Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-122.175.142.238-20130821205009/@comment-66.214.165.141-20140712220454

You all are just unbelievable, all the characters are great, please read to get a little bit of a better understanding.

'For one, Nagisa'' is trying his hardest to keep all his friends together, trying to set a positive example for his friends, and trying his best to not feel uselss, so he can make everyone feel better, not be left behind by all his friends, and not feel as if he were a pest, which he definitely is not. If it had not been for Nagisa's enthusiasm and efforts, they would not have had their swim club by now, because Haruka and Makoto didn't put in nearly as much effort to try recruiting members at all.'''

For Rin, it's like trying your hardest to forget about something that you truly care about, the experience/feeling of swimming with your old friends, Haruka, Makoto, & Nagisa. It was like a failing relationship kind of, Rin was like the only one who was trying in that relationship, and didn't want to be obvious about it because for some reason these things are embarrassing to have others know about, you will usually get teased for trying to save what may be dying or dead already(Rin & his friends' relationships), and that humiliation is just absolutely unbearable.

'Gou/Kou'', she is not useless at all, if we all compared ourselves to her, a huge percentage of us are basically Gou/Kou because all we ever do is fangirl too, so basically you would be calling yourself useless too, sooooooo..... Also, if she had not volunteered to be their manager, those attractive swimming nerds probably wouldn't have had a swim club anyways. '''

And as for Nitori, he is just trying to help someone that he cares about/looks up to, Rin, feel better, is there anything wrong with that? Think hard about it, if your romantic interest/someone you really look up to were having a really bad day, wouldn't your first instinct be to try to make them feel better?

'For Makoto'', he may or may not have Haruka as his most important person in his life, and when you are really in love/have strong feelings for someone, you just can't help but try to stick as close to them as possible to prevent others from laying their hands on your romantic interest/most important person, because if you didn't, that's kind of leaving them open for anyone to try and snatch them away from you. And from how I see it, Makoto and Haruka were really close friends, even closer than they are with Nagisa and Rei. So it makes sense for closer friends to be of more importance than others although that isn't a really good moral to live by. And Makoto truly does care about all of his friends, for example, even though he was terrified to death of the ocean, he jumped into the ocean to attempt to save Rei, who was drowning.'''

For Haruka, I don't think I've seen much hate for him, maybe because he is the main protagonist? He is not perfect, and does have many flaws just like everyone else, but having his flaws are what makes him perfect. I'm not sure what do I have to say about him becuase Haruka is my favorite character anyways.

'I also do not recall seeing any hate for Rei'' at all, but he is also a great character. And I am almost sure that Rei does not dislike Nagisa. I am sure he is probably really glad that he joined the swim club after all, because he got to see Haruka's beautiful swimming, and he also got to enjoy many other things with the swim steam.'''

And lastly, please do not hate on the characters. If you think about it, it is your decision and you could choose whether or not to hate them, but if you want to get a bit deeper into the story, it would be better because characters being misunderstood is a really sad thing. Thank you if you took the time to read till the end of this. I understand that I may have worded some things wrong, or some things are kind of off about my explanation, but sadly I probably can not get any more accurate than this because I am not the creator of this story.