Orihime is a punching bag for people once again.

[crimsonkoifish]

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I've been having a lot of trouble posting this, so I hope three of them don't pop up.

Has "stalking" become code for "having any kind of social interaction at all?" Are female characters expected to cloister themselves to avoid accidentally brushing up against YOUR BISHIE!!! in an elevator, thus becoming "obsessive stalkers?" Because aside from the time Orihime (and Chad) followed Ichigo to find out if he knew why Rukia wasn't coming to class, she hasn't done anything to him that platonic classmates wouldn't do if they met on the street outside of school; make small talk, ask if he wants to watch a TV show filming or a fireworks display (with a group of common friends, not just her), ask about him if he's not well. It isn't a crime for her to have a crush on him, but the crush is irrelevant, since in spite of it she treats him no differently than she treats her other friends. She certainly doesn't "stalk" him.

Furthermore, in a shonen manga in which all the heroes get routinely curbstomped by the new big bad before developing the powers to overcome them, why is only Orihime "useless" when she doesn't win? What about Chad? Rukia and Renji? Didn't Ishida quite recently get his fat pulled out of the fire by Mayuri and Nemu? If needing help against hoardes of corrupted angry fettered ghosts makes you a weak, useless load, then dude, that's every character in the series. Even Ichigo.

This statement makes no sense. Orihime isn't Edward Cullen. She doesn't drive off any female that interacts with Ichigo and doesn't stalk him every night. She has a life outside of him too.

In fact, she once quipped she thought it'd be funny if her friends all had a crush on Ichigo because it would give them something to talk about.