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View Poll Results: Boku wa Tomodachi... - Episode 9 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 31 | 39.74% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 26 | 33.33% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 14 | 17.95% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 6.41% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 2.56% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2011-12-07, 19:12 | Link #122 | |||
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She's been herself all the time, and she's certainly anything *but* fragile. It could be that the club she made and force Kodaka to join was to be together with Kodaka, but I'd say that was rather an afterthought. The way I see it, the club founding was an impulsive reaction, without thinking about it much, just to have *someone* for company. If that someone then happens to be Kodaka, all the better. I seriously doubt she wants other friends, otherwise she would've made the text and drawing on the club poster so that ordinary people can understand it, and she would treat others much nicer and not constantly troll them. Quote:
As Yozora also pretty much had no development, a Yozora end is very, very unlikely.
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2011-12-07, 19:22 | Link #123 |
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I'm kind of shocked that Yozora hasn't gotten much alone time or interaction with Kodaka throughout this series. In fact, I'm betting that Yozora is relying on that childhood friend card to always give her an advantage when in truth, that's not enough. God, she's deluded.
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2011-12-07, 19:23 | Link #124 |
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I don't think this anime season is going to feature any ending of any sort -- if anything, it'll just be a status quo ending, with a slight nudge towards "maybe we're starting to be friends". If they develop Yozora's past, that'll have the effect of balancing the playing field in a way, but it certainly won't tip the proverbial scales at this point. As for the story on the whole... I'm not even sure if a romantic end is in the cards even then. Hard to say. I think there's a long ways to go before that sort of thing is justified.
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2011-12-07, 19:25 | Link #125 | |
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2011-12-07, 19:53 | Link #126 | |
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More then likely the reason why Yozora disappeared as a child is part of why she is the way today. We know it didn't happen because she chickened out or something like that, not with how strong and independent she was as a child. If she did chicken out, then it has something to do with her pretending to be a boy, which is a source of shame and yet another reason for her to be the way she is (although that alone doesn't seem to warrant the extreme personality change.)
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2011-12-07, 19:54 | Link #127 | |
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The unraveling of her idealistically romantic view on friendship (and she cannot distinguish friendship with romance, eternalfriendship whatnot) will be a watchpoint for Yozora's development. Chances are she must change her behaviour to respond, eg more proactive. Not going to bother responding to Shimapan's post, too many assumptions and interpretation with a tinted glass. To suggest Yozora had an implusive moment is hilarious. She's always been portrayed as a scheming, foxy character who would take 3 turns to arrive at a destination straight ahead. She cannot act without thinking, in general she thinks too much! |
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2011-12-08, 00:28 | Link #128 |
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One thing regarding this issue... obviously we don't know why Yozora didn't show up at the playground that day, but the other issue is that we don't know what Yozora's secret was that she said she'd tell him in exchange. It seems to me that the most obvious thing would be that she's a girl? Based on her trauma over his disappearing, I guess that the reason for her not coming must have been something out of her control, so not like she chickened out from revealing her secret (or whatever important thing she wanted to say).
Anyway, if this has already been revealed in future novel content, I don't want to know the answer... but I think some of the mysteries about Yozora's trauma will obviously be revealed when the exact details of whatever happened in the past come out. Based on the foreshadowing I'm thinking that could be by the end of this anime season... but who knows.
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2011-12-08, 01:09 | Link #129 |
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I don't view Yozora as been traumatised. That is like suggesting her current state is unnatural.
I would simply view Yozora and Kodaka as two unlikely parties in an even more unlikely friendship that is all the rarer because it only happened once. Call it luck, fate, whatever. Had the friendship continued who knows? But due to unfortunate circumstances it was not meant to be. If you look at the perspective of both parties on that 'promised' day, I would say Kodaka is more to blame. From Kodaka's perspective, his friend never showed up on the last day he's in town, so he lost his chance of a proper farewell. From Yozora's perspective, her friend basically disappeared after that day. She had no idea why, or what happened, and depending on circumstances she may blame whatever happened that stopped her from showing up, or Kodaka. (betrayal?) The key difference is Kodaka knew he's going away, knew it for weeks, whilst Yozora didn't. Had Yozora known he's going away, would it be different? |
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Now that I think about it, there is the silly explanation for the absence of Sena mom that she is her dad, while her dad is actually Kobato's dad, which can also explain why they look like sisters |
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2011-12-08, 12:27 | Link #134 | |
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At the end of the day, I say it's just that circumstances conspired against them. If things had gone a different way, they would have reached a different outcome. Well, "trauma" was too strong a word, but I don't think I can honestly suggest that the current state of any of the characters in this show is "natural"...
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2011-12-08, 19:01 | Link #135 | |||
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But yes, the reason why she disappeared could very well be the reason why she's that way now. I still think it most likely that she *did* chicken out, and because of that has started to hate herself. Her self-hate could be the reason why she can't treat others any better than she currently does and constantly trolls them etc. Quote:
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Yozora brought this upon herself all by herself, by telling him that she would be a boy. I doubt it would've changed anything. Yozora was simply too ashamed to tell him that she's a girl, and I doubt that knowing that Kodaka would be going away would've made her any less ashamed. Rather, knowing that would've make her feel more uncomfortable and thus more likely to panic sooner and thus disappear sooner without goodbye.
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2011-12-10, 03:38 | Link #136 | |
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As for the reason why she never showed up, well that's a spoiler so I can't really bring my full knowledge to bear.
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2011-12-10, 04:50 | Link #137 | |
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It'll be different if he knew she was a girl at the time... but I can only see them ending up as friends.
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