Yeah, I gotta clarify that I really like Shuuji. XD Shuuji is awesome, and I don't have any issue with his decisions or the way he conducted himself. Which I saw coming; though for the longest time I wasn't sure if it was Rika or Hagu. It may have been Rika pmce, then eventually Hagu. Heck, as well theorize Harada as Rika. >_>
(Though if that were the case, and it's a recognizable emotional pattern, then I agree with Takemoto that it's a form of cowardice. He was right to handle things the way he did, but the statements aren't contradictory.)
I don't know if I can manage to parse the attachment as romantic, let alone sexual. XD But this is mostly just the fact of Hagu. I've known people to be annoyed by her character because she looks and acts like a little kid and they couldn't believe these guys would be all into her. Hagu doesn't bother me but I end up reading it all as variations on jun'ai. You get the feeling Takemoto's train of thought stopped at handholding and gazing into the beloved's eyes, and Morita's manifestations of interest were even more puerile than that, though his awareness is more sophisticated. Compared to the Rika-Mayama-Ayumi-Nomiya square which has sexual tension, sexual desire, and indeed sex.
I guess, to be honest, I just have this gut judgment that besides becoming an artist capable of doing the work she wants to do, Hagu's self-actualization ought to include items like not being miserable because you're incapable of having a basic conversation with a crush along the order of telling him you're going to powder your nose. ^^;; Shuuji will accept and love and validate her no matter what, but that's just it - it doesn't change a thing for him whether she goes forward or backward or stays the same. He'll support her going in whatever direction she wants, but he won't push her in any.
Though come to think of it, she totally gets over that at the end, with Morita. So chalk one up to Hagu.
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Date: 2007-09-27 05:33 am (UTC)(Though if that were the case, and it's a recognizable emotional pattern, then I agree with Takemoto that it's a form of cowardice. He was right to handle things the way he did, but the statements aren't contradictory.)
I don't know if I can manage to parse the attachment as romantic, let alone sexual. XD But this is mostly just the fact of Hagu. I've known people to be annoyed by her character because she looks and acts like a little kid and they couldn't believe these guys would be all into her. Hagu doesn't bother me but I end up reading it all as variations on jun'ai. You get the feeling Takemoto's train of thought stopped at handholding and gazing into the beloved's eyes, and Morita's manifestations of interest were even more puerile than that, though his awareness is more sophisticated. Compared to the Rika-Mayama-Ayumi-Nomiya square which has sexual tension, sexual desire, and indeed sex.
I guess, to be honest, I just have this gut judgment that besides becoming an artist capable of doing the work she wants to do, Hagu's self-actualization ought to include items like not being miserable because you're incapable of having a basic conversation with a crush along the order of telling him you're going to powder your nose. ^^;; Shuuji will accept and love and validate her no matter what, but that's just it - it doesn't change a thing for him whether she goes forward or backward or stays the same. He'll support her going in whatever direction she wants, but he won't push her in any.
Though come to think of it, she totally gets over that at the end, with Morita. So chalk one up to Hagu.