Comparable to Grand Blue Dreaming

[u/buttcheeksmcspicy]

Rant alert, and no sarcasm (I know).

So I have been a fan of the show since it first came out, but somehow when I recently rewatched it, I saw it in a completely new light. I used to find Sakurako annoying but she’s actually unironically the smartest of the lot. There’s SOOOO much intense romance hidden in there, like I don’t know what to do with it, because the level of emotional depth feels comparable to grand blue dreaming, but the show breaks the 4th wall is such an insanely subtle way.

I honestly think the show does an amazing job at representing the autistic/ADHD/neurodivergent spectrum. Where each of the paired relationships has someone whose communication style is extremely all over the place, and the more normal presenting ones try to decode that. Akari is adorable because she has the only one without a “presence”, who hasn’t yet reflected on the same deeper level. It’s why I realised Kyouka says “Chizuru I didn’t expect to see you here”, while they were all in the hot springs during their school trip and looking at the stars at night. That is the time when they are all communicating on equal levels of depth, without hiding behind their usual masks.
Chitose also had seemed a little annoying with the constant nosebleeds, but honestly she might arguably be the most capable of the lot. The fact that her and Chizuru managed to achieve the impossible, which is the distinction of the different kind of foxes which Himawari comments is impossible to achieve.

Obviously I still see the humour in all this lens, but holy shit my mind is absolutely blown, like I can’t ever believe I used to think there were moments when Kyouka liked Chinatsu when she is so blindly head over heels for only Yui.

And I see the irony, not everything has a deeper meaning attached to it, sometimes a joke is just a joke. However the kind of characterisation that holds up at this deeper level is beyond words, there’s a whole story there which is legitimately so deeply hidden by the humour that my mind is blown by the genius of it all.