Runway de Waratte is one of the finest examples for it. It takes the defiance of expectations that everyone has a taste of, and shove it right down the throats of those who said - “IMPOSSIBLE”. It's true that in many ways, we care about what others think of us. Whether we have enough strength to do it, whether we can sacrifice our time to accomplish it or whether those whom we admired approve us or not.
The author is painfully obvious of that, and as such, managed to envelope the characters in these settings. The characters themselves realise that, inside the real world, everyone is an underdog. But, this realisation only fire up their determination. It forces them to choose, within their own limits. Except that, they didn't.
They refused to be moved, to be changed by other's perspective. Chiyuki works relentlessly to perfect her model working steps and maintain her figure, even if her interviews didn't last more than two steps. Ikuto continue to sewn clothes, create his desired design even when he has financial problems and resort to using clothes scraps.
Yet they choose to push forward whenever they have a chance. They push while sobbing, they push while smiling and they push while they are being dragged back to the start. It's their passion that make their character development and lay their kindness bare for us to see.
In the end, Runway de Waratte is not a story about heroes. It's a story about how any of us, can make our dreams come true if we push in the right direction hard enough. To receive the claps and tears that we so desperately deserved.
To smile, down our own runway.
