So, I was reading about Cross Ange in some korean site that is like wikipedia or something?! Anyway, when I reached to Hilda's character page, a very interesting information had gotten my attention
Do you remember this kiss scene between Ange and Hilda?
I know a lot of people were confused because of it and some believed that Ange kissed Hilda out of pity just to relieve her or it was friendship feelings nothing more than that while others insisted that it was love and mutual feelings to Hilda's, and nobody has the valid proof to each claim, but the site mentioned something interesting, it said that In "Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons Character & Voice Book" there is an interview with Nana Mizuki (Ange's VA) where she talked about that scene and confirmed it was love and romantic feelings not friendship as the director himself told her. So I searched for the source and unfortunately I couldn't find a proper scanning of the book anywhere, but I stumbled into a video on Bilibili where it shows brief and some pages of the book and guess what? Fortunately one of the pages was where Nana talked about Hilda's confession:
I don't understand Japanese but even by using Google translate the text can be understandable
The Japanese text:
「印象的だったシーンは?」
ヒルダとのキスシーンは愛を込めて演じました
アンジュとヒルダの関係には驚かされました! まさかヒルダにとってアンジュが王子様だったとは･･････!!! 最初は友情のひとつとしての愛を意識して演じましたが、『恋愛の愛です』と監督からの演技指導があり、 心からの愛を込めて演じました(笑)。
Rough translation:
「What was the most memorable scene?」
The kissing scene with Hilda was performed with love.
I was surprised by the relationship between Ange and Hilda! I never imagined that Ange was like a prince to Hilda!!! At first, I was conscious of playing the role as a friendship, but the director gave me acting instructions saying, "This is romantic love," so I played the role with love from my heart (laughs).
So to the all Ange x Hilda shippers be happy, you have won, their feelings are mutual (I know they were shipped together because they share the same VAs as Nanofate lol)
I mean duh:
Sources: The video's link
