Spoiler for Heartseed, you devious bastard:
It’s very insidious, this little game. Yui’s rage against injustice comes off as blind violence. Taichi’s selflessness comes off as pious arrogance. Inaba’s stern practicality comes off as bleak, despairing hopelessness. If one were so inclined, they could interpret the message of this arc (so far) to be that all of our desires, no matter how they might seem superficially, are ultimately selfish. All we really seek to do, even by helping others, is to satisfy some urgent need within ourselves, something no more noble than hunger or sexual desire. That’s a fascination notion to explore, and one that’s preoccupied philosophy, religion and psychology for as long as there’s been recorded history. Even if Kokoro Connect isn’t taking the most sophisticated path in exploring it, I give it major points for having the courage and ambition to try.