AIR
I had already seen AIR, but my boyfriend hadn’t, so I watched it a second time together with him. It’s a good thing I did though, because the second half of the story gets rather difficult and i didn’t completely understand the story the first time. Now, for all people who are like me and who don’t really understand what happens, I will explain it here ^_^ If you haven’t seen AIR yet, shame on you! Go watch it NOW! Then read the rest of this article :p
Now, my explanation starts at the ending of episode 7: Yukito returns to Misuzu, he managed to put his feelings into his puppeteering, but Misuzu doesn’t respond. Then the doll starts to glow and he sees a scene from the past, his mother tells him that he has to decide what he wants to do. This happens because the power of his mother and Yukito ancestors are captured inside the doll. Yukito then decides he wants to be with Misuzu, he wants to relive everything from the moment they met (now this is very important!) We get more explanations through Kanna’s story, in episode 9. The only thing Kanna wanted was to meet her mother. Her mother dies before they can really be together though. Furthermore, she is cursed, and Kanna, by touching her mother, is now also cursed. Later, Uraha explains more: Kanna’s soul is not able to get to rest, first of all because of her mother’s curse, and also because the monks put another curse on her. Now her soul will try to find another host on earth, but a human isn’t big enough to contain Kanna’s soul. This is why, one: Misuzu is ill, two: not only Misuzu carries a part of Kanna’s soul, but other people as well (the children we see in the end). Now Kanna wanted to meet her mother, Misuzu also wants to be with her mother, but she kept sticking to Yukito in stead. Therefore, Yukito had to go in order to make Misuzu get along with her mother, BUT he wanted to relive everything, so he returns as the crow Sora. The real Yukito is also still walking around, because that happened and cannot be undone. Now, when Misuzu feels so lonely, suddenly Sora remembers who he was and Yukito appears very shortly to tell Misuzu not to give up. Misuzu then decides she wants to be with her mother (Haruko) but unfortunately she later gets into the stage of forgetting everything. Now, the final goad Misuzu reaches in the end is her mother. She dies BUT everything is now solved, Kanna’s soul can rest, she got to be with her mother. The crow Sora also flies up to the sky and the two children, they are like Yukito and Misuzu were, but because Kanna’s soul has come to rest, they will be able to live normal lives.
I hope my explanation was somehow clear. If you didn’t understand whole of the series, even after reading my explanation it might be good to rewatch it.
For more info on the series and the movie in general see Satoshi’s Corner
