Onegai Twins Episode 1 Discussion

IchigoRadiance said:
I didn't like the change in her character either. But what I don't like even more is her motives. So she falls in love with him him the past series, finds out she's his sister, then decides that if she can't have him as a man, she'll take all she can get out of him as his sister, hence the clingy oniichan complex. And Miina also seemed too "victorious" if you ask me, parading that she "won". This episode seemed to reverse a lot of bonding the two girls had made in my opinion. Even the talking to at the end didn't seem too assuring to me. I've seen far too many bad examples of family. Far too often, a family member is somebody of blood that people forget about or distance themselves from as they grow older. If what karan said was how she truly felt, it would hold a lot of weight. Sooner or later, she would end up alone. But since these feelings came about due to a character change, they aren't really what a girl who just had her heart crushed by such a revelation would feel. It's an oversimplification meant to skip past the taboo that such feelings would bring. In the show, Karen can't have Maiku, so she needs to be changed to a simpler, more immature person. She's collateral damage, a comedic support, but what she no longer is anymore, is her own person. I get the feeling that they had the idea that they wanted to bring out a story with this tension, there's always the possibility that one of them is related. And Maiku, despite trying to resist, indeed falls in love with them. Somewhere along the way, the creators got scared or something, maybe politically correct even. So they decided they would reveal who the sister actually was, and subsequently shove her to the side. They kept this premise for the manga, light novels, and the anime. They couldn't just say none of them were related, they had the edgy premise, and dropping that out there would mean they would still need to deal with a very close-knit love triangle. One of these people may bot be related to the other two, but still they have become very close, a close family. And there are more than platonic feelings among them. It was also for this reason they couldn't declare them all related, turning all of the relationships into platonic ones at once would have destroyed the series, and keeping it romantic would push too many boundaries that the creator was comfortable with. So somebody becomes the fall guy. In this particular version, Karen is the fall-guy. She didn't become a support character, rather she became the butt of the joke. In the Manga I heard she was as well, though she found out differently, and the Light novel set up the other girl instead. Either way, neither character deserved it.

Another way to look at it is if you read this love story, be it yuri or yaoi. Let's say yuri, and the story had both girls be very likable. You think, they would be great together, then the reveal comes. Girl A turns out to be a guy, and a jerk at that. Sure it's a twist, but you later find out the character was changed because the writer was pressured against making a yuri or yaoi pairing. And in order to save face, they had to not only make the character a guy to destroy any future yuri subtext (or outright canon), but they had to destroy the character they worked so hard building up, by making it look like all the previous subtext or outright canon was a lie. A social retcon is what it would be and it would ruin the story in my opinion or at least severely damage it.

ezaya said:
No love scene.? :(

WhoCares said:
There was nothing truly special about that episode