Comments on: sola revisited: An Open End

By: Mirrinus

Mirrinus — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:23:00 +0000

Some people have speculated that Matsuri wasn’t trying to kill Aono at all during the fight; merely to incapacitate her so that she’d have a clear shot with the sword after infusing it with her life force. After all, Aono’s probably not going to sit still and just let Matsuri turn her into a human.

Don’t know if you’d buy that, though. Actually, I don’t really buy that myself. The sword’s powers are really vague, so it’s hard to tell what exactly Matsuri was trying to accomplish in the first place.

By: omo

omo — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:12:00 +0000

If you ever seen Gilgamesh, they pull the same trick here. Basically it comes down to using a tricky 4th wall device to pull the imagery together (that explains the projector, and the shocking revelation about Yorito’s paper-ness and whatever). It’s a bit of a fail, but eh, I’ll live.

The whole “why isn’t Aono fighting Matsuri” bit is pretty much the same reason why Matsuri isn’t fighting Takeshi. I thought it’s sort of given but they didn’t make a good showing why. At least Aono isn’t toally bonkers when it comes to Matsuri, even if it looks that way. We see her turn into a relatively safe and normal person in the end.

By: CCYoshi

CCYoshi — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:31:00 +0000

Bad Mikoto. *Mana headchop* :P Now you've got an excuse to watch it.

ivy: Makes sense, but the one piece of the puzzle that's bugging me is, as mentioned, from the beginning of episode 11, where Yorito lies on a hill and talks to Matsuri, and says that he wants to "change Aono back to normal."

Now, maybe it's just my definition of normal, but I'm pretty sure normal does not equal dead.

So, I guess Matsuri just said "screw it" with Yorito's idea then? Usually the two of them, having somewhat similar, almost suicidal mindsets, tend to agree on their plans at least...

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:25:00 +0000

Matsuri’s plan from the very begining was to get rid of Aono, making everthing that happened not. Meaning No Yorito and no Aono which was supposed to be the case when Aono stabbed herself out of despair. Thus leaving Matsuri alone to suffer and shoulder everything on her own(It was her mistake, I sympathize ok but she’s a little dumb for doing what she did) The second that projector turned on (dues ex machina, who turned it on? I’ll forgive Sola on that one since I love it so.) She “saw the sky” Yorito in a way accomplishing his promise (This is anime A little silliness needs to be overlooked wouldn’t you agree?) Leading to her shocking act of stabbing herself since she has no reason to live making her change her mind by making Aono human. This IMO is a selfish act making Aono suffer although she wanted nothing to do with this from the start. Making Matsuri the actual villain, no matter how they Aono being happy and stuff in the future, I found Matsuri’s act despicable and a little childish. And I’m done! Phew…so thats my analysis hehe

By: xXMikotoNakadaiXx

xXMikotoNakadaiXx — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:19:00 +0000

I entered not knowing it was all spoiler-like… *bunks head* ;_____; I’m so slow.