Kyuuki-chan
There's all sorts of development in that series. Once you get to the second half and are introduced to Suzu and Shoukei you're introduced to two highly flawed female characters. You get to see what trials they've gone through to make them feel the way they do; to see why Suzu and Shoukei feel their lives are unfairly miserable, why Suzu has come to despair and see Yoko as her only hope and why Shoukei sees Yoko as someone to hate and envy. You get to sympathize with them even if at times their flaws glare at you and make you want to smack some sense into them because you know it's possible if you had went through hardships of the caliber they've gone through you may not have come out any better.
But what makes it memorable is you get to see them change in their travels, as they move beyond their personal hardships to see them face the world around them. You see them start to stop thinking only about what is unfair in their lives and look to what is unfair with the world. It's wonderful seeing them change for the better and reach out to make things around them better as well. It's something we who watch it can learn from, for how many of us actively seek to make things better in some way? Some make small donations to charity, but how much do they actually do? What good is it if we make paltry gestures if for the most part we don't do anything but go about our lives? We should at least seek out what we need to do to better ourselves and treat those about us fairly and kindly.
We may feel our lives are unfair and come to feel great pity for ourselves or hate those that seem more fortunate. We may be ignorant of the world around us and the trials faced by others and that ignorance may hobble us. We may decide in our heads that things are a certain way when they aren't and judge people by those false assumptions. But it's when we try to look beyond all that, when we grow as people who consciously or subconsciously seek to better ourselves and learn more about things we shine. When we reach out to understand how the world is, how we can better it, and how we can help those around us, even in only small ways, we polish ourselves. When we realize our actions can better ourselves and our world we have a chance to become something that helps our whole world shine.
Think about it. Reach out for whatever wisdom comes your way. The greatest gems lie not in the ground, but in our hearts if only we allow them to shine.
