Errr… No. Let me explain first why I said I’d like Charlotte as an all-girls show.
All-girls shows rely on friendship rather than romance, but I still really like romantic stories. The thing is, I think friendship is more ‘beautiful’ than romance. First, because friendship is platonic, and doesn’t include the sexual aspect. Second, because I think it’s something a lot more complex than romance. With romance it’s like “Hey, let’s date or marry.”. Friendship just becomes friendship after hard work and when people really know each other. And you don’t delude yourself attributing values to things like kissing or even overlooking the other person’s flaws. You see the truth and you like the truth.
But I still really like well done romance, but my reception of it is quite different. I can understand, for example, when a guy falls for a girl (because I’ve already passed through that). But I can’t grasp how a girl can like a guy, because I’m not a girl and I’ve never fallen for a guy. So, this is how I see romance: the guy likes the girl and the girl stays with him because he fulfills her necessities and treats her well, not because she likes him romantically. If you say Nao is the one who falls for Yuu, then it’d be a strange concept to me, contradictory to my vision of romance. (I tried watching Ao Haru Ride with my imouto, that explores the girl’s feelings, but I didn’t like it at all.)
And don’t you think it’s strange that out of all people in our social circles, we like the same ones who like us? Not denying the existence of one side love, but look at how many couples are there in the world.
No, no, no. It’s not like that too. Emotions don’t have to be simple or too explicit for me to understand. After all, I’m a human being. In those kinds of stories, the characters are explored and they go from flat to complex. You see them through personal moments with different feelings and you can really know them.
In real life, I don’t see more than the surface, because I don’t get close enough to people. I myself have contradictory feelings, desires, difficulties, fears, etc. But when I look at other people, they don’t really look human. I can’t know why do they do certain things, how do they feel, how do they think; but this is just because I’m not close to them that their interior is a mystery for me. But if I were, I would understand them.
No, I do want to understand character’s feelings. But also (forgot to add this) I don’t understand how can a girl fall in love, because a girl has never detailed those feelings for me. (The closest I got was from a girl who was talking to a dude she met on PS3. But then, I think it was just that she wanted an ‘adventure’. Proof of that, is that all her boyfriends are from the internet, and some even married.). So, this is why Nao–>Yuu crush would be hard for me to grasp.
