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Juna Ariyoshi
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| Juna Ariyoshi |
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Arjuna is set in Kobe, Japan, where the protagonist, Juna, is attending high school. The story opens on her telling her boyfriend, Tokio, she feels too cramped in the city, and deciding to take a trip to the Sea of Japan. On the drive, they get in an accident, and Juna dies.
As her spirit leaves her body, Juna sees the Earth suffering, visualized by worm-like creatures, the Raaja, entwining the planet. A young boy, Chris, appears to her, and offers to save her life if she will help the planet. She agrees, and is resurrected.
Characters
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Juna Ariyoshi
Juna is a girl in the tenth grade, who is chosen by Chris to be the \"Avatar of Time\", to save the planet. Besides possessing powers due to her \"Earth sympathy\" [1], she is an ordinary teenage girl. She has a difficult time understanding her purpose, and is unsure how she is supposed to help the planet. Her personal life is also distressed, both with her mother and sister, and especially in her uncertain relationship with Tokio, whose thoughts she cannot figure out, and who similarly never manages to understand her feelings. While she attempts to succeed in her job, she cannot understand the message Chris is trying to explain until the very end, when she realizes the meaning of \"becoming one with the target\" that she repeats from the beginning of the series.
Chris Hawken
Chris is a powerful entity, who appears in the body of a young boy, crippled by expending his energy to revive Juna. He speaks only telepathically, and is able to leave his body at will, and often does so to help others. He is unerringly kind and patient to everyone, including Juna, despite her misunderstanding his words. He repeatedly admonishes her for trying to fight the Raaja, saying \"Why do you kill?\"[1], and claiming he never asked her to do so.
Cindy Klein
Cindy is a young orphan whom Chris rescues, leading to her unwavering devotion to him. She acts as his translator, since she is telepathic, and can read his (and others) thoughts. She comes across as cold and rude to everyone other than Chris, most of all Juna, his disciple, who she feels can never replace him. She admits having psychological issues, which she claims stem from being able to read her mother's thoughts before her own birth.[2]
Tokio Oshima
Tokio is a stereotypical teenage boy, who plays video games and is addicted to fast food. He is greatly concerned with Juna's safety, and tries to protect her, not realizing he is powerless against the force she is trying to fight. He considers himself in love with her, but has a distorted view of what love is. Despite never having even kissed his supposed girlfriend, he attempts to both propose to her, and later have sex with her, neither successfully.[3][2] Though he sees what Juna is doing, he understands her purpose even less than she does, and is quick to criticize her actions as needlessly obsessive. In his confusion, he ends up leading on their mutual friend, Saiyuri, leaving an uncomfortable love triangle.
Saiyuri Shirakawa
Saiyuri is a classmate and friend to both Juna and Tokio. She knows nothing of Juna's other life saving the planet, but tries to help her friend deal with what she sees as nothing more than emotions from her confusing personal life. While she at first tries to help Juna and Tokio remain together, it becomes clear she has feelings for Tokio herself, evidenced by actions such as her removing her glasses whenever she sees him, after he mentions that she looks better that way at one point.[4] When her family is destroyed in the \"death of Japan\", she and Tokio effectively become a family to look after her dying younger siblings.
The Raaja
The Raaja are most often portrayed as red, semi-transparent worm-like creatures. They vary in size, from microscopic bacteria to those encompassing the entire planet. Juna sees these creatures, along with the death of the planet, and believes they are the monsters responsible, and so fights them. It is hinted throughout that this is not an entirely correct view, due to Chris's complaints at her actions, but Juna dismisses these by refusing to see any other alternative. Further confusion in their purpose is planted by Chris's apparent alignment with the Raaja, first admitting to taking them into himself (then explained as his being kind to everyone, even the Raaja)[3], but then later claiming he actually is the Raaja, as they stand on the brink of destroying the planet. It is not until the last moments of the show that Juna realizes that Chris \"is\" the Raaja in the same manner that she is trying to become \"one with the target\", and instead of fighting, merges with them herself to pacify them. As the creatures die, the characters realize the Raaja were not the enemies of the Earth, but rather the Earth itself, attempting to cleanse itself.
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Girl_Arjuna |
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27.01.2007 10:30 |
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