Dumb and mindless verbosity. The protagonist, lost in his own thoughts, kills any investment that the viewer could have in anything he is going to do, because he is insane and a coward
This makes it difficult to digest the whole thing because there is an infantile and boyish sense of virginity that dictates the main character's actions. He can't get over his own emotions and uncontrolled fantasies, whether they are sexual or egocentric. This causes anyone with good judgment to drop the anime, especially when there is a line by Ozu saying that the sequence of novel in which the anime based is basicaly a
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