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I've actually watched this anime movie and series about a year ago and just recently, I heard of a special version of its ending song. "One More Time, One More Chance", it was entitled. And so I felt like writing about something from it, after living for some time with the message that it has carried. This blog post is not a review, but more of a reflection that I have obtained from the movie. Beyond this point of the post may contain some spoilers, so you might want to stop here and perhaps watch the anime movie or series first before you continue reading. The anime movie is only about 65 minutes, while the anime series has only 3 episodes. Watching either one will be sufficient. And yes, it is that short but the message that it contains is something that you might have known all along, but only that you've never noticed. It is something that may give you some awareness to what you're doing, particularly in your love life, as well as your other relationships, such as, perhaps, friendship. So do watch it first before continue reading if you don't like spoilers. And you'll probably need someone to explain what is actually happening in the story, cause many people have to watch it at least twice to really get an idea of the message, as it is very thin and you might not notice its existence at all.

Conspiracy

Never underestimate the power of the words on the streets That is exactly what I've always been told and what I've came to understand by myself, especially in a world with the unbounded Internet. Anything can be spread so quickly through the Internet that people don't even know what they are reading are true or not. Some may claim that they are able to distinguish between being a true information or being just a rumor. But one wouldn't be too sure if the same rumor is being shared millions. After all, people can choose what they want to be believe. And if people choose to believe something that is untrue, it may very well end up being the truth just because it is being publicly accepted.

Eyes of The World

I believe that in most education systems, we are taught about people have played a large character in both to our own country and the history of human beings. Plato, Socrates, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, but are a few of the many names that we have come to know. Although many of them have left for a very long time, their contributions to the human society are praised even today and the years to come. Just recently, two major death messages have spread across the globe: The American actor, the actor of the main protagonist of a famous movie series, Fast & Furious, Paul Walker. The South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, who served as the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, Nelson Mandela.

Here's what I've noticed. On Facebook itself, at least in my own circle, all I see are statuses and pictures about Walker. I see people mourning upon the lost of Walker as the main protagonist of Fast & Furious, and that they are not able to see his play anymore. But what really gets to me is that there are little to none of those who mentioned, even at the slightest, the name of the man who put an end to apartheid. I do not say that Mandela's death weighs more than Walker, but it has been nearly a week (2 for Walker) and still, only Walker's name appeared in my feeds.