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>>12257043
Basically Tamaki first appears to be a really nice gal. She's funny, clever, kind and energetic. She wasn't an annoying tsun-tsun osananajimi, and she mashes with the main character extremely well, constantly having interesting conversations and smart bantering. But it's later revealed that she was having casual sex with some guy she knows, and it went on even after she and the main character officially started dating.

Needless to say, this pissed off a lot of otakus who emotional invested into her character but then felt they got bait and switched when it was all revealed.

I personally didn't mind it all that much, she just turned out to be a deeply flawed character, if anything that made her that much closer to a real person. Think about it, in reality, a person who appears unnaturally perfect or nice, generally have some major character flaws, that are either real or something that they coached themselves into believing.

It's known for a while now that there's this psychological condition called compensation. When a person felt that he/she is deeply flawed in some way, often times, they'll compensate it by being extremely nice/excellence on other aspects of their character, just to cover up their real or imagined personal deficiencies.

I think Hiruta took a gamble with Tamaki, by giving her some layers, counting on that most players would get what he's trying to do with her character. Needless to say, it didn't pan out that way. While I do believe most players, by various degree, understood, but the hardcore otakus, who are comparably extremely vocal, didn't/refused to see what he tried to accomplish. At the time it had gotten so bad that the character artist Aya Kadoi couldn't even find work after K2 because of her association to it, Elf had to put her under one of their subdivision studios just so she can stay employed. And Hiruto soon resigned his CEO post as well and all but disappeared from the eroge industry, "Officially", at least.