Pierre:

>but trying to say that Takahashi made that to make us all 
>reflect on teh dephtness of life and fate would be non-sense.

With this I whole-heartedly agree. Of course she did not 
deliberately put all this depth and profound meaning in a mostly 
silly series. But that doesn't mean it isn't really there. You 
see, the human mind works in strange and mysterious ways. Our 
psychological makeup is almost hard-wired for a certain set of 
symbols and archetypes and. . .metaphysical themes, you could 
say. No one knows for sure why our minds work that way, but they 
do, and it means that almost any story out there will have at 
least some of these elements. The authors practically can't help 
but write them in, whether they're trying to or not. If a story 
without any of these basic themes ever does make it onto the 
market, it flops big-time, because it doesn't speak to us, to our 
subconscious minds. It doesn't matter whether it's slapstick 
comedy or horrific, heart-wrenching tragedy. There are certain 
things a story needs to be appealing to human beings.


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