Oof. Just finished reading this. I have new found respect for the author. She took a complicated concept, that's truly relevant especially now, and portrayed it with the characters she invented. I think the way that things ended is a true ending. What the author did was present the realistic and the idealistic ways of dealing with the systems our world is built on. In the end, she took sinbad and david, both representing the most popular beliefs, to fight each other because that's how it is in the real world. The ending, I see a lot of people complaining about but it's the most diplomatic ending that she could have taken. The problems that she portrayed in the manga isn't something she could fix by herself and I think leaving with a "yah everyone lived happily" but with a tugging question of "did they truly escape what we call destiny? what the manga views as what controls us?" is the only ending that wouldn't literally break our minds.
I just read it so I'll probably look back on this and cringe for a bit but I did think that it would be worth it to say my piece of mind. Just remember the essence of what the manga is saying or portraying. I appreciated the clearness of the author's mind and sense of direction in terms of the story.
Oof. Just finished reading this. I have new found respect for the author. She took a complicated concept, that's truly relevant especially now, and portrayed it with the characters she invented. I think the way that things ended is a true ending. What the author did was present the realistic and the idealistic ways of dealing with the systems our world is built on. In the end, she took sinbad and david, both representing the most popular beliefs, to fight each other because that's how it is in the real world. The ending, I see a lot of people complaining about but it's the most diplomatic ending that she could have taken. The problems that she portrayed in the manga isn't something she could fix by herself and I think leaving with a "yah everyone lived happily" but with a tugging question of "did they truly escape what we call destiny? what the manga views as what controls us?" is the only ending that wouldn't literally break our minds.
I just read it so I'll probably look back on this and cringe for a bit but I did think that it would be worth it to say my piece of mind. Just remember the essence of what the manga is saying or portraying. I appreciated the clearness of the author's mind and sense of direction in terms of the story.