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I hate that we're using a kid as a monster and a villain. He's obviously using the same mindset and projecting the same hatred as his dad, yet it seems the author really wants ballsack to be a true almost adult-like hateful antagonist with clear reasons to act the way he does (spoiler alert: he shouldn't, I sure as hell didn't when I was his age).
Don't get me wrong, what he did was completely unacceptable, but I don't think this was the right punishment at all. Ballsack needed to hear from grandpa the reason why he was punished (which really wasn't a punishment at all if u think about it, the way I see it his brother ended up having a much more impactful one, and that isn't fair), because he truly doesn't understand why he'd be in the wrong. He's been taught by his dad to think like that, and that he has the right to act that way, but unless someone sits him down and teaches him properly and talks to him, that kind of behaviour will just get worse.
But the author very obviously wants to treat these kids like they're rebellious teenagers, for the purpose of having clear villains in the story (ballsack, the empress and the prince), and children characters are always very hard to write about, so I guess that's that. #－.－)
What kind of punishment would you like the grandfather to give?
Besides explaining to ballsack why what he did was wrong, I'd like him to tell ballsack to properly apologize for what he did in front of everyone, as well as be taken from sword lessons like his brother. What irks me is that ballsack didn't even have to apologize.
The firefly marriage is the best straight shoujo ive read ever in my life. The art is beautiful, the characters lovable and endearing, and the plot has the perfect pace and structure.
Not everyone likes a bittersweet ending, but im not one of them. I believe that art can be beautiful and meaningful even when the ending is not a cup full of happiness. At that time in japan they could not help Satoko's health, so her death was already a promise, from the first chapter which begins with an old man reading a letter.
Satoko and Junpei are like ying and yang, a dying flower yearning for the wind to tear her away from the greenhouse and take her places she has never seen, and the weed whose roots are ever growing to the point of shrinking others without mercy. One forced to die too soon, another forced to wander forever, in hopes of paying respects to her memory.
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