Talk:Haruka Saigusa/History/@comment-14.3.148.206-20201020160816

I think the anime handled this much better. I was always confused in the VN how Haruka could be living with her real (loving and comforting) parents and still act the way she does at school and with Kanata. She'd definitely have trauma, but she would display it in much different ways if she was currently in a safe, warm environment. Why would she feel so much hatred and betrayal if that part of her trauma had been removed and she instead had a family that cared about her. Sure, maybe she'd lash out and her parents would need therapy and help, but they were compeltely free to get therapy for Haruka, and free to love her, so it makes no sense why Haruka is sitll in such a deep state of sociopathy.

In the anime, however, it is basically said that Haruka is on her own, still at the mercy of the Futaki family, and Kanata's supervision, thus it would make sense that she is still detached and unmoored from morality, just wanting to punish Kanata for "betraying" her and hating everything and everyone. She would never have had the chance to heal, and she even says that school is the only place she feels the slightest bit of freedom (and even that is always under Kanata and the Futaki's guarded watch). The fact that, in the anima, only Shou knows where the parents are, and can direct the girls to them once they are reconciled, is so much better than the parents are just there all along. The VN never really felt like it fit or made sense with its internal contradictions, but the anime really rounded those rough edges off, IMHO.