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Also, does anybody understand why close to the end Misuzu spoiler[ was feeling better, then deteriorating, losing her memory, then feeling better again, and when she was feeling the best she had and was able to walk, she died? ]
Luminal

As I understood it, spoiler[Misuzu was not the reincarnation of Kanna, but a normal girl who Kanna tried to give her powers to, and this killed her (the "ocean pouring into a jar" analogy.) ]

Here's my interpretation of the whole series: spoiler[In the "summer" arc (the one 1000 years ago), Kanna is compelled by her hereditary curse to rise to the sky in order to save Ryuya and Uraha. By the Bhuddist curse, she is forced to see that she has failed and that her friends are dead. So she is in constant pain and torture, despite being charged as a winged person to keeping the memories of people. Ryuya and Uraha see no way to help her, but they agree to procreate in order to have hope for the future, and Uraha uses the rest of her magic to make the moving doll and teach it to her child. Fast forward 1000 years to Yukito, the descendent of Ryuya and Uraha, Who meets Misuzu, the afflicted girl who speaks of her other self. Her ailments are clearly shadows of those suffered by Kanna--she cries when she makes friends, she loses her memory, she cannot move, and in the most powerful line in the series, says that it's not her feet or hands that hurt, but her wings.

Yukito, by this time, has found a way to master the magic of the doll, by consulting the kids at the end of Episode 7. In doing so, he is able to transform into the crow. As Sora, he has no trouble making friends with Misuzu and in seeing that she needs her mother (as an aside: a major flaw in the series is that Haruko is essentially played off as a joke in the early episodes, with no indication that she's going to be an important character later). Sora-Yukito gets to live through the rest of the summer with Misuzu, seeing her become happy for the first time in her life, even though she dies right afterwards. Carrying this happy memory, and having become winged himself, he is now able to fly to the sky and relieve Kanna of her curse. So it's not a completely sad ending. Misuzu died happy, and to relieve the pain of a god-like being.]

That is a very sensible interpretation and I can accept most of it, but in the end spoiler[ Yukito flies away and says he is going to continue searching. Meaning that Misuzu dies and the spirit of Kanna will reincarnate again, still with the curse which didn't seem to be lifted. However, this time Yukito is a crow and did not leave any children to go find the reincarnation of Kanna again. ].

Man I get so sad just from remembering it...



Luminal

Thanks for your answers guys, I'll check that thread you are talking about Pantsgoblin.

Zalis, that makes sense. This is probably the saddest anime I've ever seen and the saddest ending ever. But it is also one of the best I've seen.

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