesn't think it affects him 😡.
At first, instead of feeling sorry for how he's complicated your work life, he found it amusing to tease you for it. You finally snapped and cried, and he starts to feel bad for what he's done and fixes it in front of your coworkers.
He hides behind a plastered smile to hide what he truly feels even when he's been betrayed or screwed over. You recognize that he's really frustrated and upset. Times like these is when he's really vulnerable.
At first, he maintains that easygoing attitude towards everything, including his art. Later when found inspiration (from you), he becomes passionate about his work and holes himself up in his studio until he completes his project.
*** Be warned for any spoilers ***
Overall Opinion:
Let's be honest here... I don't think anyone was very fond of the whole 'master-pet' scenario. Because I wasn't 😤. I really bothered me the entire story to the point where it just got annoying and may or may not have hurt my feelings.
Not only was Ota treating the MC like a pet but the auction managers were treating her like one as well with all the sarcastic comments about her not understanding what they're saying 😠. I was at my wits end when the MC slowly got use to being his pet and eventually accepting she's his pet.
Like girl, have you no dignity? 😩
His sadistic personality aside, I thought the plot was well written around the whole scandal thing. It just shows that even if you're the 'Angelic Artist', you're always going to be involved an any sort of scandal. No one is immune to that.
It took me a while to get pass his whole pet fetish until they dropped the story about his past. They don't make it obvious so you have to connect the dots yourself why he's into the whole 'master-pet' situation.
As the youngest of the bunch, Ota gets along really well with Baba and would get him to look after you (only because he doesn't trust you enough to let you go back to your apartment) when he's busy working in his studio.
In his POV, he states that the MC and the auctions have no affect on him - evident when he couldn't careless about the MC being harassed at work. And unlike the other auctions managers, Ota really has no reason to be a part of the auctions because he doesn't have any purpose like the others do.
While he comes off as someone who doesn't care about things that don't affect him, he doesn't seem like he's the type to make mistakes either since he always on his guard. It really surprised me to see him make a rookie mistake and telling a rival about his idea for his art project.
It ended up costing him making his comeback to the art industry when the artist released her artwork to the public first before he could. The media caught wind of his 'plagiarism' 😨 and painted him in the worst light bringing up his previous scandal 🙈.
Baba explains this is Ota's his first original piece in four years since his last scandal, and it was a time before any of the auction managers met him. So not even they know much about his past because Ota is a private person.
It turns out Ota had been betrayed before by someone he greatly admired as an artist. The person never taught him anything about art but is an artist himself so he respected him for that. He got his first break when he was 14 🏆 and he had already been in the industry for years before he got into his first scandal 📷 at age 20.
Not to spoil too much but the artist he admired so much betrayed him and made him look like an attention seeker. Ota lost his passion for art and couldn't create an original piece for four years until he met the MC.
Suggesting from then on, Ota lost faith and trust in humanity when the public turned on him. So it explains why he doesn't trust people that easily that's why he treated the MC as a pet. Because it goes the saying; "a dog is a man's best friend" 🐶. They never betray you and they're always loyal.
Baba also explains how Ota didn't trust him either at first, only letting his true self come to light when participated in the auctions. However, he hinted that Ota had been himself towards you right from the beginning.
Ota uses his 'Angelic Artist' persona towards the guests and his clients as a defense mechanism to protect himself from trusting people and avoid getting hurt. He only shows his true self in front of the auction managers and the MC which shows he trusts them to a certain degree - (because in Eisuke's route, he explains they don't get involved in each other's work so trust is only at a certain degree)
As the story progresses, the MC gets used to being his pet and 'misses' him when he's not around. She gets angry on his behalf when his ideas got stolen 😡 and frustrated when he's acting as though it doesn't bother him - when really he's just hiding it 😩.
When the scandal takes a hit on him, he hides away in his studio (so he can be alone) and ends up thinking about the MC unconsciously. He called her in the middle of the night to 'hear her voice' - is how I see it - and she tells him how lonely she is without him.
He surprisingly lets himself be vulnerable in front of the MC and relies on her for comfort and ever since their one-night stand 😳, Ota's gotten soft and against the MC and even sees her as 'feminine'. He basically he gets attracted to her and often seen blushing when she compliments him.
Neither of them spoke about it after that and pretend it doesn't bother them to avoid the awkwardness. The MC is clearly bothered by it but Ota seemed as though it meant nothing to him. In his POV, however, Ota was actually bothered by it as much as she was. He starts to see her in a different way and wonders what would happen if she stopped being 'Koro'.
He questions whether or not if she'd still be with him if she's not his pet anymore but doesn't trust her enough to let her go. It just shows he has trust issues and not ready to enter a romantic relationship with her.
Since their one-night stand, Ota starts calling the MC by her name (sometimes) and he takes her out on a 'date' just to be nice to her. Initially objecting to go to a karaoke bar 🙅, he eventually gave in to the MC and went with her even though he hated it. It turns out it didn't want her to find out he's tone deaf! 😂
The MC in his route is pretty gullible, quick to jump to conclusions and makes rash decisions without a proper plan. In the end, it just makes her seem foolish 😩 but had good intentions when she tried to confront that snobby journalist to retract his article about Ota.
The MC wasn't at all that useless to the Ota because she ended up become his inspiration for his project. It was then he realized he fell in love with her and was able to complete his artwork. He still treats her like a pet in the end but more playful than before.
Even though Ota recognizes his feelings for the MC, he doesn't come out and say it. In the epilogue, he still didn't change their relationship from 'master-pet' to 'boyfriend-girlfriend' and it really bothered her to still be in a 'pet' position.
Thanks to the help (more like meddling 😂) from the auction managers, Ota was able to tell the MC how he really truly feels about her and 'upgrade' their relationship to boyfriend and girlfriend.
Ota is also another controversial character like Eisuke because of the whole 'master-pet' scenario. If he didn't have his 'pet fetish' I think a lot of people would have enjoyed his route. I wasn't at all a fan of the 'master-pet' thing but I did enjoy the plot and his character change half-way through the story.
There's only a 50/50 chance for his relationship with the MC to get better from here on. With his jokester personality it doesn't seem like they're 'master-pet' relationship will change, but the way he suddenly gets soft and weak against the MC - it suggests a maybe on his further character development.
TBH, I've read all of his stories and I can say for certain his character does get better. How better really depends on how you see it.
If you played the first episode of his main story and didn't like it then I wouldn't recommend this is the guy for you. To other people who are still interested, then I would give his route a try. Happy playing!
Overall score: 6/10
You are welcome to read my review on his overall personality and character development from my general opinion post (which I will post at a later date). I will also post reviews on his other stories soon. Stay tuned for updates.
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