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After watching the HnG movie, I have to say that my enthusiasm for HnG continues to wane. Somehow it feels to me that Hata is increasingly trying to pull a Kobayashi Jin: By forcing the show into a direction that the author wants, but the majority of fans does not. I think that he has realized these things:
1) His obvious intention - Nagi as "winner" - does not have enough reader support at the moment
2) His attempts to make Nagi more popular (see her recent long arc) fail, because he insists on using her bratty-stubborn side as joke generator. She can't grow this way.
3) He feels that if he touches the big background story again, he won't have any more chances for 2), endangering 1). Likewise, he wants to drag out the series for commercial reasons.
In a nutshell, I think he wrote himself into a corner, and he's unwilling to let go and finish it properly. The current setup is how the show started, and this is how he does (or more exactly does NOT) want it to end.
Too bad.
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