Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (GodaiMH) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:21:24 GMT

Frappo writes:

Kyoko's feelings were cleared with Mitaka in the episode with the dinner with parents and the following "kidnapping" in the hotel (make me mad each time a see it...)
Probably Mitaka will not stop chasing her ("next time I'll try with a movie" why don't you try bungee jumping without rope? )

Laughing out loud!

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (frappo) — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:26:12 GMT

no, is not true for me that Godai won on a misunderstanding.

Kyoko's feelings were cleared with Mitaka in the episode with the dinner with parents and the following "kidnapping" in the hotel (make me mad each time a see it...)
Probably Mitaka will not stop chasing her ("next time I'll try with a movie" why don't you try bungee jumping without rope? )
but he already knows for whom...

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (ryogasgirl) — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:40:32 GMT

While I believe that Asuna and Mitaka have a happy life together, I still can't help but feel that Mitaka would still be chasing after Kyoko if there wasn't that misunderstanding about her dog's pregnancy. Yeah, everything turned out for the best, but I think I still would have liked there to be a more definitive decision on Kyoko's part which would have ended the whole rivalry. It just seemed to me that Godai won on a misunderstanding. I have to admit, though, I'm glad he...

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (GodaiMH) — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:53:29 GMT

Dr. Casey wrote:

It's not like the deal with Ryoga, who found the girl who was absolutely perfect for him. It would have been easy to move on from his former love because Akari was a girl who could, given the aid of time, make Akane look like dirt in comparison. Mitaka's ending, though, might truly have been an unhappy one. That's what makes Kyoko's rejection sting worse than it already does, and it was a painful scene to begin with....

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (Dr Casey) — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:03:38 GMT

The relationship between Mitaka and Asuna leaves me feeling slightly unsettled. I'm sure Mitaka grew to love the girl eventually, but there's nothing to indicate that Asuna was a better match for him than Kyoko. I feel very little chemistry on Mitaka's end towards Asuna outside of the scene where Asuna cracked the joke (Granted, they didn't really get to know each other until after they were ejected from the storyline, but still). It's not like the deal with Ryoga, who...

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (Diko Linnai) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:22:46 GMT

Well said, lumsdarling, Mitaka truly has more depth than RT's other rich charmers like Kuno or Mendo. And Asuna did not drag her feet about her feelings towards him.

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (lumsdarling) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:11:56 GMT

I think to really understand Mitaka, a whole other series would have to be written. I'm not sure what his deal is, but one thing that always intrigues me about Mitaka is the way, from start to finish, his pursuit of Kyoko is framed as a competition. His interest in Kyoko is galvanized when Godai makes his declaration of love, and he throws his hat into the ring. Then, in the end, we get that image of him holding the loser's trophy. Mitaka has that soft, hurting side to him, that Asuna...

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (GodaiMH) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:12:22 GMT

I think what both of you say is plausible. I'm of the opinion that when Mitaka laughed at himself, he really was offering a clean slate to Asuna, and offering a clean slate to himself. I think he firmly expected that he would fall in love with her. And by the time that they are wed, I would reckon there is true love at least building between them. That Mitaka should offer such a clean slate, and Asuna, knowing that Mitaka was originally in love with Kyoko, should let him, really is a...

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (Diko Linnai) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:49:42 GMT

Ha...thank goodness at least Asuna was a kind person, willing to cancel the proposal gifts to make him happy. You've got a point about neither really loving each other; even in the movie and towards the end of the series you don't see too much body language between them that insinuates that they are falling in love, even when Asuna was pregnant Mitaka was like, "hey look here what I did" lol

Re: Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (childisfatheroftheman) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:25:17 GMT

He was trying to use the omiai to force Kyoko to act definetively on his marriage proprosal at first. I think when he accepted that Kyoko would choose Godai, he didn't really care a whole lot who he married. Asuna was nice, friendly, and sympathetic to him, and she cared for him, which was enough for him at that point. I don't think either loves each other at the end of the story, I think they agreed to let their relationship grow naturally.

Did Mitaka choose Asuna by default, love at first sight, cornered?

feeds@yuku.com (Diko Linnai) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:17:34 GMT

We all know just how much Kyoko meant to Coach Mitaka throughout the series, and what his intentions were for her. So towards the end of the series when we get to see Asuna for the first time, do you think Mitaka was just waiting around for Kyoko to finally admit she wanted Godai more, just to hear closure, or did he eventually grow to really love Asuna? They didn't know each other, were sort of thrown together by their parents (well I guess it sorta worked for Ranma and Akane) and that...