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>Compared to the difficulties his talented peers had to go through, Hajime's suffering was too mundane and didn't justify what he did to gain talent.
Why do people compete over who suffered more like we're in some Misery Olympics? You don't know what the other person feels and not everyone reacts the same way to certain things. Hajime's backstory is left vague, maybe to make him relatable to a broader audience, but we are shown what it resulted in. I'm actually going to hurt my own argument by mentioning this, but in one of the interviews with Kodaka before the release of The Hundred Line, someone asked him about Hajime's past and Kodaka replied it was a normal happy childhood. It felt like he came up with it on the spot and I personally don't accept this. Like, there has to be a good reason he was already a depressed wreck when he showed up at school during the first semester.
>While Hajime saw that Chiaki had her life figured out with her talent, Chiaki saw that Hajime had the freedom to be his own person and that his life was not tied to his talent.
I hate this argument and nobody to date has managed to convince me it makes sense. How exactly is having a talent taking away from Chiaki's freedom? What stops her from giving up on gaming and doing something else? At worst she'd return to the baseline of an being average blue faced NPC - the same position Hajime is in. And somehow he has the freedom but she doesn't?
>Don't be a hypocrite.
Just pointing out yours.

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