There is surprisingly few anime that deal with issue of unrequited love. Most of those who include it, typically do it for comedic effect or to spice up the plot. Such butt of the joke meme characters who are clearly out of their league, for example, that guy from //Legend of the Twilight who says Tres Bien all the time, hardly represents how unrequited love really is. There is also that meme: "You vs the guy, she tells you not to worry about", that do not do justice to this issue.
Hardly anyone ever tried to depict unrequited love seriously: as an individual tragedy of wishing for that special person to reciprocate the feelings but unable to achieve that. .hack//Roots did manage just that. I touched this issue in my review of the show, but I felt that it needs its own article to fully explain it.
Here we have plenty of non-meme no-joke characters who all suffer from unrequited love for no particular fault of their own. All of them often delude themselves as they keep trying their luck in getting object of their interest to care for them.
Shino deeply cares for Ovan even if she knows that he does not care for her.
Haseo tries to bring back Shino by finding Tri-Edge, despite not having enough power to defeat Tri-Edge or even guarantee that defeating him can bring Shino back. Phyllo tried to talk Haseo out of it, but to no avail. Haseo ended up become a half-monster in process of looking to Tri-Edge.
Finally Tabby thinks that one day Haseo will care for her instead of Shino and keep stalking him for more than half of the show as well as talk to Phyllo about that. She even rejects love of Seisaku because she wishes to be with Haseo.
All three kept clinging to their feelings and deluding themselves of their chances to succeed in that. There was no sure way to bring Shino back, yet Haseo kept trying and trying. Haseo made it clear that he finds Tabby annoying, but she kept stalking him, hoping in vain that one day she can be with him. Finally, Shino just managed the Twilight Brigade Guild for Ovan to find that Key of the Twilight for a slim chance to be useful to him in some way.
That just shows us many things about unrequited love.
One is that that people can sometimes do illogical things and cling to hair brain ideas for the sake of their love. They delude themselves that one day their love would come to fruition by some magic.
Second is: not just losers and incels are single. Both Haseo and Tabby could have relationship if they wanted so, but choose not to because they preferred someone else, even if that someone else was not available to them.
All had their reasons to do prefer that someone unavailable or rejecting someone who was available to them. Haseo thought that Shino was better than Tabby and would not settle for lesser girl. Tabby thought that Haseo was better than Seisaki and would not settle for lesser guy.
All that shows us that human feelings are complicated matters that sometimes make people act in such strange and irrational way because of love.
Fundamentally show gave us no answer to the problem of unrequited love. However, that would be too much to expect. A solution to such problem is as complex as cure for cancer if not more so.
There is just no girl as sweet, cute and intelligent as True was.
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