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you don"t understand the whole arc😭this whole thing, since secret distance, is one arc. ena wanted to help mizuki since secret distance and exciting picnic, then she waited for mizuki since mfyd, then mizuki was ready to tell her but her plans got ruined by the bullies. "she recovered too quick" recovery doesn"t always take months or years. sometimes, it can take a week or two. mizuki was missing a lot of classes, and that would affect her future. so that"s why she decided to go to the extracurricular classes, she didn"t expect ena to do that. ena is pushy, ena does what she thinks is right, ena forced mizuki to face her in a way. she showed that she doesn"t care about mizuki"s secret and that she still loves her deeply. to her, the secret itself is not important. she just wants mizuki to feel better. in this event, mizuki did what she couldn"t do all this time. this event is EXTREMELY important to mizuki, because for the first time, she"s able to face ena. for the first time, she tells ena about her worries, her problems, her biggest fears. she"s vulnerable in front of her, she finally opened up to ena. that"s what was the most important thing for mizuki since the start.
kanade and mafuyu didn"t know only because they didn"t witness it. ena didn"t tell them about what happened to mizuki until she realized that reaching her will be extremely hard. at that point, enas only goal was to keep mizuki alive. she told them after she noticed how hard it is to reach them. all this time, she was worried a lot about them, to the point where she cried until her voice became strained and her eyes became puffy for a while. making kanade feel guilty about mizuki"s situation wouldn"t make any sense, because there"s simply no way she would know about it. same thing with mafuyu. the problem was *only* between mizuki and ena. the rest weren"t aware of ANYTHING, and kanade even said mizuki talked to her normally once during the period of isolation. they only realized that something"s wrong once they talked to ena. then ena talked to an and rui, until they eventually came up with the plan.
i like that it"s short, it was a nice ending to the arc. and i think one of the reasons why the secret wasn"t revealed clearly was because in mizuki5, it was already clear enough that mizuki is a trans girl. she is being called a "weird girl" and misgendered by her bullies. another reason is, colorful palette just wants money. i dont think it"s that much of a big deal, really. the story would"ve sucked if it was about their secret. imagine seeing your friend on the verge of taking her own life, and instead of confronting her and telling her that she"ll forever be the same to you no matter what, you just care about her dick. wouldn"t that suck? i really love how they focused the story on ena"s relationship with mizuki and her feelings towards her, i love how they showed ena"s personality in the story. the way she tries to reach mizuki so desperately really showed what a complex and beautiful character she is, and i think the story really wasn"t all too bad😭yes, it"s too quick but they can"t really drag it for long and this arc has to end someday. and im glad it ended, because kanade wouldn"t be important to mizukis character development, while she should get an event someday. she never even knew mizuki was keeping a secret from them until ena told her and mafuyu about the situation😭
this event is way too overhated, the only thing that irritated me was how they made the coming out in a side story (and also how it wasn"t explicitly said but that"s not so necessary honestly, mizuki just wanted the rest to see her the same). aside from that, i feel like you just..don"t understand the whole thing😭