We all knew it was going to head in roughly this direction eventually. But considering it started so comedic, the turn towards more serious emotion is being handled with a lot of skill and delicacy.
So, hang on. Kaede is her hands and feet--that's their unbreakable connection. But she's going off to get her actual hands and feet back. At what point does Kaede start to wonder about being replaced?
59 chapters of almost entirely interestingly awkward emotional relationships drawn with a lot of understatement and implicit stuff, then a kid vampire kills a molester and flips and burns their car, then instantly back to awkward emotions. I'm in awe.
I was thinking of complaining because the male lead doesn't even show up in these extras, but then I remembered I like crow girl five times as much as him anyway, so it's all good.
So I think his schtick is that after the whole thing with that woman, he concluded that he tried to act according to his good-guy instincts and the results were just everything turned to crap, so he might as well just give up and act like society expected, self-centred and oriented to bolstering...
You know, seeing that guy feel embarrassed about lining up for ice cream, I realize that the single Japanese cultural quirk that would cause me the most pain if I were Japanese is the weird stereotype where guys aren't supposed to like delicious, delicious desserts. Really, WTF?!
Well written. Mostly depressing. It's interesting the way people move into and out of her life . . . like, someone's significant, and has an impact, but then they're gone and, like in real life, fate doesn't dramatically bring them back.
It's not like any of that is within his power to give anyhow--and if it was, why wouldn't he just keep them for himself?
She doesn't solve his problem. He's going to die soon and he doesn't have an heir--even if he conquers the whole empire, then what? It all falls apart. Some crazy girl...