And yet, after just one year away at college, I lost touch with the majority of them. Coming from a small town, I had many friends in high school who I had known from all the way back in kindergarten. Much like any relationship, friendships suffer over time and distance. Like that elusive one, true friends are hard to make, and even harder to keep. Love isn’t always about sexual attraction, but also unfolds in the bonds we hold with those we are lucky to count as our friends. Before they can take that next step to learning more about one another, they must first begin to settle into their own identities. So it was with approval that I watched their relationship unfold in the last few episodes of the first season, as well as the separation that Senkawa agrees to in the inter-connecting OVA. I can’t help but view their idea of “love” as shallow if anything, it is their otherness that really draws them to each other, giving them a reason to use the solace of company as an indication of love…that, and the fact that Sayaka really is very pretty. Senkawa and Sayaka’s relationship really epitomizes young love–they are fascinated with each other and the experience of reciprocated feelings, basing all their sentiment on very little knowledge of who the other really is. I can’t even begin to count the number of crushes I have had from a very young age to even now these crushes can even be on people I barely know, on celebrities I most likely will never meet. What is in season now may not be in season as soon as the next year. The end result is refreshingly sweet, yet watery in substance. As intense as the feelings may be, as tightly as you squeeze out the juices of young love, the pulp still remains. You might even equate young love to the flighty crush. Instead, it is interspersed amidst well-balanced sections of humor and action, slowing growing into a part indistinguishable from all the rest. The theme of love encompasses many of the actions and decisions that our main characters make, though it does not do so in an overwhelmingly dramatic way. There are many forms to this deceivingly simple word, many of which are featured prominently in the 2008-09 TV series, Tetsuwan Birdy Decode. Maybe it starts as a crush, as a full blast of lust, or warms steadily over time, but love is one powerful emotion that is nigh impossible to forget or live without. Hayamiya Natsumi, “Before Long,” Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode 02 ![]() And in the end, that’s what’s important–the love you shared with others. They didn’t have much of anything, but like childhood friends, they knew they had each other. The survivors genuinely loved one another. The bond between these people is much deeper than that. I know love is a powerful word, but in retrospect, it does not do this feeling justice.
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