Talk:Ito Hikiotani/@comment-33038418-20170914181433

I've always had a problem with how fiction portrays shut-in characters. I think unless someone's experienced a period of extreme reclusiveness due to anxiety, they tend not to realize the small things that result from the lifestyle. I do like that Mikatan said that she was worried that Ito's lifestyle would lead to her developing both psychological and physiological problems. Although I honestly don't think Ito acts like a shut-in with social anxiety due to bullying, that's trying to keep people out of her life. It's the small touches with a character like this that really makes them work IMO. I'd imagine, for example, that Ito wouldn't care much about her personal hygenine, and wouldn't have much of a routine when it comes to stuff like eating, sleeping. She'd just do either whenever her body tells her it's a good idea to do it. Considering her obsession with "boy love" and video games, she'd also begin to get an extremely narrow-minded view of the world over time. Small side-effects of being a shut-in like that, are things fiction hardly ever get right. I guess you don't want to portray a shut-in in too much of a depressive, realistic fashion, in a show that has comedy as one of it's genre labels, but still. That being said I do like Ito, just because I can relate to her quite a bit. Also they do still portray hints of this, such as: Ito's boy love obsession (which probably got to where it did due to spending all her time shut in her room), her room being a mess, Mikatan's worries, Rabura having to go shopping for her and the strains in their relationship, finding comfort in the company of an animal, and when they show her eating random snacks in her room with the lights off while she's on her computer. I guess they just didn't go overboard with it to not make her a depressive character.