Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

[fireheart]

I still don't quite get the relationship between Tatsuya and Miyuki, and thus it's hard to deduce why Tatsuya goes to such lengths to watch over her, instead of trying to make her more independent, especially considering he has tried to avoid drawing attention to himself.

No idea but judging from the intro something really bad happened to Miyuki in the past so that might be the reason why Tatsuya looks after her so much.

I'm kinda curious about the things the intro seem to hint at, judging by the part with Erika and pieces of the story so far it seems there'll be some kind of conflict between the different courses and that they're going to battle each other out over the discrimination. Though it seems weird when there's a democratic system in place in the school, then again why is there such open discrimination despite this system.

Weirdest thing so far is that family doesn't seem to matter judging by how people react to the two siblings. Really who cares if you acknowledge her brother or not, it's not like it's going to change the fact that he is her brother and family, which should mean she belongs with him as family and not with a bunch of strangers. Yet the guy takes pride in his family name as if family means something... though I suppose it's overplayed for dramatic effect.

[Kraco]

Omg i know right the mc is just so dreamy and powerful!!

Not to be repetitive but again they keep skipping any sort of explanation on how any of this stuff actually works, i'm assuming so they have more time to have Tatsuya be as kakooi as possible.

I don't know about that. He shouldn't be so super dreamy or cool. How close he is to the sister should make him even a bit creepy. I hope the story won't force an overly obsessive harem on him.

No idea but judging from the intro something really bad happened to Miyuki in the past so that might be the reason why Tatsuya looks after her so much.

That's clear, and it works even more the other way around, but from my point of view that's all the more reason for him to try to rebuild her into an independent person, not somebody who's still dependent on her brother despite being old enough to be a high schooler. It should also bother him how forcefully grateful she is and obviously sorry only she's officially acknowledged.

Weirdest thing so far is that family doesn't seem to matter judging by how people react to the two siblings. Really who cares if you acknowledge her brother or not, it's not like it's going to change the fact that he is her brother and family, which should mean she belongs with him as family and not with a bunch of strangers.

Miyuki was the freshman representative and thus assured a seat in the student council. Elite, in other words. To maintain the discrimination, especially the elites among the Course 1 shouldn't stick to the Course 2 students. Needless to say, sycophantic people would like to be friends with the elites like Miyuki but definitely not a Weed like Tatsuya. If Miyuki and Tatsuya were more normal siblings without some grim history binding them together, I doubt they would exchange overly many words at the school grounds during a day. They would both have their own friends and circles.

[fireheart]

That's clear, and it works even more the other way around, but from my point of view that's all the more reason for him to try to rebuild her into an independent person, not somebody who's still dependent on her brother despite being old enough to be a high schooler. It should also bother him how forcefully grateful she is and obviously sorry only she's officially acknowledged

Yeah I agree but judging by the fact they seemed pretty young at the time it may have left him pretty scarred so that he feels compelled to protect her, though it doesn't seem to go with his current personality at all. It could be the reason for the flashback scenes in the first episode, still it's only guesswork based on normal anime troupes so who knows the show might go a different way.

Probably useless to think about but maybe Miyuki would be less clingy if everyone acknowledged Tatsuya instead. She obviously feel some kind of debt to her for all he's done and feel that people don't know his true worth hence she has to acknowledge him more, it may even be doubled because of their father who seems to dismiss him.

Miyuki was the freshman representative and thus assured a seat in the student council. Elite, in other words. To maintain the discrimination, especially the elites among the Course 1 shouldn't stick to the Course 2 students. Needless to say, sycophantic people would like to be friends with the elites like Miyuki but definitely not a Weed like Tatsuya. If Miyuki and Tatsuya were more normal siblings without some grim history binding them together, I doubt they would exchange overly many words at the school grounds during a day. They would both have their own friends and circles.

True but in those cases it seems the smarter thing to do is to ignore Tatsuya like the Vice President did at first instead of making a huge scene over it. Even if they were more normal siblings Miyuki would be pissed if someone acted that way towards her brother (I'm assuming because I would), so considering the crowd and going that far only serves to push most people away.

I get that they want to hang out with the elite but this show is making them look like they don't even have any common sense. If she already had plans they could have a) made plans to hang out a different time or b) ask if they can follow her to the train station like that other girl did, none of these option would rub her the wrong way and would allow them to ignore Tatsuya. It'd also lead to them having different friends which is probably why it didn't happen. In short pestering and coercing a person to hang out on the first day they met isn't a good way to get closer to someone and makes me think they lack common sense and the ability to think about the other person.