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>No, you forgot the part right afterwards where she wonders why she's even nervous in the first place as well.
I mean, that's also after she looks at Hanyuu and sees she has a negative outlook. But, either way, my point is that she isn't depressed from the start, it's only after taking a hit there that it happens, and that hit doesn't happen in Matsuri.

>The show where even when at the end when they were fighting as passionately as they've ever been Rika STILL goes on about her St Lucia dream? And then the ending happens where she once again leaves for that school and leaves Satoko behind? Excuse me for thinking the anime made Rika's sole goal in life to be to go to that school apparently.

That's my point. The only focus was on getting to that school, but with no aim behind it aside from the school life itself. That's why I'm saying it's a shell of a dream. She never talks about actually entering in adult high society, getting connections for the future or anything like that. The school is the end goal by itself.

>I mean, it doesn't need to, the same way we didn't need to hear the other characters' future job prospects either, that was never relevant to the story. All we needed to know is that they left the village to study elsewhere
It's important when it's the entire cause of the conflict and involves throwing away all the previous "I just want to live happily alongside my friends" stuff from the VN. Especially when the ending is "your goals are incompatible and you must go your own way", while Satoko has no goal and Rika's goal is a meaningless shell.

>Like, are we sure that part of the interview isn't on the same vein as that other Ryukishi interview from years ago that also detailed the characters' futures with weird shit like "Shion will end up marrying some foreigner instead of Satoshi"?
That interview is pre-Minagoroshi, and R07 originally intended to keep Satoshi dead. It makes much more sense when you consider that. Note that even in Minagoroshi Rika references Satoshi like he's dead in monologues. And even now it's clear R07 has no idea what to do with a living Satoshi in the first place. Because he was never supposed to be alive.

>Reiwa also helped cement the fact that Rika did end up enjoying her life outside of Hinamizawa so that just makes that claim even more out of place.

Reiwa also has a Rika who dislikes staying in any place for too long, which absolutely doesn't fit choosing to go to St.Lucia. Although in general R07 seems to disregard Reiwa in interviews about future stuff unless it's about Reiwa itself, like in the last Pomegranate stream (https://youtu.be/qmlnj-wc0-Q?t=1461)) when asked about the club members' heights as adults, R07 says that he sees them more or less like Gou/Sotsu college designs for the older members, although Satoko is a dark horse who would surpass at least Rena and Rika wouldn't grow at all anymore.

Meanwhile, Reiwa Satoko is shorter than Rika and even seems shorter than Kihiro and maybe Tamaki.