Message-Id: <199609020445.VAA07331@ccnet4.ccnet.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 21:45:06 -0700 To: tenchi@usagi.jrd.dec.com From: Gregory Matteson Subject: Re: Tenchi Muyo! the Movie Reply-To: tenchi At 11:20 PM 8/31/96 +0100, you wrote: >In message <199608312105.OAA28820@ccnet4.ccnet.com>, Gregory Matteson > writes >>At 02:03 PM 8/31/96 -0400, you wrote: >>>In a message dated 96-08-30 18:35:46 EDT, you write: >>> >>><< 4)Kiyone "died" in OAV before anyone met her >>> When did Kiyone die. If you are talking about the Mihoshi special, she's >>> still alive at the end. >>> >> >>> >> I'll tell you when she died, at the end of the Mihoshi Special! You >>may treat this as a Wily Coyote cartoon if you want; but we are seeing the >>events through Mihoshi's self-exculpiating eyes. (1) What can Mihoshi >>possibly else mean by "Her precious sacrifice",(making the final Kiyone >>words an echo of Mihoshi's guilt). (2) even if the energy-filled chasm she >>fell into didn't devour her, Kiyone was abandoned in "Washu"'s ship, which >>exploded with thermonuclear violence. > IMHO I thought the story was all seen in Mihoshi's eyes, EXCEPT the bit >where Kiyone shouted she would kill Mihoshi, I thought the panning >across space meant 'Elsewhere in the universe". As for Mihoshi's comment >about "Her precious sacrifice" obviously Mihoshi though Kiyone was dead. >Finally although it looked like no-one could have survived the explosion >when she is shouting she would kill Mihoshi she is sitting amongst the >wreckage. >------------------------------------------- >- Richard Perrin nomad@anime.demon.co.uk - I can't see any particular reason to think that the final scene was any less viewed from Mihoshi's mind's eye than any other part of the story. That is the main reason why I ascribe it to Mihoshi's guilty conscience. This story sure looks like a part of the OAVs to me. I will concede a point made elsewhere: That, since the characters in Mihoshi's story are identified with familiar people for the purposes of Mihoshi's storytelling, there is no particular reason to believe that Kiyone was the actual victem. (the convolutions of that are endless) Greg M.