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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
A) Wait, since when has she done only one good painting?
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Well not literally just one picture, but certainly one big public showing.
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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
B) This is a circular assumption based on her talent.
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Had people truly thought that she was at her limit with no room for further improvements, nobody would care about her change in career.
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Third, even assuming everything is true: that Mashiro should return to painting, and that no one would recognize her until she continues painting, why does it have to be now? Shiina never blatantly claimed she would never paint again, did she?
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True, but she never said that she would either.
Had she said that to Rita we might be talking about different things right now.
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The cage doesn't have to be locked for you to force an animal to live in it; that's the whole point of the metaphor. Just narrow it's entire world to it and there you have it.
Mashiro didn't go from one world to another, she expanded her own limits. Did she ever say she hated painting, she hated England? The episode itself even made it a point to show she's still an artist by having her paint the room. Yet all of you preach how her living in a confined world is for the best, how she needs to be in "England" for her to be the pretty white birdy, because she can't possibly be that outside.
Why did she leave? Because eventually the lie becomes truth and like a domesticated animal, (eventually) she would indeed not be able to live outside of her cage.
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She left because she wanted to learn about drawing manga, even when she got to Japan did you see her going "
Ahhh freedoommmm! Independence!!!" ? No, she didn't care about those things, her world wasn't narrowed because of other people, she simply didn't care about anything that doesn't capture her interest. Even now this has barely changed.
And why have you suddenly make this about going back to England
? I don't think anybody on my side of the argument have said about going back to England, all we said was going back to painting.