This week on the #AniMangaPictureChallenge @heinragas suggested we find examples of:
💔 Unrequited Love 😢
Be it tragic, or comical, show us examples of one-sided love from #anime or #manga.
Do so by @-ing @apc and by using the hashtag #AniMangaFoundIt. Send your entires by March 8th to get in the community collage.
@apc The 'main couple' in Honey and Clover is not that interesting, I found the dynamic with the others much more interesting.
This scene between Ayumi and Takumi was heartbreaking. Ayumi is drunk and Takumi, her unrequited love, makes sure she gets home safe. He feels responsible for her, but he can't answer her feelings. Neither are bad persons, it's just not meant to be.
@apc While I have to answer this week's, just because I was out of state last week and it actually ended on time so I couldn't speed an entry in, do you think I will let an APC get away from me?
NEVER!
It was going to be a quick and amusing one, too. And steer different, because a lot of time Unrequited Love is just a handwave for "punishing the childhood friend" or "acknowledging a second tier" or "pretending an annoyance ever stood a chance" or often "something extremely problematic."
So what about one that's warm and hopeful but only "unrequited" as a matter of unavoidable circumstance?
🤔
@apc Well SOMEtimes it's just that the girl you admire and saves you suffers a horrible fate, and you're forced to run back time to try to save her, but you're forced to do it so often and so much further back that you undo her Faustian bargain and hide your feelings so deeply, but in the end when you're about to fall she becomes the Incarnation of Hope to save you and all magical girls, rewriting the entire fabric of existence, and while only the two of you remember your experiences together, she's basically a deity now existing outside of space and time, and that makes it really hard to date.
(Also important to note that there are ONLY 12 episodes of PMMM and nothing else.)
@cthellis Funny, I recall a feature length followup film with amazing production values and a story that extended the mythos while stay true to the themes and characters even if it didn't go where people expected it too.
Some fans are certainly in Rebellion, but I quite liked it.
Besides, surely the next movie will make everything right when it comes out in 2024... 2025... maybe 2026...
@Ragashingo Haha, I have placed Rebellion in a Schrödinger's Box, of sorts.
I find the OVA series so absolutely perfect that I simply will not risk it. Rebellion seems to very much be as "you either love it or you hate it" as any anime I know, by community reputation, and enough trusted voices are in the "hate it" category that I just think I'm better off avoiding it.
If one of them could turn back time for me were I to dislike it and color my love of the 12-pack, I wouldn't have this problem. ;-)
But alas... No karmic destiny here.
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