True Tears Episode 6 Discussion

lilgumba said:
This new enlightenment gives Hiromi's actions some justification.

My Theoretical Timeline:
(0. Shin's parents and Hiromi's parents are friends of some nature.)
1. Shin's dad had an affair with Hiromi's mom. She may be Shin's sister.
2. Shin and Hiromi grow up or at least hang out some. Both get crushes on the other
3. Hiromi parents die.
4. Hiromi moves into Shin's house.
5. Shin's mom tells Hiromi what might have happened.
6. Hiromi is now conflicted because she might be in love with her own brother.
7. Hiromi puts some distance between Shin and takes mother's crap.
8. Hiromi finds out about Noe and gets jealous
9. Hiromi makes up a lie about to protect her feelings so Shin doesn't find out.
10. Shin's mom reminds Hiromi not to get to close to her son due to possible relations and out of hate.
11. Hiromi is pissed that Shin told 4 about her. Now she is mad cause she has to go out with someone she doesn't like and live with the fact she still may be in love with her brother.
12. After the date, Hiromi and Shin's mom in conflict with Shin stepping in.
13. Hiromi's overwhelmed and can't take it anymore so she tells Shin.

I don't think the mother is lying at all. I mean, I would be kind of pissed too if the love child of my husband's affair is living with me. I still don't like her but now her actions are a little more justified. Shin's parents don't seem that close either. They may be there at breakfast but the communication seems nil.

With the turn of events, Hiromi's behavior is really justified. She's not lying just because she is a compulsive liar but to protect not only herself but also Shin. If Shin takes a nosedive after this then I can totally see why Hiromi lied in the first place. The poor girl is getting everyone's hate, confusion and manipulation all at once. I'm kind of glad she said something. With our knowledge now I'm surprised she hasn't done a Nice Boat on everyone. (Wouldn't it be cool if she was looking for her birth records online all that time?)

My prediction is that Noe will find out about the agreement with her brother and Shin and get pissed. She doesn't want to have any kind of relationship like that. I think Noe will try to help Shin and Hiromi get together. I'm assuming that Shin is about to take a major personality turn. (With the incident with Ai and Miyo I'm sure Miyo is going to be pissed as well and may take it out on Shin. Ai might confess to Shin making the situation really stressful for him.) Noe will become that friend Shin needs to get through this. She sees his potential. Even though she may seem the craziest out of the cast in their school, she probably is the one with the most sense, not common sense mind you. Through her helping Shin, I think she will learn to care for people again and learn how to cry again. It'll be okay for her to cry but she will also learn how to cope better as well.

Right now, I'm just hoping that Shin and Hiromi aren't related. I think I just want to see Hiromi have a happy ending.

That was a long post.

lilgumba said:
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DeathfireD said:

They could still pull off something like what happened in Myself ; Yourself where the twins ran away together lol.

bakabito said:
I'm just praying we don't end up with a 'Nice Boat' ending.

PimpToad said:
I highly doubt that Hiromi would be Shin's half-sister. From the way things are setup, we are going for a Hiromi/Shin pairing. Incest is plainly not allowed, although I'm not against it seeing that they are only half.

I would have to say that the mom's anger is justified towards Hiromi. How would you react if the bastard child of your husband/wife is suddenly living with you in your house? I'm surprised that is only the extent of how the mum mistreats Hiromi, pretty tame in my opinion.

Also looks like Shin,Aiko,Nobuse weren't childhood friends after all, well Aiko and Nobuse anyway. Also confirmed that Aiko only went out with Nobuse due to Shin, oh the drama!

The "what kind of joke is that" wasn't directed at an Aiko confession after all, those previews are seriously misleading. The Hiromi "confession" scene was very powerful, kudos to the great bgm accompanying it.

Loved Jun's line how he knows what Noe is thinking even if she doesn't realize it herself. This just confirms that Noe actually likes Shin, but she can't describe the feelings she have inside. This probably explains why Jun asked Shin to go out with Noe and why Noe seems more clingy to Shin....

Needless to say, great episode! xD

radiantfire said:
Nobuse's appearance after Aiko told him that she brought the sweater that Shinichirou liked was just priceless. Wow, how devastated did he look?

shomazta said:


I think you're going at this the wrong way. Who said Shin's mom isn't just bs'ing and lieing to Hiromi in an attempt to keep her away from Shin. I mean Hiromi could've been born before Shinichiro's dad decided to "mess" with Hiromi's mom... if that even happened ;)

As for saying "Incest is plainly not allowed..."

/me laughs

PimpToad said:
I don't think you would lie about something like that...If she was indeed bs'ing the whole thing, how do you explain why she is so adamant about removing any trace of Hiromi's mom in the household? I doubt you would do something to that extent if you are just lying about the whole thing.

Westlo said:
Hiromi's mother and Shin's mother could've both been trying to win the affections of Hiromi's father and since Shin's mother lost she has held a grudge ever since. If that was the case she probably thinks "that slut" stole him from me and I don't want "this slut" to steal Shin from me. That's reason enough for her to throw out such a lie but going by her reaction to Hiromi bringing it up, I don't thinks she expected it to work out anywhere near as well as it did.

Kineta said:
I'm so late in posting because I watch all my shows on Crunchyroll and this show got licensed! So no new ones had been appearing :(

Dan88 said:
...I hope that Shinichirō ends up a wreak and goes to Noe, who then tells him to piss off and walks away with a new boyfriend.

Kineta said:


I also think Shin's mom was lying, for one simple fact really: she said to Hiromi, "You still remember that?" with a surprised, and taken aback look. If it really was true, she wouldn't have been so surprised that Hiromi was carrying that around inside of her. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dad cheated with Hiromi's mom and Shin's mom was pissed about it. Thus, it could very well lead her to say such a thing like that - especially if she didn't like the developing crushes between Shin and Hiromi, and wanted some way to put an end to it.

When she confronts Hiromi about walking home with Shin, she says "What will the neighbors think?" not "What are you thinking? Don't you remember what I told you??"

Anyway. Good episode nonetheless. I want the next ones!

I'm so late in posting because I watch all my shows on Crunchyroll and this show got licensed! So no new ones had been appearing :( I guess that means it's a good show, but jeez, wait until it's finished airing! xD

PimpToad said:
If Shin's dad did cheat with Hiromi's mom, doesn't that even add more proof that Hiromi is Shin's half-sister? I think her surprise of Hiromi remembering that statement is due to the fact that she was so emotional about it. I would think that she expected Hiromi to just accept such a mindblowing statement, not brood over it all this time.

PimpToad said:
Online streaming for True Tears is pretty easy to find on the internets. Just gotta look...try with stage6 ;-)

If Shin's dad did cheat with Hiromi's mom, doesn't that even add more proof that Hiromi is Shin's half-sister?

PimpToad said:
Instead of hearing more about the mom, I actually want to hear the dad's side of the story. He seems to be the catalyst to this whole thing, yet we haven't seen any revealing information about him.

PimpToad said:

Instead of hearing more about the mom, I actually want to hear the dad's side of the story. He seems to be the catalyst to this whole thing, yet we haven't seen any revealing information about him.