"Pretty sure his name is Kohei"
Nope, it's Kunpei, but it's an easy mistake to make. I've read the WN in Japanese up to around c.150 or so, and it's spelled out in kana enough for even me to figure it out. ?
Without the horns, Mino isn't as interesting. Same goes for Madoromi. Madoromi is cute because she has horns.
Without the horns... they're just... ordinary and less interesting.
OTOH, if everyone had horns, it would be dull, too.
Well, it's not like they haven't already dropped a metric crapton of Kaguya-hime foreshadowing around her. (Not talking about the manga, talking about the JP folk tale.)
But knowing Hata, I wouldn't be surprised if that was all an elaborate troll.
I wish the potion story hadn't been added to the LN from the WN. It doesn't really add anything. It just bogs the story down with D-level criminals who aren't even that smart, they're just a-holes. (And yeah, I wish the anime hadn't wasted any time on this crappy plotline, either, and had just...
OMG, I read the whole thing again. It was brilliant 10 years ago, it's still brilliant now. Every now and then, I can pick this title up, read it, and still have to pretty much read it all in one go.