#hirota

For me, it’s the fact that we see Mai in others’ eyes, sometimes quiet, sometimes staring blankly. The earlier novels, we get into her head & she’s both talkative in her mind & outside, but we don’t often see how she is when she’s just “existing.”

Like that scene where Naru was telling Bou-san to do a placebo. She was at some point just standing by the hall and then while everyone was being chaotic, she just butts into the conversation as though she was following it from the start but at the same time you’ll never know because she was looking blankly lmao

I also like how Hirota softened up to Mai & you can just surmise how that’s a parallel to probably what happened to everyone in the SPR gang. There’s something really nice about how he thought that because Mai is usually cheerful, it’s sort of heartbreaking to see her cry. Like THAT right there I believe mirrors how everyone feels about Mai at many points throughout the series.

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