Her dyeing her hair and putting piercings on was her coping with her parents divorce and depression......now she's moving forward with her life to her old self, like she said she doesn't need to be another person anymoreSuper sweet, but I kinda don't like her ditching the dyed hair. It sort of smacks of that "to be a proper good person you have to fit in like everyone else." moral that pops up sometimes. It's kinda like all those stories where the female love interest is a nerdy girl and by the end she's been "made presentable" by having her do away with her glasses and get the same generic hime cut as everyone else.
That said I'm still not going to complain too much whenever we get a Ri-Chan burst because it's always great.
I mean, you can. An author's social background is an extrinsic element that affects its creation after all. Not that the "essay" you're referring to made sense or anything, but y'know. Just saying.How can you write a 500 word essay about Japanese culture and forget the chapter where she first dyed her hair which demonstrated that she did it as a reaction for how much she hated herself.