I don't know what the heck the rest of you were expecting...it's a horror tragedy.
But I personally quite enjoyed the way it ended. The village was warped in the first place and didn't get out scott free. Natsuno stuck to his pragmatic beliefs until the end. Seishin and Sunako represent a hard swing to the opposite side of morality-as-a-man-made social construct. There's a lot of various religious references and undertones, and it's such a giant philosophical deconstruct, that even Urobochi would enjoy.
But between the anime and the manga, I really had to fill in the gaps with the novel, which is a lot more in-depth.
I don't know what the heck the rest of you were expecting...it's a horror tragedy.
But I personally quite enjoyed the way it ended. The village was warped in the first place and didn't get out scott free. Natsuno stuck to his pragmatic beliefs until the end. Seishin and Sunako represent a hard swing to the opposite side of morality-as-a-man-made social construct. There's a lot of various religious references and undertones, and it's such a giant philosophical deconstruct, that even Urobochi would enjoy.
But between the anime and the manga, I really had to fill in the gaps with the novel, which is a lot more in-depth.