>>770769
>Maybe they should have given us more screen time with the MC after the death of his girlfriend
Agreed. They spent half an episode to give us a prologue, showing that the MC had "grown up", but it could use more fleshing out.
> I would have liked it better if the MC killed himself
Should of gone double suicide like she suggested. Would of been happier (oddly enough)
The anime was a feels generator. And if that was its goal, then it did its job. I suppose we're discussing if it was anything more. Is there a moral to the story? Maybe not.
>maybe the whole thing was just "too realistic" for me
It could be in line with realistic literature tendencies which often just show here's how life is and not every one ends up happy while avoiding over romanticizing (However, I think the anime did have some romantic aspects to it i.e cliches [my crush has incurable disease and dies. oh noes])
If we do treat this a realistic piece, then a outstanding "point" of the story is probably just not gonna be there. Much like we often fail to find reasons for the events in our lives, realistic pieces attempt to portray this as well. Not everything happens for a reason. Shit happens. But, this allows for the character to determine their own reasons and justifications for their actions (which you could say is important in a character driven story)
>there is nothing mature about accepting death - you can't really do anything else about it
You can hide away from and avoid the consequences of it. See: MC being a bitch and not being a the best pianist yet. I'd argue there is a maturity in accepting death. It's not an acceptance of the fact of death, rather its the acceptance of the knowledge that anything you work for might some day be gone, and such a loss will no doubt be painful, yet you pursue the thing you might lose anyway. (The ol better to have love and lost then to never love at all). We can see examples of immaturity to death and loss in characters who avoid or refuse to establish connections or pursue things that they might lose, as they fear the pain of the loss that might or might not occur.
>he just was unhappy
This is generally a bad thing. If we want to go grand scale here, just about every philosopher ,in regards to the "purpose of life", deems man's purpose to "be happy". Of course, what is happiness and how it is achieved are a bit more debated (ok. more than a bit). No one likes to be unhappy. Further, no one likes to see others be unhappy (under normal circumstances. You don't want your dog to be sad, do you anon?) Showing the unhappiness of the MC is really all the writers needed to do because we (the audience) will want to see how our poor MC (which we like and empathize with) gains his happiness. Then consequently we gain happiness vicariously (through our empathy, feeling MC's feels, not just sympathizing.) Considering this to be true, it would explain THE FUCKING HOLE LEFT IN MY STOMACH from the death of MC's crush. Because I empathize with MC, his feels are my feels, when he wants crush, I want crush. AND THEN CRUSH IS TAKEN AWAY FROM US. For me, because of the explained phenomenon above, I felt not only sadness, but grief, for honestly a few days after finishing this anime. BECAUSE GOD DAMMIT THEY MADE ME LIKE HER. Which I'd argue is exactly what the writers were trying to do.
As for MC growth, from beginning to end, we'd have to analyze the FUCK out of the last half of the last episode to fully gauge it. It was there, just condensed (as already discussed). What caused the writers to do that, I'm not sure (deadline, length of series, budget, etc).
Anywho. Glad I watched it. I felt healthy sadness for the first time from watching. Cried for the first time from a film media (movie, show, etc)