Talk:Reina Kousaka/@comment-24.125.189.227-20160203044059/@comment-27182901-20160203152426

I guess you have some valid points, but this is an attempt to explain some of Reina's traits.

1. "She is overly emotional, but has nothing to back it up." Yes, but that's why we call it "emotion," not "logic." Emotion is often irrational and can especially be like the way you're describing when you're slowly maturing and changing. Reina's a teenage girl. Of course she's emotional, maybe much more so than other girls her age, but that is both her flaw and her strength. As you heard in the audition, Reina played with much greater emotional sensitivity than Kaori, and that wouldn't have been possible if she weren't capable of such strong emotion. Additionally, we don't know if this is "for no reason." Not much about her personal family life has been revealed yet. From what I know about the light novels though, almost all the major characters have deep-rooted family issues that affect their motivations.

2. "Why the hell does she want to throw everything away and travel?" Normal middle-class people all take the same beaten path: graduate from high school, go to college, get married, land a job that you will presumably keep until you retire, then go babysit your grandkids until you die. It takes bravery to "throw away everything" -- familiar surroundings, familiar people, "normal" life goals -- and embark on your own self-beaten path, whether that be in Japan or abroad. I don't think Reina's "unappreciative," but like most kids, she just dreams of being something more than average, and of doing so at a young age. After all, I find it hard to imagine that you haven't also had wild unreasaonable dreams of leaving everything behind and traveling the world! :)

3). "What makes her think it's okay to examine Kumiko's personality in front of her?" This is actually... kind of normal. For girls, anyway. Girls who are friends do that. Or it's just that I hear a ton of girls around me doing that, and my friends do it, and I also do that myself, but no one else does that and it's just the strangers and friends around me and we're all weird? But I'm pretty certain it's a girl thing.