Talk:Kokoro/@comment-21119641-20180326040542/@comment-21119641-20180404095348

I would love to reply to every bit of your points, as I think they are pretty good and you've broken them down perfectly, since I also agree on Kokoro being downplayed...

But, I also think some of this can just be attributed to bad writing. As I said above, we never got the necessary amount of Kokoro's character to even think about her dumping him:
 * She was dishonest, that was for sure, but, it was never painted in a specially bad light. She was just bad with her words. (I don't think hiding the book from the others makes her any more dishonest, just curious and cautious) So, it not being painted in a bad light never led us to think she would do what she did.
 * Even after doing what she did, and ADMITTING what she did was bad, she hasn't cleared it out... yet. By one episode, seems they had no conversation, no clearing out of it. Which is just what they need, honesty with each other. That's what is most contradicting about all of it, sure, she is dishonest, but, she still talks, and yet, she didn't even try saying anything to him, she just left it in the open. It's why he was so confused, even after it happened, no one told him anything.
 * Yeah, as you said and I put in his article, he was quick to forgive her and never even redirected his anger at her. He was angry at Mitsuru because of Mitsuru's neglect to even see Kokoro as a partner, not because Mitsuru was whom he was switched for.

I really like some of these characters, and I love how they make mistakes which make them even more human. They were raised differently from us, so, they don't understand emotions as some of us do. BUT, the way it's executed... is just bad writing, really. The anime doesn't know how to balance its topic focus, it focuses on a character/couple too much, and makes it feel as if the others don't exist during that time

Thanks for replying to this, not many give it a bother... so, I agree and see why some people just dislike her, out of Futoshi and Mitsuru, she was the worst execution here. And I'm sorry you felt this way with someone recently, hope you feel better soon.