Tsukihime Chapter 74 Discussion

very memorable princess of the moon

megaxer said:
as a person who have read the VN and played the 5 routes i would say that this manga has fantastic adaptation.  it follows the arcued's route taking some aspects of others routes.



i personally love this ending more than the true ending of the novel (they had to be together)



Arcueid damm girl! you made me cry again!

One day we'll have also a proper anime adaptation.

anaaga said:
I have a a question:



In the Satsujinki section, Sensei mentioned that Shiki can live longer since he cheated death (or something like that). Does that mean that Shiki has been living more than the normal human life span?

And Ciel too



No, Shiki going die faster than normal human because he use MEoDP often

Megalo-dono said:
Does the part where Shiki goes to free Arcueid actually happen in any of the visual novel endings?

It doesn't in the original Tsukuhime
There if you chose the option that appears on second playthrough Arcueid will just appear the next day at the road to school. However I think that a story like the one from the doujin I linked abive was in Kagetsu Tohya (a spin-off of Tsukihime rather loosely tied with it by the characters and some of the events) and that breaking into the castle would be an obvious result.

Really enjoyed reading this; the last pages alone made it truly worth it



ShikixArcueid ftw :D

That was an interesting read. Not as complex as Fate but still a good story for Type-Moon's first work. Shiki being a way better protagonist than Shirou will ever be.



7.5/10.

Okay, so to start off I really liked this series as a whole I give it a 9/10 probably the best 'romance' manga I've read. I haven't ever read the Visual Novels so I don't know if the manga is a better adaptation of the novels.



Now about the ending, first let me say that I like this 'nicer' ending where they live happily ever after. Never been a fan of highly depressing love stories 'ala Romeo & Juliet.' That said I don't quite get this ending, maybe I'm just dumb or need to re-read the last two chapters. I'm confused on how this plays out.



From what I gathered Arcueid survived her fight with Roa but put herself back into deep sleep in order to suppress her vampiric urges. The only difference between this sleep and her previous slumbers was the fact that now she had all the pleasant memories of what it was like to feel alive. Thanks to Shiki she no longer feels lonely and has in a way been given a reason to live, besides just being a weapon that hunts vampires.



Now Shiki on the other hand is seen talking to the Magi, who encouraged him to live on as a child. She hints at his body deteriorating and the whole 'you can never find happines' thing. So from what I gathered, he has cheated death far too many times and his lifespan is ending.



This is the part that really confuses me the whole scene where Shiki, with the help of Ciel, finds Arcueid and breaks her out of sleep. Then it goes back to Shiki wearing a blindfold and walking off. So was Shiki coming to the rescue all a dream by Arcueid, did Shiki end up dying towards the end, or did he become something like Ciel. Where his body is frozen in time, tied to the fate of that which killed him. That also leads me to wonder, how is Ciel still alive? I mean didn't they say that she and Roa where one in the same. That she shared the same soul and therefore was tied to his fate. That the world could not let her be killed because it would cause a contradiction. So does that mean that Roa is actually still alive somehow. Or was the essence that Roa took from Arcueid which gave him immortality somehow melded with his Soul. Which somehow links Arcueid to Ciel's immortality since part of her was part of Roa.



Okay.....I'm going to stop here because I feel like I'm entering an endless loop of questions. So, anyone here that is a Tsukihime fanatic can help me out. Because I'm pretty darn confused with how this manga ended.

as a person who have read the VN and played the 5 routes i would say that this manga has fantastic adaptation.  it follows the arcued's route taking some aspects of others routes.



i personally love this ending more than the true ending of the novel (they had to be together)



Arcueid damm girl! you made me cry again!