Forced. Fucking. Drama.
Seriously, what the fuck was that?
Forced? Nay, more like "About time something happened in this show!"Originally Posted by Archangel
Seriously, if nothing happened before this finished, S2 would just go down as "another one of those sequels that went with the appeal of the first series without adding much more to it."
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Sena having such a commanding presence over Yozora? Yozora getting "bullied" by Rika? Maria and Kobato acting like friends? Plus, Kodoka isn't as dense as he makes himself out to be? This isn't anything like the Hanagai I remember. I wonder what this will all lead to?
Beta as fuck.
I'll be extremely disappointed if Kodaka doesn't have a really heavy reason for his actions. Something like a former girlfriend dying in his hands, and Kodaka blaming himself at least partially and thus he wouldn't easily trust himself with another girl. But then again, those people are so weird that it's it'll probably turn out to be some vague mental issue requiring psychiatric help to fix, not a school club.
Still, at least the last eps weren't totally stock harem. A lame reset of a last episode wouldn't surprise me, but I hope it won't be like that, against all odds.
That was really awkward. I'm not going to lie, I can't blame Kodaka. I would want to get out of that room ASAP too.
If it's awkward it's because he allowed it to be. We've already been shown that he was only feigning ignorance so whatever comes to bite him in the ass from that point on will be his own fault.
Just... man up for Christ sake. Why is it so hard for Japan to come up with likable male leads?
Seconded. If it was awkward, it's all Kodaka's fault. You can't be much more insensitive than blatantly and obviously feigning ignorance when someone confesses, and in the presence of others to boot. Yeah, maybe it was the right decision to flee from the room, precisely because he had made such a giant jerk and coward out of himself. Staying there would have only stretched the abnormal atmosphere, although fleeing won't solve anything. But I suppose the last episode will solve everything, one way or another.
Guess the guy doesn't want to destroy what he currently has with the rest of the club since he isn't as thick as previously thought. He knows they care about him even like him. Accepting Sena right there would have destroyed his current relationship with the rest. At least that's what he thinks I guess.
I think the reveal will be that Kodaka had some sort of past trauma that made him afraid of admitting that he has attachments to other people (has there been any hint of this before?). It felt very out of left field to me but in retrospect I just took it for granted that Kodaka actually wanted to improve his image but was just as dense as the rest of the group as to how. Now I'm thinking he's actually been savvy to the fact that they're all friends for a while but has been taking advantage of the fact that none of the others (except maybe Rika) are in a position to point this out so he can walk the line and avoid whatever commitment demons are plaguing him.
I'm expecting a pretty lame reason like guilt over leaving his childhood friend or something, butI think I'd actually prefer that to some attempt at a deep and thoughtful reason that wasn't hinted at at all up until the last few eps.
Last edited by Yukimura; Fri, 03-22-2013 at 03:34 PM.
he didn't hear her and had something important to do, deal with it guys
but to be honest, thats a situation no one could handle properly
He should visit a doctor quickly. Losing hearing so young without being a heavy rocker or working with explosives or big machinery without protection might suggest a genetic disorder. He could be totally deaf in a few years.
He totally heard her and then ran away from the situation rather than deal with it. The vibe that Kodaka has been putting out the last couple of eps telegraphs that he has a closeness barrier of his own that is sensitive to the direct affection of others. His scenes alone with Rika these last eps have practically screamed that he's not just dense but that he's willfully trying to deny the existence the other chars affections towards him. Rika has, in typical, infuriating, meek Japanese girl fashion, been trying to get him to recognize and acknowledge that he means a lot to her and the rest of the group, but in each case he reacted in a way more hesitant manner and tried to downplay or deny what she was getting at.
Sena's comment pushed him over the edge by smacking him square in the face with another persons unabashed expression of affection for him and look how fast he ran away from the situation.
Last edited by Yukimura; Fri, 03-22-2013 at 04:05 PM.
I'm not saying you're wrong Yuki, but it feels to me you're over analyzing it and trying to come up with excuses for him.
The way i see it? He likes the status quo, he's already aware that the club are his and each other's friends and that admitting it might screw up whatever strange balance held them together thus far. Same deal with romance, he's unwilling to add any more factors in because of how happy he is with what's he's got right now.
TL;DR: A pussy who's afraid of change and thinks that if he ignores it it'll go away.
A dickless pussy, no less. Who cares about friends (they will soon finish high school anyway and go their separate ways) when he could make a girlfriend out of one of the beauties.
You know, that's not even the issue for me. Weather he wants a relationship or not is up to him, if he just wanted to be friends with all of them that would have been fine. What makes him a faggot is how he's refusing to deal with their advances when he's fully aware of them. This is called leading a girl on and it's bulshit.
Sometimes i need to remind myself these are just cartoons...
Sena's casualness about confessing was a bit of a surprise. She's been very embarrassed about that sort of thing before, blushing and turning away. Not as paralyzed as Yozora is (shaking in fear just from having witnessed that), but definitely not as clear and casually assertive as she was here.
I do wish that Rika was less meek about her own feelings. I kinda figure she thinks that Kodaka likes Yozora and Sena the most, but Rika definitely would have had a clear advantage had she confessed first. She is his self-admitted type, after all. She even would have done it in a way that Kodaka definitely wouldn't be able to lie about hearing it, since she's well aware of his habit.
You're right to a degree, but Yuki's assertions have some evidence to back them up way back in the first season and first and last episodes.
Kodaka's never had any friends, ever, other than Yozora for a month or two at most. His father moved around constantly for work, so they were never in one place for long, and Kodaka's appearance got him ostracized (often physically attacked) wherever he went, getting worse as he got older. Kobato really lucked out by looking more like her mother, as we know now, she's super popular. But she shares that shyness and is only close to Kodaka also because of the constant moves. Again, lucky for her, that shyness only makes her more popular with her classmates, even if she doesn't want it. Kodaka got an even split of the genes, and looks threatening all the time.
So now that Kodaka has finally got friends, he really does enjoy the status quo, and wants to keep it. He knows as well as Rika that they're already all friends, even if Sena and Yozora wouldn't want to admit it. But Kodaka also probably recognizes that both Sena and Yozora really like him. He knows that if he picks someone other than Yozora, that he'll at the very least lose Yozora again. Losing his only friend in a way where he was simply abandoned probably traumatized him deeper than he was willing to admit, the same way that Yozora's fear during that incident got worse and worse, giving her the crippling social anxiety disorder she has today. It also doesn't help that he waited and waited to tell her he was moving away, and when he finally did, it bit him in the ass because she hid around the corner from him, too embarrassed to show him that she was a girl. That decision to finally say something resulting in never seeing his best friend again doubled the effect the event had on him. It doesn't really help that he didn't notice that Sora and Yozora are the same person (but really, who would?), she was too afraid to make up for lost time, instead scheming her way to being near him, and when he finally realized it, she basically told him that the past is the past and they only were friends, they aren't now.
Now he prefers that nothing be said, the closer people get, the harder it is for him to part.
Kodaka escapes situations where he feels he is getting too close to others as a method to avoid the pain he felt when he lost his only friend. He'd rather drift apart slowly than experience that emotionally shocking kind of split again.
tl;dr: Sena surprisingly casual and forward, I wish Rika was less meek, Kodaka likes status quo, but was deeply traumatized by Yozora abandoning him, the issue compounded by her severe social anxiety a decade later.
A) I thought Rika was recording Kodaka's voice to insert it into the movie. That didn't happen..
B) First time in ages where I actually laughed when Sena got swatted.
C) I don't know what I would have done in Kodaka's shoes. Letting it would be poor manners and would be the thing I'd want to do. I'd probably end up just saying no, since I'm not (and I'm imagining Kodaka isn't either) romantically attracted to Sena.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
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