From: rksuzuki@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Richard K. Suzuki)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: A tantalising question  (Kyoko weren't no virgin....)
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:33:35 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


In article <l7e0l4INNiv2@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jkim@jingoro.Eng.Sun.COM (Jun Kim) writes:
>
>There was an episode I watched (it was one of the last ones) which dealt
>with this...Kyoko and Godai were having a heart to heart in her room
>and Kyoko was talking about Souichiro and what he was to her, while Godai
>promised that, although he couldn't replace Souichiro, he'd give her
>a different kind of happiness... anyway, they get invited to a party
>at Cha Cha Maru, and they're about to go, when it starts to snow...They
>exchange some more words (sorry, I don't remember what)  and we see them
>kiss and the lights go off...
>
	That's the episode I mentioned.  In that same scene in the manga
    after the two talk they do indeed sleep together (In one of the most 
    touching and tasteful bedroom scenes ever done)  The TV eps were 
    following the manga almost exactly at that point so they did indeed
    sleep together in TV series as well.  For whatever reason the animators
    decided to not show it (probably because this was broadcast on primetime
    TV and the Japanese haven't digressed to the point of American primetime
    where you can see people sleeping together every night :-) )  
  	Oh, also it wasn't snowing, it was raining.   In the manga it
    was raining that night too but it was a special touch in the TV show
    because earlier in the TV show Godai is always depressed on rainy days
    because rainy days always seemed to be the worst times of his life.   
    This was a nice change for the poor schumuck....  
 
>Well, of course, it's only hinted at, but my assumption was that they got
>intimate.  (I believe the following episode plays off of this assumption).
>How did Kyoko consent to this?  I'm not sure since it almost seems out of
>character for her... but then I guess we should remember that she was also
>"holding back" her feelings for all those years too...  and maybe the
>sweet surrender of the moment was just too much to resist...
>
	Out of character?  The whole series had been revolving around
    people wondering why Kyoko is still mourning Souichiro and Godai
    and Kyoko hiding each others feelings for each other.  At that point
    both Mitaka and Kozue had been taken out of the picture which finally
    left the Godai and Kyoko without anything standing between their love. 
    Except the shadow of Souichiro, which they both come to terms with
    later.  I thought the scene was perfectly timed.  At least it made
    a whole heck of a lot more sense than when Kyoko and Godai hopped into
    bed togther in that warped-out live action Maison Ikkoku movie! 
	As for Kyoko consenting to this don't forget Godai is _younger_
    than she is too!  *GASP*  :-)   Might not sound much to us but it was
    a point that came up in the series.    

>(Boy, that last sentence sounds like it came straight out of some 
>romance novel...  :)

	Isn't that what Maison Ikkoku is all about?  


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	Richard Suzuki			           "It's a pity stupidity
	rksuzuki@seas.ucla.edu                 	    isn't painful"