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Halfway through the film things get dramatic real quick: after a physical fight over Rikako, the boys fall out, and ultimately never speak again until years later during the highschool reunion that frames the entire film.
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"I always thought of Yutaka a bit different than my other friends," Taku admits to himself, and when Yutaka falls in love with this new girl, his feelings of jealousy are very clear: "I felt unreasonably irritated to know that Yutaka was interested in Rikako, I thought she'd never see his real value.” All it takes is for Yutaka to call Taku at work asking him to meet him once his shift is over for him to drop everything and run to his friend: "I just wanted to see you" is all he needs to hear. While Taku appears to keep his distance to Rikako, he values Yutaka over anything else in his animated world.
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Over the course of the film Yutaka and Taku seem to be more interested in each other than in Ocean Waves's love interest Rikako, who is portrayed as bratty, ambitious and roundly disliked. But watching the film, many contemporary and modern fans began to think that were was more than just friendship between the two boys. As the most modest and least celebrated of the studio’s works, this film explores the love triangle between two teenage boys, best friends Taku and Yutaka, and new girl Rikako. As the first film not directed by the studio’s founders, Ocean Waves eschewed the whimsy that was starting to define Ghibli for a more grounded slice of life character drama.