Talk:Kouki Amanogawa/@comment-32912545-20180528114557

The creepy thing is, he considered Shizuku and Kaori his harem all along. Kouki’s basically a deconstruction of the generic harem protagonist: he believes he deserves a harem over Hajime who genuinely (at first) refused to have one. He never expresses any romantic interest toward either, but refuses to let them show that to someone else. Basically: “I’m a nice guy! Why do they like him and not me?!” to the point that he believes they couldn’t love Hajime's over him unless they were brainwashed.

That is, when he finally snaps and tries to kill Hajime, it’s because he saw Shizuku snuggling Hajime’s back in her sleep while he was carrying her. Kouki says, “You’ve taken everything from me.” He also claims that they “belong beside him.” He takes for granted that childhood friends end up with each other, and they’re both his childhood friends.