to me I saw aiko as being the most normal out of the three. Just like Hiromi she had feelings for him for a long time. The difference was how shin felt. At the time she accepted shins friends confession because of Shins insistance(he practically begged her) and started going out with him. Because of this, she felt trapped in the relationship. And during the course of the show sought a way to break free.
In the end she finally got the courage to go for him, sure the kiss was sudden and really hurt the friendship they had. But it was the best way for her to go forward. If she would have simply confessed and been turned down, she probably would have wound up keeping the feelings, but the strong real rejection snapped her out of it. And she actually grew as a character more than the other females. She not only got over her crush, but she was able to move on and try to look at Shin's friend for real instead of just thinking of Shin and tolerating him.
The worst possible thing Aika could have done would have been to stay the way it was and just keep her feelings and keep dating the friend. Nobody was going to be truely happy this way. And unless you've been in love, you won't realize you can't just will yourself out of it. If you started to have a crush on your friend, it would never go away, and even if you were seeing someone else yourself you still can't just make feelings disappear, it's why so many affairs happen irl. You get some feelings for someone else, and you give in to those feelings, after you've been satisfied, you can think logically without these feelings, and this is where relationships end.
Hiromi, I can blame for everything, first off, she never talked to the father about it. wouldn't a normal reaction to finding out someone may be your dad, and you have a brother, to be to go talk to him about it. It would have resolved all the issues asap.
But i really have to wonder, besides Hiromi and the festival, we don't really see much out of Hiromi, why did Shin fall in love with her? She was very cold and distant, and avoided him. Sure he had childhood memories, but he had those too of aika, and from the way it's presented, Aika seemed to be a much bigger part of his childhood. i say they have the worst relationship, is because he fell in love with her image, of what she looked like, and who he thought she was. She practically was a blank slate around him. It felt really forced, like these two were destined to be together despite them not really even being friends for the past year or two.
Noe, again is my favorite character. I really liked her and I wanted her to win. But she simply wasn't normal. You have to realize when i say she was retarded, there are varying deegrees of retardation and she is just slightly retarded. I don't mean it offensively, but it's just who she was. She was adorable though so it's easy to love her and not realize her flaws. Even though she was adorable you have to think of her mental capacity versus her age. They were in high school so she was AT LEAST 15/16. Yet she behaved more like a 10-11 year old. It's really easy to forget when your watching anime, since ages and appearance have no ties together(Watch yotsunoha) .
About her being his Muse. I'll agree to this. But at the same time, she also was the only girl that he has genuinely interacted with. When did we see anything besides angst from Hiromi, not untill the very end(what she did to make shin her lapdog ill never know) And Aika pretty much was her interacting with him and him being distant.
He showed genuine interest in Noe, enough to keep going to her, whereas he was avoiding Hiromi(why? He had no knowledge of the brother/sister thing, he should have been at least talking with her). |