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Still some questions about how it ended...

posted 17 years ago by celltf
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I'm sure there are many theories on how the show ended as they didn't really explain what happened. To me, it looked like Kiba died, the world froze over for X amount of years and then, as it began to unfreeze, life was born again. Also, I think it's kinda like the world freezing over signifies everything basically resetting and going back to how it originally was (like at the start of the series). Lastly, what Cheza said at the end, do you think she meant that when the world is reborn and Kiba DOES finally open Paradise, that she will be there waiting for him. OR, do you think she just meant that when the world is finally reborn that she would be waiting for Kiba to find her again so they could go to Paradise?

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[–] Foreverest 17 years ago

I always interpret as the new world being the paradise, and she wanting him to find her in it. (It's safe to assume he does every time the world is reborn). Yeah, it just basically means she will wait for him to find her in the new world so she can go to paradise with him. This is the reason in the beginning that she wakes up only once Kiba finds is way into the city, and why I believe he is so obsessed with finding her.

My interpretations... :)

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[–] psycho_terrorism 17 years ago

i assume everybody is expecting SPOILERS based on the thread title.

someone posted this elsewhere:

"wow!!! that was amzing! I loved the ending, i'm so happy that they all came back. i mean, its sad that they all died, and now they don't know each other, but at least they are alive again! XP"

it seems to me as if a lot of people don't quite get the ending. as far as i can see the new world was supposed to be paradise, but darcias eye corrupted it, restarting the cycle to play out the same way for eternity.

basically a "sad" ending, the wolves can never find the paradise they seek, as is spelled out in the final episode

"there's nothing at the end of this world. no matter how far you go, the same path lies ahead of you"

[–] macrophobic 17 years ago

I agree with that too. I think Darcia corrupts the world in some way (his eye & the flower) then Kiba begins to look for Cheza. Earlier in the series, I found it odd that Cheza and Kiba knew each other already.

[–] Michiru42 17 years ago

I agree that Paradise was corrupted by Darcia--thus turning Paradise into our world--but I don't think it means they can never find it. They have a chance to meet each other and try again, and maybe they'll fail again, but maybe they won't.

As Cheza said, she'll wait, and they can try as many times as it takes.

Michiru

[–] Lark_Pash 17 years ago

I am not the only one who realized this!! That's what I thought...the poison and evil of the eye corrupted what would have been a perfect paradise. It had that underlying message that there is always bad in the world.

[–] NukedaFridge 17 years ago

Well, my interpretation is that this new world needed that corruption as without bad and good there is no perception of the two?

And my thoughts are that they have already found paradise, in the reborn world. Taking into account the billion of years before the actual last scene would have been a lush and beautiful world the such that Kiba dreamed of in his near death experience. maybe they have been reborn multiple times in this new world but only seek out cheza when the end of the world is nigh.

From what it seems, modern day Tokyo is not the end of the world and is just an example of them existing in this world that is not true chaos yet, but probably does have wars and suffering as civilizations do. It's not awful but it's getting there but nowhere near as bad as the start of the series. Maybe at the end they are still happy in this new world.

And someone mentioned something about tsume riding a motorcycle. Maybe it's because it's the same way that some wolves eventually become humans and throw away the wolf form, such as quent I think it was implied, maybe this has happened to tsume?

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[–] drug_user39 17 years ago

Perhaps it is an eternal loop, Kiba and Cheza in every cycle must find each other to restart the cycle. Maybe that's why Kiba acts like he already knows Cheza, because he's done it all before.

I always thought Kiba saw Cheza like a cute baby sister whom he absolutely adored and would do anything for her. Or perhaps like a mistress and her dog type relationship.

[–] BlueIcePhoenix 17 years ago

^ I agree with that; besides it's not the destination but the journey that is important. In a journey you learn a lot of things, and maybe that is what Paradise was after.
The new world that opened was corrupt, but not as badly as the one they were in before.

[–] TomorrowByStorm 16 years ago

I agree with the above post that it's an eternal loop. I think Cheza was trying to explain that in the end. Saying she will be waiting to be found again for another shot a paradise. Like she's ever hopefull that maybe the next time it will turn out different and it never does.

Have no fear. Life is but a dream, and death is only a waking of your soul.

[–] sagir-khan 12 years ago

Frankly I thought it was quite clear what the ending suggested. God gave us Earth, it has always been up to us to make it heaven or that crumbling Earth/hell in the show..we messed up. World's gone to hell...they fixed it, they got us our heaven back.