Miaka and Yui's Relationship
The Characters
Amiboshi and Suboshi
The Setting
Time
Tasuki Rape Miaka?
Miaka and Yui's Relationship
The Characters
Amiboshi and Suboshi
The Setting
Time
Tasuki Rape Miaka?
The friendship between Miaka and Yui
seems to be
one sided. Yui chan is usually the one to sacrifice on behalf of
the friendship.
She is even willing to go to a less prestigeous school just to be
with Miaka.
To understand the
full gravity of the sacrifice, one must know that
in Japan's modern day society, the senior high school can
determine one's future.
Being ten times more intelligent than Miaka, Yui can very easily
enter a more prestigeous school for a more secure future.
Yui's choice proves herself not only to be unselfish but noble.
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The background of most characters seem
As the oldest son, he is supposed to be
responsible for many things in the family--not just the income.
He was supposed to be there to take care of the children and his
sick father, not out adventuring with his lover. He is never
around when needed, shows up once in a while with little toys,
almost got the family killed (Vol. 3, Pg 38) when he goes home,
and not to mention, shows up at home one day just to abandon the
family to persue Miaka.
I would hate such
an irresponsible and selfish brother. Instead his family says,
"go, don't worry, we love you, Itte ra shai..." and
all the other stuff like
that. Chuei probably says it just to get rid of him.
Children remember only good things they receive from
people. Tamahome might be out there getting the cash but they
don't see that. All they see is that he causes a lot of trouble.
Chuei is the one who is always there, not Tamahome.
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When Amiboshi is pretending
to be Chiriko, he communicates by means of scratching messages
on his fore arm. The damage done on his body automatically
appears on Suboshi's body as well. (Ignoring the little
clips at the end of the OVA's) Then how come Suboshi does
not know that his brother is not dead because he himself is
not?
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Judging from the costumes and the palace, I am led into believeing that the setting is supposed to be ancient-China-like. However, there
are a few problems with the setting. First of all, I believe that
the author wrote somewhere that she researched ten books before
she did the comic. In my humble opinion, that is not enough to find out about China. The customs in the mythical world do not represent any dynasty that China had. And one thing seemed to be overlooked. Ancient Chinese spoke CHINESE. Miaka does not understand Chinese. The book is a translation. That only means that the reader of the book can understand. Not Miaka. Also the costumes are not quite what Chinese people wore. However, I think the Comic version looks better than the real one. The best explanation I can find with the irregularities is that the they are not transported into ancient
China at all. They are simply transported into a world that resembles ancient China.
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There is something that I want to ask.
Watase Yuu said that Miaka's underwear will not be dirty
because the time that she ages in the book is equivalent to
the amount of time in the outside world. That means that Miaka
only grows two days older and not a few months older. If that is
the case, Miaka should take many years to recover from illnesses
and wounds while she is in the book. Somebody also asked: "If she were having her period during the time she went into the book, how long would it contineue for?" ^_^;
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Somewhere in the second part, Tasuki attempts to rape
Miaka. Uh... would he actually do that? I thought he hates
women.
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