Even after the game that Hikaru plays with Isumi, I find 'Sai is in my Go' very very sad because its not Sai as a person, but just the idea of handing on teaching.
I was kind of blown away by the dream sequence at the end of vol 17 because its so beautiful and sad and at the same time theres Hikaru just being himself.
For me it symbolised both the handing on of knowledge and of arriving at independence. This said Hikaru is only 14/15 and that's pretty young, both to become independent and to experience something so extreme.
"Sai as a person" It fits with Shintoist believes; Sai was always a kami, a spirit, that infused Hikaru with a love for Go and helped him to come into his potential. Sai was never a person, he is a the spirit of an ancestor. That is why letting Sai play through Hikaru is not as wrong as it seems to a westerner. It would be the same if Hikaru had been inspired by a beautiful tree.
15 is young yes, but that is the moment you can start to become independent. At 20 he'll be officially an adult, so it's good he finds his path before then. And anyway, it's not like he's leaving home just yet!
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Re: The End
Date: 2010-09-01 09:12 pm (UTC)I was kind of blown away by the dream sequence at the end of vol 17 because its so beautiful and sad and at the same time theres Hikaru just being himself.
For me it symbolised both the handing on of knowledge and of arriving at independence. This said Hikaru is only 14/15 and that's pretty young, both to become independent and to experience something so extreme.
Re: The End
Date: 2010-09-01 09:33 pm (UTC)It fits with Shintoist believes; Sai was always a kami, a spirit, that infused Hikaru with a love for Go and helped him to come into his potential. Sai was never a person, he is a the spirit of an ancestor. That is why letting Sai play through Hikaru is not as wrong as it seems to a westerner. It would be the same if Hikaru had been inspired by a beautiful tree.
15 is young yes, but that is the moment you can start to become independent. At 20 he'll be officially an adult, so it's good he finds his path before then. And anyway, it's not like he's leaving home just yet!
Re: The End
Date: 2010-09-01 10:09 pm (UTC)Hikaru seems fairly robust - he's had to be - but I can't help thinking about people I know of this age, or knew at this age and its not always easy.
If I was more knowledgeable about different religions I'd try to write a Narnia-Spirited Away crossover - I'd love to see that done properly.
Relating monotheism cannot have been simple.