I seriously wonder where Ash had a loving relationship with his father of all people? Yeah, at the end they kinda seemed to have reconciled because Ash tried to save him (and Jennifer) from Dino’s men (but honestly, Ash has always been caring and didn’t want others to get hurt because of him so maybe that’s why?) And Jim helped them escape in the end but...that’s about it? They may have kinda reconciled in that moment, but for him to be as important to Ash as Griff is still far-fetched. There should have been more evidence for it, then. And like @enta_jinnai said, Jim probably didn’t die but survived, so obviously, he can’t be buried with him.
The part with Griff’s grave was already explained, so I won’t repeat it.
Now about Ash’s mother. Even if Yoshida-sensei didn’t have the chance to write more about Ash’s mother, there are still snippets that tell us that she wasn’t that unimportant to him.
The first time she was mentioned though, Ash didn’t really seemed to be fond of her which may imply he was angry at her or even hated her with passion:
However, a few volumes later, we get this scene:
Even though he had called her a “slut”, he still cried out for his mother while having nightmares, which makes me wonder if he had just badmouthed her before because he wanted to appear tough or was in a bad mood that time. Understandable, considering he just returned to the place where his whole trauma started + meeting his father again. There’s also the possibility of Yoshida-sensei not knowing where she wanted to go with his mother at that point of the story.
Either way, if he really didn’t care about her in any way or hated her, he would have called for someone else in his sleep like Griff.
Another important scene is this conversation he had with Eiji on the ferry:
There’s no hint of sarcasm here nor hostility when Ash talks about his mom during this scene, even directing the conversation towards her in the first place. He seems rather thoughtful, especially at the end, as if he’s searching for answers and obviously ponders about what Eiji had told him. I really would had liked to know what he intended to ask, but I guess it would have been something like: “Then why did she abandon me if she loved me?”
Ash doesn’t seem like he doesn’t care about his mom, but rather the opposite. He may act angry when she is first brought up, but in the other scenes, he does seem to long for her in a way as well as for answers and I’m pretty sure Ash would have liked to meet her in person to get these answers.
I highly doubt that the decision of Ash being buried with his mother is supopsed to be seen as yet another proof of Yoahida-sensei “clearly hating him” (seriously, this statement is getting old). She wanted to write more about his mother after all, so it’s likely she knew more than us anyway and that there was a clear reason for that decision. Since Japan is known to be rather spiritual, maybe it’s supposed to be seen as their spirits being able to finally meet and Ash getting the answers he longed to find for so long, who knows?
I personally don’t think it’s a bad decision but an interesting one and I really would like to know what Yoshida-sensei had in mind for his mother. But I guess it can’t be helped and we have to reach our own conclusion with the help of what information canon offers us.
Please don’t badmouth authors who wrote/published something you don’t agree with. It’s not only immature but also plain rude and unprofessional.
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