- Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun is my Anime of the Season (HILARIOUS comedy, slice of life; very character-driven and it's not forced at all)
I'm watching this right now, and it's just what the doctor ordered. Seo is such a fantastic character.
+++++
Best writing in an anime series I’ve seen in years.
I' just watched the first epi of gekkan shojou
These characters imho are very conflicting.. they exist in a "limited, compartmentalized" emotional state..
Most certainly an attractive man and woman alone together in a room, as long as neither of them has significant personality defects, would just be having sex.. and there would be no more story to write.
That is the reality everywhere, be it Japan or anywhere else..
So, what is the purpose of creating such unrealistic fantasies that are both impractical and impossible..
The only explanation that can exist must be to fulfill the fantasy of someone who is abnormal and must escape the objective realities of everyday life...
A loner, for example..
He wishes to have a romance, but for whatever reason he is unable to achieve it or at least unable to reach the plateau of partners he desire..
So.. instead of losing himself to mere misery, he chooses to lose himself in the fantasy of an impossible relationship that consists only minimally of animal attraction, and possesses impossible purity // innocence akin to very-very young children.
In many ways, the seeker of this type of material is attempting to escape reality, his own intellect, and the realization of a judicial world..
I'm not judging, I'm just saying that this is how a loner would be preyed upon..