.... if Yukito turned himself into the crow from the magic powers in the puppet, "after" he came back to her? Or if the crow is considered a reincarnation if Yukito, who is in turn a reincarnation of Ryuya. Then how does Misuzu meet the crow "before" she actually met Yukito? I don't quite get the timelines.
Another such timeline conflict, how does the girl kid at the end, and Misuzu, who says bye to them, exist together, if that girl is a reincarnation of Misizu herself, but with her curse lifted?
Basically, Crow is not exactly a reincarnation. It's more the work of magic. Yukito wanted to stay with Misuzu all along and as Sora, he did.
It's as if his consciousness from the future was transferred to a crow. Now about how that works, I have no idea.
You might want to read this. I wrote this a couple of days after I finished the series.
aasgo123 said: I know this thread has been dead for over 4 years. But I finished the anime 3 days ago and pondered a lot about the end. I finally came up with a theory and I would like to share it with everyone.
I will be making a detailed analysis of various things to support my theory.
The Curse:
There were basically two curses o Kanna. One inherited from her mother, and one from the enchantments of the monks.
One of the curses would cause everybody she loves to get sick and eventually die, as said by Uruha. But a few episodes ago, Yukito tells Haruka that according to a particular curse, Misuzu would forget everybody she loves as well. This wasn't mentioned in the Summer Arc but is an important part of the curse.
The second curse would cause her to continue reincarnating and dying at a young age since the soul of a winged being cannot be held in a human's body. Meanwhile a part of her soul continues to remain in the sky having horrid dreams about her loved ones.
I'd assume that since there were two curses, one cannot exist without the other. Because even though Misuzu was clumsy, she did not show any signs of physical weakness or having strange dreams before Yukito showed up. So the activation of the part where a winged being's soul is too much for a human body would only be activated when she has friends and loved ones.
Ryūya:
Ryūya was affected by the curse cast on Kanna as well. So his wounds did not heal, eventually causing him to die. Before dying, he and Uruha had a child so that they could leave a descendant in the hope that somebody from his family will free Kanna some day.
Kanna:
As said before, Kanna was affected by two curses. The effects have been mentioned before. But what is noteworthy is the fact that there has been talk about an other self of Misuzu being in the sky in the anime even when Misuzu was he reincarnation. That would mean that only a part of her soul is what causes the reincarnation. Majority of her soul/spirit remains in the sky entangled in the curse.
Yukito:
Yukito was trying to help Misuzu from the outside. He did do it very well. He eventually decided to go away in order to help Misuzu but realised that he was meant to stay by her side no matter what. This desire of his, coupled with the magic power of all his ancestors (inside the puppet) turned him into a crow and sent him back in time so he coud be with Misuzu all along.
Yukito participated indirectly in breaking the curse. His words inspired Haruko to finally shower her love on Misuzu. As Sora, the crow he helped preserve the toy which would later play an important role in Haruka-Misuzu bonding.
After Misuzu died and the curse broke, he flew off in the air to look for Kanna's soul in the air which would now be free.
Misuzu:
Misuzu was freed of the curse in the end. Yes, that's right. Or more like Kanna was freed of the curse. The fact that Haruka did not fall ill and did not die are important factors determining this. She did forget Haruka but eventually remembered her and Yukito again. This clearly depicts that the curse was broken.
But her death was something that was inevitable because it was simply too late. The part of the Kanna's soul she had was already dominating over her body. But the important thing was that when she died, she was satisfied by her life and she was abe to get a mother's love, even if it was only for a day.
The Children:
This is the part where the biggest confusion is. Most people believe that they were shown to depict that the curse on Kanna will be broken by the boy. But this would imply that the curse had not been broken yet. That makes Misuzu remembering Haruka again irrelevant.
As said before, each reincarnation of Kanna consisted of a part of Kanna's soul. This would enable that the girl was also a reincarnation of Kanna. Since the curse was broken, Kanna was free of the cycle of life and death. That would make the girl Kanna's last reincarnation. This last reincarnation would be able to lead a happy life. That's what is implied when the boy says "To them: Cruel days, To us: A new beginning."
Now about the boy. Since Yukito was simply a descendant of Ryūya and not his reincarnation, the boy cannot be adjudged in the same way. According to me he was another descendant of Ryūya. I know it seems far-fetched, but imagine the child of Ryūya an Uraha having two children and those two having two more children each. A family could extend a lot like this in a thousand years. He too must've heard the tale from his ancestors and was himself trying to find the girl with pure white wings. Perhaps having better control at his magical powers than Yukito, he was able to find out the girl at a younger age. Realizing that the curse would be broken by the efforts of Yukito, he deduced that this was a new beginning for the last reincarnation of Kanna. And thus he said that dialogue at the end.
This sums up my summary. Please bring any loop holes to my notice.
NOTE: Do not rely on the movie for understanding the anime. The movie was made by a different production company. This is always the case with the corresponding anime and film adaptations of Key Visual Novels. The movie, though based on the same source, follows a comparatively different story. The ending and other various things are true to the film only and have nothing to do with the anime. It is a stand-alone media.
Tokoya said: adapatations are not supposed to be carbon copies of source materials and until the anime community in general can accept that and judge an anime based on what it presents and how they handle every episode, these threads will continue to be filled with hate posts by purists
Yukito Kunisaki, a wandering showman traveling across Japan in order to find the "girl in the sky". He has a straightforward attitude about life, and is determined to finish the journey he and his mother traveled together before she died. There are three heroines in the story, starting with Misuzu Kamio, who is the main heroine. Misuzu is an immature high school girl who approaches Yukito after they first meet and asked him to be her friend so they could play together. She often has dreams about flying in the sky, and loves to gaze into the sky at sunset at the beach. The second heroine is Kano Kirishima, a girl Misuzu's age who goes to the same school, but is in a different class. She has a yellow ribbon tied to her right wrist and was told when she was younger that after she grows up, she will be able to remove the ribbon and will have to power to use magic. The third heroine is a quiet girl named Minagi Tohno, who is in the same class as Misuzu. She loves astronomy, and hangs out with her younger friend Michiru constantly.
Supporting characters in the story help to further along the plot of the three heroines. They include Haruko Kamio, Misuzu's aunt and legal guardian, who Misuzu refers to as her mother despite Haruko actually being the sister of Misuzu's real mother. She has found it difficult raising Misuzu, and tends to distance herself from Misuzu for personal reasons. Hijiri Kirishima is Kano's supporting character, and is her older sister. Hijiri runs the local medical clinic in town and looks after her sister like a mother after their parents died. The last supporting character is Michiru, a playful girl younger than Minagi who plays with her often. Michiru usually gets in disagreements with Yukito, often involving playful violence, and follows Minagi around like a younger sister.
When the story enters the Summer arc in the story, three more characters are introduced that live in the feudal era in Japan, one thousand years before Air's story begins. The first is Kannabi no Mikoto, or simply Kanna, who is a young female winged being, and is believed to be the last of her kind. Due to humans fearing her powers, she has remained in captivity all her life, though has been cared for like a princess. One of Kanna's samurai guards is named Ryūya who eventually enables Kanna to escape her captors in order to go on a journey to find her mother. Kanna and Ryūya are accompanied by Uraha, one of Kanna's servants, who is also skilled in magical arts.
There are two other minor characters who are animals. The first is Potato, an odd stray dog who is usually seen around Kano, and Kano considers the dog her friend. The other animal is a crow named Sora who Misuzu meets and takes in as a pet during the Air arc in the story.
