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>>18747286
As expected of Blossom Hill's strongest.

Also Blossom Hill's cutest, TAKTO really was inspired while designing these two.

>>18107533
She is (well, kind of). But Ume and Sakura are rivals in addition to friends, so clearly their disciples should try to outdo one another too.

Formosan Cherry is only the latest addition to an existing trend, though. We've gotten a number of disciples for earlier characters during the past year: Rose got an admirer/stalker in Rhodanthe, Madagascar Periwinkle wants to follow Waterlily's footsteps as a maid, Cacao looks up to Chocolate Cosmos (who, in turn, plays dress up with her and is probably down for some /ll/ action as well, since she's just as big a pervert as her cousin), Golden Lace was taught by Queen-of-the-Night/Japanese Iris and so on. It's a nice way to make newer characters more memorable while adding something new to more established girls, sort of a reverse of the "tease upcoming characters in voice lines and release them six months later" thing they've been doing.

On that note, it's been over two years and we still don't have Phlox and Kalmia. I swear FKG devs locked these poor girls in a dungeon somewhere.

>>18107608
I originally had Immortelle/Curry Plant pegged as her rival, actually. She first showed up in an episode collection story to teach Ume how to make curry, so the connection is there, and her name is par the course for chuuni fantasies.