Talk:Hoshina Hikaru/@comment-35822449-20190908012649/@comment-26345967-20191231035132

@Glitterformer Technically speaking, that's not what being an introvert actually is.......although you are correct about the fact both leads didn't have much friends (or at all in Miyuki's case).

Introverts are shy, reserved, normally get flustered or nervous, and rather keep their personal feelings to themselves, like Tsubomi. Miyuki pretty much fits the bill in her youth prior to the series and was the major reason for her autism, as well as, some of her brief timid moments. To comfort herself, she resort into reading fairys tales and folklore, which she eventually loves thanks to her grandmother who has a sginificant influence to her character, as well as, Nico from the movie. The latter and her likely imaginary friend also showed her the values of happiness and basically, she has to learn and develop having a happy personality while use it as a reinforcement, rather than just being born happy natural like mutiple Pink Leads were. It was through all this and finally realizing learning what happiness means, she deceding to share that meaning and kindness with others, hence why she wants to be an author.

After watching her TI episode, we can observe that Hikaru clearly isn't shy or didn't have any friends because it. It's just that she............simply doesn't or even bothered to. The only consisent thing about her during the season's run was her love for space. Unfortunately, she really didn't have anything hinting at her background, have her character explored such as why she likes space so much, or having any notable goal or subplot to speak of. We only giving a comparison between her and a star in a particular constellation during her conversation with Ryotarou, which is nice but doesn't really match up with any of her actions or moments prior and due to the fact it this wasn't revealed until ep 45, it pretty much makes her a stagnant character in the series overall.

So yeah, despite having one thing in common about their past and the clear cut attempt in replicating it with her TI (Like they did with Selene and Soleil via Beauty and March), they definitely aren't alike. Apart from the fact that like you said, one was clearly executed better, one actually has an arc and some layers and explainations to her character and development while other one....really didn't and was one given something else at the literal last second of her TI episode. Sorry for the long comment, I just love going in depth of the quality of these characters. XD