From: rang@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jyan-ken)
Subject: Re: KOR Movie (SPOILERS)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Jyan-ken)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:47:10 GMT








KOR the movie quite possibly was the most interesting part of the entire
show, for me..It was the only time in which Kyosuke actually took the
chance to make his life worth living, from breaking off Hikaru (as far as I'm
concerned, Kyosuke took quite a bit of time before he mentioned this
fact that he loves Madoka, something she thought would he'd never have the guts
to do; she was stringing Kyouke up like a violin and I was glad to see
Kyosuke make a change in his life, to the alienation from his scebai friends
in a scene where he realizes he has grown up and his friends haven't..)

As for Madoka, for being as "perfect" as she was, despite the fact her teachers
hated her (can't imagine why...she IS the best student on campus..), how
come she can deal with having no true family to really go home to, play the
blues, succeed in every endeavor, but breaks down to Kyosuke about trivial
decoration..
(Mind you, if I were in Kyosuke's shoes and heard the most perfect girl in
the world break down, I would rush to her side too, gentleman as I am) It
seemed that Kyosuke, w/o too much knowledge of her, could have assisted as
anything but a pillow to cry on. Even at this point, it seems Madoka has the
upperhand..Because in the situation, Madoka still gives Kyosuke info as how
to oust Hikaru from his life..In fact, consider what Madoka is to Kyosuke; in
a metaphoric sense, she is the opposite of Kyosuke...Everything Kyosuke tries
to do well, Madoka can do perfectly, everything Kyosuke wants to REALLY do,
Madoka does it in fromt of him...always in shock..So the final breakdown of
Madoka could have referenced that start that Madoka, the ideal woman, was
indeed not as perfect as we expected, that she was human, thus Kyosuke's
big break to actually try to love her in the way she deserves..

This standpoint always gives way to why in the TV eps, there are scenes that
involve degrading scenes of both Madoka and Kyosuke; if Madoka is manipulated,
or in other words, Kyosuke's ideal is tampered, he breaks in fury..If Kyosuke
is controlled, Madoka eventually gets hurt or caught in positions of
humiliation...Is this me being too deep or does the background that creates
the KOR experience evolve from these esoteric ideas?

Taken from a different standpoint, it would seem that Madoka was more a
teacher than a lover to Kyosuke, telling him how he can live his life without
the repression that was included in it..Even at the end, I can assume that
Kyosuke and Madoka could have went their seperate ways, but the idea was that
he has passed his trail of adolescense, that finally Kyosuke got some balls
and decided to grow up, alongside his ideal woman, the person he wished he
could be..(Deep, ne?)

So while others are carrying Klennex (TM), I carry party poppers for Kyosuke,
may we see a sequel to what Kyosuke's life is like now, with his (finally)
new found sense of adulthood..So yet again, my opinion is I still don't like
KOR, but I won't deny it as a great teen anime.


I guess I read too deep into stories, but that's why I like Video Girl Ai,
a few Adachi manga and some other romantic stories..There is the idea that
at one point, either person in the relationship has to make a decision that
will affects everyone's lifes, better or worse, so that life may continue..

For those who have read Video Girl Ai should know that Yota does make the
hard decisions of his life, all for the better of him, Ai and his friends..
And I, for one, hope to encounter more stories that deal with making
"tough decisions"...

Whoa, well enough pyscho babbling, I'm off to the the astral plains..
Jyanken
"The man who has made some tough decisions, for the better.."
Feminist for the Men's Movement..(Figure that one!)

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