{"id":818,"date":"2022-02-19T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2022-02-20T00:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T00:31:56","slug":"after-ep24-final-review-the-aquatope-on-white-sand-shiroi-suna-no-akuatopu-%e7%99%bd%e3%81%84%e7%a0%82%e3%81%ae%e3%82%a2%e3%82%af%e3%82%a2%e3%83%88%e3%83%bc%e3%83%97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/19\/after-ep24-final-review-the-aquatope-on-white-sand-shiroi-suna-no-akuatopu-%e7%99%bd%e3%81%84%e7%a0%82%e3%81%ae%e3%82%a2%e3%82%af%e3%82%a2%e3%83%88%e3%83%bc%e3%83%97\/","title":{"rendered":"After EP24 FINAL REVIEW &#8220;The Aquatope on White Sand&#8221; &#8220;Shiroi Suna no Akuat\u014dpu&#8221; (\u767d\u3044\u7802\u306e\u30a2\u30af\u30a2\u30c8\u30fc\u30d7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The aquatope on white sand | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N41qUI3MvJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<em><strong>After EP24 FINAL REVIEW &#8220;The Aquatope on White Sand&#8221;\n<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;Shiroi Suna no Akuat\u014dpu&#8221;\n(\u767d\u3044\u7802\u306e\u30a2\u30af\u30a2\u30c8\u30fc\u30d7)\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n<em><strong><font color=\"red\">SPOILER ALERT: Many spoilers follow. Read at own risk.\n<\/font><\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe final episode 24 of Aquatope was the best ending to a story in\nrecent memory. How much story they told and resolved in just 23 minutes\nand 40 seconds! Some anime cannot even tell that much story in a whole\nseason!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nMS Y\u016bko Kakihara is the author of Aquatope, and many may remember her as also the author of\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iroduku:_The_World_in_Colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iroduku: The World in Colors(2018)<\/a> for \n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P.A._Works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P.A.works<\/a> in which color was the central plot point.\nIt is then no stretch to think that color in Aquatope would have meaning or sense. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nMS Kakihara opens her story in a most unexpected fashion, with a history\nof Kukuru&#8217;s hair styles. First a baby with no hair ornament, a little\ngirl with a green bulb ornament on a single left braid, a young teen\nwith a fish ornament on that single braid, and then her shell ornament\non the braid as we have seen her for the most part. There is one more\nchange of great significance at the very end. Hair styles for women are\nsometimes a personality marker for maturation or growth as they are here\npresented, and of course, Kukuru&#8217;s hair is blue as are her Mother and\nFather.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBlue would then be a trope for Kukuru. During the very ending from run\ntime 21:24 through 23:08, Kukuru does the first word play (1): on F\u016bka&#8217;s\nname using the poetic allusion of &#8220;snow fluttering on a sunny day&#8221;. As\nsnow is white, Kukuru transitions the allusion to &#8220;bleached, white coral\non a white sand Okinawan beach&#8221;, perfect for Okinawa. White would then\nbe a trope for F\u016bka.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBlue as in Aqua and White as in Sand are literally in the Title, &#8220;The\nAquatope on White Sand: The Two Girls Met in the Ruins of Damaged\nDream&#8221;!\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nOnce the hair styles are quoted in detail, we begin the process of\nstocking The White Sand Dome by the entire staff which ends at run time\n4:59, story dated as March 2, 2023.\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nThis is simply one of the wonders of Aquatope which fascinates on many\nlevels. We readily reacted to the technical aspects of actually doing an\nAquarium stocking which is so well done here. Some might criticize the\nstory, that we are now 5 minutes in, and all we have done is mark hair\nstyles, and fish stocking. Where is the story? But this misses a serious\npoint.\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nMS Kakihara&#8217;s story is that people working together create value as the\nyoung people in this segment indeed do.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThen on March 19, 2023, we open The White Sand Dome to host one of the\nmost beautiful weddings either fictional or real which we have ever\nwitnessed. This beauty even reduces Miura, the wedding planner, to\ntears! She then congratulates Kukuru(B: 2002-10-8) who at 20 years of\nage has produced a stunning success. (F\u016bka was born B:2003-5-17, she is\nactually the little sister!)\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe following day, March 20, 2023, The White Sand Dome is opened to the\npublic, and is a major popular success! But Kukuru is still unsure!\nGama-Gama was fun, but Tingarla not so much, and she asks for advice\nfrom her Grandfather. In one of the most trenchant short stories, Ojii\nconfesses to Kukuru that Gama-Gama was not always fun, but his advice is\nto work hard at all times, moving forward, and then sometimes you will\nbe rewarded. Real life isn&#8217;t all fun and games, and defeats and\nreversals are difficult to avoid, but &#8220;Do what&#8217;s right, and everything\nwill work out.&#8221;! That is real truth!\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWhen Kukuru asks what should she do, Grandpa says look within yourself\nand you will see your Destiny.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nVisions are not Magic Realism. People do have real visions, and the\nVision Quest is a staple in many cultures. Abandon Fatalism, one&#8217;s fixed\nFate in life, and embrace your vision for your Destiny ahead, because\none sets their own Destination in life. Fate is not Destiny! Fate is\nyour future fixed by the gods and cannot be avoided! But Destiny is an\nindividual choice based upon the vision of the future which one arrives\nat from the process of a Vision Quest. The words &#8220;destiny&#8221; and\n&#8220;destination&#8221; originate from the same Latin root, &#8220;destinare&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAnd then we finish with a vision of Kukuru&#8217;s lost family and F\u016bka within\nthe vision is clearly included as a member of Kukuru&#8217;s family.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWe are now 16 minutes into the ending, and yet nothing has been\nresolved.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWe now see F\u016bka fly off to Hawaii for a two year work-study with Kaoru,\nand we enter a 2 year time skip.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBlue definitely refers back to EP 21 &#8220;Dreams of Blue Turtles&#8221; and the\nvery denouement of Aquatope where instead of Magic Realism, we are told\na story of hard core realism in which the very real magic of Mother\nNature&#8217;s birthing of life into new life hits square in the face under a\nfull moon. The little guys popping out of the sand were precious indeed!\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nIt is here, on Yameru na Island after witnessing the miracle of life\nwhere new dreams begin to crystallize for both Kukuru and F\u016bka. ( The\nfictional &#8220;yameru na&#8221; translates into English as &#8220;Don&#8217;t quit! Kukuru and\nF\u016bka are literally on an Island telling them not to quit!!!)\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nKukuru will return and complete her assignments, and F\u016bka is energized\nby Ocean life conservation.\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nAfter the two year time skip, it is now April 1, 2025. The story opens\nwith a clear, intentional focus shot of Kukuru&#8217;s new hair style, double\nbraids, tied in the back with a 5 point starfish. Kukuru has become a\nstar at Tingarla and there is even talk about her becoming the Director!\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nF\u016bka and Kaoru fly back to Okinawa. Kukuru messages F\u016bka to meet her at\ntheir shrine. A Blue paper airplane appears out of the woods, and wraps\naround a running Kukuru, and then they embrace. F\u016bka says,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic04.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThe Blue paper airplane is actually constructed out of one sheet of\npaper, Blue on one side, and White on the other. That can be clearly\nseen as the plane passes Kukuru,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIn the very last scene, with the girls walking away, we see that the\nStarfish ornament in Kukuru&#8217;s new hair style, is now an actual star.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic03.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIn the beginning, Aquatope throws a curve ball, and seems to hint that\nMagic Realism will be used, and yet, no magic ever changes anything,\nit&#8217;s hard core realism all the way down, and of course, that is the most\nwondrous abstraction of all. The only thing the Kijimuna ever does is\neat the offerings, and steal F\u016bka&#8217;s Straw hat! The Real Magic of &#8220;The\nAquatope on White Sand&#8221; is the vision thing, that all human beings are\nfully capable of doing what Kukuru and F\u016bka have done.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWhen your dreams are damaged and fail, then that is the time to dream\nnew dreams, and set a new destination in your life, a new destiny!\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe Aquatope on White Sand (\u767d\u3044\u7802\u306e\u30a2\u30af\u30a2\u30c8\u30fc\u30d7, *Shiroi Suna no\nAkuat\u014dpu&#8221;), subtitled &#8220;The Two Girls Met in the Ruins of Damaged Dream&#8221;\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThis is beginning of the end of the story.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nHighly Recommended!!!\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nA technical analysis follows as to the linguistic basis for the ending\nword play and it&#8217;s involvement with color.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBoth Kukuru and F\u016bka engage in word play (1): and (2): which establishes\nthe exact nature of the relationship that they share. Kukuru says (1):\nand F\u016bka counters with (2):! What is hidden and implicit in this\nexchange is the author speaking (3): where she puts Kukuru and F\u016bka\ntogether as FAMILY which was visually established earlier by the vision\nwhich they both shared.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>Kukuru says (1): ( F\u016bka = {wind, flowers, coral})<\/p>\n\n<p>F\u016bka says (2): (Kukuru = {soul = (kokoro = {heart, mind, spirit, soul})\n} )<\/p>\n\n<p>Implicit (3): FAMILY = ( {F\u016bka, Kukuru} = {wind, flowers, coral, soul} )<\/p>\n\n<p>F\u016bka clearly confirms this by saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m home, Kukuru.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Language definitions:<\/p>\n\n<p>COMMUNICATION: Sense \u2192 Sound \u2192 Text<\/p>\n\n<p>LOCATION: Sound and\/or Text used as the Name relationship to locate.\nSense is of no importance with regard to names. The use of a name to locate is the entire sense of\na name.<\/p>\n\n<p>Modern convention is &#8220;Text:&#8221; as in LOCATION: above. This sentence uses\nthe Name Relationship, rather than the Sense Relationship.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Tokyo Japanese, or Standard Japanese, F\u016bka&#8217;s Language\nkukuru \u304f\u304f\u308b, is a verb which means to tie or bind together, hence to\ntie-dye silk, Batik style.\nkokoro\u3053\u3053\u308d, is a noun which means heart, mind, spirit, and by\nextension soul.<\/p>\n\n<p>These two words have an extreme symmetry both in text and in sound, but\nquite different meanings as to sense. The kkr consonants match exactly\nand the vowels uuu to ooo!<\/p>\n\n<p>In the Okinawa Japanese Dialect, Kukuru&#8217;s language\nkukuru \u304f\u304f\u308b is the same both in Text and Sound with Standard Japanese,\nbut as to sense takes on the meaning of kokoro\u3053\u3053\u308d, a noun which means\nheart, mind, spirit, and by extension soul.<\/p>\n\n<p>I have not been able to find out why this is so. The extreme symmetry\nmight indicate an interesting history in Okinawa for the two words.<\/p>\n\n<p>The very ending dialog in EP 24 between Kukuru and F\u016bka explains in\ndetail the nature of their relationship with elaborate plays upon words.<\/p>\n\n<p>The script reads:<br>\n\n21:24 F\u016bka: &#8220;I&#8217;m home, Kukuru&#8221;<br>\n\n21:54 Kukuru: &#8220;Hey, F\u016bka&#8230;&#8221;<br>\n\n21:57 Kukuru: &#8220;I never knew your name meant &#8220;Snow&#8221;.<br>\n\n22:55 Kukuru: &#8220;Yeah?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic05.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n23:00 (Picture of bleached Coral on the beach)\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nF\u016bka: &#8220;Yeah. &#8220;wind flower&#8221; refers to the Snow that flutters on a sunny\nday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\n[F\u016bka&#8217;s name \u98a8\u82b1 are Kanji nouns literally meaning [\u98a8 wind] and\n[\u82b1 flower] and by poetic\nextension like Snow fluttering in the air on a sunny day. Anime is full\nof this scene where we\nsee Cherry Blossoms in the Wind falling to the ground like Snow Fall.\nThe anime Hyouka(2012) in its ending scene of EP 22 &#8220;The Doll That Took the Long\nWay Around&#8221; has as it&#8217;s ending Eru Chitanda who positions herself in front of a giant\nCherry Blossom tree, so that Hotaro Oreki sees her backstopped by the tree when the wind picks up and\nit does indeed look like a snow flurry! Beautiful scene by the way, as only KyoAni could create]\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n23:05 Kukuru: &#8220;F\u016bka&#8217;s is a perfect name in Okinawa, though.&#8221;<br>\n\n23:08 F\u016bka: &#8220;Is it?&#8221;<br>\n\n23:08 Kukuru: &#8220;This island&#8217;s made of wind, flowers, and coral\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Kukuru is making the first play upon words, &#8220;wind flower&#8221; is like Snow\nFluttering down is like white, bleached Coral on the White Sand of an\nOkinawan beach. She adds coral to F\u016bka&#8217;s poetic allusion [F\u016bka = {wind, flowers, coral}]\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n23:16 F\u016bka: &#8220;Wind, flowers, coral,&#8230;<br>\n\n23:19 F\u016bka: &#8220;and Soul.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>F\u016bka here uses the word kukuru \u304f\u304f\u308b in its Okinawan sense of &#8220;heart,\nmind, spirit, soul and not as a name. F\u016bka makes the second play upon words by adding\nSoul to the list] [Kukuru = {soul}]\nThis results in [F\u016bka = {wind, flowers, coral, {Kukuru = {soul}} }]\nLinguistically, F\u016bka adds Kukuru to her own name.<\/p>\n\n<p>The third word play is hidden, but implicit.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the First word play by Kukuru, she adds &#8220;coral&#8221; to the poetic\nallusions. In the Second word play by F\u016bka, she adds &#8220;soul&#8221; to the\npoetic allusions.<\/p>\n\n<p>What then is the Third word play, and who does it?<\/p>\n\n<p>In the Tokyo Japanese sense of kukuru \u304f\u304f\u308b,\nY\u016bko Kakihara (also author of &#8220;Iroduku: The World in Colors&#8221; 2018)&#8221;\nsteps into her own story, and has both Kukuru and F\u016bka, kukuru each\nother&#8217;s names!!!<p>\n\n<p>This is brilliant, and comes from the nature of the observer or narrator\nin a story. We were made aware of this by the following comment:&#8221;One\nthing that I think many commenters on the show have missed is that the\nmajority of the story is (essentially) seen from the viewpoint of\nKukuru. This is especially true once we move from Gama Gama to Tingarla.\nIf we see little of her boss (and what he does), it is because Kukuru\n(wrapped up in herself) does not see what he does &#8212; and does not seem\nto care much about finding out. It is NOT that he does no work himself.\nWhile Kukuru is not a &#8220;narrator&#8221;, a lot of what we see is equivalent to\nexperiencing the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator. Of course, some\nparts of the story reflect Fuuka&#8217;s perspective &#8212; and others may be\nneutral &#8212; but it is a mistake to think that what we see of Kukuru&#8217;s\nwork experience is anything like an objective representation of what is\nactually going on.&#8221;\n&#8211; Michael Kerpan<\/p>\n\n<p>We had missed this entirely, but then the ancient words of Mr.\nPywackett&#8217;s ancient Comp Lit professor suddenly came to mind. He always\nstressed that a story has an Eye, a point of view from which it is being\ntold. The Narrator can be anyone, a character or characters in the\nstory, an abstract voice explaining the story, or even the author\nstepping into his or her own story.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here the author steps metaphorically into her story, and implicitly\nexplains that both Kukuru and F\u016bka\nhave &#8220;kukuru&#8217;ed&#8221; each other&#8217;s names together. In Tokyo Standard\nJapanese, kukuru \u304f\u304f\u308b, is a verb which means to tie or bind together,\nhence to tie-dye silk, Batik style. The end result of the word play is\nthat Kukuru and F\u016bka are now bound together like tie-dyed silk. This\nthird play extends outside the story, and is never stated in words, but\ncan be observed as such from the word play itself, i.e. both girls are\nbinding self to the other. Kukuru binds F\u016bka to Okinawa, F\u016bka binds\nKukuru to herself, and Y\u016bko Kakihara literally kukuru&#8217;s Kukuru and F\u016bka together!<\/p>\n\n<p>( F\u016bka = {wind, flowers, coral} UNION Kukuru = {soul} ) produces the\nResult Set of\nFAMILY = {F\u016bka, Kukuru} = {wind, flowers, coral, soul}.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\nThis was actually shown earlier, in the vision, where F\u016bka is included\nin Kukuru&#8217;s family!<\/p>\n\n<p>The two girls at the very end, have become sisters and they belong\ntogether in and to a family!<\/p>\n\n<p>Then to finish one of the very best endings in anime, the\nKijimuna launches his second Blue\/White Paper airplane which fly&#8217;s up\ninto a deep Blue Sky (Kukuru) filled with billowy Cumulus White Clouds\n(F\u016bka), heading towards the Infinite Zenith of the stars (The Starfish)\nas Kukuru&#8217;s hair ornament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/pywackettproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mox024.ep24.pic02.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How indeed sweet, this ending is!<\/p>\n\n<p>MS Y\u016bko Kakihara is a brilliant and master story teller, and certainly\ndeserves far more recognition within anime fandom than she has received.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n\u00a9 2022 Folwine P. Pywackett (mox024)\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After EP24 FINAL REVIEW &#8220;The Aquatope on White Sand&#8221; &#8220;Shiroi Suna no Akuat\u014dpu&#8221; (\u767d\u3044\u7802\u306e\u30a2\u30af\u30a2\u30c8\u30fc\u30d7) SPOILER ALERT: Many spoilers follow. Read at own risk. The final episode 24 of Aquatope was the best ending to a story in recent memory. How much story they told and resolved in just 23 minutes and 40 seconds! 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