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Very insightful, Klash.

Spoiler for Comparison to the game:

For the record I don't really dislike Kanata so much anymore (in the game), I just felt the game handled it that way. Not as badly as the anime apparently, but we still get a view skewed towards Haruka's side there.

I personally initially disliked Haruka for fooling around so much and liked Kanata more for trying to keep her antics under control. I think my view of Kanata just seriously tanked when I saw her being as bad and mean, if not worse than her sister. It was way easier to see the evil intent that Kanata had to Haruka because of that.

I decided to suspend my judgment on Kanata until I see [mod edit: more].

But man that bench scene! T-T It gets me every time...

Originally Posted by kitten320

^Can't fully agree, men love to talk just as much as females and bad wording is a normal thing for them too.

They might use violence more but mental abuse is something they do just as much. Spreading rumors is common between them as well. Actually I met few cases where guys love to spread rumors and bad mouth even more than females 0_o

So yeh, that's just a stereotype.

No absolutes here, of course. I'm just saying that the chances of, according to that shot, only the men in Haruka's family picking on her? That's already unlikely since there are, you know, actually other women in the family. Just saying why it's even more unlikely. Possible, but I tend to be skeptical of "it's possible" when it comes to manmade products and situations like this show. A conscious decision was made to only have men (or at least men's voices and men's silouhettes the immediately visible ones) there, and that gets me thinking, why do that...?