Kyon fucked up, sure, he realized it fount his "eventful" everyday life fun, but rejected Yuki's feelings and probably wont ever happen again, the right thing to do would have been grow up and stay in the "normal" world imo
Kyon fucked up, sure, he realized it fount his "eventful" everyday life fun, but rejected Yuki's feelings and probably wont ever happen again, the right thing to do would have been grow up and stay in the "normal" world imo
The point is, even the "Nagato Yuki" in the world where there's no SOS-dan, is just too pityful.
She's still there, alone in a room, reading books. Day in, day out. Nothing but books.
Then living in a large apartment, also, alone, no sign of any parents, relatives or what so ever.
Even so, the only one cares enough about her, coming to her almost everyday is nothing but an entity of the same nature as the "normal" world. Just try to think of the moment she finds that out.
With all that, I would do the same as Kyon did. She might suffer, she might get hurt again, both physically and mentally, she might want to start a whole "shoushitsu" again. But to me, that is far better than being there, alone, without any kind of emotion, no happiness, no anger, no sadness, no nothing. It would add to my to do list, but that's what I would do even if I'm a lazy bastard.
The point is, even the "Nagato Yuki" in the world where there's no SOS-dan, is just too pityful.
She's still there, alone in a room, reading books. Day in, day out. Nothing but books.
Then living in a large apartment, also, alone, no sign of any parents, relatives or what so ever.
Even so, the only one cares enough about her, coming to her almost everyday is nothing but an entity of the same nature as the "normal" world. Just try to think of the moment she finds that out.
With all that, I would do the same as Kyon did. She might suffer, she might get hurt again, both physically and mentally, she might want to start a whole "shoushitsu" again. But to me, that is far better than being there, alone, without any kind of emotion, no happiness, no anger, no sadness, no nothing. It would add to my to do list, but that's what I would do even if I'm a lazy bastard.
Well, there's subtext there that (due to standard protagonist obliviousness) Kyon didn't realize.
It isn't that she "just wanted to be a normal girl." You'll notice she never wanted any of that, before. She was capable of repeating the same week a million or so times in Endless Eight. The thing she really wanted was Haruhi gone, but Kyon still there. Note how uncharacteristic it was that the otherwise terminally shy Yuki got Kyon to come to her room.
Yuki's ploy was to try to make capable-of-an-ordinary-life Yuki be the only support for a disoriented Kyon, so that she (and her club) would be the only one he could turn to. She'd have him all to herself.
Basically, it was a clever maneuver to try to pull Kyon away from Haruhi. Yuki set it up so that it was basically a blunt question: "Who do you want to live with more, Haruhi (threatening to destroy the world all the time), or me (shy, devoted girlfriend and a normal life)?"
If you guys want to see this story as it "should have played out", read The Disappearance of Yuki-Chan manga. It's basically an alternate universe "normal world" where the events of Haruhi are restructured completely so that John Smith was actually middle school Kyon who just happened to get dragged into Haruhi's alien-summoning scheme, no aliens or time travel or anything. Yuki gets Kyon to join the literature club, and has her best friend Ryoko cheering their relationship on. (Haruhi, Itsuki, Tsuruya, and Mikuru show up a lot, too... notably, though, Kyon isn't very Kyon-like, doesn't fawn over Mikuru, and generally is just a sort of bland, if sweet boyfriend to Nagato.)
Well, there's subtext there that (due to standard protagonist obliviousness) Kyon didn't realize.
It isn't that she "just wanted to be a normal girl." You'll notice she never wanted any of that, before. She was capable of repeating the same week a million or so times in Endless Eight. The thing she really wanted was Haruhi gone, but Kyon still there. Note how uncharacteristic it was that the otherwise terminally shy Yuki got Kyon to come to her room.
Yuki's ploy was to try to make capable-of-an-ordinary-life Yuki be the only support for a disoriented Kyon, so that she (and her club) would be the only one he could turn to. She'd have him all to herself.
Basically, it was a clever maneuver to try to pull Kyon away from Haruhi. Yuki set it up so that it was basically a blunt question: "Who do you want to live with more, Haruhi (threatening to destroy the world all the time), or me (shy, devoted girlfriend and a normal life)?"
If you guys want to see this story as it "should have played out", read The Disappearance of Yuki-Chan manga. It's basically an alternate universe "normal world" where the events of Haruhi are restructured completely so that John Smith was actually middle school Kyon who just happened to get dragged into Haruhi's alien-summoning scheme, no aliens or time travel or anything. Yuki gets Kyon to join the literature club, and has her best friend Ryoko cheering their relationship on. (Haruhi, Itsuki, Tsuruya, and Mikuru show up a lot, too... notably, though, Kyon isn't very Kyon-like, doesn't fawn over Mikuru, and generally is just a sort of bland, if sweet boyfriend to Nagato.)
Hahaha, I see. That's how you see it. But the thing is, Asakura has her own emotions. Which means Nagato has them too. Just that she always had a no-nothing face on and a very good endurance that she pulled it through the Endless Eight.
Her making a new setting for the world is, as how I see, meant to be a way to make Kyon realize. But it's triggered by Nagato's endurance reached its limit. Well, I'm one of those follow "it evolves around Kyon" theory. So, he didn't know became he got it now. About both Nagato's emotions and his feelings too. And it's not about "love" at all. It's how he wants to live his life. Fun with dangers, with adventures and tiresomeness with Suzumiya representing it, or a slow and easy life, less events but always at ease, nothing to call trouble with Nagato as representative. And please get my point of typing this, it's about Kyon's choice on how he wants to live his life. Fun or easy.
With Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu, it's not a "how it should have played out" scenario but it's a whole other universe. Further more, it's NAGATO YUKI-CHAN's disappearance, that means that this is about a different Nagato Yuki, it has almost nothing to do with Suzumiya. Even the "3 years ago" event is actually about the same age Kyon and Suzumiya. They are about the same age there, at least, that's how I see it. And as you mentioned, Kyon isn't really Kyon in the Yuuutsu, that means all setting is different.
And again, being a normal girl but is in the room like that with just 2 people, might not be a bad idea with the "Kyon" in Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu, but with the "Kyon" in Yuuutsu and Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, she will suffer, a lot, that would result in death for Kyon. Because this Kyon wants his life with fulfillment, not taking easy with a girl to "love", and it's not like he would even love the Nagato there, in a romantic way I mean.
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