And how is fully captilised words immature? It enforces a point – nothing more nothing less. It’s often used in exam papers e.g. do NOT use pencil…so I don’t see your justfication for saying that. It’s like saying having words in italics to enforce a point is immature. It isn’t.

Let’s face it no one is unbiased. Blogger pick the shows they want to watch because the expect to enjoy themselves. Aren’t putting names of series in a hat and pulling them out randomly. This is something done for no other reason but to voice the mind of the person writing. What point would there be not saying how one really feels about a series?

Obviously if you were hoping for a Noe ending (guilty) then the show would be hurt by having the guy end up with Hiromi. It’s not going to be the same if the ending goes in a direction you didn’t like. Endings aren’t everything, but they are important. How the show leaves things will affect how you view the overall experience.

At any rate True Tears is done. Whether you enjoyed the show, disliked it, or are somewhere in between is a personal thing. The show won’t go down as one of my all-time favourites. It was an interesting experience if nothing else. Even if how it would end was pretty predictable a little over half way through.

The ending is bad, ruining the rest, because all of the intellectual progress and depth he found in his relationship with Noe is ruined by going with a girl with no personality that wouldn’t help him at all.

But whatever, if you are as much as a raving fan of the show like you seem to be it doesn’t really matter what I say. God forbid someone would dislike this show you seem to like.

“At the end of the day” what matters is how well the ending made the entire show worthwhile, and for this show it just didn’t.
Yeah right, in what way was the ending bad? The whole show from the start was showing the relationship betweeen Hiromi x Shin, so an ending with them was already very plausible. Again, I certainly don’t mind Noe x Shin. What I do care about is the million flamers that are immature enough to bash this show because they ddin’t get the end-girl they wanted.

I just enjoyed the story and didn’t really favour either side, because I liked both Hiromi and Noe. But I can see Hiromi fans celebrating and Noe fans being angry with the ending.

On a side note, I wonder what would of happened if they tried a Harem ending. That’s one thing I can’t really recall seeing in any romance anime (one that ends properly that is).

Hiromi win = True Tears = Throw away piece of crap waste of time! (except when Noe is on screen)

It is that simple.

I’ve said this before but I log all anime I download, and keep on several hard drives, and the best I can do with ranking are tiers of top 5, 20, 50, 100, 200 so on. If Shin ended up with Noe this show would have gone into top 5, now it’ll be lucky if it manages to break 200. “At the end of the day” what matters is how well the ending made the entire show worthwhile, and for this show it just didn’t.

Yes, Shin admitted to himself that Noe is the reason why he could fly (fly = draw, dance, and confess his love properly), but in the same truthfulness he also admitted that he loves hiromi. It is his honesty and braveness to maintain that choice and to properly breakup with Noe in front of her, that I felt he had made a mature choice. Most other guys would delay making that choice as much as possible and ended up being stabbed to death and having his head cutoff and sent to a boat.

I think that in True Tears, devotion is one of the most significant parts of love. Love is almost a permanent feeling in it. Whether that’s true in real life is debatable of course.
But remember, the love pentagon exists because of these uncontrollable feelings of love the characters experience. They’re feelings which people cannot “turn off” or change.
- Jun to his sister
- Hiromi to Shinichirou
- Shinichirou to Hiromi
- Aiko to Shinichirou
- Miyokichi to Aiko

So, Hiromi was trapped between her love for Shinichirou, and her knowledge that she was related to him.
Basically, she’s trapped in a cage, which she cannot get out of. So she tries to lock her emotions away (her “ice-queen” attitude). Unfortunately, Shinichirou’s mother keeps adding to her psychic wounds to her, and she loses control of her emotions. So she tries to get away by asking Jun for a bike ride to “a town where it doesn’t snow”.
On one hand, it’s a selfish and arrogant request. On the other, can you blame her, considering the situation she’s in?

Eventually, she finds out she isn’t related to Shinichirou, she is released from the cage that bound her, and she takes flight (free to act upon her feelings). In episode 10, She makes the decision to move out, and firmly stands by it against Shinichirou’s attempt to have her stay. She mentions how even living under the same roof as him, she never really got to know him.
She then takes another step forward when she tells Jun off (episode 11).

But she’s both jealous and insecure when it comes to Noe. The end of episode 11 has her see Shinichirou rush off to help Noe when she went missing (I’ll note in passing that she’s the one who informs Shinichirou).
So she directly confronts Noe at the festival (episode 12) and asks her to stay away from Shinichirou. (I’ll also mention that this is a major change compared to her reaction towards Noe earlier in the story, when she was still trying to hold back her emotions).
It’s petty, but she also knows it’s petty, which is why she admits what she did to Shinichirou.
But she can’t get rid of her insecurity, which leads to her (awkward) attempt to seduce him (episode 13). She realizes she’s not being herself though, and when she overcomes her fears, she realizes her actions are driving him away, and making her hate herself. So, she ends up being true to herself, and tells him everything. Then he sets him free by saying that he should face up to both Noe and her, and then choose.

I thought she had very realistic reactions to the situation she was in. If you felt someone was stealing your partner, people do react in an awful manner. So she made a lot of bad choices, but Hiromi is ultimately true to herself and chooses the correct path.

Now, at this point, Shinichirou could of chosen Noe. But that choice would of been a discordant note. Hiromi was always someone he wanted to form a relationship with, but whom he never did. He was always watching her and longing to be her strength.
Noe is a brilliant, shining character who is more attractive. But should Shinichirou really be discarding his desires and wishes, which had years of depth behind them, just to be with someone new and wonderful?

But surely, Shinichiro won’t let a girl like Noe go just like that..