Talk:Eru Chitanda/@comment-94.211.25.235-20120912181035

I think Chitanda's an interesting character. She isn't 'typically cute', actually, she's cute in a somewhat oblivious, silly way. I love her expressions, her gestures, because they're exaggerated, and are recognized as such by other characters (Oreki, for one) Like when she flips when Oreki suggests X might have used a counterfeit bill and she doesn't agree. Her reaction is totally exaggerated and in that sense, completely silly, fairly annoying and quite airheaded as well. But exactly because she isn't stereotypically cute and oblivious in a way that wouldn't normally be considered as 'cute', she's a mightily disarming character. She's funny, and stupidly honest. The combination Oreki-Chitanda is genius, I think, for Oreki highlights all of Chitanda's silliness and exaggeratedness, because of his own lethargy. Because of that we can examine Chitanda from a levelheaded perspective (without being drawn in by the Japanese 'kawaii-imperative' as I shall call that obsessive, slightly twisted view of how girls are supposed to act in order to be seen as 'cute' by the Japanese majority) and we can see how she's plain weird and sickingly adorable because of it. I love Chitanda, I really do. Typical 'cute' characters tend to annoy me to the point of no return, but I think Chitanda has just the right characteristics in order not to be annoying. Her silliness is her charm point, I believe, her body language during the wildfire contest just gave me a seizure. Excuse me for my lengthy rant, but well, Chitanda rules.