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It’s clear she seems to understand and know the two boys better than they know themselves. Painting the picture of an elegant, well read lady who enjoys Shakespeare, but is also cold and playful in her banter. As well, her character and personality forms through various flashbacks and Mahiro and Yoshino’s personal accounts of her.
#Blast of tempest series
The step-sister of Mahiro and girlfriend to Yoshino, whose relationship & influence on them is so heavy that their main motivation throughout the series always relates to her. This all in turn takes the form of Aika for Blast of Tempest. For The Tempest, it’s the character of Sycorax, the mother of the island’s beast Caliban who influences the plot and character relationships. For Hamlet, it is the lead’s father whose murder kickstarts the plot and his ghost who visits him repeatedly. The Influence of The Deadĭeceased characters whose presence and influence are always felt throughout is a common thread in both Hamlet and The Tempest. He no longer wants such tragedy to take place, especially when it’s born from another tragedy (this being Aika’s death) and it’s something he’s determined to see through. It’s his personal conversations with Aika on a subject like Shakespeare that help to form this view. Rather than let her continue to suffer more than she needs to in the situation she’s trapped in. Unlike Hamlet, The Tempest’s story ends happily for a revenge tale and Yoshino uses this fact to justify why he rescued Hakaze from the island. It’s The Tempest ‘s story and its ending that holds the most weight on the characters themselves. While both Hamlet and The Tempest’s influence on the plot is so great that even the characters reference them. Hakaze using her magic to find Aika’s killer while Mahiro will help to stop Hakaze’s clan from carrying out their plan. By luck or perhaps fate, Hakaze’s message in a bottle (a magical walkie-talkie doll) makes its way to Mahiro and the two agree to assist each other. In that she and the play’s protagonist Prospero are sorcerers betrayed and exiled on a remote island. While Mahiro’s quest to avenge Aika’s death in Blast of Tempest harkens to the revenge story of Hamlet, Hakaze’s situation references The Tempest. She is betrayed and exiled on a remote island, washing up inside a barrel of all things.
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After objecting to clan member Samon’s decision to awaken the “Tree of Exodus”, whose power can bring ruin to the entire world. Make up my sum.Ĭompleting out the members in this quest of revenge is Hakaze Kusaribe, a mage who was the leader (and princess) of her clan. Could not with all their quantity of love. Yoshino would even use this quote from Hamlet, Act V, Scene I to describe his love for Aika long after her death A secret the two of them have kept from everyone, even long after her death. This being the fact he was Aika’s boyfriend. Who besides helping his friend out of general kindness and making sure he doesn’t go too far, also has a personal stake in this quest. The words uttered by Mahiro at the end of Episode 1 of Blast of Tempest ‘The Mage in the Barrel’, taken from Hamlet, Act I, Scene V.Īlong for the ride is his closest friend and confidant Yoshino Takigawa (much like Horatio in Hamlet). The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That Aika’s death should never have occurred and that the only thing he can do now is make things right no matter the cost. Likewise both are also prone to abandoning all morals and reason for the sake of revenge.Īs a result he feels that the whole situation is wrong and illogical. Much like how the lead of Hamlet wishes to kill his uncle Claudius as revenge for killing his father. One of our protagonists, Mahiro Fuwa is out to kill the person responsible for the murder of his step-sister Aika. Spoilers Ahead! A Tale of Revenge, a Blast of Tempestīlast of Tempest‘s classical revenge tale takes heavily from Hamlet and The Tempest (hence the title, as Blast of Hamlet just doesn’t have the same ring to it), both being stories about retribution but with entirely different outcomes. The influence of William Shakespeare’s works on Blast of Tempest (or Zetsuen no Tempest) isn’t subtle in the least but what it helps form is something all the more unique and fascinating beneath its homages and references. (Note: this a repost of an article I originally wrote for Fighting for Nippon)