[Symphogear] man i really hope the show justifying the horrible way tsubasa's dad treated her and turned her into a deeply broken person won't end up leading to hibiki forgiving HER horrible dad

LIKE THIS GUY IS AN ASSHOLE

like i was really expecting this all to lead into genjuro being the real dad to hibiki and tsubasa but nope

fiction stop forgiving terrible parents challenge

:x

so hibiki's dad is to blame for her terrible coping mechanisms huh

i feel like while i've enjoyed gx overall the theme is leading to is "fathers always mean well even if they mess up and miscommunicate and it's your fault for pushing them away and misinterpreting them, actually," and i really hate that

LIKE HONESTLY IF IT TOOK THE THEME OF FATHERHOOD AND, LIKE

INSTEAD TRANSFERRED ALL OF THIS TO GENJURO WHO'S BEEN A MODEL DAD

IT WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT BUT NOW IT'S JUST PISSING ME OFF

montage of hibiki massively repressing all of her mental illness while muttering "it's okay, everything's going to be fine "see she DID get something important from her dad : )"

yeah I hated that so much

but at the same time it's exactly what I expect from anime

unfortunately so

I felt my stomach drop when her dad was introduced, then I got my hopes up, then I dropped those hopes,