Queen Selection Contest
In Sugar Sugar Rune, Chocolat and Vanilla Mieux / Ice, her best friend, have been sent to the human world for the queen selection contest. They've been tasked to collect hearts from humans. Whoever collects the most hearts will win the contest and become the next queen of the magical world.Does Chocolat want to be queen?
We soon find out that Cinnamon Meilleure, Kato's mother, was a former queen candidate alongside Queen Candy, the current queen of the magical world and Vanilla's mother. Chocolat is always going on about how she wants to win the contest for her mom. This appears to be what motivates her, what gets her to compete with her own best friend.This is all we get though. And it's not enough. All Chocolat says is her mom used to be a queen candidate, so she wants to be one as well. She wants to win because her mom didn't win. But her reasoning seems incomplete. Like, so what if Cinnamon used to be a queen candidate? Why does that have to mean that Chocolat should be a queen candidate as well? Does Kato want to win to make her mother proud?
Does Chocolat really want to win the contest?
One of the issues with Sugar Sugar Rune is how the main character says one thing, but her actions show another. We have Chocolat saying she wants to win the contest for her mother, and yet, even when she's losing, she doesn't seem to care. It's like she's not trying hard enough to get hearts.Like, during that episode where Nishitani, one of her friends and classmates, interviews her. He has a crush on Kato, so his heart turns orange for her. She should have gotten his heart right away. But she didn't. She ended up missing numerous opportunities to get his heart. One of the reasons was because she forgot. Does that sound believable to you? If the contest was really important to her, would she really forget to get someone's heart?
Chocolat's heart problem
Kato has a hard time getting hearts. She could have exerted more effort into the task. She could have tried harder. But she doesn't seem to care. It seems like she spends a lot more time thinking about Pierre Tempête de Neige instead of figuring out how to get more hearts.Sure, she also thinks about getting the guy's heart, but that doesn't change anything. Because it's obvious that she won't be able to get Pierre's heart easily. As such, shouldn't she focus on what would allow her to get hearts faster, so she can catch up to Vanilla who now has way more hearts than her?
Chocolat wasting hearts
Considering Kato has a hard time getting hearts, it would make sense for her to treasure every single one she gets, right? Except that's not what happens. She wastes what few hearts she has on useless items like the Lipstick of Truth. How can this help her get more hearts? She didn't even use it on herself.Your thoughts and opinions?
What do you think about this? Do you think Chocolat isn't taking the queen selection contest seriously enough? Do you think she's not a good queen candidate? Do you think she should exert more effort into collecting hearts?I talk more about this in this post here on my Tumblr blog. I'd have moved this one here on Anime Archives (Anime Meta) too, but it's already got some comments and notes there, so I decided to keep it there indefinitely. I'm mentioning it here for reference as the rest of the anime posts on there will eventually be moved here.
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- Pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
