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(Sorry, sorry... can't refrain from expressing what I feel, and do not have access to a computer that allows me to type chinese... don't throw too many stones at meyamibohk04 )
In short: I pay my highest salute to you, commander 千光寺萩乃!
In long: hmmm... do not think 荻乃 does the suicidal attack because she JUST wants to 贖罪. 贖罪 is part of her reasons, and all the reasons Rup proposed above apply... but I do not think MARI is the only one she wants to protect.
At the very end she identifies herself as "千光寺萩乃" - her Earthly human self, and not Ekaril. I think that she considers at least part of herself to be part of the human race (indeed she has "changed" (ep 12) to become more and more human as the series goes along), and now she sets out as a soldier from the Earth, trying to buy a bit more time for Mari and the people in the city. She well knows her sacrifice may not alter the final outcome. YET, AT THAT moment, what can one expect a soldier to do? Bringing her loved one to death with her may be more comforting to us the viewers, but it does not feel like what a soldier in real life would do.
There is a chinese saying (sorry for the bad translation) "to do what one knows is undoable/not profitable" (zhi qi bu ke er wei zi). 荻乃's actions live this out to a certain extent. It is true that she could have done something earlier to prevent this ending (like directly communicating with the higher officiers from Arume to postpone the attack, IF she can with her rank), but really, in this episode, I feel 荻乃 has done the best what a soldier would do at that moment for the one she loves, for those she cares for, and for the planet she cherishes. Sad, very sad ending to me, but one that is well done.
The background music and the lines in this final episode resonate very well with the moments in previous episodes. The voice acting has been superb all along the series.
Very nice series and script indeed. I have not been touched and excited by anime since God knows how long ago.
If you are reading this: thanks for listening to my babbling. I just feel intoxicated from rewatching the episodes. |
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