*Inspired by @Vape_pen_ post*
Key Visual for #GoodbyeLara season 2: Go For It!! Otsu Mari!!! revealed!
"Love is patient. Love is kind"
Lara is off to find the new light, and Otsu Mari has to WORK prove that she can be her light still!
People should still read Andersen's fairytales regardless. I want more people to know the peak that are Red Shoes and The Girl Who Trod On Loaf.
Hell. throw in Oscar Wilde's fairytales, too.
4. The show keeps telling us that 'True Love' for merfolk is something transactional, a nutrition to be consumed, so that's how they quite literally live on 'Love'. In the finale, Lara discards that notion and goes to find the new light, new definition of love
Also the thing about being human = cannot see the light = Lara no longer find love with Mari is just so cruel of an intepretation.
1. I love Lisa but she was basically a human-hating bigot when she said that to Mari
2. 'Mermaid lives by light but human lives by words'
So for human, to know love you'll have to express it (with words, presumably), but the merfolks can see its manifestation. Mari said so herself that she had to get closer to Lara to understand her (expressing her love)
@Vape_pen_ I made a post about the EP10 scene, but personally I think Lara's light can react to her emotionally, so with the overwhelming desire to see Mari again I am 100% she commanded the light to basically spit Mari back to her
@Vape_pen_ I disagree that her 'death' explain plot holes, it just intepret the tonal shift of the epilogue in the most tragic way possible.
IMO Lara still feels pain with every step because she's working on her trauma. 6 months is a long time to untangle some damage but not all.
@Vape_pen_ - Uniform could be because of club activity I think. Mari has boxing gloves with her.
- Grandma probably talks to Yoshiya about the work/shift, not Lara's
- It's kinda hard to explain but EP10 established how the light can create/give life, so Mari being revived is plausible
(Posting this and then be all giddy myself at the slight body horror of the shot of Lara's tail becoming human feet and even more giddy how they reference the OG's painful walk at the end.)
Was hella confused about Mari Is Dead theory gaining traction then I remember it has always been like this since the Doraemon Is Dying Nobita's Dream incident. Wholesome media fans and their disproportionate obsession with tragedy is something that should be studied.