I dunno, I'm happy Sorawo finally realises the truth, but why is only Toriko allowed to be sad? Why is Sorawo supposed to do all the effort of trying to meet her halfway, while she has all that history and baggage from her past that are clearly affecting who she is as a person and how she behaves. She is litterally traumatised from her past experiences and this affects everything she does, thinks and feels. And Toriko is the one we should feel bad for because her crush doesn't reciporate her feelings. Get the fuck out of here. If you actually love someone, you don't force them to love you back. Like, if you notice your crush gets uncomfortable whenever you try to make a move, lies, avoids you, you should know something is wrong, and if you truly love them, you would try to figure out what is going instead of getting angry or sad about it. It feels Toriko thinks she entitled to Sorawas love.
Because Sorawo is in love with Toriko and she knows that? Sorawo herself mentions how easy she is to read, add this to the fact that she always talks about how pretty Toriko is and stuff, and you have a person (Toriko) who sees a person in love with them, who for some reason rejects their advances.
Because having feelings is not the same wanting to be together, you can't just make that decision for someone else. And Sorawa didn't even realise until recently what her feelings were. I'm not saying Toriko can't feel sad, but be atleast a bit more aware of Sorawas feelings. She has also been aware of Sorawas behavior, and she just gets mad at it instead of trying to understand why she behaves like this.
Methinks Toriko is much more aware of Sorawo's feelings and behavior and is trying much harder to understand Sorawo and be considerate than our unreliable narrator (Sorawo) realizes...
Understanding someone's behavior doesn't make that behavior any easier to digest. Toriko is head over heels in love with Sorawo, who has also reciprocated those feelings (while naked and alone with her in a hot spring, of all places lol), and yet Sorawo runs away at every chance of physical intimacy and runs away from depending their relationship even emotionally. It feels pretty reasonable that Toriko would be sad about this.
I think the audience can feel sad for Sorawo and her very messed up family history (lost her mom, family fell into a cult, became very messed up from traumatic cultist activities) and also feel sad for Toriko that her love interest isn't returning her feelings (remember that Toriko also lost both parents (I believe first mentioned in manga vol 3?), lost Satsuki (her only friend/romantic interest), and is so shy that she basically only has Kozakura and Sorawo in her life).
It's not a contest (not one that either of them is winning ;_;). We can be sad for both of them in various ways.
I understand why Toriko is sad, but I don't agree with her not even questioning why Sorawo is behaving like this, just getting upset and angry about it like she isn't getting the attention she thinks she is owed. If you are considerated about someone elses feelings, you would stop your advances when you notice it makes the other person uncomfortable. But instead she doesn't, she just gets angry about it. That is just wrong.
My biggest gripe with this whole thing is Toriko expects Sorawo to understand her feelings for her expect her to understand why she gets sad and angry, but again, she doesn't try to understand Sorawas, doesn't try to understand why she is getting uncomfortable, and is lying, or avoiding the whole thing.
I also understand that the readers do feel sad Sorawa, my issue isn't about that.
last edited at Oct 26, 2025 9:52AM
