"DB Sommer" <sommert@connecttime.net> wrote:
It's not really about them in the slightest. Their unusual situation was the
contrivance for Miki and Yuu to meet and live under the same roof. It's pure
shoujo, which you can tell right off. Now Kimi ga Nozomu (The Eternity You
Wish For), that was a good romantic entaglement with much more mature themes
than normal shoujo. It starts out as a pretty good high school romance, but
that's misleading as everything changes with the events at the end of the
second episode. Without giving things away, years end up passing between the
second and third eos, and it becomes about the relationships the characters
have and if whose feelings for who are real or not.
Well, Marmalade Boy does start as a typical shoujo story with the
parental situation as a twist, but it doesn't quite stay that way. There
are the usual love triangles and so on, but later (similar to TEYWF the
story covers quite a long time), after Miki and Yuu finally get together,
the shit hits the fan, hard. They break up again, despite their feelings
for each other. One flees overseas and the future looks depressing...
Ja
Christian "Schobronics" Schober