![]() ![]() I don't see how Sasshi sacrificed anything, considering he got everything he wanted. Keep in mind that Arumi has said on multiple occasions that she's happy to move away, because it's part of her ambitions to reach new places and new heights. "Everyone is happy"? Only from Sasshi's perspective.It's still a story about growing up, only he does it in a roundabout way. So what Sasshi did was to sacrifice "himself as a child" (in other words, his "childhood innocence") in order to edit reality in a way that would make everyone happy. This is my impression: Onmyodo doesn't really work unless you make a true, meaningful sacrifice to power it - this is explained in the story.The ending is essentially another of Sasshi's childish dream worlds, where he gets everything he wants. Just when it seems he'll stop running away from the truth, he suddenly gets god powers out of nowhere and doesn't have to face reality anymore. Screw destiny? More like screw character development.To me, it seems more like Sasshi had a Connection or something to the Onmyou Minister Yasuchika instead of being him - it your statement All There in the Manual or Fanon ? Anyway, at the end, after his father keeps telling him that no matter how many worlds he creates, he can't escape or change the real one he says Screw Destiny and does precisely that with a little help from Abeno Seimei - he even integrates him and Mune-Mune to live the life they had wanted together.I don't think I'm satisfied with that answer, considering that that would mean that Sasshi is our world's God *shudder*. ![]() That's sort of the aesop they're going for at the end. Real life does have hardships, but it also doesn't have satisfying, logical narratives, and besides which - this is an anime, not real life. The one who must seek character development about there not being character development is yourself. You're the one who has to accept the reality of the ending, not Sasshi. The aesop is that you have to accept that solutions have problems that might not be satisfying character development.(This suggests that Onmyou is a Imagination-Based Superpower, limited by the user's imagination and maturity.) That would make the Aesop 'you have more power than you realize, but you won't discover it until you stop living passively through escapism.' Once Sasshi stops focusing on saving himself from pain and starts wishing he were adult enough to help Mune, the magic stops generating Sasshi-centered dreamworlds and starts affecting the 'real world'. I actually think Sasshi does overcome his internal conflict when he stops sulking long enough to want to help solve these other problems. ![]()
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