Throughout the whole book, one thought remained constant. I felt
sorry for Urara. All human beings have the tendency to make up the
world they see by only seeing what they want to see. This is one of
the biggest fallacy of thinking mammal. Even knowing about it isn't
good enough to completely prevent it. Girls have another tendency on
top of that. Girls are more likely to treasure small things --here
when I say things, I mostly mean events-- and there's nothing wrong
with that in itself. Heck, I tend to treasure small things in life,
too. After all, I consider myself fairly well in touch with my
feminine side. Major problem happens when they use that small thing
to filter reality.
Obviously, the first meeting with Touma meant a lot to Urara even
though it meant nothing to Touma. Read it again: It meant NOTHING to
Touma. That's fine, of course, as it helped Urara get back to a
meaningful life. It is NOT fine, however, for her to see Touma with
that pre-fabbed filter in her mind. In the end, Touma came through
for her, but in my eyes, he's already a used car. Sure it's gone
through 120 point inspection and what not, but a used car is a used
car. Come to think of it, Akimoto probably is a brand new car,
perhaps for the wrong reasons, but who cares? Yeah, there were some
test-drives, I guess.
And frankly, it is scientifically wrong to mix closely related genes
without the ability to filter out the bad genes. There are two ways
to do it. One is very advanced, like how it's done in "Gattaca" or
"Seikai no Monshou." Obviously, that's not available to Urara and
Touma. The other way is to cull. Culling is not anywhere near
foolproof because many recessive genes don't have obvious signs. I'm
sure you can think of many other things wrong with culling.
"Sakura Tsuushin" is a worthwhile read, perhaps because there will be
more brand new cars coming out of manufacturing line when this manga
is read by those cars in production.
Anyway, no kanji list is planned for this series. I don't care for it
that much and it's too long to bother.