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Originally Posted by d.sinclair
Hmm. Where in the series do they show that Yuuji is "unsure" about anything regarding his feelings? There hasn't been any indication of what he is consciously thinking in regards to Yoshida, and he has just been blandly nice to her as always. Right now it appears as if he is totally ignoring that the confession happened. But I never got the impression from the writers that they're making him act that way as part of the plot...more like they're just being lazy. Not just about Yoshida but to the other haremettes, too: we don't get much conscious thought from Yuuji at all concerning any potential love interest. And not that he's incapable of romance; again the writers are shafting him.
Maybe I'm just frustrated that Yuuji isn't a more dynamic character. I would like SnS much more if Yuuji weren't so generic and airheaded. Seriously, make him a Kyon or something for all I care just to spice things up. Why must the humans in this show be so uninteresting??
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Originally Posted by minhtam2448
Uh, okay. So Kazumi confessed to Yuji. I know Yuji cares about Kazumi to some extent, but knowing this, he's still unsure about his feelings to anyone, so how is he supposed to act toward Kazumi?
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I actually think Yuuji, even with his abnormal denseness the last couple of eps., is still one of the more interesting anime leads out there. He figures out the dream sequences pretty quick early in this season, and there's an interesting conflict between him and Shana about how far she should go in testing Konoe. Him not picking up on why Shana and Kazumi were upset in ep. 4-6 was a bit lame, but I'll forgive the writers for this slip-up. And in 6, Yuuji was doing better; he was trying to disengage from Konoe, only to be sabotaged by his own congenital niceness. His reaction to Shana coming back to training was also spot-on; I think Yuuji sorta unconsciously knows that for Shana, training in a strange way is her best way of expressing affection, and instead of getting sappy on her return, he got ready to train. And in his defense, everyone has been dense the last couple of eps except Ike--you'd think Ogata would have figured out what was going on also, while Shana and Yoshida were in my view acting even more lamely than was Yuuji.
I also don't mind Yuuji's lack of action regarding Kazumi. I think Yuuji appreciates her confession, and he *does* care about her to some extent, but I think his own feelings for Shana are so unresolved that he's generally confused. I think he realizes the difficulty of the situation; remember the time in ep. 2 I think where he tried to refuse Kazumi's Bento; Ike made him accept it, which in my view was actually a mistake for all parties concerned (including the knucklehead Ike), but here again is an example of Yuuji's congenital niceness causing problems.
And I think we've gotten enough of an insight into Yuuji's head to know where his heart really lies. He accepts Shana's bento enthusiastically, right after trying to refuse Yoshida's; he's obviously disappointed when she denies the confession from season 1, which feeds into his feeling that it's "obvious" Shana doesn't see him as anything more than an esteemed comrade; and he nearly glows when Shana praises him for detecting the lame wheelie tomogara.
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but at least it helped and even Shana has calmed down a bit and accepted things as they are and even went back to training. 
