strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree
Less “sucks” and more puts an okay idea ahead of actual
characterization and ignores even typical family dynamics and problems that would
be present.
Also. Canon tells us that Usagi and Mamoru, who have a kid
as adults and have extra practice from Chibs time-traveling, are such
monumentally bad parents that their kid feels unloved and lonely 24/7 and is
easy to turn against them, BUT TWO TEENS AND SOMEONE EITHER NEWLY HUMAN OR
POSSIBLY COLLEGE/GRAD SCHOOL AGE (I never figured out if the manga meant to say
Setsuna had been a person the whole time or if she’s a persona Pluto created or
what, and the anime is kind of just entirely “whatever idk she’s here now”) CAN
RAISE A CHILD WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL.
And I know it gets held up as representation, but… it’s
really flat to me? I’m at a place in life now where the possibility of having a
kid is no longer abstract, and my wife and I have to wrestle with questions of
what being a parent would mean, what types of parents we might be, and all
that. And while it’s great that HOF
gives some people hope, to me it’s empty. There’s nothing specific to Haruka
and Michiru in that circumstance that gives me the sense of yes, people like me
can have happy families.
(Also I don’t gel with Haruka/Michiru/Setsuna poly
relationship. Generally rubs me the wrong way.)
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