And They Freaking Went There

[whispering_eden]

Poppo's revelation to Jintan and the appearence of Menma's little brother aside ep.10 was just about the worst case scenario I feared might happen and it really makes me wonder even further what the production team was thinking when they planned out the pacing of the series. Whatever twist they try to pull next week I seriously doubt it'll explain

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[abyte_bony]

I actually felt the same way about Tsuruko; specifically, I thought that whether or not Tsuruko actually liked Yukiatsu could've been shown as ambiguous at least. Her putting Yukiatsu's original hair-clip of a gift for Menma on her hair was kind of a big giveaway, but I think I'd have had a better impression of at least Tsuruko in general if they'd portrayed their relationship as a girl and boy who stood on that fine line of friendship and everyone-assumes-they're-a-couple, and how they have to deal with the consequences. As in, not have her react to Yukiatsu and Anaru's situation as harshly as she did, showing that her previous actions were mainly due to her resentment of those other girls and the pigeonholing of herself

[whispering_eden]

I thought that whether or not Tsuruko actually liked Yukiatsu could've been shown as ambiguous at least.

I've always thought that would've been more realistic anyway since their at a good age to be all 'do I love x as a friend or romantically?', then there's the added issue of possibly transgressing upon dead friend's memory etc, instead of protraying apparent one true love at the age of...(seven?) while not offering us much of an insight into how & why the characters are supposed to have fallen into love with each other.

I sort of expected this to happen, so it's not that large a blow for meI expected it too, I just resisted because it seems such a waste of a character. I also find myself thinking "Chill out guys" about all the Yukiatsu bashers in the fandom so Tsuruko's comment to Anaru seemed pretty unfortunate since I expect lots of people will take it as canon & assume he was always using Anaru which seems oddly ooc/inconsistent to me

[ophelieocyz]

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