>>279680616
I think "masochist" is correct here. Sadism is more for romcoms with shipper wars. As an example, when >>279645235 talked about the element of surprise, I thought of how I went into White Album 2 feeling invincible from past MCbowls, and only expected some amusing BTFO. Instead, I got actually invested in both girls, and the show's ending destroyed me for like 2 years. I picked up learning Japanese just to focus my sadness on the goal of reading the game someday for the rest of the story. (Translators ended up going faster though.)

So watching it was painful, yes, but beautiful and inescapable in how the main trio's happiness and sadness were inseparable. I always cross-recommend it with Edgerunners because they're both character-driven romance tragedies at their core, despite looking like totally different genres on the outside.

(WA1 and 2 are basically separate stories, and 2 is easier to get into, so you don't have to watch 1 first.)