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Ah ah ah! You're wrong, Amiboshi was never really "evil", just because he was a Seiryuu Shichiseishi DOESN'T make him evil. You're blending the two. I see the point you're trying to make, but wrong character usage there. Amiboshi never really wanted to hurt anyone, he came to really like the Suzaku Seishi and Miaka (I mean, obviously he liked Miaka so much he wanted to marry her but yea...). I've never seen Amiboshi as evil, he never really killed anyone like his half-crazed brother.

i love what you two (the manda and takiko-chan) wrote!!

first of all, that was the best (the only? eek ) justification of suboshi. i always kinda didnt like him (i would never say hate...ugh, suzaku forbid anyone ever say that...) but reading that made me rethink his character. you know...his personality's a little like yui's. when they both hear something (suboshi: "your brothers dead," yui: "miaka betrayed you") they fly into a rampage and will do anything to get the ultimate revenge. BUT that doesnt mean they're "evil" for doing so. i really did try to put myself in their positions and found out i'd be pretty ticked off if someone told me ____ killed my family or ____ was the reason i was raped [insert names there ^^]

The Manda, the post that you wrote that started out like this:

was great 3nodding sensei's endings arent the "perfect" happy ending but they are happy ending nonethless. in fact, im glad they arent so cheesy because that would be unrealistic and...cheesy (no other word....)
and yes, even erika was justified in the end of imadoki (though no one really cares sweatdrop
i didnt see The Kitsune Hanyou's post and i wont be too hard on her but if a guy were hot i wouldnt exactly fall to pieces because we were separated. and if i did whine it'd probably be because im joking around like some "romeo romeo where foreart though romeo" thing xp (sorry we're reading shakespeare in class) the reason tamahome and amiboshi are my favorite seishi isnt because they're hot (though they are pleasing to they eye wink ) but because they're so perfect it makes you wanna wring em and kiss em at the same time xd

so theres my little rambling...my goodness i cant believe i wrote all that xp

that oughtta be good 3nodding
im softening up to suboshi now...but i'll always love amiboshi more xp heart

Without conflict of any type between the good or evil characters though, it would all be fluff without action. Worse of all there would be no plot. Conflict- even if it does appear as torture- is a necessity to any storyline. Especially for the main character(s). ^_~

Karma does have a way of striking back, even if it isn't immediately. Yes, Amiboshi did seem to start that way, but he did have reluctance. He did confess how he felt to Miaka and did get his way of not remembering everything. Though he didn't get his wish of Suboshi joining him and in the end did lose his only blood relative.

You knew what I meant! The point of the speech was not to proclaim Amiboshi as evil (as, I was not*) but to explain how the "bad guys" get the good stuff while the "good"guys get shifted. Its enough to make me want to be evil. I mean... the evil people usualy either DIE at the end, Get away with it, or become GOOD.

1.If you're dead you wont know it anyway, and you'll still have a life full of happiness
2.Get away with it? Hm... continue to be happy...
3.This option kinda is the worst... because as soon as they become good, they'll run into a bunch of problems--UNLESS it is the end of the story. ^_^ Then they'll STILL be able to live happilly ever after because it will be the end of the story...and....the author cant fit anymore misery into it. ^_^

*What I was saying is not more about his character, but more about which team he played for. He played for Seriu much longer than Suzaku...and thats what I was trying to get at.
*besides, you knew it was an example... and you knew that I changed my mind at the last minute; so whats the point in arguing with something that I already know is incorrect, huh? Do you just want to prove that I'm wrong and you're right, maybe even when we're both trying to make the same point?

if you really count dying as "something good," you're contradicting yourself because the good guys die a lot too, mostly more than the bad ones (didnt someone already say this?) and i dont particularly see how dying is "a life full of happiness" since you have no life confused who got away with their "evil" intentions? i dont recall that but if you could remind me...because i think i know what you're saying but im not that sure.

Yea, well, the problem with your friend's logic is that the line between good and evil isn't quite so black and white as we might like to think. Fushigi Yuugi is great example of that. So many of the things we call evil deads, are things meant with a well meaning intention. Their execution or way of going about things might be misguided though.