Ghunna

Why oh Why

Before anything, if you haven't watched the anime or have and did not like it, there is really no reason for you to watch this.
Now for the majority of the viewer that have watched the anime + the short life action series . What is the purpose of this film really, given your own knowledge of the anime and where it lies in the general landscape, the essence of the anime is that no matter what happens, even if it drives you crazy and how much you want otherwise, at the end of the day they will always stay as friends. Maybe a nudge here and there, confirming of their fondness (but only to the viewer), we as the viewer know FOR A FACT nothing else is going to happen.
So given for such a story format, what is this movie even doing. I don't know if you know but there is also a older version but now relating to his daughter. Also I personally have not read the whole of takagi-san (hopefully one day) but given the anime + the live action series (which is abit of a remake of the anime), this movie lies in a very sweet and odd spot. Spoilers but obviously in this move they get together, finally, and interesting because all the anime's foundation gets thrown out, but does it.
Slow and mundane and I really dont mind. But the heart of the film and really more towards the ending does it really shine through it's main question: "What does teasing mean to you, Ms.Takagi-san". This probably the most central question to the whole of the anime itself, one it is in the title but also we sometimes forget that although we use the same words, but they can have wildly different meanings. And this asked to Takagi-san, the teaser, is the anime's true foundation.
"A bond deeper than love", now just something personal, but love seems to be getting more and more abstract by the day and the thing we call "love" might not even last till the end of may. So something so observable like teasing, felt as if it could last longer than love itself.

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