A whole lotta cheap drama.
We learn of Zakuro’s mom and her tragic past. We learn too of Omodaka and his tragic past.
Forcibly separated from his mother at a young age, the young Omodaka wanted nothing but his mother’s embrace. Consider then, the impact on the young child when he stumbled upon a primal scene (why are there so many primal scenes in anime all of a sudden?).
Betrayed and probably jealous, he had his mother’s usurping lover executed before her very eyes.
This set forth an entire lifetime of obsession for Omodaka. He’ll tell you that he’s in it for “power.” He totally kidnapped Zakuro, his half-sister(?), for this vague power. Oh sure. What’s that power for? World domination? It’s essentially boring, generic anime villainy if you only want to go ankle deep.
But he keeps his mother, a rotting corpse, enshrined in his fucking castle (or whatever it is).
He literally wants to impregnate his sister. All for power? Or maybe this all just adds up to one thing: Omodaka’s desire to regain his lost place in his mother’s womb. The primal scene displaced the young Omodaka from his mother, who — up until that point — identified her as being an essential part of his nature. Omodaka’s MO is to “reconnect,” in more ways than one, with his mother.
Since the mother is dead and refused to spawn children for him anyway when she was still alive, it only made sense in Omodaka’s deranged mind that Zakuro fills the surrogate role.
He goes so far as to take Zakuro back to the same exact area he saw his mother sleep with another man. He wants to transgress exactly where the mother transgressed; it’s almost like revisiting the scene of a crime and turn back the clock.
In the end, even the creepy dude with a thousand slaves under the stairs gets a redemption story. The twins too get a bittersweet ending. The only person to be punished in the entire anime is Lady Rangui. Hm, draw your own conclusions.
Zakuro and co. saves the day in the end thanks to the power of love and friendship a.k.a. dull ass bullshit. I really don’t care about this part so I’m not going to waste another word on it. The series was okay.
Did everyone have a good Christmas?
Moe Sucks 
I figured Rangui would be the one to make all the trouble in the end.
Etc.
Horrible yet subtle, I like it.
I got books and CDs for Christmas so yeah it pretty much rocked.
Yeah, my birthday’s too close to Christmas so they just cancel each other out. I got a wallet this year!
um, all this talk, but i don’t see a point in your rant. why was this anime good? why was this anime bad? i’d recommend you revisit your haruhi post. that was deep. deeper than the anime itself. but this …meh,..overall i don’t even get the need to do an ep by ep blog. all that matters in the end is the feelings and thoughts you have by the END of the series.
i still love you for the haruhi post and some others, hope you do more of those…
Well, first of all, I didn’t think I was ranting. Second, these were my thoughts and feelings about the end of Zakuro. Finally, if it wasn’t clear that I thought the anime was lukewarm, here it is again. I didn’t care for the flimsy racial progress bullshit veneer used to disguise another predictably lame courtship of a tsundere girl. On the other hand, I thought Omodaka’s development was a little more nuanced than most villains, even if his redemption was laughable.
If what I wrote wasn’t satisfactory, shrug — I can’t win them all. Maybe Zakuro didn’t have much to say to me.