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2012-05-10, 00:21 | Link #1662 |
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In a romance shounen manga it's the guy who has to confess to his end-game, as it parallels with his character growth, which is the real underling theme for any romance shounen manga.
Considering that, the fact that Manaka confessed to Nishino while believing that he had no chance with Aya (as he thought she had a boyfriend) shows clearly that the author either didn't know how to write shounen romance or she did change the story in a different direction for some reason (popularity poll?) and the result wasn't so good. This is easy to understand really. In a shounen manga the confession is meant to be an act of courage, since, like I said, it represents character growth. But Manaka's confession was, on the other hand, an act of cowardice, since he went to Nishino because he was running away from the belief that Aya had a boyfriend. After this screw-up the author tried to patch up things by having Manaka reject Aya, to reinforce the Nishino/Manaka pairing and show that Manaka wasn't as weak anymore. It was a moot effort though, since the confession moment is the climax for this sort of story, so what you couldn't achieve at that moment is lost for good. Besides in storytelling, the best way to portray courage and character growth is through and positive action, like a confession, not a negative one, like a rejection (this is basically writing 101). I do think a Nishino/Manaka ending might have worked if written in a different way, in a good way. They had enough chemistry going on for them at the very least. The way it was written though, it just doesn't work at all, since it's at odds with the story's most important theme. My two cents.
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