Maybe Madotsuki committed suicide because she was bullied by other girls at school, represented by the toriningen. Monoko and Monoe were her friends, Poniko was as well, but Poniko might have talked about Mado behind her back and shared secrets she shouldn't have. Uboa is the representation of the anger and betrayal Mado feels towards Poniko.Monoko may have been special needs (high functioning autistic maybe?) thus the distortion. Her sister Monoe has a perpetually cathartic smile as a result of her sympathy towards her younger sister. The fact that they are separated may also be a cause for joy in Monoe, if she resented having to care for Monoko.As a result of the bullying, Mado becomes deeply depressed, and shuts herself away, wanting nothing else but to sleep all day.Masada was her piano teacher, whom she was particularly close to. Mado's parents relied on Masada to bring her out of her self-isolation, but she didn't want to hear it and shut Masada out completely, thus why you find him isolated on a spaceship. By shutting him out of her conscious she shuts him into a single place in her subconscious.Kyu-Kyu is not so much a phallic image as it is a representation of her growing confusion, thus the mottled body and the size of it, with the face being the constant definitive prescense of underlying anger that plagues Mado.She travels through her own subconscious trying to come to terms with the depression, the effects being an abstract representation of a traditional psychological coping device (which I won't go into at length here). When all of them seem futile in the end, all Mado can do is choose to end her own life. Last edited 10/04/01(Thu)17:18.
Maybe Madotsuki committed suicide because she was bullied by other girls at school, represented by the toriningen. Monoko and Monoe were her friends, Poniko was as well, but Poniko might have talked about Mado behind her back and shared secrets she shouldn't have. Uboa is the representation of the anger and betrayal Mado feels towards Poniko.Monoko may have been special needs (high functioning autistic maybe?) thus the distortion. Her sister Monoe has a perpetually cathartic smile as a result of her sympathy towards her younger sister. The fact that they are separated may also be a cause for joy in Monoe, if she resented having to care for Monoko.As a result of the bullying, Mado becomes deeply depressed, and shuts herself away, wanting nothing else but to sleep all day.Masada was her piano teacher, whom she was particularly close to. Mado's parents relied on Masada to bring her out of her self-isolation, but she didn't want to hear it and shut Masada out completely, thus why you find him isolated on a spaceship. By shutting him out of her conscious she shuts him into a single place in her subconscious.Kyu-Kyu is not so much a phallic image as it is a representation of her growing confusion, thus the mottled body and the size of it, with the face being the constant definitive prescense of underlying anger that plagues Mado.She travels through her own subconscious trying to come to terms with the depression, the effects being an abstract representation of a traditional psychological coping device (which I won't go into at length here). When all of them seem futile in the end, all Mado can do is choose to end her own life.
Last edited 10/04/01(Thu)17:18.