Is it just me, or is it delicously ironic that Shiho left the first place she was valued for her serious attitude regarding music because of petty love drama that went on entirely in her own head, instead of something serious?
I mean, Loreley were presented at first as a more capable band than Sunny Spot, because they were more serious and didn't fool around. Which would have been a more fitting reason for Shiho to leave in regards to her intended character. But now we know that her serious attitude was more or less the reason she joined Aki's band in the first place, and that she left because she is pretty much an incel, as others here already pointed out.
I get the concept for Shiho's character, but the execution is flawed. While the communication breakdown that lead her to leaving the band was intended, the story doesn't realize that her behavior during and afterwards is way too overblown, her actions are not relative to the situation. Lord protect a cop that might give her a parking ticket in the future, she will probably enact a Monte-Christo-Level multi-year scheme against the poor sap.
And for the people that excuse this behavior with the argument of "she is sixteen, do you want your teenagers to act rational?" Short answer: Yes. Long Answer: Acting irrational is fine, IF the story recognizes that this is happening and reacts accordingly. The very few scenes of blowback that Shiho gets are in no way in relation to her actual behavior, she gets off far too easy. If a character in a story would run around and shoot random people in the head, and the other cast would chastize them in a stern but amused manner as if they flicked some foreheads at most, that incongruity would take anyone out of a story.
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