Sorry FPB... I was really describing exactly how *I* got snafu'ed up into this kind of anime. I made the mistake of thinking "romantic comedy" somehow meant "nothing really tragic happens"... and then got blindsided a few times (AIR completely swacked me with its deeper plots and tragedy beneath the gentle humor). The original Kanon was the first and caught me off completely offguard. I had just been told "you need to watch this... all the way through."
