Eromanga-sensei Episode 8 Discussion

AvidAnimeViewer said:
My problem is the uncertainty of Izumi's love. On the one hand he says "I love you as a little sister", on the other hand he can't date other girls because he says, "I'm already in love with someone." You wouldn't reject a girl because you love your little sister as a sister, it's because he loves her as a woman. And it isn't just because he doesn't want to hurt Sagiri's feelings, he genuinely has romantic feelings for her. At no point does he say he feels both brotherly and romantic love (is that even possible?) so which is it? The show doesn't focus on any conflicted feelings he might have about it, it just puts it out there with no further explanation because it's too busy boosting its wish-fulfillment factor by adding more girls to the mix who somehow have no problem with a guy loving his sister. Also, Izumi constantly switches from being aware and oblivious to Sagiri's feelings, so that gives less of a reason to think that they're even fully aware of each other's feelings..

LoomyTheBrew said:


Bingo. You read my mind. I hate how he's trying to tie the line between brotherly and romantic love, you can't have both. That's a big problem with this show: it doesn't know what it wants to be in general.

remechan said:


Sagiri: I have someone I like
Izumi: Gets sad hearing the fact and ends up with the idea he's just liking her as a sister.

Let's put this into perspective - Izumi AND Sagiri both aren't confident. I mean sure Izumi is a published author but recently he's been knocked down so many times on his work submissions that he was about to give up (if not for Elf). You have to remember that he literally thought Eromanga Sensei would leave him immediately after Elf showed up. You can say they're both delusional and maybe it looks obvious to you but not to them.

Heck, Izumi's been trying to get Sagiri out of the room for the past year and failed. And now this same girl actually likes me? Yeah right... It's called self conditioning (to make oneself feel better). No I only like her a sister because it's impossible.

p.s. totally agree the last few episodes are bad. It went on a light novel tangent. I rather have the Megumi episodes than this. Whoever that came out of nowhere and hit on Izumi was ehhh. At least Elf was cool. She even played the piano.

Djidji said:
@AvidAnimeViewer @LoomyTheBrew @remechan

Well, Masamune is torned between is love for Sagiri as a girl and as a part of family. He chose to favor his love for her as a brother's one because having a family is way more important for him due to his past, having lost her mother once then lost his father after he married again, he years for a family.
But Masamune is like Muramasa, it's not because his love got denied that he will stop loving her so easily. And would he morally accept dating someone else while still having those feeling? I don't think he would.
What matters is knowing if the girls will change him or not.

Also, the show made it clear that Sagiri love Masamune (that's why she doesn't want to act as his sister) by focusing a lot on Sagiri's facial expressions and reactions, but that doesn't mean it's as clear for Masamune.
Plus, Masamune know Sagiri only as a "little sister" while the anime hinted Sagiri know Masamune for a while and loved him first as a writer who got his story published later. (Hints are her reaction when Muramasa came in their house and the art she was drawing when younger.)

Otherwise, romcom (and particularly harem ones) still are romance, but it's unlikely to be more "real" than the other one. It's not because the romance is not the main focus of the serie (as a genre) that there is no romance at all. :o

IceTiger_Zenpia said:
Ahaha I ship it so hard... idc if people say it's incest, their still an incredibly cute ship and I would love for it to come true!!! sagamune anyone?!?

Ok, all the characters are cute and there all super funny but is anyone else starting to feal like they are about to cross the line. I've watched yosuga no sora and I know how this can end up