Did Rin really love Kakashi?

Many people believe that Rin has a romantic love for Kakashi. but i am one of thoese non-believers. I found a thinkable thing on the websites. and Let’s see!

Kinds of love

A word that appears a lot in anime is “AI” 愛. I’m talking about the word AI in japanese, which together with “KOI” 恋 has to do with love and passion. There are also several other related words that appear from time to time in anime with romance.

Let’s start with ai 愛 and koi 恋. These two words can be translated as “love” only they have slightly different meanings.

First, ai 愛 is a… how can I say it…. any kind of love. Or rather, any kind of love. Love from father to son, from son to father, man and woman, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, and owner to pet, patriot to parents, in short, there is a generic love.

Although I say that, if you look closely the word “amor” in Portuguese is as generic as it gets.

Now the word koi 恋 is specifically about romantic love. Between man and woman, or… anyway, you get the point.

To give you an idea, the word for “lover” in Japanese (a person who loves and is loved) is koibito 恋人. Although there is aijin 愛人 which has the same meaning… what I want to say is that: although ai 愛 can be romantic love among other types of love, koi 恋 is only romantic love and never anything else.

The Japanese word for “love” used to describe “Rin’s feelings” for Kakashi in this scene is “AI” which is generic love, not “KOI” which is romantic love.

So who was Kakashi to Rin?

What you read earlier is absloutly confusing. i know. so take a look at this that pic i found.

“There are people who say that the “AI” symbol in Japanese can also refer to romantic love, but from the context, I understand that the right meaning for this moment would be exactly this. That Rin chose to die at Kakashi’s hand not to “tell him that she loved him like a lover”, but as a farewell from friend to friend.”

What do you think? 😛

source:

Arnaldo Flores – Quora