A lot of the time people assume a story is good just because it tackles heavy themes. Well, this story is tackling some of the heaviest themes imaginable, and I genuinely think it's doing a great job at it. You can tell with how Colin is characterized. As much as she may act happy-go-lucky and brag about how her father "loves" her, there are plenty of signs that she understands full well what's happening to her: her suicidal ideation, her reference to the time when her father "was still okay", and most notably her rage at how the adults who were supposed to help her ended up abandoning her back to her hell. She may say in words that her ex-friend betrayed her, but by telling all her secrets to Mary shortly after meeting her, she's clearly just crying out for help in the only way she knows how to do.
Mary, of course, is not anywhere close to being able to handle any of this. It'll be interesting to see what role Riko plays in this, too. I wonder if she might be Colin's ex-friend.
This, the story is very straight foward about it's themes, Colin just needs help but and the story clearly portrays that, now mary seems to be the only one that can help her but her still being a kid makes it so much harder to do.
Also knowing what happened when Colin's ex-friend told adults about the secret, Mary probably will keep it to herself not wanting to lose Colin's friendship but at the same time putting the weight of helping her all on herself.
Well, tackling heavy themes is hard, many stories crashed and burned and fell to oblivion attempting that (because badly written plus heavy themes equal people thoroughly want to throw the memories out of their heads both consciously and subconsciously), but those managed to pull it off will have a bigger impact, so when people remember "stories with heavy themes" they could only recall the good ones, so over time some people got it backward. But I agree, this series is doing good so far.
Not doing a story just because people might not like what you're doing is negating the world of a potential great piece of art. It might crash and burn? Yes, but still, theres a chance it might be great. we only have great things because people take chances.
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