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la_vie_noire) wrote2009-10-12 09:40 pm
la_vie_noire) wrote2009-10-12 09:40 pm
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I just hope this doesn't take the "let's make Okiura look remotely good" route because then I would be pissed. We have already too much sympathizing towards abusive-husband/partner behavior in media. (Is he doing all that because he wants her to come back to him? Too much of real life in that, and you know how that uses to end.)
Kobato/Fujimoto/Sayaka is just fascinating though. This shows how good are CLAMP at shoujo. The constrained emotions going on in Sayaka/Fujimoto are adult: quiet, painful, complex, and completely lacking of melodrama. They are hurt, but they don't make the most of it, they have to get themselves together because that's the most important thing.
Sayaka being the martyr was something I thought it would bother me, but it doesn't. She is adult woman dealing with big problems and trying to cope with them the best she can. I think what makes Fujimoto do all he does for her is she never using him as a "shoulder to lead on". We'll probably see how Fujimoto thinks Sayaka is unintentional cruel to him. There is the "stray kitten" comment, but he still works thousand of part-time jobs to save the school and make her happy. His satisfaction is in what he can give her.
That is what I love of this manga, we don't have spoiled and uber-privileged people. We have people who have to do their best to survive, things aren't the shoujo utopia where the characters lives are totally divorced from economy and the daily hard-ships of real people. "I though you would say my mother was bad because she leaves me to go to work" was probably one of my favorite lines.
Kobato is trying to heal hearts to fulfill her wish, and meanwhile she is getting herself into the complexity and tumult that are human lives and relationships. You can't heal people's lives, meddle and invest yourself into other people's affairs for your own gain and leave it like that unless you really lack any empaty. And we know Kobato doesn't.
Kobato/Fujimoto/Sayaka is just fascinating though. This shows how good are CLAMP at shoujo. The constrained emotions going on in Sayaka/Fujimoto are adult: quiet, painful, complex, and completely lacking of melodrama. They are hurt, but they don't make the most of it, they have to get themselves together because that's the most important thing.
Sayaka being the martyr was something I thought it would bother me, but it doesn't. She is adult woman dealing with big problems and trying to cope with them the best she can. I think what makes Fujimoto do all he does for her is she never using him as a "shoulder to lead on". We'll probably see how Fujimoto thinks Sayaka is unintentional cruel to him. There is the "stray kitten" comment, but he still works thousand of part-time jobs to save the school and make her happy. His satisfaction is in what he can give her.
That is what I love of this manga, we don't have spoiled and uber-privileged people. We have people who have to do their best to survive, things aren't the shoujo utopia where the characters lives are totally divorced from economy and the daily hard-ships of real people. "I though you would say my mother was bad because she leaves me to go to work" was probably one of my favorite lines.
Kobato is trying to heal hearts to fulfill her wish, and meanwhile she is getting herself into the complexity and tumult that are human lives and relationships. You can't heal people's lives, meddle and invest yourself into other people's affairs for your own gain and leave it like that unless you really lack any empaty. And we know Kobato doesn't.