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Now, I'm not a major Miaka fan, but please give the girl some credit -.-
Miaka did
not get everything handed to her. Yui did.
Oh yes, we must all feel sorry for Yui because she was attacked in that way, right?
Feh. Yui sat in the palace throughout most of the story and did absolutely nothing but be a pain in the neck.
Miaka actually went out and found her seishi, risking her own life to do so. She did the work she was supposed to. Yui sat there and let Nakago find her seishi.
How many times during the series was Miaka attacked and almost killed? Yes, her seishi came to her rescue, but
that's what they were meant to do. Seishi are
supposed to protect their priestess.
Ok, so Miaka was immature at the beginning of the series. She was
15 for heaven's sake. She's
supposed to act childish, because to all intents and purposes she
was a child. Who can honestly say that they were 'grown up' and 'mature' at the age of 15? How many girls honestly act like Miaka sometimes? And if you were forced into Ancient China, having lived all your life in modern times, knowing absolutely nothing about survival techniques, how would you fair?
Miaka didn't know how to protect herself from thugs with knives or people after her life becase, up until that point,
she hadn't had to. Her life in modern day Japan hadn't given her any hardship at all so of course she was an immature,
normal, fifteen year old.
One of the major points of the series is how much Miaka grows up during it. She learns to be mature through her trials. Fushigi Yuugi wouldn't be Fushigi Yuugi without Miaka being a bumbling idiot and learning to overcome that. The food obsessed, hyper little girl who first enters the book is not the mature person that summons Suzaku at the end.
Now Yui.
Admittedly Yui had one hell of a lot of trauma to go through, what with believing she was raped and all that, but I still can't forgive her. I can understand why she hated Miaka, and why she fought her. But it's Yui as a person I don't like. She didn't care about her seishi at all. Did Yui ever cry for her seishi the way Miaka did? Did Yui try to solve their problems and make them happy? No. Yui was so focused on making Miaka unhappy that she ignored everything that went on around her. If Yui was so mature, then why did she allow herself to be used and manipulated by Nakago that way?
Takiko... Hmm. Takiko is a stronger character than Miaka, and more lovable than Yui, but somehow I can't form as much of an attachment to her, or the other Genbu characters for that matter, than I could to the original Suzaku lot. I do like her though, she's just not as lovable and funny as Miaka in my eyes.
Like I said though, Miaka isn't actually a favourite. Chichiri and Mitsu are
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Anyway that's my rant ^-~ Cara out.