>>13431213Yes. That's exactly it, that's how one understands Meiya.
But people are ignorant and self-centered, and Muv Luv is a work aimed at young people, who are a demographic particularly guilty of such.
It's not a matter of calling people close-minded, but a genuine worry that without the proper cultural background (that you'd get from reading classical literature or derivatives) they wouldn't be able to understand the character and her role in the story. This is actually something a bit easier to anime/manga fans even if they're otherwise uncultured fucks, because Japanese culture is a bit behind the times as it is plus greatly enjoys romanticizing the past.
But I regularly meet with people in their young twenties, nevermind younger, who aren't stupid... but just don't get it. When something is removed from their cultural context it just causes them to draw blanks, and the common reaction to fill in that blank is to call the source their pick of either unrealistic or stupid.
Like when you show Romeo and Juliet to teenagers and they don't get what's the big deal, or why they kill themselves instead of running away or some shit.
