I saw some questions about what in the end was Utsuro and Shouyou. And I ended up thinking about the philosophical concept of both in anime
(I don’t know if this is correct ksksk but it was what I liked to think)
I always imagined Utsuro and Shouyou as something more mythological and human at the same time.
The human they were born was like all the others, but the social position they were placed in and their traumas created not many personalities but the duality of the human mind. after so much suffering he had several ways of interpreting his problems, in this way he generated the two great human contradictions that are hate/fear and hope.
Utsuro would be the feeling of denial, the attempt to escape from what has been imposed on him for so long. the feeling of revenge. And Shouyou was the hope even in hard times. Even having everything around him collapsing, he believed in humans.
And in the end showed that both Utsuro and Shouyou were completely human. They were the living form of human feelings, feelings that go hand in hand even though distant.
“From here on, wield the sword not to strike down enemies, but to strike down your own weak self. Wield it not to protect yourself, but to protect your soul.”
