I love how in PokeSpe, when the characters angst, it's believable. It isn't this Hamlety, soliloquizing, beautifully articulated scholarly musing on THE TRAGEDY OF LIVING or some such thing. It's an ugly, lonely, scary emotion, felt by these kids, you know, we always forget these characters are tiny, and expressed the way normal people express ugly, lonely, scary emotions.

They isolate themselves. They lock it down until they hurt themselves or someone else with thoughtless words or actions. I mean, god, look at Ruby. He's practically a quivering ball of trust issues, thanks to his dick dad, and the sick thing is that his angst stems from his fear of becoming his father, but by internalizing that fear and self-hate, he starts behaving like Norman, which is what he was so afraid of in the first place. D: D: D: D: oh my god I love Ruby because his head is so sick~

So yeah, Red's angst was so perfect because of the way they handle that. I loved the scene where he was coming back from his ANGSTY BEACH WALK and, like, Green and Blue were interacting, and he was like, ~on the outside looking in~ and dksljfsklfjsl this manga makes me so goddamn happy~~~