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Half the time 13 sentinels is a geniunely enjoyable time travel story with really fantastic routing of all the various events and fun twists, with a sprinkle of geniunely interesting and enjoyable character interactions with fun mirroring of past/present versions of characters and their predessors, and the other half of the time it’s world’s most boring cishet romance.

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Izumi-san has such range. A burly middle man can be a highschool girl, a robot, a cat, and also the imaginary best friend of his brainwashed younger clone. No one does it like him.

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I went through Remembrance again to jog my memory and it confirmed a suspicion I’ve had ever since the end of the first go-around: The relationship between Okino and Hijiyama is the only one I care about in this game because it’s the only one we actually get to see. I wasn’t just fujo-ing out as usual.

Of the others, Ogata and Usami’s relationship is the closest to existing, I’d say. Those two at least went through some traumatic shit together and slowly stopped hating each other over the course of a few days. Not sure why that resulted in romance, especially because Miwako was also there the whole time, but at least there’s something to go off.

Meanwhile:

Iori runs into Sekigahara by complete chance and is immediately smitten because she’s in a shoujo manga. They keep briefly encountering each other in various sectors and Sekigahara saves her from Wajima’s gang that one time, but that’s about it. When Iori swoons over him he generally doesn’t care about any of that business, if he even remembers enough to understand the situation he’s in at all.

Jūrō’s memories and personality are gone, so his “relationship” with Megumi is completely one-sided. He’s just mildly irritated whenever she’s around. And we don’t get to see much of the two before his nervous system got fried either. He coincidentally encounters Megumi when his Sentinel crash-lands in front of her and Usami, then there’s a single scene where Megumi is sad because Jūrō has to go fight the kaiju, he “dies” in her arms, and that’s all we get.

Amiguchi randomly drives by Yuki and is immediately smitten because she kicks ass. Pretty much every scene featuring these two afterwards is her being annoyed by his presence.

Miura and Minami help each other with their various time-related shenanigans a few times. He is mesmerised by her exposed legs and eventually she drops him off at the Kurabe house.

Ida used to watch Usami’s streams, I guess?

One of the Izumis and one of the Morimuras were also, apparently, “in love”.

Gōto and Shinonome briefly dated in middle school.

Comparing all that to Okino and Hijiyama: They already had a thing going on when Okino was still undercover as Kiriko, and Hijiyama’s entire storyline is about him slowly overcoming his 1940s internalised homophobia and accepting that he’s still attracted to Okino even though he is (sometimes) a man. When these two spend time together – which is most of the time – Okino is almost always flirting with him in the most inept way possible no matter what else is going on at the moment, and though Hijiyama may protest, he clearly enjoys a lot of Okino’s teasing.

Maybe it’s a bit unfair for my aromantic ass to go and judge love stories since it’s a tall order to make me care about straight romance at the best of times, but most of the relationship stuff in this game just fell completely flat for me. In fact even during the rewatch I remember being confused on several occasions when two people were suddenly revealed to be dating out of nowhere.

And that’s fine – I was here for all the wacky hijinks the characters get up to and figuring out the mystery of the robot apocalypse. It’s just a shame because the emotional core of the ending depends so much on the audience being invested in the canon pairings. Honestly the ending was the weakest part of the game’s story for me.

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