YUS, we need the character and relationship development. They should just do Kagari’s harvest festa route as a total of 4-5 ova’s to show character development.
It’s not often I get to say this, but there is not enough source material for that. More than 2 episodes would get really drawn out.
Have you played Harvest festa ? She actually gets a route.
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Yes and yes. I could do with a re-read of Kagari’s scenario though, it’s been over a year.
Ok so
Oppai Kagari(Creamy Kagarin) > Moon Kagari > Trash > Earth Kagari.
What about you people? How would you compare Kagari’s? Are you a fan of hardworking Moon Moe or SCREAMING BLACK SQUARES boring Earth.
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I don’t know Creamy Kagarin, just Creamy☆Kagarin, but otherwise I agree, yes.
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I just thought of something interesting.
Kagari’s name came from the Japanese word for bonfire (kagaribi). It seems to highlight two things about her character:
- A bonfire that is made to burn stuff. A disposal, something like that. Kagari’s existence meant that humanity will end, in a sense, “burning them to the ground.”
- Fire itself as a symbolism. I thought this webpage has a lot of things to say about it. In particular, its symbol in alchemy is:
upward mobility, forward motion, rising flames and aspirations to solar embodiment (in both literal and philosophical senses). To move into the energy of fire is to be utterly consumed, transformed and lifted out of limitation
And that says a lot of Kagari and Terra’s message, in hindsight.
On a side note, let’s give some love for Earth Kagari. I have a lot of things to say about her (I thought I might want to share it if there’s going to be a bookclub
I’m looking forward on her portrayal in the anime though.
EDIT: just figured that “Kagari” can also stand for “bonfire” itself. ^^;
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I’m glad that someone else got the right message out of Terra. Or at least the same one that I got :kurumu:
But yes, now that you mention it, her name 篝, actually does mean bonfire (well, that or iron basket).
It will be a long time away until we start a Rewrite bookclub, so feel free to share your thoughts as early as now!
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You know, I don’t think Kagari has anything in common with fire. Above all else, Kagari is a kind, loving mother, and that doesn’t fit with fire. The symbolism of progress/growth is way more prevalent in the form of plants. Fire is never mentioned in Rewrite with the exception of Fuego. One amusing detail I found by researching her name is that apparently there’s a list of Kanji allowed to be used in names(Jinmeiyō kanji), and 篝 isn’t on this list. It could be that Kagari’s name is supposed to be outworldly because of that. It’s also similar to kagi, the word for key.
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Wait who was the one who named her in the game? I don’t remember her introducing herself… Did she? If not then that might be why. Please confirm those questions before I start going on about stuff that might not make sense
Thing is, I don’t remember her introducing herself either; but she did refer to herself as Creamy Kagarin in the Oppai route, this much I am sure of
ok so the point I’m making here is this: if Kagari was named by humans then it makes a lot of sense. Kagari’s name does not obey human regulation because she is treated as inhuman. Neither Guardian nor Gaia really cares, she’s just a tool. She might be seen as just a tool to burn the earth to the ground to the outsiders, but Kotarou knows her on a deeper level to see how she is like a kind, loving mother, as @HeliosAlpha pointed out.
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Most humans only identify her as the Key. Either Kagari is the one who separates herself from the previous incarnations, or the Druids gave her that name.
From Terra route:
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She’s hard to define as a character since there is such a diversity between her different depictions. However it is true that, while she is portrayed as very funny and endearing at times, what I like best about her is the concept of being a pragmatic yet loving mother figure.
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About the Kagaris…
I really liked the Moon Kagari, the one who even though was jealous of her Earth little sister, she earnestly wished to help her too, to the point of sending her first and only friend/beloved to die a dog’s dead, then waiting eons to watch humanity survival and the feels that Kotarou had to never forget her Moon version, to the point that the first thing he did after completing his mission was to go to the Moon.
Also their relationship in Moon was beautiful, Kotarou finally removing the mask that annoyed Yoshino, no Haruhiko, so much and that was the first step to communication, the one message that was repeated so much in common.
I also smiled watching their dance, even though they can’t communicate through words, they could through their bodies (wait this sounded a little wrong) and laughed a lot when I watched her get super shy when Kotarou tried to use numbers to communicate, that nerdy love confession and even Kotarou got super happy seeing that he managed to confess, let’s not talk about the three cup of coffee.
In summary, she even though was an alien existence, she also was a cute girl when she finally managed to connect with another sentient being, I thought that symbolized that one becomes a complete person only after connecting with others and that only becomes possible when one is honest with the other party and viceversa.
Now, the Terra Kagari, I didn’t think she managed to become a full person, in the first 5 routes, she was always treated as an object and nobody truly tried to understand her and in Terra, because Kotarou fell in love with her, he treated her as a person and that’s why she started to act as a human, but I don’t think that Kotarou managed to connect with her, because his love was in fact one meant to her older sister, the Moon Kagari and that’s why I felt that she was too empty compared to Moon Kagari, even though Terra Kagari talked more like a human, it felt to me that her personality was a little forced and her drastic 180° change at the ending wasn’t helping to change my opinion too.
And finally, Creamy☆Kagarin, best Kagari ever, well, joking aside, I feel like the complete version of the Terra Kagari would be very similar to her, seriously.
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I don’t see the difference.
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Terra kagari was a being desperate to find good memories without concern for the lives of other beings
Moom kagari was a curious being, (though often to the danger of kotarou) who toiled away to find the route to salvation.
At least that’s how I see them
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Those traits aren’t even mutually exclusive. Moon Kagari’s ultimate goal is also good memories in any form. I guess I can’t say that Terra doesn’t work has hard, but she doesn’t have near infinite time and knowledge at her disposal.
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While the ultimate goal isn’t exclusive, the way thwy go about it is different, and while earth kagari’s actions are justified, it doesn’t make me like her any more
How are their methods different? Kagari’s actions are based in simple pragmatism and the knowledge available.
Edit: Actually, it’s more accurate to say that Kagari doesn’t have a set methodology. The whole point of the garden is that she tried everything.
