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Originally Posted by Diamondmatter

Oh yeah, that's true, but she was a very minor character who was most likely designed to die from the start. The death was done well, but it still didn't get the "cherish life" point across for me.

I wouldn't exactly call over a dozen episodes and a big role in Alain's development "very" minor but I suppose I see your point.

I think part of our disagreement here might be semantic, thinking about it. When I talk about how Ghost was all about cherishing life, it goes beyond just the stuff about death. One of your suggestions was having a villain that literally hates life, but a huge crux of the Ganma was their distaste for individuality, while the show was always preaching the exact opposite, for example.

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I'm not implying that he got over them randomly, just that they became irrelevant and had no resolution.

This is another thing where I see where you're coming from, but I do feel it's worth pointing out Takeru's episodes basically stopped after he got Grateful and explicitly pledged not to lose faith in himself again. Of course, this led to him becoming the "boring" guy who wouldn't shut up about Infinite Potential™, but still, he had a clear arc.