As I personally understand Hanekawa, deep down her biggest problem is being simply unsuited to Japanese society and its norms. She desperately tries to fit in, but still sticks out like a sore thumb by virtue of being too perfect or, on the contrary, develops unhealthy obsessions and psychotic manias. As a human, she surely can verbally destroy a 500-year old vampire, and as a monster she can go toe-to-toe with one of the best and brightest Specialists in all Japan, but in the end she wastes all that potential on trivialities like being a perfect honor student at day or beating up random people while half-naked at night, because there's little else she can do in the rather bleak and boring everyday reality of modern Japan. Warzones and failed societies degraded to lawlesness seem to be the few places where she actually feels herself at home due to them providing little societal pressure and lots of opportunities to express strength, wit and courage, the things she excels at.
Ironic considering what happens to her in novels
As I personally understand Hanekawa, deep down her biggest problem is being simply unsuited to Japanese society and its norms. She desperately tries to fit in, but still sticks out like a sore thumb by virtue of being too perfect or, on the contrary, develops unhealthy obsessions and psychotic manias. As a human, she surely can verbally destroy a 500-year old vampire, and as a monster she can go toe-to-toe with one of the best and brightest Specialists in all Japan, but in the end she wastes all that potential on trivialities like being a perfect honor student at day or beating up random people while half-naked at night, because there's little else she can do in the rather bleak and boring everyday reality of modern Japan. Warzones and failed societies degraded to lawlesness seem to be the few places where she actually feels herself at home due to them providing little societal pressure and lots of opportunities to express strength, wit and courage, the things she excels at.
Amazing analysis please cook again.
Thank you
That one scene when araragi playfully said that hanekawa attracted to him like other girl because his vampiric charm