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This series is one of my favorite series, so I really enjoyed watching it a second time and i’ve still been laughing just as much.  This series is so calm and it manages to be funny without any fanservice.  It’s even funnier than all those fanservice-series ^_^  I still don’t know which of Kozue’s personalities I like best, I like all of them.  Maybe I like Chiyuri-chan the least, because she’s just irritating with her men-fobia, but in the end she wasn’t all that bad.  The same goes for Tamami-chan.  If she really loves Kozue, why won’t she let her be with Shiratori, if she knows that makes her happy?  But in the end she realised this ^_^ well, she is a genius so what else can we expect?

I usually don’t like the loud characters, like Saki-chan, but for some reason I immediately did like Saki-chan.  She may be loud and rough but she’s definately not a bad person.  Nanako-chan is just too cute ^_^ but poor Shiratori had to go through some embarassing moments with her (tsk tsk, children these days :p)  I told you my opinion on Chiyuri already, so I’m not going to repeat myself.  And Natsume, well, she’s definately the cutest of all Kozue’s alters ^_^ and she only gets along with Shiratori, good job Shiratori ^_^ I understand why she would run away from all those noisy people.  Kozue is of course the  main female character and she is just… how should I say this?  She’s perfect: she’s sweet, will always help everyone, can cook, takes care of Narutakisou by her self, even though she’s a high school girl.  Like Tamami-chan says: Kozue is just lovely ^_^ I really like her character too.

Sayoko is so funny, I really laughed a lot, but it was nice to see how in the end she CAN make her own decisions, and how she does know what she wants.  I totally agree with her vision on love by the way: that is the way love should be, you love ONE person, and never again someone else.  Asami is cute, sometimes she can be too "genki" ^_^ but it makes a nice compensation for Sayoko’s gloomyness.  Momono, well, I don’t have much to say about her, sometimes she can be irritating, but she’s a good person.  And Haibara/ Johny… he doesn’t do all that much in the series, he helps keeping the things funny I guess.

From all the side-characters (and there’s a lot of them) I liked Buchou best ^_^ she’s so hilarious.  The way how she acts when someone insults her ^_^ and the fact she can’t stand garlic, she’s mysterious and still it is funny when watching her.  Shirogane-sensei was also an interesting character.  I still wonder what she does to the students in that room >_<

Overall, this series is really really good, I don’t rewatch bad series, so if you haven’t seen it yet, you should do so ^_^ if you don’t, you’re missing out on a great series.

If you want to know more about Mahoraba, go here for a more complete description of the episodes.

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