[Mentorian]

Originally Posted by octoberasian

Spoiler:

Yeah, Aono was doing these things with ease. It's as if she's grown comfortable with the amount of power she's exerted after having created Yorito. So, now, she can expend as much as she wants without getting strained.

The way I look at it is this:
Aono is the equivalent of an athelete that's trained and trained and can do things with little strain.

Matsuri is the equivalent of a regular person and takes things in stride. But, when it comes to strenuous activity, she has to put more effort into it than someone's that's trained for it.

Therefore I think Aono built up her power over the years, and it looks like she's been creating Yorito for quite a while. And, she used most, if not, all of her power to make that creation as close to the real Yorito as possible. Matsuri, on the other hand, knew her situation beforehand and learned to accept it. She probably spent most of her life enjoying it as much as she can and maybe running away from people that considered her a threat.

Also, do you think Matsuri fatally stabbed herself? I've seen Matsuri get stabbed and thrown and beaten up, and still get up. She is a very tough girl; and whatever is thrown at her, she picks herself back up and hold her head up high.

I just don't think she died after plunging that sword into her. It didn't look like a fatal spot, but it did look very painful.

I guess we won't truly know until Ep.13 if Yorito became separated from Aono or ceased to exist and if Matsuri lived or not. Ahhh.. this wait is going to kill me. >_<;;;

Originally Posted by Skyfall

Spoiler for ep12:

It clearly doesn't work that way - as we have seen, a stab to the stomach is not lethal to yakas, so that could not have been intended as a killing blow. (By your theory, Matsuri herself should be dead by now ). I suspect she would have went for the head if she intended to kill Aono.

That aside, i feel Aono has been given way too much hax powers. Especially creating two clones of herself and she doesn't even look strained, while creating one Yorito landed her in to the hospital.

Spoiler for Aono's power:

I think creating Yorito's clone is far much a challenging work than creating her own clones. In Yorito's case, didn't she have to bind Yorito's soul to the golem (or at least his personality and part of his memory, as Yorito was able to recall the pre-Yaka Aono).

Moreover, aside of Yorito, in the beginning, Aono needed to create a false memory of everyone in town and to build the house, furniture, and everything in it. Personally, I will be freaked out if a house suddenly appeared at a vacant lot next door (Off topic: there was a Doraemon episode when Nobita's house suddenly appeared next to a cinema and the owner was like WTF.) Notice that when she left to fight Matsuri, the entire house simply vanished and Mana's friends didn't notice it except feeling strange (I might be mistaken here, since my Japanese is not that good). I think the house and everything in it disappeared because Aono felt the need to gather all her power for this final battle.

One thing that still bugs me though, WHERE IS KOYORI? Last time we saw her, she was sleeping in the living room at Aono's house and I don't think Aono had a chance to take Koyori back to her own house.