Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-26397825-20160214073353

QuasimodoBellringer wrote: While she does fall for Tuxedo Mask right away she HATES Mamoru immediatly (and I can't blame her, he's a douche), and AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO EVEN PAYED ATTENTION TO THEIR INTERACTIONS OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEASON!?!?!! Seriously I always have to bring this up EVERY TIME! Sorry for the yelling, but I constantly have to go over this. Over the course of the first season, it was becoming more and more apperant that their hatred for eachother was beginning to die down, to only where they were only mildly annoyed by the other (this started shortly before the Rei X Mamoru arc), then they just eventually were indefferant, then they started to care for the other (shortly before their identities were revealed to eachother) and it was their identities being revealed that was the final push for the, Yes, well. The original anime also made Mamoru a colledge student, when in the manga and Crystal he's only a high school student. So maybe it's just the ages colouring your perceptions of them.

I don't have anything against age gaps (I myself am engaged to a man who is significantly older than me), but the maturity of the ages does play into how much I like them. Usagi is not mentally mature enough to be with a colledge student, no matter how much Serenity loved Endymion. So at least Crystal made their mental maturities closer, which also would have contributed to the lack of 'agression' between them.