I wasn't expecting much of the end of this series so I'm surprised to writing this with a somewhat aching throat. The transformation from light hearted series to encircling darkness took place in episode 24 with the appearance of the family's shishou, or more a surrogate father of Kyo. He brings about events that would eventually lead to a confrontation between Tohru and the true horrors of the zodiac - instilled in Kyo himself. Subsequently, much anguish takes place and for the first time in the series you actually see Tohru on the verge of breaking down - now this is the psychological pressure I want to see! The premise is a simple and profound one: to love someone despite their true nature; not to deceive oneself by putting that horror in the back of one's mind; not to love and accept everything, having eyes that see beyond the shallow surface of things, plunging deep into the tangle of human emotions. It would seem that Tohru is a deeper person that one originally thought.
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Clouds leave no trace in the sky,
so fragile
just like my being.
- Kai Doh Maru
***
Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
***
Suffering is nothing but experience enslaved to ignorance.
- Dalai Lama
***
Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely. No part left out.
- Izumi
***
Some of the worst things in my life never happened.
- Mark Twain
***
I am here.
- Makoto Shinkai, Voices of a Distant Star
***
To know and to act are one and the same.
- Wan Yang Ming
***
Chivalry is itself the poetry of life.
- Schlegel
***
A Samurai who smells of sunflowers? Sunflowers don't have a scent.
So, isn't it possible that the person you're looking for doesn't even exist?
- Samurai Champloo
***
When you are young you are given a good view of life, because of your closeness to birth.
- Sidney Nolan
***
A subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
- 'Daemon' (noun)
***
"How shall a man know his gods?"
"By the signs of their divinity."
"And what if thieves walk among the gods?"
"Then, indeed, how shall a man know?"
-Dr Who
***
"Death is a debt we must all pay."
-Euripides
***
"If I were the rain that binds together the earth and the sky whom in all eternity will never mingle, would I be able to bind the hearts of people together?"
- Inoue Orihime, Bleach
***
"I shall light a fire upon the fang that falls short,
so that I needn't see that star,
so that it shall not tear this throat of mine."
-Ichigo Kurosaki, Bleach
***
"Princess of the imperial ancestors gods sings at a black moon
Oh, illusive lover, go together to the night
The two becomes wind and travelled around the stars
Watching the scenery until they awake from their dreams
The two people are the eyes of the heart
The maiden thinks, where is the key?
Where is the key to hold this moment for eternity?
The transient princess sleeps at the black moon
The illusive lover lives in the same shadow
In reality, they became bubbles and transformed to darkness
The sadness of the now ending morning
The parting people are the death of the heart
The maiden commands, throw away the key
Throw away the key to the disappearing and transient shadow"
-[lyrics] Princess of December, UFO Princess Valkyrie
***
"People cannot gain anything without sacrificing something.
You must present something of equal value in order to gain something.
That is the principle of equivalent trade in alchemy.
We believed that was the truth of the world when we were young."
-Elric Brothers, Full Metal Alchemist
***
"Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it."
- Richard, The Beach
***
Qué es la vida? Un frenesí,
Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción.
Y el mayor bien es pequeño,
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.
What is life? A frenzy,
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction.
And the greatest good
is of slight worth,
since life is but a dream,
and dreams are only dreams.
-Pedro Calderón de la Barca
***
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
-Prophet Joel
***
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
-Edgar A. Poe
***
Death is not a hunter unbeknownst to its prey, one is always aware that it lies in wait. Though life merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope. Only then will a traveler's story live on, treasured by who bid him farewell. But alas, now my guest's life has ended, his tale left unwritten...
-Persona 3
***
The Japanese possess eyes able to perceive the mystery, beauty and charm of things, and also a heart which can love them.
-Isabella C Bird, 1831-1904
***
Youth turns to old age quickly.
And learning is not gained easily.
Do not make light of even the shortest of moments.
-Kimura, Azumanga Daioh
***
The sound of the bell of the Gion Temple tolls the impermanence of all things, and the hue of the Sala tree's blossoms reveals the truth that those who flourish must fade. The proud ones do not last forever, but are like the dream of a spring night. Even the mighty will perish, just like dust before the wind.
-Opening lines of the Heike
***
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
-Oshima, Kafka on the Shore
***
I am the first
a shadow at the end
of the hallway
I spin the carousel
the laughter recedes away
my finger on your lips
I stole something precious
I am the second
alone in a faceless crowd
a human caught
in monochrome dreams
I scream to wake up
my voice drowns deep underground
only the dead can hear me
see me
I am the third.
a master
a sentinel of awakeness
I hold truth like a torch
shadows flicker before me.
rapid eye follow the
chain of thought
until the silence ends
-[lyrics] Rain of Brass Petals (3 voices edit) - Silent Hill 3
Quotes
so fragile
just like my being.
- Kai Doh Maru
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- Dalai Lama
- Izumi
- Mark Twain
- Makoto Shinkai, Voices of a Distant Star
- Wan Yang Ming
- Schlegel
So, isn't it possible that the person you're looking for doesn't even exist?
- Samurai Champloo
- Sidney Nolan
- 'Daemon' (noun)
"By the signs of their divinity."
"And what if thieves walk among the gods?"
"Then, indeed, how shall a man know?"
-Dr Who
-Euripides
- Inoue Orihime, Bleach
so that I needn't see that star,
so that it shall not tear this throat of mine."
-Ichigo Kurosaki, Bleach
Oh, illusive lover, go together to the night
The two becomes wind and travelled around the stars
Watching the scenery until they awake from their dreams
The two people are the eyes of the heart
The maiden thinks, where is the key?
Where is the key to hold this moment for eternity?
The transient princess sleeps at the black moon
The illusive lover lives in the same shadow
In reality, they became bubbles and transformed to darkness
The sadness of the now ending morning
The parting people are the death of the heart
The maiden commands, throw away the key
Throw away the key to the disappearing and transient shadow"
-[lyrics] Princess of December, UFO Princess Valkyrie
You must present something of equal value in order to gain something.
That is the principle of equivalent trade in alchemy.
We believed that was the truth of the world when we were young."
-Elric Brothers, Full Metal Alchemist
- Richard, The Beach
Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción.
Y el mayor bien es pequeño,
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.
What is life? A frenzy,
What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction.
And the greatest good
is of slight worth,
since life is but a dream,
and dreams are only dreams.
-Pedro Calderón de la Barca
and the moon to blood
-Prophet Joel
-Edgar A. Poe
Death is not a hunter unbeknownst to its prey, one is always aware that it lies in wait. Though life merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope. Only then will a traveler's story live on, treasured by who bid him farewell. But alas, now my guest's life has ended, his tale left unwritten...
-Persona 3
The Japanese possess eyes able to perceive the mystery, beauty and charm of things, and also a heart which can love them.
-Isabella C Bird, 1831-1904
Youth turns to old age quickly.
And learning is not gained easily.
Do not make light of even the shortest of moments.
-Kimura, Azumanga Daioh
The sound of the bell of the Gion Temple tolls the impermanence of all things, and the hue of the Sala tree's blossoms reveals the truth that those who flourish must fade. The proud ones do not last forever, but are like the dream of a spring night. Even the mighty will perish, just like dust before the wind.
-Opening lines of the Heike
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
-Oshima, Kafka on the Shore
I am the first
a shadow at the end
of the hallway
I spin the carousel
the laughter recedes away
my finger on your lips
I stole something precious
I am the second
alone in a faceless crowd
a human caught
in monochrome dreams
I scream to wake up
my voice drowns deep underground
only the dead can hear me
see me
I am the third.
a master
a sentinel of awakeness
I hold truth like a torch
shadows flicker before me.
rapid eye follow the
chain of thought
until the silence ends
-[lyrics] Rain of Brass Petals (3 voices edit) - Silent Hill 3
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