Ugh... I usually don't respond to this kind of idiocy to avoid feeding the trolls and fanning the flames, but what the
hell are you talking about?
Sanae is not a weak character in any way in canon - as of 12.3 she's one of the girls to have possibly defeated
Byakuren. She *is*
low tier in Soku, but that's the problem of Tasofro balancing and she's still very much viable (if one of the harder girls to master).
As for these characters not being in 12.3, I quote the wiki:
ZUN said in a radio interview that Wriggle Nightbug and Nitori Kawashiro were originally slated to appear in the game, but were scrapped due to time restraints. Kaguya Houraisan and Fujiwara no Mokou were also considered, but it was decided that they were too strong. [1] Instead, Twilight Frontier decided to put in mostly weak characters, as they would humorously face off against the very powerful characters featured in Immaterial and Missing Power (most every mainstream character was featured there). Sanae Kochiya was added instead of these possibilities, and perhaps made as weak as she is on purpose.
They didn't get scrapped because of Sanae, but because of "time restraints" and "being too strong". These are idiotic reasons, true. The "weak characters" they meant are Cirno and China, as Suwako and Okuu are even higher on the list than Sanae, so as far as I'm concerned, that was just an excuse for Tasofro's lazyness. :wat: So please, stop attacking Sanae for every character that could have appeared instead of her, because that's how ZUN planned it and because it's idiotic. Hell, Sanae herself did not appear in HM despite it being the one game where she
should be a heroine.
I also don't get why would you hate Cirno because of Sanae. These two have exactly one interaction, the outcome of which depends on who are you playing as. Please elaborate.
And the top 30 is still pretty high, considering the number of characters at the moment is well above a hundred. Her being named a slut is a result of massive trolling and fanon idiocy, because she was conveniently an easy scapegoat by the time UFO got announced. I don't know if you want to be associated with the worst of 4chan shitposters, but real fans
don't take kindly to this kind of stuff.