Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.64.220.242-20130713191104/@comment-5173929-20150415204202

Regardless of how much people think Nagisa is a jerk/dick/whatever. I agree with the person up above that he's essential to the team (if anything he created it by pushing everyone to be better than themselves and put this thing together). He is what every story needs in order to progress the plot. He is the instigator. To wish on eliminating an instigator is a mistake.

Now about his friendship with Rei. Rei really enjoys his company, it's obvious from every moment you see with them. Others think it's horrible how Nagisa treats him? He's his best friend. Rei isn't the type of person who would go over to someone's house and lay on the floor to read with someone if they were terribly cruel to them. Rei wouldn't contemplate what kind of strawberry cake to buy his best friend if his best friend was a horrible jerk to him. To us who see their friendship, we think that this is unhealthy, maybe too clingy, but his pushing and clingyness is what Rei really enjoys. It gets Rei out of his box. It reshapes him and brings him a best friend. If Rei didn't like it, he'd tell him to get off or to stop (while readjusting his glasses) but he doesn't. In fact Rei RESPONDS to it and validates it by allowing more time together.

If Nagisa was too much to any one of them, they would tell him (like Gou does). That poor girl is another story.