#WA2

[chaos-thea]

My taste in romance has less to do with how romantic the relationship actually is (though that is a bonus) and more to do with how interesting I find the dynamic between the couple. Which is why fluffy vanilla romance usually bores the hell out of me. I want to see how these characters dramatically affect each other and fundamentally change each other and their individual understandings of the world!!! I want to see a beautiful tie-in between the romance and the themes + messages of the story and how it all builds to a climax!!!

[pdamerica]

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[animets]

Happy Birthday Kazusa!

To this day I think I’m still enamored by you.

今でも君に見とれてると思うよ。

Once upon a time I was definitely on team Kazusa, and I think that although in the end my heart strings were pulled more to Setsuna and Koharu, there is no doubt that I probably would have struggled just as terribly as Haruki.

最初はかずさ派だったけど、結局雪菜と小春に心を奪われた。でも、間違いなく春希見たいに酷く迷ったと思う。

White Album 2 is a work I love because I relate so well to Haruki and his decision making. His nature to meddle and force his way into things; a pragmatic and realistic nature; yet somewhere, a childish gap of judgement and weakness to kindness.

WA2を好きになった理由は春希に自分が見えたからだ。お節介なところ；現実的な考え方；でも、子供っぽい間違いとやさしさに弱いところ。

I searched for White Album 2 fans on Twitter simply because I loved the work too much, I loved the story too much and I had no one to talk to. I had to free myself from that solitude.

ツイッターでWA2ファンを探したのは物語が好きすぎて、話したくてでも話す相手がいなかったんだ。その孤独をいやすためだった。

Kazusa taught me many things - a love for the sound of piano, a sense of patience and the importance of chasing dreams. Kazusa always focused on the importance of practice and to approach everything simply.

かずさからたくさん教えてもらえた。ピアノのを音への愛情、待つことの大事さと夢を夢中に追うこと。いつもかずさは練習に集中し、単純な目線から生きていた。

She was willing to throw everything she had away to be with Haruki. She forced Setsuna to take responsibility over him, she played her role perfectly. She realized that she too could be a good daughter and that she was capable of being a reliable adult. 

春希と一緒になるためなら何もかも投げ出す覚悟があった。雪菜に責任感を感じさせるときさえも自分の役目を果たした。そして、時には雪菜みたいな「いいやつ」にもなり、完璧な大人になることも。

Yet, she had her cute moments - an inability to cook, a reliance on Haruki and a sense of cheekiness when showing off. I think there’s no doubt that she’s so beloved by the fans is because of how powerful her words and decisions are. How driven she is by her heart and how all of us are just like Haruki, pulled by our hearts and neckties, unable to make the right decision that everyone tells us to do.

でも、時には可愛いところもあった。料理ができないこと、春希に頼ること、そしてちょっとだけ図々しいところ。ファンに愛されてることは、かずさの言葉と結論の強さから生み出されたものだ。まるで春希みたいに、心から引かれて、まるでネクタイを引っ張ってるように夢中になって、周りの言葉を無視してしまう。

It’s truly this heart-wrenching difficult decision that makes White Album as wonderful and tragic as it is. No one is at fault, but someone must suffer and that is why we are on the opposite side of happiness. Because someone is always left on the other side. 

この心を壊される選択をしなければならない痛みがWA2の素晴らしさであり、悲劇なところでもある。誰のせいではない。それでも、誰かが苦しまずにはできない。だからこそ、幸せの向こう側。向こう側には必ず誰かが残るんだ。

If I have just one regret, it’s not getting Hitomi Nabatame-san’s signature when she came to Toronto’s Anime North a few years ago. But alas, from our mistakes we learn and grow.

そして、一つの後悔があるとしたら、何年か前に生天目仁美さんにカナダのアニメノース祭りでサインをもらわなかったこと。でも人生ってそんなことから上達することでしょう。

[good-smile-company]

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[taillis]

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[kims1825]

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[etto-awawa]

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[miyakuli]

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[2hiit]

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[incorrect-hs-quotes]

John: Okay, rose, we need to do a little good cop, bad cop on this guy. i'll be the good cop, you be the bad cop.

Rose: Bad cop... alright, I think I can do that.

John, turning back to the prisoner: So, where were we-

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[animets]

Happy Birthday Koharu!

And on why I love White Album as much as I do.

It was early 2014, I had just finished watching the White Album 2 anime and it really encompassed who I was at the time. I was halfway through my second year of university, where I embarrassingly was dealing with tons of insecurities, heartbreak, and trying to hide from myself. I had related to Haruki in high school because everything he did made sense to me. The person I tried to be in high school was very akin to Haruki.

That’s when you start closing chapter, only to learn that Haruki has become a shell of himself. He blames himself for everything that happened and cannot forgive himself. The suffering, the fakeness of everything - it really resonated with who I was at the time. Afraid of the world, pretending to be ok - I would skip class, smile for my parents, and pretend I wasn’t losing my sanity every day. So reading how Haruki was living a fake life, suffering, and blaming himself every step of the way, it was like watching myself from third person.

And then we meet Koharu, a girl who earns the nickname “Little Haruki” because of her earnestness and tendency to stick her nose in other people’s problems. She’s just like him at first, headstrong and hates to be underestimated. A belief that she can do everything she puts her mind to. We watch as she learns more about him, and we start to see her heart shine through. We watch painfully as she gets dragged into Haruki’s mess and despite all the collective efforts to protect her, she starts to fall into the quicksand that is Haruki’s life.

This ultimately ends up being the trigger that gets Haruki to get his life together, because although he doesn’t value himself, he can’t bring himself to let her throw away herself for him. He ends up facing everything he was trying to run away from because of it. I think I cried for hours after reading that ending, because sometimes there is no easy way out. Sometimes there is no good solution. If not for that, I may have never have faced myself. 

I realized I couldn’t let my solution to be like Haruki’s where someone would have to walk into the quicksand to save me. It’s weird to say White Album 2 changed me, because I think I’m still the person who wants to be like Haruki. Someone who aims to be warm, reliable and nosy - just like Haruki is. I think that’s who I aim to be, but there’s also a tendency to be a little unrealistic, and to try to chase dreams that are out of reach. 

That’s why I love Koharu as much as I do. Koharu embodies a lot of what I considered to be the perfect girlfriend when I was in high school or university. I still feel that if I had met a person like that, perhaps I would too would have fallen head over heels, just like Haruki does in Koharu route. 

Given that I am not at my computer this week, I won’t be able to create the wallpaper I had planned for her birthday but you will see the wallpapers this week, I promise!

Happy Birthday Koharu and thank you for saving me the way you saved Haruki. Your heart truly ascends dimensions and fiction.

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