I think Suzuka proved YYH is a circus. He just missed the casual-Friday memo, and came in his work uniform.
Can we call them the Fav-Four? Kuwabara = Ringo. You know it.
Acceptance, tolerance. I agree with both of those being themes of the theme. I also think it's about friendship and change and growing and the strength of a group.
Look at four main characters, for the best example, simply because they're the main characters.
All four of them are definitely, in the beginning, lonely and lost and have no real direction. Which I think is a big part of why they were all made to be relatively young boys, instead of adults.
"Running in a crowd
In a faceless town
I need to feel the touch of a friend.
In the countryside
I wander far and wide
The isolation gets me again..."
Yusuke, for starters, went to school and moved around the town. Fighting and getting into trouble and people only being there to notice his actions and not the obvious cry for attention or support behind it. They just ignored him and hated him.
Kuwabara was treated the same way. His reaction was clearly very different from Yusuke's, as they are very different people and had different home lives. And Kuwabara made a family out of his gang, but he was still lost with the rest of the world and he didn't know how to not just be some thug, and neither did they - they were followers and no matter how nice his little group was, they were just there following his lead, not supporting him in the way he needed.
Kurama never had family, he fended for himself and that worked just fine. He got stuck and weakened and was trapped in this strange, unfamiliar environment and had to adapt but nothing around him to understand him. He coped and he wasn't necessarily seeking friendship or support, but it was something that he needed, whether he acknowledged it or not. And as he started to grow attached to the woman that could never understand him fully for what he was, he was clearly very lost and alone, staying human for her while still being disconnected from all of the people around him.
Hiei...well, I think it was Havi that said he had the most ******** up past, and I'm going to wholeheartedly agree. And the same themes apply to him as well. Probably to him and Yusuke most obviously, compared to the other two, especially. Having been abandoned and hated by his family from the moment he came to exist. Then abandoned later by a group he had tried to adopt as a family, and accept in despite his obviously ruthless ways for such a small child. He clearly feels worthless and alone and undeserving which is shown through not wanting Yukina to know of him or not being bothered by death, like Yusuke had been in the beginning of the series. He doesn't go down and he goes through life looking for something and clinging to things like killing the koorime or finding the necklace he lost. But he needs, well, the touch of a friend as the song suggests - even if he refuses to accept that. He's cut off and cuts himself off more because he doesn't know how to open up because all he's ever known is rejection. For all he knows, it's just him that's not worth loving, because as a baby, what had he really done but just be him?
So, they're all quite clearly wandering and alone and looking for something they don't know how to find, and in deep need of each others friendship and to be a team. To have someone behind them to tell them to shut the ******** up, suck it up, and do what they know they are capable of. Just as the first part of the song suggests.
"I don't know where to go
When I feel like crying
Oh my!
It's time to open myself
Do something new
I want to stop
and grow up a bit!"
Obviously this suggests the part of the story where you take these lonely, lost four characters, and they're at their at the end of their line.
Yusuke's accepting of just being dead.
Kuwabara (is probably the least ******** up and hardest to think of an example for) has basically found what he needed earliest in the series, when he reacts so strongly to the death of someone who only ever beat him up and threw insults at him. It's because Yusuke forced him to try and be his best, without doing it on purpose - so when Yusuke's life change, Kuwabara saw this as a chance for him to change as well.
Kurama was ready to die just so his mother could live, which is sweet. But he considered her place in the world more important than his and was basically letting himself go with the idea that he was not worth what she was to life.
Hiei was cruel and using people and fine with letting people die to serve his own purposes. What now? Be powerful, ******** 'em all. Whatever.
I'm saying I think feeling like crying can mean more than just simply feeling like crying. The oh my, and doing something new - when all four of them were forced together and had to work together and even within the first mission they all got stuck on with each other - they were starting to push each others buttons a little. My best example being Yusuke telling Hiei he trusted him. You know, they were ready to grow up a bit.
razz Showing each other friendship was a step for each of them, especially when they received the same in return.
"Then suddenly, my power and confidence starts swelling up
Magically erupts
And it's all because of kindness that I feel
From people I don't even know"
Once again, Yusuke trusting Hiei. Then having to work together and think together to get up through the tower. They all started helping each other in the sagas after that as well. And they all got stronger and...nicer, even, the more they pushed each other. Maybe they were harsh and even insulting at times and Hiei was the biggest Negative Nancy ever
razz but it was, in the end, all kindness even if it didn't present itself in a big ol' pink ribbon and blow kisses of luff and fluff.
"Then suddenly, my intuition and my wisdom grow
And then I know
But most of all I sense compassion that's real
Thanks to strangers where ever I go...
Thank you for waking me up!"
Enter side characters the also fit into the theme, but in the end - they are these strangers where ever our main characters go. Kurama showing Toya the compassion he did - it's a bit reversed, and instead of him showing a main character that, but it still stands. Jin and Chuu, those guys controlled by Dr. Ichigaki, Suzuka giving Kuwabara and Kurama some help. Yes, I count that, even if he claimed it to be out of hating Tuguro more. It was still a step for him.
razz The Dark Tournament was full of compassion being flung around by strangers and learning to accept each other. Intuition and wisdom grow, them realizing that not everyone was what they expected, by proving it to each other through that mentioned compassion: thank you for waking me up.
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I feel like a dork. xDDD Omg, if none of this make sense, feel free to tell me and slap me a little for rambling. It's 4:30 in the morning, and the muse struck me an hour ago to describe it this way.
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