Comments on: Nabari no Ou 11 [Kaaten Kooru]

By: Hoshi

Hoshi — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:08:03 +0000

@Sakura: Lol, 5 am? Don’t worry about the rambling. I’m glad you can at least make a little sense of what I’ve written. Nice! I’ve never thought of that, but Raikou is a little parallel to Itachi, in how they’re trying to protect their younger siblings. I guess you can call that a generic character for manga and anime?

@adaywithoutme: hmm. true true, but what about the week before when they were fighting to the polka? >< i wanted raimei to like, at least be able to disarm raikou or something

By: adaywithoutme

adaywithoutme — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:59 +0000

I don’t think Raimei was really weak – I interpreted her not being able to get up after getting hit with the sword hilt as being due to her injuries as opposed to being weak.

By: Sakura

Sakura — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:58:44 +0000

Well it wasn’t all bad for the girls since Raikou was in it

What is is with angsty older brothers taking on the burden of their clan murders?

Although in Raikou’s case as you point out he didn’t exactly do all the killing.

But in Itachi’s case he had to do so because of an impossible choice.

And I get what you mean about the way of the sword thing. Isn’t wielding one as a Samurai supposed to be about committing yourself to that way of life, to the ideals they uphold, right until the very end?

So poor Raikou, because he makes a bad decision, now feels he has to take the responsibility for it even if people will hate him for it. Because even though he may not have wiped them out, his actions led to it.

I dunno I’m rambling away here. Its hard to string together a coherent thought at 5 a.m dammit!