OK, I just watched this the other day. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was absorbed in the story and oved wathing the plot unfold.
My question concerns the ending when Lisa inhabits Asuna's body. Morisaki is told that he needs a bigger vessel and then suddenly he is attacked and his eye is seriously injured and his face is covered with lines of something. What the hell was up with that?
Yeah, I found the kinda strange too. I guess he has to take something from Morisaki to compensate for the fact that Asuna is a child(although 'God' should've really mentioned this before). Maybe it's just supposed to serve as his punishment for sacrificing Asuna, plot-wise.
Although what I find strangest with the ending, is how eager Shin and especially Asuna is to forgive Morisaki. He just basically murdered Asuna and tried to murder Shin, yet he's INSTANTLY forgiven.
I think as children who have both lost people as well, they understand his motivations and can forgive him much more easily than any normal person would.
shareIt seems to reference Odin giving up his eye for knowledge, as the film references many mythologies and theologies.
From what I understood about the ending, Morisaki didn't actually try to murder Asuna by choosing her as Lisa's vessel. Instead, when Asuna wandered into the scene without Morisaki's knowledge and after he spoke to her while crying, it was God who saw Asuna as a suitable vessel and chose her, thus it was God that tried to kill Asuna and not Morisaki. What Morisaki did in fact do wrong was that he accepted God's choice of Asuna being Lisa's vessel and did not object to it, plus him trying to stop Shin from undoing God's choice. In short, God is guilty of trying to kill Asuna via sacrificing her as Lisa's vessel, Morisaki is guilty of accepting God's choice of using Asuna as Lisa's vessel, and Morisaki is guilty of trying to stop Shin from undoing God's choice of using Asuna as Lisa's vessel.
God is also guilty of not manifesting a copy of Lisa's body for Lisa's spirit to inhabit, thus why somebody like Asuna was needed to be sacrificed in the first place. Morisaki is also guilty of not knowing that a living person had to be sacrificed in order to bring back a dead one but we can't really fault him for that since I doubt that bit of knowledge was well-known even among the most well-learned people of Agartha, thus Morisaki's ignorance was reasonable in that regard. Nonetheless, the only truly innocent parties here are Asuna and Shin, who didn't know what was going on until it was too late.
As for Morisaki losing his eye, I believe that plot-wise it was just another sacrifice God required from him so that Lisa could live on through Asuna. Meta-wise, it does reflect Odin giving up an eye for knowledge. Unlike Odin though, Morisaki's loss of his eye was not a willful choice and thus it was taken from him against his will rather than being given freely.
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