Anyway, that isn?t what I?m posting about. I would like some help with this one. Maybe it?s because I?m crazy or I?ve had too much time on my hands lately, but I?ve been thinking about things in involving this series. Kyoko is beginning to become a character of interest to me (not that she wasn?t before, mind you). It?s just now I?m beginning to wonder about her involvement with the Sohma family. Before she was Tohru?s dead mother, a fact easily understood. Her death was dealt with in the manga (which was always something I respected about this manga. They didn?t just kill her off because they could, but because it was actually important to the story.) It affected Tohru in ways that the reader could see and identify with and (in my book) made her a more likable character that one could attach themselves to and try to understand.
But now Kyoko seems to be much more than just a convenient plot device (which dead parents often are in anime. Has anyone else noticed the absence of parents in many shows? Maybe it?s just me again). Anyway, it appears Kyoko has more involvement with the Sohma family than I originally thought. *Spoilers if you haven?t read past chapter 90 ish* Kyoko has a conversation with Kyo when he?s a very young boy, outlining her early relationship with Katsuya (Tohru?s father, if anyone forgot). And it occurred to me, why would an adult tell and complete stranger, and a child no less, about her struggles in her early marital life. And further more, what kind of parents let their kid hang out with someone they don?t know for any amount of time (I realize that Kyo didn?t have the best parents, but still. What if Kyoko had been overcome with his chibi cuteness and had to hug him? Their secret would be out, and his parents couldn?t take those kind of chances). If his mother was as over protective as the earlier chapters made her out to be, then it couldn?t have been while she was around, unless she knew Kyoko. Maybe Kyo lived with Kazuma at the time, but I still don?t think Kazuma would have left a young Kyo alone with someone he didn?t know.
Another thing that bothers me is that they don?t reveal Kyoko?s maiden name (or if they have, I haven?t read it. Could someone tell me if they have? It would save me a lot of useless brooding time).
I also wonder at Tohru?s grandfather. I think he might know something, too. Who lets their grandkid live with three guys they don?t know? One might say these things aren?t important, IT IS MANGA (and like I said, they might not be, I could just be nuts), but I don?t think Natsuki Takaya is that kind of writer. I thinks she takes that kind of stuff into account. She uses tricky little clues. Look at Tohru?s hat *Spoiler* She got that from Yuki, but I spent months thinking she got it from Kyo until I read a summary or transcript or something of Chapter 82 ish I think*End Spoiler* And then there?s the bathroom situation. Tohru has her own bathroom, thus we can all avoid the ?period question?. Then again, maybe I have too much time on my hands. Anyway, if anyone could give me something to refute any of this, I would really appreciate it. I?m tired of thinking about it.
P.S. If anyone?s wondering if I have a Sohma preference for Tohru, I don?t care who she ends up with as long as she ends up with one of them. It would totally blow that I put all of this emotional energy into her love of this family and she dies or ends up with some prick that gets introduced in the last chapter. Sigh.
Anyway, thanks for reading this potentially useless rant.
