You also have to be careful with people like that though because they have a way of presenting their opinions as something reasonable when they actually might not be. But yeah, I do something similar too, but only with friends, which is kinda weird. If I think that somebody does something better than I do, I automatically see them as a rival and it's hard for me to like them BUT if they're a friend, I do become very happy and proud of them.
I wonder if Toshio didn't get frustrated with Seishin's moral principles at the end, though. Well I mean, he obviously did because they kept Seishin from giving Toshio some much-needed help against the Shiki (in a time like this, he needs his best friend and his help desperately, and his hopes on that part are crushed too because his best friend doesn't want to help). It's sad to think about, but sometimes when things get tough you find that the things that you loved most about your friends are the things that drive you up the wall and cause you to treat that friend with contempt. So that's how I think it is with Ozaki, maybe he admired Seishin's moral principles in his own way all his life, but now that all this is happening, they cause him to get angry with and to give up on Seishin.
My secret is that I don't really ship Ozaki and Seishin! I can imagine them together, but only as a crack-pairing since I don't think they hold romantic attraction toward one another in the series. Besides, if they did I feel like that would distract from the story that Ono wants to tell. One of the things I love about Shiki is how it explores all kinds of different relationships: family, friends, and yeah, romantic ones. Kanami and Motoko. Natsuno and Tohru. Sunako and Seishin. All of these are potentially shippable, but it's uncharacteristically basic for Ono's work to have all of her relationships be romantic; plus, I think it just makes a better story to have the relationship between Seishin and Toshio just be deep friendship. Maybe this is because it's not something you see often in stories; it's rare that the main relationship explored throughout the is not romantic. Along with that, Ono said about Ghost Hunt that romance isn't the kind of story she wants to write. You know better than me about Twelve Kingdoms, but it doesn't seem to me to be a romantic story either, right? It would be consistent if Shiki wasn't romantic either.
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But yeah, I do something similar too, but only with friends, which is kinda weird. If I think that somebody does something better than I do, I automatically see them as a rival and it's hard for me to like them BUT if they're a friend, I do become very happy and proud of them.
I wonder if Toshio didn't get frustrated with Seishin's moral principles at the end, though. Well I mean, he obviously did because they kept Seishin from giving Toshio some much-needed help against the Shiki (in a time like this, he needs his best friend and his help desperately, and his hopes on that part are crushed too because his best friend doesn't want to help). It's sad to think about, but sometimes when things get tough you find that the things that you loved most about your friends are the things that drive you up the wall and cause you to treat that friend with contempt. So that's how I think it is with Ozaki, maybe he admired Seishin's moral principles in his own way all his life, but now that all this is happening, they cause him to get angry with and to give up on Seishin.
My secret is that I don't really ship Ozaki and Seishin! I can imagine them together, but only as a crack-pairing since I don't think they hold romantic attraction toward one another in the series. Besides, if they did I feel like that would distract from the story that Ono wants to tell. One of the things I love about Shiki is how it explores all kinds of different relationships: family, friends, and yeah, romantic ones. Kanami and Motoko. Natsuno and Tohru. Sunako and Seishin. All of these are potentially shippable, but it's uncharacteristically basic for Ono's work to have all of her relationships be romantic; plus, I think it just makes a better story to have the relationship between Seishin and Toshio just be deep friendship. Maybe this is because it's not something you see often in stories; it's rare that the main relationship explored throughout the is not romantic. Along with that, Ono said about Ghost Hunt that romance isn't the kind of story she wants to write. You know better than me about Twelve Kingdoms, but it doesn't seem to me to be a romantic story either, right? It would be consistent if Shiki wasn't romantic either.