this manga is so great. it has layers of meaning, and the ending just made me write this little tidbit here... a lot of it is actually plagiarized, you could say, because i took some words straight from the manga: Enjoy. - - - - - - - - - - "Full Moon" Some lines taken from "New Future" lyrics by TV Tokya Music, Inc. (from the last song in Full Moon), and the text in Full Moon, Vol. 7 I am lost in thought. I have lost all thought. The patio floor around me seems like a stage, but my song is different now. My words are now weighed with the same sorrow that makes my heart so heavy. My spotlight has been replaced by the moon, whose glimmering fingers softly stroke the tears on my cheek. Slowly, the sparkling droplets slide down my pale face. I've lost him, now for longer than forever, now for eternity. Fate has been cruel. Yes, cruel enough to take him... you... away. I look up at the sky, and it seems so vast at night. I feel so insignificant standing under the void dome of infinity. Yet I can find you right away -- in the full moon. I try to hide from you in the darkness, ashamed by my own weakness, my own tears. I am afraid to accept the loss that threatens to consume me. I wish I could build my own stairway to heaven, with your moonbeams as my foundation. Yes, more and more, I want to get closer to you. Closer and closer. I rise, my body stiff and rigid as if already anticipating my death, and as a cloudy curtain closes over me, your heavenly glow disappears from the sky. Slowly, I move to the balcony's edge. Finally, I will tell you that there's one thing that has never changed: the dream I've always had. I always yearned for the big stage, and now that I am here, let me sing a song to you, a melody that I am finally brave enough to let you hear: I love you. And I am so grateful for you. Leaning on the patio gate, I sing the words as loud as my hoarse voice will carry, as the curtain of darkness moves on and reveals me to the spotlight once again. And just now, I can feel the sky smiling down at me. Is this where I belong? I honestly do not know. But I do know that if we are always together, we can overcome anything. Even death. I fall to my knees, my shaking hands still gripping the top of the rail. I keep thinking I can almost touch the full moon, so big and close... if I jump... right now at this very moment... as high and as far as I possibly can. But if I do it, it would be while fully knowing that once my feet leave the platform, that mighty anchor of living in reality would send me plummeting to the ground. I know now that for my fate for today, I am no longer alone. So I tell you, hear my song. If before my life ends, I can do my best to sing and to shine... if someone found me, the me that you grew to love, and that someone said he loved me... if I had made up my mind to live for that person... then, even if I lost it all again... ... I could believe that things would be all right. I would know that I could make my love shine once more. And yes, tonight makes me shine, shine brighter than any spotlight. But still, more and more, I want to cry out for you. More and more. So I will always look for the full moon. I want to believe that passionate love exists. This song, this dream -- it will not end. Tonight will never change. I will hold you in my heart forever, and I am so glad that you're here with me -- I am so grateful for you. c ya, *Ai-RiNi