Nabari no Ou Episode 6 - Choice
This show continues to leave me terribly confused, and not in a Kara no Kyoukai “this dialogue makes absolutely no sense whatsoever” way. I just find Miharu so utterly enigmatic - I have no idea what he wants or why he does the things he does. At least Yoite, King of Emo, sort of makes sense from what he reveals in this episode, even if I don’t agree with him - his dilemma is that his evil forbidden art uses up his lifeforce and he thinks he’s worthless, so he wants Miharu to erase him completely from existence so that he’d never have had such an awful life or something along those lines. Why doesn’t he just stop killing people or using his technique? It would be much less stressful and no-one’s ever really beyond redemption in Anime Land.
Miharu, on the other hand, just seems to do whatever you don’t expect him to do. Aside from the fact that if he kills Yoite almost everyone in the world ever will die (which I suppose is a decent enough reason) I don’t see why he doesn’t just Shinra Banshou all that away to a happy ending. Surely it’s powerful enough that Miharu could just will it out of existence in some kind of recursive suicidal doohickey or something? I don’t know, this show confuses me, it’s pretty and mildly intelligent and I shouldn’t think about it any further than that or I’ll give myself a headache.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Well, I suppose Yoite could stop using his technique, but where would be the angst in that? Yoite’s been born to suffer and he lets no-one stand in the way of his angst.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:31 am
I think the whole Yoite-should-just-stop-using-his-powers-instead-of-being-emo discussion was actually explored more in the manga as the story goes on, if I remember correctly. It’s actually really much more complicated than it seems, and King of Emo is quite pitiful. So yea, this confusion will probably be cleared in the future episodes.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Thanks for the lovely edit of the natsu no sora script :)