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This short drama wasn’t anything I imagined, and yet so much more...

That one could love someone and not be in love with them...

That time alone is not enough--confidence, fate, and the split-second serendipity of falling in love all come into play as well...

That sometimes, feelings just can’t be helped...

Makes you realize that to fall in love with someone who just happens to love you back is a near miracle...

what you’ve just done...

well with kahoko and hajime there’s actually something else/additional going on, in that it’s not just that she believes in him and so that gives him confidence; it’s also that he respects and trusts her opinion. he seeks out her opinion of his work. he seeks it out and trusts it when he doesn’t even trust his own opinion of it. so it’s not just that she’s an inspiration, she’s also leant a kind of authority in terms of taste, maybe even in terms of knowledge. 

and this works doubly well for the narrative, because kahoko has been so infantilized (“overprotected”) in her upbringing that she couldn’t even make decisions about what to wear every day, let alone what kind of job she wants to pursue, or even if she wants to work out in the workplace or stay in the private sphere and be a wife and mother (aka doing unpaid labor). with hajime, she is allowed to have an opinion, to say which of his work is good and moving and which is terrible; her taste and judgement matter, and it’s not just because he likes her or something, but because he actually trusts in her ability to make distinctions between what’s good and not. he trusts her judgement and gives her power over the most important thing to him, his art, while her mom doesn’t trust her to choose her own clothes.

when she says something that’s simply true to what she feels and thinks but it’s actually really moving and observant of human nature and hajime gets *that look* on his face where it’s like she just fucked up his entire world because she touched him so deeply????????? this is The Look™:

I don’t want to not be able to see your daughter again. She’s so simple and honest it’s almost stupidity, she always goes beyond my expectations and I can’t take my eyes off her.