I was just watching Ultraviolet, and noticed that it was Nana's voice. I had no idea how much I loved her voice until I started noticing it in other shows. For someone like me, who doesn't even speak or understand Japanese, to be able to tell a difference between voices, makes her voice VERY distinctive.
It's so damn sexy! I mean, I sat through the crap that is Ultraviolet just because of her voice, heh.
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Hence why people would try to excuse Takumi's raping cheating abusive ways and convince themselves that he must love Hachi deep, deep, deep down his heart because this is a shoujo manga so the heroine must choose the right guy and he must love her and they can't split up because shoujo mangas have happy endings and the way it end up to be must be the way life should be.
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I haven't read through this thread, but surely, you must be mistaken when you say that most people would convince themselves that Takumi loves Hachi the way she wants him to.
I think most people are heartbroken at the fact that she refused Nobu, because they know that his love for her is real and true.
More accurately, what people are trying to convince themselves of is that Nana would be happy without the kind of love that Nobu can provide.
To me, it seems that she cannot survive on the type of affection that Takumi can provide. That's what breaks my heart about this series.
I know she can't. She's just like me, convincing herself that material goods are enough, that as long as a guy can give her stuff and that she can largely do what she wants, she will be happy.
But I
think that I've realized that this is not the case.
Overall, I think that we are just used to our heroines being THE ONE, but in this case, perhaps Hachi is NOT The One to break through Takumi's barriers.
If this is so, I want to see whether she can break down the barriers (Takumi does care for her after all -- maybe he tries) or, as the ending FF tells us, whether Nobu can break down her barriers.
Either way, I still find myself questioning whether someone like her deserves such devoted true love.
The fact that this is even a question for me is very telling of how layered the characters are.
Overall, this series has deeply touched me.