Since we are in a november streak, my vote goes for Azusa, not sure why we have a 5th girl, I thought that if there was gonna be a new girl, it would be in the sequel, I wouldn't have minded Ui as the second guitar, she is cool too.
From the main 4, the one that is my least favorite might be Ritsu. I love Mugi and Mio, and took me a few episodes to fall in love with Yui as well, at first she was kind of annoying. For a while on the first ep, I really couldn't tell Ritsu and Yui apart, they are both pretty goofy, ofc you keep watching and realize they are different. But since I've always thought Ritsu was the main character (before watching the show) instead of Yui (I know all 5 are mcs, you know what I mean, the one we get a little more focus on, the one that the show started with) I really saw the first scene and thought it was Ritsu instead of Yui lmao (in ep 13 when she pulls her hair down, that just further proved me right honestly).
What I'm going with this is that, they are both pretty goofy and then you see what a strong support Yui is for the group, as for Ritsu, I don't like her that much, the whole jealous part was the last strike honestly. I dont like her hair that much either, I did think it was pretty cute how out of all 5, the one that we got to see worried about love was her tho lmao, i've always thought she was the tomboy of the bunch so it was kind of unexpected to see that girly side of her.
And just wanted to mention how much I liked episode 13. Like I watched the show pretty slow paced, 1/2 eps per days with a few days in between sometimes, making me wonder if I like SOL anime, how I might not like them, and still this show is just really up there in terms of SOL anime, and how incredible the narrative of a SOL must be to make you hooked up and interesting in just the daily life of some girls. I had all that in mind and still thought I'd probably not watch s2, that s1 was good enough for me, but didn't feel to watch more SOL. Then I just never deleted the s2 folder and thought to myself, meh what the hell, I'll watch it, it was an interesting enough watch to pass the time. And then I watched episode 13, which I think must be my favorite episode and really glad I didn't delete season 2 yet. I'm watching it all, OVAs, Specials, and the movie, probably the only show I'll watch all specials and OVAs, stuff you usually skip since they are sort of fillers and you just stay for the story. Well, I just thought that in a show like a SOL, every ep is pretty much a filler, so if an OVA could have the quality of this 13th episode, I should def check them out. I can't explain why I liked episode 13, I guess cause it felt a little more dramatic? but obviously still goofy, maybe deep down...scratch that, it's cause Mugi had a job, that's all I came to see.
So I guess Mugi > Mio/Yui > Ritsu > Azusa |