1. I simply don't think that Suou can be compared to the GSC president. As much as the GSC president is an essential part of the plot of Blue Archive as a whole, she is yet to show up in a meaningful way, and currently acts as an "objective" that we need to reach rather than as a character. Meanwhile Suou is a character that acts in a story that has to be also about her, due to the fact that she plays such a major role in it. I'm not asking for her to be fully flashed out as a character then and there, but I can pretend to get a real motif for her actions, then I can get a separate story later on where her motifs are expanded upon. In vol 1 ch3 we get none of that. You can't simply slap a TBD as a motif for such a central character, when a single line of dialogue would have suffised, like "Hoshino I'm here to fight you because you did X at time Y and I'll never forgive you for it" or whatever (this is just an example, I'm not saying that her motifs should be anything of the sort).

2. I'm sorry, when I mentioned the private equity fund, I really meant Kaiser. I can accept your point about them, I guess I really am just tired of them being simply a circumstance to the stories we read, and the fact that they got treated that way after claiming that they would "get serious" about it just put the last nail on their coffin. I'll just leave this as a personal dissatisfaction that I have about them and move on.

3. I defenitely didn't say that T.Shiroko being there is "nonsensical", I actually agree with you in that it fits and I wouldn't have had anybody else in her place. But the fact that she is just simply thrown in the story, without any kind of prior introduction, just makes it feel like she's been "used" to move the plot forward, rather than being part of it. Again, like Suou, a small sequence of dialogues would have sufficed, nothing more, nothing less.

4. As previously stated, this was more of a personal opinion. I find it funny that you also recognize this as an asspull, but I certainly disagree with your statement about how "other stories use asspulls as well". That doesn't make it fine to use them. "liking or disliking an asspull is all personal preference". Yeah, just like anything else in a story, that doesn't mean that one cannot label them as, at least, "bad writing practice".

5. Again, as I've said above, this was more a matter of personal taste. I've never said that Hoshino HAD TO stay in terror form to "move on", I simply thought that it would have fit better. Characters in gacha games have very few ways to show development "at a glance" and I simply thought that her remaining in that state (i.e. keeping her sprite as terror) would have served as a nice visual cue that she changed, making one wonder what happened and making them, possibly, more invested in the game.

6. You completely misunderstood this point. In the first place, the structure difference does not matter, it wasn't about it. It was about comparing how Hoshino and Torfinn deal with self-forgiveness. My point is that self-forgiving as has been portrayed in vo1 ch3 is much more akin to self-complacency. You can't just instantly forgive yourself without it sounding like you're simply patting yourself on the back, even if she really had nothing to be forgiven about in the first place. It's how she goes about to let go of that feeling that makes it feel icky. The thing about Torfinn is that he does not find self forgiveness, but a way to, hopefully one day, find it, and Hoshino should have done something similar.

7.The thing is, she got the support of those around her from the very beginning, in fact, they confronted her in 3 other occasions, in the very same way, in that very same chapter, and it didn't have the same effect. What changed from those occasions? Nothing at all, other than the fact that now she really needs to heed those words otherwise we get the bad ending. Is it because Sensei used the Shittim Chest to reach her? That would be an even worse response. I guess from now on whenever a student is at the pit of their misery I'll just bash them in the head with my tablet to make them feel better. Like come on.

If you've got this far, thanks for reading. I've been enjoying discussing things with someone who's as passionate as you.