the shonen bat entity and its implications (spoilers)
I really love this series. It's really deep and clever.
Up to the point when we are confronted with the explaination for the cataclysm at the end. I just ask myself: how could an ordinary girl have such powers, when she appearently has none. Granted, we don't get a lot of background on her family, i.e. if there were psychics or demon summoners or did she come from a special bloodline or anything. You see what I'm getting at?
How could something like shonen bat manifest itself in the first place?
An entity born from a lie simply doesn't cut it, especially when thinking of the proportions this blows into at the end.
Sure, Maromi, the character based on the dead dog, becomes an international obsession, thus feeding the lie, still...
I love Satoshin Kon's work but this time around he should have let the series ended a little less in your face. I mean, the whole time you're never quite sure what's real and what's an illusion, and that's a good thing! That is what I personally love about this show and Kon's style in general!
But I must say, I was a little disappointed when the black mass cataclysm turned out to really have happened.
Then again, all of this could have been the delusion of an old man who thought to have been a detective who fought against the manifestation of a supernatural entity that was born from a lie of a little girl ;)
P.s. doesn't the end remind a little of Akira?
The ending has the same apocalyptic feel to it.
The black mass reminded me of outa control Tetsuo at the end.
Maromi reminded me of the toy animal scene.
But maybe that's just me ;)
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