Interesting post from
Sorrow-K. I'm not totally sold yet, either, but the way we keep learning more about (and being surprised by) the characters is at least a good sign. The number of good posts here (and
blog posts) makes me think the show may actually have something. Time will tell.
I enjoyed another
blog post about the book of Browning: what is its role? We see it carrying romance in all directions -- Misaki to Touya, Rina to Touya.
I'm not against Touya, yet. If he slips away from Yuuki, it's partly because he imagines her already slipping away from him. For various reasons, my sympathies lie with Yuuki, and I am so afraid of how it will all come as a shock to her. She sees only her budding career -- the thing she has longed for -- and seems unaware of how it affects the relationship she also seems to depend on. She doesn't realize her life is slipping away from Touya's, since it is otherwise so full and complicated. To her, grabbing a few minutes to phone him is a big deal. To him, it seems like nothing much.
If Rina really is going to make a move on the guy -- and I'm not convinced that's true, yet -- she is beyond the pale, for me. Completely unacceptable behavior, since she doesn't really know the guy and moving on him would be more about harming Yuuki and/or declaring her own superiority than being so attracted to a guy. She may well be just contacting him to tell him to be good to Yuuki, however. We shall see.
I feel a bit of madness in Haruka, who may be my own favorite character so far. She wants to preserve the pleasant osananajimi life, but below the surface, she wants much more, and is willing to overstep the bounds -- such as sitting there on his step for so long.