I need a life, and yeah, if you guys were wondering what happened to our RAA last month, well, I had an argument with my sister which got me banned from the internet by my father. Long story. Friend me in my personal kristalyamaki livejournal if you want to read any of those, but other than that, there's no major change in life for me. It's the school holidays for us here in Malaysia, yes, but I'm stuck at home, playing Pokémon FireRed (Read: an improved version of Gameboy Color's Pokémon Red. Why did they even bothered to make an improved version?) on my computer. What else can I do without the internet? Well, I've made an AMV during my absence online so come back for that two days from now. (I'm premiering the AMV on 20th December which is two days from now, duh.)Right now I'm downloading episode 11 of Clannad on Azureus. Can't do that when I don't have the internet. I've just finished (watching) episode 10 and it was a boring episode with that genius girl, (what was her name again?), Kotomi. Her voice could be one of the roughest together with another Clannad girl, Tomoyo and their voice actresses must be around 40 something with a really sore throat. I personally prefer girls with sweet voice, regardless of their looks. Even Kyou, the evil twin of Ryou who is also the monitor of a class (I forgot which one) in Clannad seemed attractive enough. So... I'm not going to talk about any one of them. Instead, I'll be focusing on the outgoing Clannad girl who had most of the focus and limelight throughout the start of the series till episode 9 - Fuko. She didn't make any appearance at all in episode 10, so I'd assume that episode 9 would be her last episode. Bless her. I wouldn't want to see anyone distributing wooden starfishes around school, in my school at least. Usually a permission is needed from the school to distribute such items or else it would most likely be confiscated. =\Never mind that anyways.Okay, going into the main topic. If you know nothing about Fuko and what she had been doing with the wooden starfishes she'd been distributing around, read this and you might have a basic idea, at least.Let me start with me quoting a conversation between Sunohara and Tomoya and you'll see how obvious the loophole is to Sunohara, an observer indirectly involved in the whole thing:Sunohara: I skipped class and did some research on Ibuki Fuko. Tomoya: Why did you go and do that?Sunohara: The person getting married this Sunday is Ibuki, right? Then Fuko-chan's last name should be Ibuki as well. Isogai Fuko is a fake name.Tomoya: Uh.Sunohara: But Ibuki Fuko's in the hospital. Then who's the one that's always with us? A fake Ibuki Fuko?(A long pause)Sunohara: *sigh* If she's a fake, then that's fine. But she isn't, right? Then that makes Fuko-chan a...... (A short pause)Sunohara: Okazaki, can I go confirm it?Tomoya: Confirm what?Sunohara: I'm thinking of going to the hospital to see Ibuki Fuko's face.Tomoya: You idiot, don't!Sunohara: Why?Tomoya thought that if Sunohara were to see Ibuki Fuko, he would lose all of the memories he had of her and eventually forget about her. Tomoya didn't realised that Sunohara was really determined to find out about the mystery that he didn't stopped Sunohara from investigating further.The next day, Sunohara was absent from school. Suddenly, he turned up in school at the afternoon, saying that before he knew it, he was walking out of a hospital a city away. However, he couldn't remember why he had been there for and hadn't had a clue why he went over there. Like Tomoya had predicted, Sunohara had forgotten about Fuko. This is where it all started to get weird. Not only Sunohara started to forget about Fuko's being, Kyou, Ryou, and even the other students around school started to forget about her, as if she's not around. They couldn't remember receiving a wooden starfish from Fuko. At that time Nagisa and Tomoya were still able to see her. So, Tomoya came to a conclusion that memories of Fuko will fade away to those with less relation with her... and feared that one day, even he himself will forget about her.Despite not being able to remember, Sunohara confessed that he felt something as if how there was someone like that. Even Akio-san and Sanae-san felt as if something's suddenly missing from their lives and felt disturbingly uncomfortable. Tomoya reckons that it should be because they have not completely forgotten her, yet.That night, the three went and stayed at school. Little do they know it would be their last night together as the very next morning, both Nagisa and Tomoya couldn't remember a thing at all regarding Fuko. Tomoya even got hit by Akio using his trusty baseball bat for sleeping overnight with her daughter in school alone but then recalled that he might have approved it due to some other reason - that someone else might be around as well. He never remembered in the end.Despite having lost the memory, both of them knew that they have forgotten something. They knew it. They just don't remember what it was. Tomoya even rejected Kyou's offer to go shopping on Sunday because he barely remembered that there's something major, something important scheduled. Kyou got mad at his excuse of rejecting her.As they tried to remember what they had forgotten, they saw a teacher doing preparation for a wedding. Weird questions were asked, and as they were told that they were the ones who had requested for this function, they realised, it was the wedding that they have been trying to remember. It was the function. Ibuki-sensei's wedding! And as they recalled it, Fuko appeared out of no where, meaning that they've finally recalled Fuko. Tears started to flow down cheeks.The day of the wedding finally arrived. Yusuke and Ibuki-sensei were married and many adults were present. The weird thing is that there wasn't any students around. But as the newly wed couple walked out of the school building, many students were waiting out there, holding onto a wooden starfish. Kyou, Ryou and Sunohara and even Akio-san and Sanae-san were there! Fuko momentarily appeared in front of everyone and walked towards Ibuki-sensei, handed over a wooden starfish, and then disappeared into thin air like an angel."I'm getting really impatient with the story's pace. If Ibuki-sensei wanted to marry, she should just go on with it without waiting for her sister's condition to worsen."That was what I said in the last article I wrote. Well, gladfully, Ibuki-sensei and Yusuke-san did get married in the end.Fuko's arc ends here. While I can say that this is definitely a happy ending sort of story, there's the chance of Fuko's return. She never died. She's only in a coma, and will probably be like that till the end of the story.
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