I would agree that the ending message was questionable . . . However, as a whole . . . Maybe I'm just blinded by my love for Miyazaki's other works, but this was amazing. I mean truly a great manga, definitely deserving a spot in my current top 3. 9/10. (My one complaint actually would be with what was up with the first crypt she visited? I didn't ever understand why that was there . . . But that was probably due to me misreading something, or perhaps a few pages missing from the scans I was reading)