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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 43
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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
Aw geez... just checked out the official website and went about deciphering the Episode 25 summary also... and came up with a worse potential ending...
Aw geez... please don't do it! Man, I am almost dreading the ending now... but at the same time I can't wait to see what happens! Grr... |
It is "a dream," but not in the way you think of it.
If you had played the game beforehand, you will know:
Spoiler:
"Dream" in this case means something closer to "wish" in English. Everyone wishes for something.
Kotori wishes to know what everyone is thinking, so it is easier for her to live her life - so she doesn't have to put on a fake facade of joy, like she did when she was adopted into the Shirakawa family, which only isolated her from her new family because they couldn't understand her because she was always smiling.
Miharu wishes to know what the REAL Miharu lived like...so she knows she isn't "just a robot."
Yoriko-san wishes to be with Junichi-san, to fufill her owner's wishes to stand alongside with the person her owner has looked at Junichi from faraway...
Moe-senpai wishes to be with her first boyfriend...who died in a car accident. That is why she is always sleepy, because he exists in her dream.
Nemu - has a very simple wish...to go to the same school and be with her beloved oniisan (Junichi)
and Sakura - her wish is also to be with oniichan (Asakura Junichi)
What makes these "wishes" possible is the huge Sakura-tree...the Sakura tree planted by Junichi and Sakura's grandmother, as a final gift for everyone who "wanted to wish for something...and to let them live in a dream...for a little while."
But that Sakura-tree has a tremendous effect to both Junichi and Sakura...because they are direct descendants to their grandmother. Junichi can see other people's dream through this sakura-tree. Sakura, has a strong connection to the sakura-tree.
Going back to the relationship issue of Nemu and Sakura.
Nemu, is an adopted sister to Junichi. No blood relation. Junichi met Nemu first, before Sakura. Though Nemu and Junichi were born on the same day and month, Junichi considers her as his little sister.
Sakura, is Junichi's cousin. They both share the same grandmother - the person who lived right next door to Junichi. There is blood relation...but since Junichi met Nemu first, Sakura is treated by Junichi not as a member of a family - but as a normal girl.
Do you see the pickle? On one hand, you have Nemu - a girl with no blood-relation, who is a member of Junichi's family, as his little sister. On the other, you have Sakura - a girl with blood-relation to Junichi, but cannot stay close to him. The irony exists in both of these two girls, in love with Junichi - Nemu has no blood-relation, but wants to be more than just his little sister, but can't due to law. Sakura, has blood-relation, but cannot stay with Junichi all the time (remember, she went to America). Nemu wants what Sakura's stance to Junichi is, and vice-versa to Sakura.
The "despise" involves Nemu - "uneasy" with Sakura being with Junichi because they can get married (first-cousin marriages in Japan are legal) if they wanted to, but she cannot. Sakura feels "uneasiness" towards Nemu because she, as an adopted little sister, can stay with Junichi all the time, in the same house.
Back to the sakura-tree. Sakura is directly linked to her grandmother's sakura-tree. And as more and more her feelings against Nemu increases, the more damage is going to be done to Nemu....hence she begins to cough up sakura petals, losing her health, and finally - to lose her memory. And Sakura knows its her fault. That is why she chose to delinquish her grandmother's sakura-tree...to save Nemu.
But still, deep down inside her, she still feels angst towards Nemu-chan. The Sakura-tree revives once again. And Sakura, with all her guilt, tries to do everything to save Nemu-chan...but the human psyche of "jealousy" is something that cannot be distinguished like a flame. And as long as Nemu clings on to her "dream" of being with her beloved oniisan, the more and more feeling of angst deep within Sakura develops - involuntarily. And the more they do, they both hurt themselves - Nemu physically, and Sakura - emotionally.
So it is time everyone "wakes up" from their "dream." A "dream" is only a "wish" that cannot happen, and at times can be devastating. Junichi and Sakura's grandmother wanted to teach everyone that, she gave everyone a present so they can live in a "dream" for just a little while - but she forgot that people are rather magnamious...if they choose to stay in a "dream" that can fulfill wishes, they will continue to do so.
And the time has come for people to face the facts. Nothing is "wishful."
Kotori finds this out gradually as she loses her power to listen to what other people think...and develops the courage to work out her own social life not dependent on what other people think, but from what she can do with her own actions.
Yoriko-san, the person/cat who had the most direct influence - got the courage to walk out into the world...the problem that her owner had that prevented her from meeting with Junichi...the person she had always looks from the window above
Miharu, the robot - was given the gift of knowing what it is to be human - to dream what the REAL Miharu's past - and the courage to find that out even if that meant shedding her own life as a robot
Moe-senpai - at least in the game (since the anime never talked about her story in full detail), "awakens" to the reality that her boyfriend is dead...and that she needs to move on and not to escape into the sleep world where he exists.
What do all these people have in common? COURAGE. Courage is what is important for these people to awake from such a "dream" that fulfills their wishes. To live life, people need courage...the courage to make your own actions (not by the help of some power) to make social relations, the courage to step out into the open world (not to stay huddled inside to hope for something that'll never happen), the courage to do what you hold most dearly, and the courage to move on with life.
Now let us hope that Nemu and Sakura can find their courage...and the people of Hatsunejima will be rid of the "dream" that makes any wish possible...so that people will move on...and not "repeat once again" as the musical notation "D.C" (Da Capo) stands for.
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