Wow, hisashiburi~ It’s been a long time since I last wrote about Kure-nai, and now I’m brimming with guilt, shame, and a chunk-load of thoughts accumulated from the episodes that aired. I was planning to post a teaser-spoilers regarding the coming revelations about the fucked-up Kuhouin family after watching episodes 7-8, to prepare people for what is to come, and also to assure people that this anime is neither headed downhill, nor it is going to be just a fanservice show. But then time passed so damn fast and episode 9 already aired (and was subbed) before I know it! T__T My planned spoiler is now spoilt orz. Anyways, as I have realized now, not writing about Kure-nai is a SIN! More so, not watching it! It’s one of the best this season has to offer, no doubt about it.

Just a word of warning, this post is now convoluted due to the horde of thoughts I have. My apologies for the lack of coherence and structure, not that my post(s) have any of such to begin with =[

That said, the revelation of the Kuhouins and their fucked-up yet justifiable customs in this episode came as no surprise because I’ve read spoilers about it in the AnimeSuki forums beforehand. My initial reaction was of course “OMGWTF O.O”, but having known all these drew me into the series even more due to the levels of depth and complexity it added to this seemingly ‘light’ series. I faithfully watched each episode, awaiting all these revelations, eager to witness how Murasaki will be able to break free from her destiny with the help of Shinkurou.

innocent kiss or not, it’s still a kiss of pure love.

Only a few episodes before Kure-nai comes to an end (sadly so), and it remains fanservice-free as ever. Despite the loli jokes thrown in the past episodes, and the unveilment of Murasaki’s sicko brother, Kure-nai is still NOT, and will never be, a loli anime. Only pedos and lolicons will think of the show as such. As Owen has pointed out months back, just about every scene in this show, Murasaki and Shinkurou’s exchanges in particular, are carefully woven into the story, executed so realistically and naturally that only malicious perverse minds will interpret the scenes as pedophilic in nature.

Murasaki’s perverse pedo brother just serve as the living proof that the taboo practices of the Kuhouins throughout the years has made him all fucked-up as he is now. And this is exactly why we have protagonists in their sane minds who know well that a young child doesn’t deserve a fate as cruel as that of the Kuhouin’s Inner Sanctuary women / young girls.

Shinkurou is the very guy Benika entrusted with the task of saving Murasaki from this fate, and despite how utterly lacking he still is at this point, I do believe that he’ll finally step out of his cowardly shell by the next episode. While other people have shown their frustration at Shinkurou’s patheticness up until this point in the series, the cowardice and indecisiveness he has shown, even during the fight with the Kuhouins (which people expected to be the turning point of his character) is actually justifiable, as proven by TinyRedLeaf’s amazing analysis on this subject (and a LOT more). If you have any qualms about the series or want to gain more appreciation for it, I urge you to read it :3

Another thing we’d have to take note here is that the indecisive pathetic guy we’re talking about is someone who lived most of his life in fear. He is still living in fear, up until now even. He survived the plane crash which caused the death of all his loved ones. He was left with nothing, and thought of the world as a living hell because of its emptiness. With each day that passed, he wished for nothing else but death, but he couldn’t even bring himself to end it all. He neither had the courage to live nor to die. That’s how pathetic he was, and Shinkurou knew that full well.

With the orphanage mob attack incident, Shinkurou thought he finally found the light to his problems. He sneered and smiled as one of the mob guys pointed his gun at him, thinking that his wish will finally be fulfilled. After years of meaningless existence, he’ll finally be reunited with his loved ones in their after-life. That changed the moment he saw the kickass Benika, and for the first time after who knows how long, he thought about wanting to become strong, and to live. With that, Benika took him as her pupil, and entrusted him to the Houzukis, where he was trained and eventually inherited the tusk of Hozuki.

Eight years had passed since the tragic plane crash, and yet there was not a single day that Shinkurou did not have nightmares of that incident. Despite all the training he’s been through, he remained a weak pathetic guy who couldn’t do anything by himself. He felt so ashamed of not having improved one bit from his cowardly self when the Houzukis took him in that he finally decided to leave them and escaped to Samidareso. He put on the pretense of being a tough guy, and not once had people seen him cry, not even Yuuno and Ginko who was closest to him. That is, except Murasaki, who saw him grieving in the midst of his nightmare that one night.

Although hesitant at first, Shinkurou confides about his tragic past to Murasaki, after much prodding from this little girl who expressed her desire to know about him. Shinkurou felt like crying after Murasaki commended him for having endured all this throughout the years. She tells him of the sad truth that they can no longer bring back the life of the loved ones they’ve lost, but what matters most is that they met, found each other, resulting to two less lonely people. It was during this tender moment that Murasaki kissed him on the lips, hugged him like a mother to a son, assuring him that he’s not alone. And for once after eight long years, Shinkurou was able to cry his heart out.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Shinkurou x Murasaki moment in episode 9 should’ve been (all the other stuff I mentioned about Shinkurou’s past is written in the novel as well). Oh well, it’s still good in its own right so I’m not complaining about that. And as I’ve said before, I loved how they incorporated much of Murasaki’s past throughout the course of the series’ run, because the Kuhouins are supposedly “hidden” in the novel until Ryuuji appeared. What worries me more are the other changes made in this episode. tri-ring of animesuki forums said Renjou supposedly acted on his own in this decision to capture Murasaki, not with the consent of Renjou and the other Kuhouin, and I wonder how that will affect the series later on. I just hope that despite these changes we’ll be able to see Shinkurou’s ultimate GAR mode next week! Or else…!

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