/lit/ - Literature

>>8564403
patrician spotted

>>8484988
well for one, this is a crush thread and she's one of the only principle female characters that isnt canonically a lesbian.

Despite her major role in "filler" episodes I think she might be the most human as well as the most tragic character. From a great peak to a deep valley, the story of Nanami is one of severed ties, including [familial] heartbreak and the cold realities of friendship within the female power structure; it is also a story of pubescence and the loss of innocence. Her story line alone bears all of Ikuhara's non-traditional family hallmarks, and along with Utena she is the only character forced to face the realities of growing up in a purgatorial world where time and place stand still. She is the Sailor Saturn to Utena's Sailor Moon, but fleshed out.

Her relationship with Touga is infinitely more complex than Juri's is with Shiori (easily the most complex outside of Utena/Anthy/Akio), and her relationship with Keiko and the other girls is much more insightful than that of Utena and Wakaba (as beautiful as that relationship is). Saionji's sad relationship with Touga is nowhere near the level of Nanami with Keiko either, because there is never an inversion of the power dynamic.

Nanami is simultaneously comic relief, a tragic figure, and human, all too human.