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Reshuffling some points to avoid redundancy.

Spoiler for Shadow5YA:

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

And what does having Kaito all to herself do, exactly? Are you telling me that without a rival, Kanna would have been more aggressive confessed successfully?
Let's not forget that Kanna has liked Kaito for a while now, and Ichika appeared only shortly before summer. Kanna has had months, maybe years more time to tell Kaito. Why hasn't she?

Lol, no not really but that was a cute attempt at getting me to contradict myself. The reason her having Kaito all by herself is a good thing is because their relationship can naturally develop into something more just like Ichika living at Kaito’s home did. What exactly do you think Kaito’s sister meant by Kanna taking care of Kaito? Or rather, what do you think the story was trying to tell us there?

Kanna didn’t confess before then because she had no reason to rush it and ruin her chances.

Yes she does. She got just as jealous towards Kaori as Ichika did. Remon even told Kanna that Kaito liked someone, and that's when Kanna tried to indirectly ask who exactly Kaito likes.
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Yes she does. Both Kanna and Ichika thought Kaori liked Kaito. Hell, everyone thought she did, because she made it damn obvious with her flirting and arm-to-chest hugging.

Right, we were talking about Ichika being the love rival but now you’ve turned it into Kaori. Okay, whatever. Can I assume then that you can accept that Kanna didn’t think she had a love rival before Kaori then right? Perfect.

Anyway, if you’re arguing that Kanna should’ve done more when she saw Kaori then I don’t know why. You already know she went to Kaito to try and clarify the issue and in the very next episode she tried to confess. And incidently, in both cases she was met with bad luck. I’m struggling to understand what more you expect from her. You keep saying she had plenty of chances which apparently must've been in those two episodes. I mean those two episodes were clearly very important for you determine her character. It's enough to say that Kanna has not been proactive based on two episodes...

You make an argument on who should do something. You say Kaito SHOULD answer to Kanna. My question still stands. Why is Kaito the one who SHOULD do something more than Kanna?
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You know, normally when a person likes someone, they confess their feelings, then ask for an answer afterwards. Even then, the reply does not always come immediately after the confession.
Yet, you're telling me Kanna should get an answer from Kaito before she even confesses successfully.

No not really.

Assuming that Kaito is emotional capable of pre-rejecting her and that Kanna is emotional incapable of confessing, then yes I think it would be better for Kaito to pre-emptively reject her. Why? Because it’s in their best interests. Kaito doesn’t have to worry about it happening at any moment and Kanna can move on more quickly. But since neither of them is emotionally capable then I don’t expect anything from either of them. I’ve already made this clear repeatedly by the way.

Kaito dealt with Ichika walking away from him the first time he admitted to liking her. He didn't stop, and confessed to her again and again. Yet, just because Kanna failed once, Kaito should answer to her anyway?

Ichika was taken by surprise. Kaito wasn’t. He knew what it was before she even finished. And we already know he’s capable of rejecting someone on the spot. And you do remember that after Ichika recovered from the shock, Ichika then went on to try and plan a clarification right? Which I think was appropriate because someone needed to clear it all up and the most capable seemed to be Ichika. I don’t think it was fair for Kaito to have to deal with it like that so i don’t see why Kanna has to when it doesn’t have to be that unfair.

“Oh hey, when my leg was blown off i didn’t have any friends to help me deal with it and I had to do it all on my own. So even though your leg is blown off I won’t help you, even though I can, because you ought to be able to deal with it just like I did!”

But of course, Kaito isn’t actually capable of it so I don’t actually hold it against him.

If you want to say who should do something, my answer does not change. Kanna SHOULD try again and try harder. The idea that she can't because she lost her chance once is not a legitimate excuse.

I don’t think Kanna should try harder after this because I think she’s only going to get hurt more and make things more difficult for Kaito. If Kaito pre-emptively rejects her then a lot of hurt can be avoided (but he can’t so it can’t be helped). It’s not about whose responsibility it is. It’s not about what’s fair. It’s about doing what needs to be done. Hell this entire argument has been ignoring possible differing factors of personality and background that can have vast effects on the situation, so it was silly to make comparisons with Kanna other characters right from the get go.

Although admittedly, a part of me does want me to have more faith in her and believe she can get Kaito in the end. I can't help but shake this funny feeling that Ichika might turn out to be Red Herring of sorts...