>>89379There was... a surprising ambiguity of expectations once the bird came in. Until then it had been this otaku girl getting the chance to make things right in the land of her childhood fantasies, but with things suddenly changing for the worst it seemed like it could drift into some form of fictional fatalism imposed by the author's will. But the point of introducing that was simply to oppose it, so then it returned to being the previous thing after she came to terms with the love that in great part she already held. Not a great example of character development.
>>89381I think Zenshuu stands out in that
typically the human connection is given importance at least in the form of some sort of crew that the MC gathers throughout the adventure, friends to rejoice with, but Natsuko ignoring such things across most of her life isn't treated as a big deal and the most the ending does to show a reversal is her inviting a coworker to continue working with her, a pretty small gesture all things considered.