Today 'people' are stupid and very ignorant... Sorry but I had to say it. I don't understand because with all kind of information available... And they only look for one side... or they don't care... at all. I really don't get it! Today I had a stupid interview with a stupid woman that thinks work in photography is the same that work with videos. And for my luck she can take the same pictures because today everybody can take pictures in automatic (it's so easy)... But she don't realize that ... good photographs only a few can do. And I really enjoyed when she thought that InDesign is a program to edit videos... And she is a director of an newspaper... (Supposedly, obviously!!)
Aaaaand here we go, the very last one of my chapter reviews. I didn't write anything for 218 because I think it's better to regard those two together.
...and because I was still crying like there was no tomorrow, haha.
So, Blade of the Immortal has ended. One of the, in my opinion, best mangas of all times - especially in the genre of samurai mangas (where only Vagabond can step up to it imo).
Full of blood and violence - but also of beauty, meaning, emotions. The art is absolutely supreme and the characters are fleshed out like only few I've seen before and ever since in any kind of visual media. It's a complicated story in the emotional sense, one about love and hate, centered around the concept of revenge and what it does to people and their lives. All the lives in this series were touched upon by revenge in one way or the other. Some managed to escape it, others didn't. But their actions fundamentally changed the world they lived in.
The end was like I expected it to be, wanted it to be - beautiful, violent, happy and sad - and full of some absolutely amazing fights and almost all of the storylines coming together and being finished one way or the other. But still, that I expected it to happen doesn't make it hurt anything less (and I expected I will cry even more once I buy the last volume and see the translations).
And it hurts a lot.
Mr. Samura, I thank you, deeply from my heart, for such a beautiful masterpiece.I'm looking forward to your next work!
And now for more detailed thoughts on the end - of course: Spoilers below!
So, where do I begin?
Kagehisa is dead. Still. And I think everybody who even vaguely follows my blog knows just how much I loved him^^. I'm still heartbroken about it. I really, really, hoped that Rin could break free, break out of that cycle of revenge. But sadly she didn't. Still, I think it was the only possible way he could have gone, the only way I was happy for him to go. It shouldn't have been Manji or Habako killing him, no. Rin was the one who did it and maybe she was the one who had the most right to do it.
What breaks my heart so much is the fact that he has simply lost everything. Itto-Ryu, his love Makie, everything he worked for, everything he loved was just shattered on that cold and cruel winterday (saying that, Makie's way to go out was AMAZING, no matter how sad it was. Wow).
I'm glad Manji and Rin survived. Although I wanted them to be together, which unfortunately didn't happen. But Manji meets the old crone again and I wonder what they were talking about (and who the little girl was he met - as I said, I'm usually waiting for the official translation). Also, the gesture with the dagger was adorable.
Talking about the dagger - I was so hapyy to catch a quick glance of Doa again! Good to know that those two are alive and well. And, what made me happy, too - Ozuhan! Thank God, Samura didn't forget him. I kinda wanted him in the last fight, but yeah, he seems to be somewhere else. At least he's fine.
Magatsu, too, warmed my heart. He looked happy with where he was and what he was doing. So, at least he survived *sigh*.
And we saw some other, well known faces too - Hyakurin, Sori, etc. It was quite a nice roundup. I don't even really know what else there is to say. I wonder what other people are thinking? Are you happy with the ending?
Half of my life, ten years, are going to end the day that Harry Potter last movie will be release... I'm sad, I want to cry,but I think that is just the end of a 'phase' and something better will come. I grow up.
I'm still growing up.
Thank you, thank you JK Rowling for create a beautiful world that will live forever in our hearts, our mind, in our imagination. Thank you Harry Potter for make me believe, for teach me so many things...
Thank you, Harry Potter for make me the woman that I'm now. For be with the girl that I was.
