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A Lull in the Sea (Nagi no Asukara) (TV).

phia_one wrote:

One-Eye wrote: On the other hand, I'm not too crazy about the direction that they've taken Chisaki. I don't know I may have to watch some of this again, because it felt like she had grown up some and in the last 2-3 episodes it feels like she's been regressing instead. It just felt that she had been taking on the responsibilities and thinking of an adult and then its like she wasn't looking at things from the perspective of an adult anymore, but instead a kid again. Again maybe I gotta rewatch that, because it wasn't making a lot of sense to me. It makes sense when you remember her conversation with Kaname at the beginning of the newest episode. spoiler[She has massive guilt because he got to continue living while her friends were asleep.] She's very resistant to change to the point where it terrifies her. She never really became an adult because she stopped herself from becoming one.

See I don't understand where that spoiler[guilt] is coming from. I could understand her feeling like she's lost part of her childhood with some of the most precious people to her. A sense of loss or a feeling of disconnect because of the changes in age makes sense to me. But the kids didn't suffer when they were asleep. And as long as the village wakes up sooner rather than a long time from now it will be like they were on a short vacation from their families (except for Chi). So I'm not understanding her moments of mooning over Hikari combined with feeling like she might get in the way of Manaka. It seemed to me for a bit there that she just didn't want to deal with her emotions concerning Tsumugu and was coming up with excuses. But now its like she's acting like a kid again.

I don't know I probably need to go back and watch some of this over again.

See I don't understand where that spoiler[guilt] is coming from. I could understand ...

Chisaki should've fallen asleep too, but she chose to stay on the surface. She could've dived in after her friends, but she didn't.

One-Eye wrote:

See I don't understand where that spoiler[guilt] is coming from. I could understand ...

Of all the characters Chisaki is the one I have the hardest time relating to. At the same time it isn't hard to see that she is in a unique position as being the only one of her peer group that did not hibernate. Before Hikari resurfaced nobody had any idea that any of the hibernators would return in their surface-dwellers lifetime, if not forever. So from Chisaki's point of view it is as if she somehow was allowed to live while everybody else died. A feeling of guilt in that case is pretty understandable.

For now i'm just gonna say that spoiler[Kaname] was a real bro again.