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“What is love?” That is an ancient question at the center of this arc. Himeji is a girl who was once loved. What she was sure of since childhood was that her neighbor and childhood friend Kasai loved her. Everyone around her treated this love as a natural conclusion, including her and Kasai. They will definitely be together-until the day they didn’t have.
Kasai became obsessed with Futaba and realized through it that his love for her was very different from his feelings for Himeji. Discovering that such a cornerstone of her reality is not like this, this puts Himeji into a loop – allowing her to question the nature of love and trigger her puberty syndrome.
The question here is how Himeji (at least this version of puberty syndrome) seems to view love. For her, love is what others do to her, not what she does to others. She likes to make people love her and she feels jealous when these feelings change after they don’t pay off. This also means it doesn’t matter who loves her. They are all interchangeable, so once she resolves “love” she moves toward the next person. Throughout the episode, she faces two possibilities that she doesn’t want to accept.
First of all, she will not be able to seduce her. Sakuta’s interest in Himeji is by no means romantic. He cares about her student major and is afraid that her puberty syndrome may pose a danger to Mai. But her flirting and allusions mean nothing to him-after all, he is a master of dialogue. And, you’ll see that she’s never panicked about him and even sometimes fight back.
The second question about love topics is that the idea that the person you love the most is a superior feeling, not to make a large number of people who fall in love with you. Of course, this sparked Himeji’s interest. Love is her drug, and it sounds fun to get a great blow to say the least. But she never felt this love, maybe she could not be in her current state. However, the plan is basically writing. All Sakuta has to do is make Himeji fall in love with him, not fall in love with her. Yes…it will be a mess.
Another interesting thing that appears in this episode about love is how to view her relationship with Sakuta. She pointed out that her favorite thing about Sakura is how much he loves her. What sounds futile at first, this comment is actually quite deep.
On one level, it reflects what Sakuta himself said – the one you love the most is the best. But on the other hand, the fact is that Mai is a celebrity, one of the most popular celebrities in Japan. Thousands of people love her passionately. But the difference is that those people like model Mai Sakurajima, while Sakuta likes regular girl Mai Sakurajima. Or in other words, he loves her rather than a public character, which is much more for Mai than what a million fans call love.
All in all, this is another solid plot, although I’m not entirely expecting the arrival of the train wreckage, especially that means Sakuta missed out on Christmas with Mai.
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Random thought:
•If I were futaba, I wouldn’t frustrate me first because I used me as a prop to hurt another person as a prop.
•I can’t help but feel that Mito is an important role in what really happens. She is regarded as a female Sakuta in almost every way (but no Mai can call her).
•Sakutta seems to have accidentally discovered Taco’s true identity.
•I’m still sure that the imminent danger to Mai is touko, who becomes the same person, and dealing with it will be the last arc of the season.
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