fushigi yuugi genbu kaiden ending

[mayoraasei]

After many long years, Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden finally drawn to an end.

I guess at least we should admire Watase Yuu for sticking to her guns even until the end. Takiko and Rimudo had the ending they were always said to have in the original...and poor Tomite and Hikitsu volunteering to stay behind.

Unfortunately it just increases the bitterness when one thinks about how annoying Miaka was compared to Takiko...although at the same time it goes to show how much the Seishi admired their Miko, to the extent of spending 200 years just waiting for shit things to happen.

I can't believe Rimudo actually reigned for 100 years. That means he lived for like 118 years or something! What the heck!

As much as I like Rimudo, I feel Watase Yuu's main characters are still weaker compared to her side characters. Again, as in the Suzaku and Seiyuu groups, the other Seishi all had a more distinctive character than the main guy. For example even now I can remember what the personalities of Nuriko and Suboshi and Amiboshi and Hotohori were like, but if you asked me to give a good description of Rimudo, I can't. He's just the generic Watase Yuu main guy - generically protective, generically caring, generically enigmatic. Maybe that's why I didn't feel too sorry for him in the end....

I'm getting old...getting to the age where I can't bear to read sad stories any more <-- person who is currently 64 pages into writing a horribly depressing story should just shut up.

I like happy endings, but I don't like happy endings stretched out beyond the lifespan of the character...I don't think of it as happy ending. It's different for the author, the imagination for your own character is endless, but I try to take the story as what is written...and if they died before a happy ending is reached, it is the end. A passing promise of meeting in another life is something...I can't consider as a happy ending.

I'm not sure I can really bear to read the Byakko story if there ever is one.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You do realize that the original fushigi yuugi story was about both Suzaku and Seiryuu right? Suzaku's story does not need to be told

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

I've made mention of Nuriko and Hotohori and the twins, so yes, I know who the original story is about. I meant Byakko, of course. I've corrected the original entry.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree.
I have just finished re-reading the whole manga after two years and I have come to the same conclusion as you. I complained about this to my friend and she tried to conveince me the ending is romantic, Takiko was the love of his life and so Rimudo would not love anyone else afterwards. I get it, but it is just really really sad. Which makes it impossible for me to get over the inconsistency with the first FY that is the fact that annoying Miaka was not devoured by Suzaku because of her 'strong will' whereas Takiko was. I know Uriki sort of explained this stating that Takiko was too weak to begin with because of her illness, but it is not good enough. If anything Takiko's will was way stronger than Miaka's as she fought with everything she had to overcome her sickness and complete her mission to save Hokkan.
I guess we'll see what will happen with Suzuno then, but I have an hint that Takiko will always be my favourite miko.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comment...didn't think someone would dig this post out of the dust XD

I agree, I felt Takiko was so much stronger than Miaka, but I suspect that's a reflection of Watase Yuu's maturation rather than her intention. Miaka was a Mary Sue of epic proportions.

I felt Takiko was one of Watase's best heroines. To be frank I've never liked any of Watase Yuu's heroes or heroines, and I've read more than 90% if not all of her manga. Takiko is probably the first one I liked. She still retains a lot of the demureness of a girl from that era (was it pre-war? I don't even remember now) but she's incredibly strong. Miaka's trip was a joke until Nuriko died. Takiko, on the other hand, had so little to gain from the journey, and it was a very difficult quest due to the prejudice against the seishi, but she held her head up and pulled through. Everything was so much against her - the country, her father, her health - but she still pulled through.

I hope with Suzuno they introduce the man she gets married to earlier in the story...I guess it'll be a bit like Zettai Kareshi's ending where the heroine ends up with the guy she likes but doesn't love, while never ceasing to love the guy who she can't be with.