Comments on: Tokyo Magnitude 4: Touching, Trembling, Toppling – An analysis

By: The Deathseeker » Blog Archive » Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 04 - Tokyo Tower Collapse

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:15:28 +0000

[...] agrees with ghostlightning in large part that “Mirai’s whining is actually [...]

By: Seinime

Seinime — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:56:30 +0000

@msdzero: It causes pain to even think of the scene...;_;

@ghostlightning Thanks for the link. It has so many deeper meanings I'm finding, thanks to you and otou-san. This is seriously awesome. I think Mari symbolizes us, quite in fact, and that we should all have that good samaritan personality towards Mirai. Good stuff. Symbolism, depth, and realism. Great anime.

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:45:42 +0000

Sorry, the link to otou-san’s post on WRL is http://ghostlightning.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/sympathy-for-the-devil-child-mirais-showing-a-bit-of-character
That’s where that quote comes from, and he really did a good job writing about our non-heroic, wet-blanket, lead character that Mari is moe for (in the sense that she wants to protect and support her; and by extension so do we).

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:43:36 +0000

Thanks for the acknowledgment. Let me tell you though that it's otou-san of Shameful Otaku Secret who first caught the symbolism for the cake. He mentioned this in his post on sympathizing with Mirai:

Even a round cake, instead of some fancy-ass individual slices, would be ok. You can’t sing happy birthday and blow out the candles around those slices as a family (or whatever they do in Japan), and so the cake becomes a sad symbol of her family’s fracturing.

Awesome. I noted the cake, but not the symbolism. I did write a fair bit on the Onosawa family [->] I didn't remark on the fragmentation in particular. In episode 02 Mirai sees the round birthday cake for Mari's kid. The irony here is Mari's family is fractured - by death no less (her husband died IIRC), and yet it seems full and complete with love. I love this shit.

By: msdzero

msdzero — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:32:55 +0000

I can’t imagine what will happen to Mirai if Mari and Yuuki weren’t around.
and Mirai still hard to accept the kindness from others maybe because she still hard to trust others