Hello! If you are still watching - DO NOT READ THIS!
This may spoil the ending. I just want to express my thoughts about the plot. If you have already watched it - tell me your thoughts. :)
First of all - I wasn't expecting this show to be good at all. Like look at the score.... and all the terrible reviews and almost everyone is saying that the ending was horrible.
Yes, the ending hurt, but woow it made soooo much sense. Like how I see the plot -
Mei was a cheerful girl and she grew up with spirits. One of the spirits was Charlie. You could say he basically raised her. What Charlie saw was that the girl he spend years with, loved as family was becoming remote from the world, closing herself away from spirits and humans alike. It is really sad to see someone you love hurting inside. Remember how at the beginning of the first episode she was quit, socially awkward girl? I would say even sad. Alone.
Charlie called out to her, tried to reach her as a spirit.. but Mei just put on her headphones and ignored the world. So Charlie used the power of full moon to travel in time. He tells Mei to be herself. You are in the past, no one knows you! Be you! And basically the story is about Mei learning to live with her powers, learning to be strong, learning to make friends, to love. And she doesn't have her full memory. But just a part...so her sad past isn't holding her back. She doesn't remember that seeing ghosts was weird.
When she regains her memory she understand that she has a live. She doesn't belong there. Maybe she has a loving family? Maybe she has goals in her live? Like who knows... But she was never meant to stay there. It was a stop in her life to learn and grow as a person, not to run away from her problems to another era. And making the decision to return. She shows how she has grown. And leaving the person she loves behind will make her value connections she will make. Charlie was happy like a father about her. He truly only wished for her hippieness. And with his last strength he sent her home. It looked to me like he died at the end. But thanks to him... Mei isn't afraid of living.
The show superficially went over this idea. But imagine how good it could be if it played out the main idea more deeply? Put more into character backgrounds and make meaningful connections. Boom!
serina7 said: Hello! If you are still watching - DO NOT READ THIS!
This may spoil the ending. I just want to express my thoughts about the plot. If you have already watched it - tell me your thoughts. :)
First of all - I wasn't expecting this show to be good at all. Like look at the score.... and all the terrible reviews and almost everyone is saying that the ending was horrible.
Yes, the ending hurt, but woow it made soooo much sense. Like how I see the plot -
Mei was a cheerful girl and she grew up with spirits. One of the spirits was Charlie. You could say he basically raised her. What Charlie saw was that the girl he spend years with, loved as family was becoming remote from the world, closing herself away from spirits and humans alike. It is really sad to see someone you love hurting inside. Remember how at the beginning of the first episode she was quit, socially awkward girl? I would say even sad. Alone.
Charlie called out to her, tried to reach her as a spirit.. but Mei just put on her headphones and ignored the world. So Charlie used the power of full moon to travel in time. He tells Mei to be herself. You are in the past, no one knows you! Be you! And basically the story is about Mei learning to live with her powers, learning to be strong, learning to make friends, to love. And she doesn't have her full memory. But just a part...so her sad past isn't holding her back. She doesn't remember that seeing ghosts was weird.
When she regains her memory she understand that she has a live. She doesn't belong there. Maybe she has a loving family? Maybe she has goals in her live? Like who knows... But she was never meant to stay there. It was a stop in her life to learn and grow as a person, not to run away from her problems to another era. And making the decision to return. She shows how she has grown. And leaving the person she loves behind will make her value connections she will make. Charlie was happy like a father about her. He truly only wished for her hippieness. And with his last strength he sent her home. It looked to me like he died at the end. But thanks to him... Mei isn't afraid of living.
The show superficially went over this idea. But imagine how good it could be if it played out the main idea more deeply? Put more into character backgrounds and make meaningful connections. Boom!