AHEMHM;
First of all this manga is a wonderful example of hope. It's also irony in itself. It, for me, was a refreshing new veiw of the very concept of hope. It was new and nothing about it was dull. In a fictional sense, extremely realistic. People can understand that over it over and it's hard to come to that facture. But when you try and take a good look around you, realize that as long as were on this earth, yes there is. I smiled real large when the two girls held hands and walked across the water. (Which was about a couple inches deep) For that was like the realization. Naoshi is a very VERY refreshing artist, he illustrates things that really just get to me. Both characters spark opposite personalities that in such ways pertaining to her dreams are so much alike, dropping those diffrences and creating a whimsical, yet heartwarming bond. Marue, having known before Aria, yet still going on like there was something left was something else.
Think of it this way; Marue was the seeing hope. Maybe a bit dim, but something was there, difidentally. Aria was the aspiring hope. Blind to the truth....but it really didn't matter. The townspeople were the doubts. Living on and basically waiting to die...simple and careless. The water was like the false realization, drowning the truth. The walls were like the lies; hiding the hope. And of course; the ground was the truth. Maybe still covered with water and sealed off by the walls and sinking under the water...but there all the same. And when Marue and Aria saw that....Then it al came together. ;)
Thats what I saw. It was beautiful and the fact that it was all snug into a oneshot proved amazing talent.
