(L) Full Moon wo Sagashite

[Archaic]

His fate was never really worked out as such, though it seemed like he'd got some satisfaction out of knowing that he'd been able to make the others happy. It was certainly better than how he's looking at the end of Vol 5 in the manga, that's for certain. Afterall, in the anime, he wasn't

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Just beaten up by Johnathan, who had just failed to kill Mitsuki through a letter bomb and other plots, for having developed feelings for her.

Nor was it ever shown that he

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Commited suicide when he was a mere young boy, by allowing himself to get plowed into by a train, to the glee of his mother who watched the whole thing, or that he came back as a Shinigami many years later to equally happily take her life (Such as it was. She'd long since become a destitute prostitute by this time, and was probably on some drugs to boot).

[Village Idiot]

The manga just ended this month in Japan

Here's what happened in the last few chapters:

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-Everyone finds out that Mizuki was never going to die in the first place. The reason why she appeared on the Death List was because there was a soul always by her side. Eiichi-kun.
-Mizuki goes through her operation, and is healed.
-Mizuki starts singing as herself, not as Full Moon.
-Izumi and Meroko gets together.
-Wakouji and Ooshige gets together.
-Takuto gets pierced by a Shinigami Scythe and disappears....

3 years pass by...

-Mizuki sings in a concert, is a huge hit. (she sings her songs from the anime)
-Everyone is shocked when Takuto appears as a human (with shorter hair).
-Mizuki runs up to Takuto and they embrase. Mizuki yells at Takuto for disappearing 3 years ago, since she was so worried about him all that time. Takuto tells her that he thought he disappeared forever when he was pierced by the scythe, but then found himself wake in a hospital bed. It seems that Takuto never died when he tried to commit suicide, and instead fell into a coma. He couldn't see her because his body was so weak as a result of being in a coma for so long, and besides, he wanted a dramatic enterance because it'd look cool XD
-Takuto also has his vocal cords back, a gift from his Shinigami bosses.
-Takuto and Mizuki kiss, while the crowd blushes and cheers.
-Up above, Eiichi-kun yells for Mizuki, but when he saw her smile, smiles and accends to heaven.

The End

[Archaic]

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

The manga just ended this month in Japan

Here's what happened in the last few chapters:

Spoiler:

-Everyone finds out that Mizuki was never going to die in the first place. The reason why she appeared on the Death List was because there was a soul always by her side. Eiichi-kun.
-Mizuki goes through her operation, and is healed.
-Mizuki starts singing as herself, not as Full Moon.
-Izumi and Meroko gets together.
-Wakouji and Ooshige gets together.
-Takuto gets pierced by a Shinigami Scythe and disappears....

3 years pass by...

-Mizuki sings in a concert, is a huge hit. (she sings her songs from the anime)
-Everyone is shocked when Takuto appears as a human (with shorter hair).
-Mizuki runs up to Takuto and they embrase. Mizuki yells at Takuto for disappearing 3 years ago, since she was so worried about him all that time. Takuto tells her that he thought he disappeared forever when he was pierced by the scythe, but then found himself wake in a hospital bed. It seems that Takuto never died when he tried to commit suicide, and instead fell into a coma. He couldn't see her because his body was so weak as a result of being in a coma for so long, and besides, he wanted a dramatic enterance because it'd look cool XD
-Takuto also has his vocal cords back, a gift from his Shinigami bosses.
-Takuto and Mizuki kiss, while the crowd blushes and cheers.
-Up above, Eiichi-kun yells for Mizuki, but when he saw her smile, smiles and accends to heaven.

The End

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Damnit. I always hated the Mizuki/Takuto ending of the anime, and I never thought Meroko/Izumi worked out either. The way everything's worked out nicely for everyone, that just doesn't work for me. The manga was a tragic story. It should've had an equally tragic and touching ending to go with it, rather than this.
I've just been buying the individual volumes, not reading it in Ribon, so could you tell me how they resolved Meroko/Takuto? He essentially admitted he was in love with her earlier I thought, with the "Do I really have to say it?" line.

[bluemist]

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

The manga just ended this month in Japan

Here's what happened in the last few chapters:

Spoiler:

-Everyone finds out that Mizuki was never going to die in the first place. The reason why she appeared on the Death List was because there was a soul always by her side. Eiichi-kun.
-Mizuki goes through her operation, and is healed.
-Mizuki starts singing as herself, not as Full Moon.
-Izumi and Meroko gets together.
-Wakouji and Ooshige gets together.
-Takuto gets pierced by a Shinigami Scythe and disappears....

3 years pass by...

-Mizuki sings in a concert, is a huge hit. (she sings her songs from the anime)
-Everyone is shocked when Takuto appears as a human (with shorter hair).
-Mizuki runs up to Takuto and they embrase. Mizuki yells at Takuto for disappearing 3 years ago, since she was so worried about him all that time. Takuto tells her that he thought he disappeared forever when he was pierced by the scythe, but then found himself wake in a hospital bed. It seems that Takuto never died when he tried to commit suicide, and instead fell into a coma. He couldn't see her because his body was so weak as a result of being in a coma for so long, and besides, he wanted a dramatic enterance because it'd look cool XD
-Takuto also has his vocal cords back, a gift from his Shinigami bosses.
-Takuto and Mizuki kiss, while the crowd blushes and cheers.
-Up above, Eiichi-kun yells for Mizuki, but when he saw her smile, smiles and accends to heaven.

The End

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OMG that was too happy. I'd rather prefer a 'reverse of endings'. I think the manga would have worked better if it adopted the anime ending, and vice versa. Get my drift? I haven't read all of the manga so my comment is just a mere opinion though...

I got reminded of how dark the Kimi ga Nozomu Eien anime is, and yet it had an extremely positive ending as well. Just like the Full Moon manga.

[kool_dudy]

Wow...the manga seems so sad.


good thing i didn't read it but the ending seems a lot happier than the anime

[frowndog]

I really want to read the Fullmoon manga... Maybe I can buy it in Chinese... Translations of the manga are not even through the 1st volume yet...

btw, on a related note, I just heard that Mermaid Melody just got licensed. Since this is a somewhat similar show (well, similar in that they sing in the anime a lot), what do you guys think Fullmoon wo Sagashite's chances of getting licensed are? More importantly, would it getting licensed do the anime (or manga) justice? (with the inevitable dubs of course)

[bluemist]

Originally Posted by frowndog

I really want to read the Fullmoon manga... Maybe I can buy it in Chinese... Translations of the manga are not even through the 1st volume yet...

btw, on a related note, I just heard that Mermaid Melody just got licensed. Since this is a somewhat similar show (well, similar in that they sing in the anime a lot), what do you guys think Fullmoon wo Sagashite's chances of getting licensed are? More importantly, would it getting licensed do the anime (or manga) justice? (with the inevitable dubs of course)

If some people think American anime companies have a bad reputation when it comes to dubbing Japanese into English...

... what more with translating songs from Japanese to English, and singing it?

[dreamless]

I like this series quite a lot too, and I hope they can keep the ED1 song for a bit more episodes... serious Myself is repeated for too many episodes... and I like ED1 more...

Also I love the Mistuki dancing in OP1 animation a lot... never got tired watching it, soooooo cute, I kept watching it again and again XD

[frowndog]

Originally Posted by bluemist

If some people think American anime companies have a bad reputation when it comes to dubbing Japanese into English...

... what more with translating songs from Japanese to English, and singing it?

I would certainly hope that they do not translate the songs.

That's the quandary here. Go like Robotech and make some new (really nice IMO) songs or just keep the Japanese tracks. The problem here is dual. If they make new songs, people will be up in arms and scream blasphemy (I probably might too because I like the Fullmoon songs so much). On the other hand, it will be really weird to hear a dub suddenly go off into a Japanese song, no matter how good the song is. Especially when they sing it as much as they do in the anime

[darkchibi07]

Originally Posted by bluemist

If some people think American anime companies have a bad reputation when it comes to dubbing Japanese into English...

... what more with translating songs from Japanese to English, and singing it?

FUNimation dubs the songs, and it's actually pretty good.

[bluemist]

Originally Posted by frowndog

I would certainly hope that they do not translate the songs.

That's the quandary here. Go like Robotech and make some new (really nice IMO) songs or just keep the Japanese tracks. The problem here is dual. If they make new songs, people will be up in arms and scream blasphemy (I probably might too because I like the Fullmoon songs so much). On the other hand, it will be really weird to hear a dub suddenly go off into a Japanese song, no matter how good the song is. Especially when they sing it as much as they do in the anime

The most devastating song replacements of all time: the localization of Initial D. On the other hand, the Animax-Asia English dub of Fancy Lala had the Japanese songs untranslated, and it's weird.

We'll see in MMPPP if ADV can do it right.

As for Full Moon wo Sagashite, its licensing will just be a matter of time. American anime companies have really set their sights on shoujo anime lately. I'm just glad I completely watched the series before it would be licensed, as opposed to MMPPP which is licensed already. I can only see up to 23 fansubbed episodes, sigh.

Originally Posted by darkchibi07

FUNimation dubs the songs, and it's actually pretty good.

I have heard the English version of the Fruits Basket OP. I scream blasphemy! But... that's just nitpicking on my part because the 'original' is always the best (sang by the late Ritsuko Okazaki, may she rest in peace). I respect Funi's dedication to trying to make the best localizations around.

[evil|plushie]

Man, if that's the ending of Fmos, i'm going to be VERY disappointed... But then the mangaka always does come up with happy endings, I just wasn't expecting one this happy

[frowndog]

I don't think an excessively depressing ending is the way to go either.

As it stands, after reading the summary, I'm quite contented with how the manga (and even the anime) ended. Would some angst have been good? I honestly don't know. I've grown to really like these characters and if the manga/anime had a depressing ending(too depressing I should say, it can be argued that it was depressing enough as it is) I don't know how I would have reacted

[Karala]

I don't know why everyone has a problem with the ending to the manga I haven't read any of the manga, but judging by the spoilers I read from the ending, it has many different themes going on from the anime, I'll have to read it, but I'm not at all disappointed by the way the ending sounds, it's nice and leaves less loose ends than the anime

[dreamless]

Now I think about it, I don't think the manga ending sounds inferior to anime ending anyway, actually I'm a bit disappointed when the anime

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suddenly bring up that "Great Mother" guy (she didn't tell who she was in the series, just the name "great mother" in the ED credits) to solve everything

Also I have some questions about the anime ending,

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so I assume Takuto was also just in coma state after that bike accident, and that great mother let Meroko to take the soul back to his body? but why his parents said something like "he lost his memories since 2 years ago"? Was he in a coma for the past two years or not? And yup Meroko definitely get the bitter end of the deal in the end, poor Meroko... and I think that mark on her face makes her look more like a clown than an angel...

[ChoBaka]

Originally Posted by dreamless

I like this series quite a lot too, and I hope they can keep the ED1 song for a bit more episodes... serious Myself is repeated for too many episodes... and I like ED1 more...

Also I love the Mistuki dancing in OP1 animation a lot... never got tired watching it, soooooo cute, I kept watching it again and again XD

Yeah, it's a cute and fun little dance. Reminds me of the dancing in the 2nd Kodomo no Omocha OP animation, although that one was MUCH crazier.

I'm up to episode 11 or 12, and I'm seriously getting sick of "Myself." I hope they stop playing it at some point -_-;;

[bluemist]

Originally Posted by ChoBaka

Yeah, it's a cute and fun little dance. Reminds me of the dancing in the 2nd Kodomo no Omocha OP animation, although that one was MUCH crazier.

I'm up to episode 11 or 12, and I'm seriously getting sick of "Myself." I hope they stop playing it at some point -_-;;

You're gonna be stuck on it for a while...

[frowndog]

Originally Posted by bluemist

You're gonna be stuck on it for a while...

A looooooooooooooooooooong while

[pontupo]

I am so miserable. I am on like ep. 20 or something in Full Moon and I thought I would see some of what people are saying about it here. The first post in the thread completely messed up my hopes and dreams Now I know that Mitsuki and Eichi don't get together. Thanks a lot :P
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not really mad, just huffin and puffin

[Ongaku_no_tenshi]

I have been turned on to a new favorite show of mine. I've just want to say that I've just watched the first 26 episodes of Full Moon wo Sagashite and it is a wonderfully executed show so far. from the way the story is shaping out, I see some really emotionally troubling times coming. But I think I'm ready to recieve them. This show is just a great combination of Chance Pop Session and Omishi Magical Theater Risky Safety with just the right dash of craziness of Kodomo no Omocha, all of which are favorites of mine. What about you all? I want to hear your thoughts as well. And please be kind, no spoilers. I still have the last 26 episodes to finish up.