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This was awesome amazing incredible. I love how it embraces being weird and whimsical, it creates a really fun and unique story.
If I'm interpreting it correctly, I believe it's about feeling empty or like something your life is lacking something and then clinging to whatever you can find that fills that space. It doesn't necessarily want to make any claims about that being an objectively good or bad thing, though. I will say it definitely has an overall more positive outlook on the blanks, but it doesn't treat them like a 100% effective solution. Like in the case of Gorou creating Ichiko. Although they were happy together and don't regret their time together, it did come at the cost of Gorou being rejected by his family. Ichiko wasn't something that completely fixed his life, but she was able to provide him with what he needed to be happy. That other guy who made the bird (cannot remember his name) dreamt it up to chase after his dreams and satisfy his curiosity, but eventually he learned the truth and moved on from it.
Obviously, you can see the most examples through Sui. She creates temporary stress relievers with the balloons, poorly copes through self harm with various weapons, comes up with ways to get rid of the people hurting her, and eventually creates Tetsuya to find meaning through love. She tries so many different things to try and fill the void she feels, and they all have varying levels of success. Tetsuya seems to help her the most, but there's only so much he can do for her. He can't help with her bullies or give her as much support as she needs. I liked that in the end she reverted back to relying on her old coping mechanism, the balloons, for a moment. I think it really illustrates how Tetsuya was essentially just a replacement for them. I also like how it addresses how her coping mechanisms could've harmed others and had consequences beyond what she imagined. She wanted to create the dog to vent her emotions & get back at the people that hurt her, but she hadn't stopped to consider what she was actually doing by creating something like that. It's also very sweet how in the end Shouko is the only one that can really help her. You don't often get to see stories that make friendship more important than romance.
Anyways yeah I really liked this...
