Love in the Kubo's vision
Autor: Brunna | Publicado: 2012-06-01T15:42:00-07:00


Authored by: Cyh
Translation: Brunna


&nbsp; Hi guys, I made this analysis - Which I classify as a discussion too - about the vision of love in the Kubo's vision


&nbsp; I say in the Kubo's vision because of course - and obvious - that what he considers to be ''love'' isn't what most Westerners see here. Not only because he is Eastern - because even in other shonens the idea may seem to be the same, but Kubo portrays otherwise - It's because he uses this 'great' feeling &nbsp;as a reason for many personal things &nbsp;of the characters. (after I'll get to Ichigo's issue).



"One who paints the beauty in love

is one who pretends to not know love's form.



One who paints the ugliness in love

is one who understood it well."


(Poem Vol 20. Character Gin. - Credit to &nbsp;halcyonjazz&nbsp;)





This poem - in which the character &nbsp;portrayed is Gin - is about all I want to say that analysis / discussion.




One who paints the beauty in love&nbsp;is one who pretends to know not love's form&nbsp;: &nbsp;who doesn't know the real meaning of this feeling, thinks that it's&nbsp;something wonderful and beautiful, ''Beauty''.


One who paints the ugliness in love&nbsp;is one who understood it well.: who claims to know, not see it with deluded and dreamers eyes, but as something&nbsp;sufferer; ''ugliness".


&nbsp; &nbsp;The point that I want to come with this poem is that if you realize or &nbsp;can see what Kubo feels like love?! Not like&nbsp;that beautiful thing that makes butterflies appear in your stomach but as something that makes most people &nbsp;also&nbsp;suffer.&nbsp;Doesn't is just jealous - because he hardly portrays it - is something much larger, which makes the characters risk&nbsp;their lives without thinking twice for another, even if it doesn't lead to anything.



examples:

Gin and Matsumoto (best example IMO):








&nbsp; Gin - since childhood - for loving Rangiku, decided to join with Aizen to ''avenge her.'' He always has an image of villain and always complied with &nbsp;the wishes of Aizen, all to get an unique&nbsp;opportunity to defeat him, that after all went nowhere. Kubo didn't need &nbsp;to put blushing, jealousy,&nbsp;nothing that make us think that they loved each other.&nbsp;The author didn't make a happy end for the couple and even romantic scenes&nbsp;between the two, but &nbsp;for Kubo, this is love.&nbsp;





Urahara and Yoruichi:&nbsp;









&nbsp; Urahara was being considered a villain for what happened with the Vaizards, because this,&nbsp;he would be expelled and would still lose his power. But Yoiruichi saved &nbsp;him - along with Tessai - and gave up&nbsp;everything to be with him, she wouldn't let him lose his powers but they can't stay where they lived. She&nbsp;gave up his position as captain and as leader of her family.











Hitsugaya and Hinamori:&nbsp;















&nbsp; Hitsugaya has always trained and wanted to become stronger to protect Hinamori. He hadn't a&nbsp;big ideal like Ichigo - protect everyone - but only one, to protect that girl. He became captain and today trains&nbsp;to become strong and control your Zanpakutou.





Renji and Rukia:






&nbsp;He trained for years with the goal of reaching at her level, all because she had become a noble.

&nbsp; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;These are the examples that I find most striking. The suffering, the sacrifice, revenge, he connects all this as&nbsp;love.It is the feeling where people pass through every kind of barrier in function of the other, even if it is in&nbsp;vain, even if it all went nowhere. It isn't a shoujo, but not need to be to have this ''romantic content.''.Kubo&nbsp;always puts his personal ideas through actions or ideals of the characters and only with these examples, it gives&nbsp;very well to notice that he takes love to a level much more serious.


&nbsp; &nbsp;What I find funny is that people have - and this I speak generally - who believes that if someone loves someone else&nbsp;there has to show explicit reactions and at the same time considers that Gin and Rangiku loved each other. Doesn't&nbsp;is it a rough comparison ?! So ... I think Kubo don't need &nbsp;these types of reactions to demonstrate what he thinks&nbsp;about this feeling.

Now we'll get to Ichigo's issue.


&nbsp; Good part of readers feels that Ichigo will end the manga alone, because so far he has not shown any special&nbsp;feeling to anyone. Then other people think he should stay with Inoue because she declared. And others, like us, that see feelings between Ichigo and Rukia that go beyond friendship. So who could be right? In my analysis I hope&nbsp;to arrive at an answer for you (:


Inoue's side:&nbsp;The feeling that Kubo portrays in Inoue is often taken to the humorous side. It's just that scene to&nbsp;make us laugh and think she &nbsp;is silly and so on. When we arrived in the declaration issue, many people could see the&nbsp;Inoue's serious side , who took this love for Kurosaki-kun as something stronger than the illusion of his prince&nbsp;that she had - and still have. After the failure of &nbsp;The Lust &nbsp;arc , some disbelieved in what she felt for him,&nbsp;and not for lack of analysis. And this history that she has with her sided &nbsp;love be the most outstanding, many people believe that Kubo would not create all this feeling for nothing. She's jealous, &nbsp;blushing, crying, despair,&nbsp;dreams, and so on and so on.


&nbsp; But then I'll point out two things that I mentioned:

1) That love it's often taken to the humorous side of the character, that is, it's the Orihime's grace. It's one of&nbsp;the things that makes her different from others.

2) Love for Kubo - or as I say, love that does all &nbsp;- isn't that cute side, but it shows something with more&nbsp;intensity and due to factors and decisions, all for the other person.


&nbsp; And for me, if Kubo were to make IchiOri canon, the &nbsp;Hueco Mundo arc wouldn't have been as it was. Now some more examples&nbsp;that I will quote in a table to be easy to see the difference:

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Soul Society Arc &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hueco Mundo Arc &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(supposed an ichiRuki arc.) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(supposed an ichiOri arc.)

Motivation:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Save Rukia at all costs &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Save Inoue, defeating Grimmjow and Aizen.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 



3rd part: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Chad, Ishida, the guy's 11th &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Grimmjow: &nbsp;He made Ichigo realize&nbsp;&nbsp;that
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Squadron, Inoue, Byakuya, Renji, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; he wasn't &nbsp;there only to save Inoue,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ganjuu.&nbsp;Everyone realized &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; but also because of his pride to fight;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and / or wanted &nbsp;to know why
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ichigo risked so much&nbsp;his life
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for Rukia.

End on Arc: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;IchiRuki farewell scene .&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; IchiRuki farewell scene.

Promise to &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Promised for his soul. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Promised encouraged by Rukia.
protect: &nbsp;



Rescue scenes: &nbsp; &nbsp; Two full pages &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; They even looked &nbsp;to each other right.





&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I'll not
compare with the examples above - I think the more complex - but this thing of making everything, give his life for a purpose that was something undeniable
that Ichigo decided to make for Rukia. Then the people said:' He would do this
for any friend'' but then I say" no. not for Any friend! Not like this,
not with these feelings!''.



&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; So why in
Inoue's rescue he didn't do this? Why in Inoue's rescue he shouted to the heavens
that would saving her at all costs, no matter how many enemies there?&nbsp; Inoue's rescue he had no problem admitting
that would save a friend? Why in Inoue's rescue we hadn't others highlighting
the immense effort he made to save her? Why Inoue's rescue anyone had the
feeling of Ichigo's despair as it was in Rukia's rescue? Why in Inoue's rescue,
Kubo was careful to emphasize that Ichigo wasn't only there for her? And why he
did it in Rukia's rescue, after all, all are friends and occupy the same level
in Ichigo's heart? 



&nbsp; &nbsp; I'm not
saying that the arcs and the Ichigo's reactions with the two girls should be
the same, but of course the difference is huge. If Kubo wanted us to see the
love that could exist between Ichigo and Orihime, he had already begun work
this couple in another way. But he didn't. Until today what we have between
them is a friendship and only it.I cheer for the happiness of Orihime - along
with Ishida - but I don't think everything that happened between her and Ichigo
was enough to him start to look at her in another way. The Kubo's Love is
complex, it's deep, suffered, is greater than anything. Inoue may be prepared
to do something for Ichigo that makes me change my mind, but Ichigo doesn't.
And besides all this drama, love is equal and companion, where trust is the
foundation of everything.





Extra! In
chapter 300, as the title&nbsp; Kubo puts:
Curse Named Love


&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;In
literal translation, this'' love'' is the attack&nbsp; of the Espada Zommari Lulu who uses his eyes
to track the movements of the opponent - in this case Byakuya.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;But
thinking about it - and I still have my doubts - Kubo puts arrogance, ignorance,
pride, all over the love for Byakuya, but at the same time, he is furious with
the Espada for attacking Rukia. Then I thought about the power of that Espada:
they're&nbsp; 51 eyes in order to control the
body part of your opponent, and taking it to the metaphor, the image that it
pass to me is that Kubo wanted to portray that love is also a form of “manipulation.”
A curse on others it monopolizes and that is above every other feeling.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; So in the Kubo's vision, we can see that he likes to portray very well all sides that love can lead you, bringing you happiness or not. He doesn't see love as a fairy tale that wills have a happy ending, but a kind of power that causes people to overcome all in the name of it, even if the consequences are fatal. Kubo isn't ''fair'' - &nbsp;Gin dies and Renji can't reach Rukia &nbsp;- he is realistic.&nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I know its
a very complex issue, but I thought the idea of discussing the view that Kubo
shows us. I love his way of thinking about things and basically, all this is
nothing more than reality. Well, that was it.