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To be fair, he has been giving out mixed signals.

If he was athletic 10 years before, it shouldn't be that hard to recover some of that fitness over several months. He shouldn't be standing out anymore. Though admittedly we've never seen him training.

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To be fair, this thing where they make someone shout at the protagonist to get them back on track is really overdone. Sure it works to create some emotional tension: through empathy, it triggers an adrenaline response in us and makes the scene more memorable. But there are more nuanced ways to...

@Juslin rather than scifi I'd call it scifan - the weird rules like "they might forget each other, we don't know" are closer to magic.

@kis genuinely curious what's unrealistic about it?

Man, it's hard to admit it, but I can relate way too much with Hishiro. I was essentially like her at school, although I was aware of it and I tried to be nice and understanding to others. But despite my best intentions, I often still ended up coming across as cold, proud, snobbish, blunt...

Aww as if love wasn't hard enough on its own, they had to make it complicated with all the memory erasing shenanigans.

@Rulibarri uh this is a pretty forced plot device, though. They must have some control over who gets their memory erased, or the ones involved in the project would be affected too. There's no reason other test subjects would be any different. In fact, I can't fathom technology that has such...

IDK why she is so insistent, if he admits it he has to terminate the experiment.

Everyone needs someone to remind them what they are fighting for, every now and then. Everyone needs a good, close, friend.

Ohga is such a cookie.

Oh, the drama. I half wish the program would end already so they can find out they can be with each other.

Ah, if only things always played out like this IRL. I don't think I've ever seen a case where love was as pure and mutual as this.

Ah, youth. I never got a chance to go to some event like that with friends. 😞

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone who's had to see the ugly side of society and couldn't cope had someone like that to give them a second chance? 😞

@MP20895 the Japanese society is highly hierarchical, they would certainly take the superiors' words over his. There was no proof of harassment, I'm sure, and the police would have a hard time getting the resources to do a proper investigation even if they believed him. It's all very common...

@DeliciousCake the Japanese market is mostly controlled by families and tradition. There are a lot of powerful private companies, with limited accountability. Public interference is very rare - even for the publicly traded ones - and the main shareholders would rather keep everything under wraps...

So sad how the kindest people often struggle the most inside. As a woman in a chauvinistic environment, I'm sure she had to be perfect just to survive, show no signs of weakness to anyone. So she tried to cope by making someone else's life less miserable. But everyone needs a shoulder to lean on...

@ViEmlleSzDias I had a hunch it had ended like that because unfortunately in the adult world, one can't simply transfer to another school and start over. An adult's options are always much more limited, and it's much harder to get emotional support. Also I think it's somewhat common in Japan...