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Originally Posted by cynicalicious

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Okay, part of this comes from Kira Kira Mawaru (the basic bit), and the backstory comes from Margaret to Ribon. All of this has been hinted at all along, since the very beginning of MSGM. If you go back and read/listen to it, you can see what I'm talking about. Konno is very clever about this, and it's obvious she planned this from the very beginning.

So in Kira Kira Mawaru, we find out that Touko isn't the only member of the Yamayurikai who was adopted. (Dun-dun-duuuun!)

When Noriko and Shimako are riding to the amusement park on the train, Noriko tells Shimako that Touko is adopted, because, well, Touko wants everyone in the YYK to know (not necessarily everyone at school, though) about her. Since Touko has told Yumi and become her soeur, she feels she wants her close friends to know the truth about her, and she feels fine talking about it. (The power of Yumi, I guess.)

Shimako, of course, isn't too happy to hear that, because she realizes that the conversation she had with Touko during the Christmas party (in which Touko asked Shimako about whether she was going to inherit the "Family Business" or not, and how she felt about it) would have taken on a *whole* different tone had Shimako known, because Shimako is also adopted. (Cue dramatic music.) Shimako feels bad, because she just gave Touko a vague answer, instead of telling her how she really felt about the whole thing, being the adopted daughter as well.

Of course, this just absolutely floors Noriko, who had no clue. It pretty much stuns her into a moody silence for a good chunk of the book, because she realizes that she was being thoughtless, and she feels terrible about the whole thing. (Cut me a little slack here, I haven't read this book in a while, so I can't remember all of the details.) Lots of comments about Noriko's "dark expression."

When we hear the whole story in Margaret to Ribon, and when Shimako tells Yumi and Yoshino, we find out that yes, technically Shimako is adopted, but she was adopted by her grandfather.

Her parents are both dead by the time she's two, so her grandparents adopt her, and her young uncle becomes her older brother. (The brother mentioned briefly in season 4, and the subject of the White Rose Sigh.) His older brother was her father, and her father, who was going to succeed the temple, was a Buddhist priest, fell in love with a Catholic nun. (No joke.)

They decide to run off and get married, and both leave their respective clergies. There's a big scene where her father tells her uncle and her grandparents that he must leave the temple, and can never return, but he cannot tell them why. Apparently, he was ashamed to leave the clergy, but love was more important to him than that. (Aww.)

Anyway, Shimako is born, her mother dies one month later from "complications," then he comes back home in shame, because he can no longer take care of Shimako because... dun-dun-duuuun... he has a Fatal Disease (cancer, probably, but Konno never gives it a name) which slowly kills him over 6 months or so, while Shimako is still a toddler.

(Look, it's dramatic, and it would suck in real life, but as a story it's a bit over the top if you ask me.)

So that's where Shimako most likely got her obsession with becoming a nun-- from her mother, who happened to be one.

Now you know what most of Japan has already known for a while.

OH MY GOD! really.

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Touko's secret is not a suprise. But this one totally floors me. Where did Konno Oyuki get her ideas from, Jack Nicholson?

It would be really awesome that they animate this part. It's really an important Character development for both.

Though i must say, The guy is awfully youthful looking to be a granddad.