Yeah, ever since the first anime (which was my starting point), I've always taken Kirino's "bitchiness" as a sign of her insecurity and conflicting feelings. I know that some people feel really strongly that "that doesn't make it okay!" (and if this were real life, clearly it wouldn't), but I was able to relate to her character with that understanding. And those tiny glimpses we got where we saw behind the curtain were that much sweeter because of it.
I can definitely understand why some people have no patience for her... but somehow I was always able to make some sort of sense of everything that was clear to me, even if it wasn't spelled right out in the show proper.
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