Yeah, that's probably what will happen. I'm not really holding out much hope for those episodes, though if the love triangle is handled well it might make things interesting, at least. I wonder what the third couple is like~
(And for the rest of this I'm going to have to put a disclaimer and say that I watched both seasons of JR over the course of one night each, which means my memory might be a little fuzzy, or at least a little selective, for the episodes I watched way after I should have been asleep ;))
Ahh. See, I didn't consider Hiro to be a tsundere (you italicized it so I felt like I had to too :P) until I read it in a character description for him. I just thought of him as grumpy, and for whatever weird reason I'm a total sucker for grumpy characters ♥ And...maybe I was just too enamored with him to notice, or maybe I really am forgetting a lot, but I didn't think he was such a jerk to Nowaki, overall. Or at least, when he was he had a reason for it. I just got the feeling with those two that we were only seeing little snippets of their relationship, you know? They were together for 6 years, and the times we see them are all when Hiro is going through a rough patch -- when he's getting over Usagi-san, when he's emotionally exhausted from Nowaki running off all the time and being gone so long, and then when he's feeling insecure about their relationship because Nowaki's acting weird and sleeping half-naked with random guys. I do agree that it seemed like Hiro didn't appreciate Nowaki as much as he should, or rather that he didn't show that appreciation, but I guess I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he does show it in his own way, even if we didn't get to see those parts. The fact that he was so protective of those letters after finding them was really telling, I thought.
Since I didn't know anything about the fandom I didn't realize they were the general favorite couple, but they were definitely mine. Hiro was very quickly my favorite character overall, and I felt like they were the most realistic, real couple. They had some major communication issues, but things never got to the point of (completely) ridiculous before they would break down and actually talk to each other. (And I don't know what "ego" had to do with anything; to me they both just seemed oddly insecure.) They were also, I felt, the most balanced couple, and that is a major thing for me. I felt like they were each their own person before becoming involved, and were still their own person even after being together for so long. They enhanced each other's lives, rather than completely consuming them. Or something. It's hard to explain without sounding silly :P Maybe I should watch the episodes again to get a better idea of what I mean. Or read the manga/novels/whatever.
Of course, one of the reasons I liked them so much might just have been the contrast with the main couple -- here, no one was forcing themselves on anyone, and no one was preventing anyone from having a life outside the relationship :P
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Date: 2011-05-10 02:12 am (UTC)(And for the rest of this I'm going to have to put a disclaimer and say that I watched both seasons of JR over the course of one night each, which means my memory might be a little fuzzy, or at least a little selective, for the episodes I watched way after I should have been asleep ;))
Ahh. See, I didn't consider Hiro to be a tsundere (you italicized it so I felt like I had to too :P) until I read it in a character description for him. I just thought of him as grumpy, and for whatever weird reason I'm a total sucker for grumpy characters ♥ And...maybe I was just too enamored with him to notice, or maybe I really am forgetting a lot, but I didn't think he was such a jerk to Nowaki, overall. Or at least, when he was he had a reason for it. I just got the feeling with those two that we were only seeing little snippets of their relationship, you know? They were together for 6 years, and the times we see them are all when Hiro is going through a rough patch -- when he's getting over Usagi-san, when he's emotionally exhausted from Nowaki running off all the time and being gone so long, and then when he's feeling insecure about their relationship because Nowaki's acting weird and sleeping half-naked with random guys. I do agree that it seemed like Hiro didn't appreciate Nowaki as much as he should, or rather that he didn't show that appreciation, but I guess I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he does show it in his own way, even if we didn't get to see those parts. The fact that he was so protective of those letters after finding them was really telling, I thought.
Since I didn't know anything about the fandom I didn't realize they were the general favorite couple, but they were definitely mine. Hiro was very quickly my favorite character overall, and I felt like they were the most realistic, real couple. They had some major communication issues, but things never got to the point of (completely) ridiculous before they would break down and actually talk to each other. (And I don't know what "ego" had to do with anything; to me they both just seemed oddly insecure.) They were also, I felt, the most balanced couple, and that is a major thing for me. I felt like they were each their own person before becoming involved, and were still their own person even after being together for so long. They enhanced each other's lives, rather than completely consuming them. Or something. It's hard to explain without sounding silly :P Maybe I should watch the episodes again to get a better idea of what I mean. Or read the manga/novels/whatever.
Of course, one of the reasons I liked them so much might just have been the contrast with the main couple -- here, no one was forcing themselves on anyone, and no one was preventing anyone from having a life outside the relationship :P