#you guys all missed the point of her development AND her and saiki's relationship development

[oceanwithouthermoon]

maybe its just me but i cant stand when people are like "it just doesn't sit right with me how teruhashi thought about aiura 🥺" like yes... its not supposed to ??? because her thinking badly of other girls and prioritizing male validation over everything is one of her main flaws ??? can we talk about that WITHOUT making it seem like shes not allowed to have a single actual flaw without suddenly becoming an awful person? nobody can handle complex female characters at all and its so fucking annoying

[nagirambles]

Not FT-related, but out of curiosity, have you read Komi Can't Communicate? Its main focus is on friendship and comradery and it prioritizes platonic connections in a really wholesome way, so I thought you might like it!

I have! I am OBSESSED with it! Was. I calme ddown after a while. I have been reawakened. Would you believe if I told you I read it all, and then something like a month later an anime was announced.

Honestly my favourite part of how much I've read of it, was how the Manbagi-Tadano-Komi love triangle was written, solved, and concluded in such a wonderful, perfect way. The girls respectfully, heartbreakingly came to an understanding and cried about it together, despite knowing one of them has to give up for the other. And everyone's so damn supporting. I wish the Nalu-Nali debate could have had that treatment. Lisanna and Lucy's friendship was stolen from us.

But anyways. I adore Komi can't Communicate! I think people consider Komi a Mary Sue in disdainful ways, but they've all missed the point! A mary sue is usually regarded as bad because they're too perfect and unrelatable. Komi is 'too perfect and hailed' too, but it's played as something that drives her into a corner in comedic ways, and her social anxiety and communication disorder is the most relatable form of it I have ever seen in any media, ever. She is a Mary Sue? Sure! In the best way possible, because someone has managed to make a Mary sue relatable as heck.

I love everyone's relationships, especially the 'boys will be boys' moments in field trip episodes, but I was most surprised by how the romance spoke to me, especially since that's the thing I look out for the least in any media. I think that's an indicator of just how good the romance was written and developed over those hundreds of chapters.

And I always adore nonsensical, parody and pun-stuffed slapstick comedy. it reminds me of Gintama, another of my faves. All the references and Japanese-exclusive puns (like all of their names) make it difficult for a common audience to really understand these kinds of anime, so I'm kind of sad I don't have a ton of friends to talk about it with.

Anyways, to this day a joke that vividly remains in my mind is Tadano's report card with the perfect averages across the board. He is literally the Satou guy from Saiki Kusuo, but if he were a main character. Tadano is the best boy, hands down. He is the perfect main character with how wonderful he is as a human being.

And I still die inside knowing there are people who don't get or read those tiny footnotes and extra subs that explain puns to them in other languages. Osana Najimi should have been literally translated as Friendy Childhood in the dub so people could understand the magnificence of that pun. I don't even watch dubs.