Hey I've just seen the last episode this night, and I'm abit confused. A lot of questions are comeing to my mind.

*warning* there might be some unintended spoilers wich I apologize for.

Although Hikaru got rid off the pillar system, wich was ofcourse enormously stupid, though she was not able to fulfill her wish (being together with Lantis). In the last scene of 49 episode she tells us that she want's to visit Cephiro one more time.

So, if Magic Knights got summoned to Cephiro in season 2, by themselves then they are able to travel there and back to the Earth whenever they wish to? I'm almost sure that Hikaru would love to get there again, and meet Lantis (and everyone else too).

But, Fuu said to Ferio:"I will never forget you", um so that actually means that they will never meet again, right?

Eagle before his death told Lantis to take care of Hikaru and make her happy. So it was his last and true wish despite that his country was almost annihilated (ok, let's say that Clef settled that). I don't think that Hikaru was truly happy on Earth. I know she had her normal life, but what about the love? If she wanted to be with Lantis in Cephiro more than living on Earth, she could wish strongly and get there like in start of second season. If she stayed on the Earth for that 1 year, I assume he wasn't THAT important for her. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something?

*epilogue*
I'm very confused because that 49 episode made a huge impression on me(or it was whole MKR... because I watched it in one big burst, without time for conclussions). It might sound childish or immature but I really cried while I watched that. I don't really know why, because I didn't controlled that. I tried to supress that strange feeling but I couldn't. For the first time in my whole life something made me cry, and these tears weren't from fear, or terror. Totally diffrent. But not from happiness. Hikaru wasn't happy at all. She did what she was supposed to (kill Emeraude+save Cephiro), but she also suffered alot (and i dont mean only the phisical pain), even after helping people of Cephiro. She got rid of Nova, so she has forgiven herself, everything is ok but the thing is that she won't be able to come back, and see Lantis. It could be a great love. Why forfeit it? I don't get it.

or maybe it's not the true end? Season 3 in 2008? but oh, cmon, I don't think that CLAMP will continue MKR. The story has ended, fare well and stuff.


I've tried to watch 49 episode again, but everytime I did, I had to supress that feeling again. I just can't watch it with keeping my eyes dry. I can't really gather my thoughts, and analize the story. I also can't concentrate on anything else than MKR after that... So I'm going to watch season1 once again now, just to kill the free time, and have joy of seeing happy Hikaru (though there aren't many scenes without seeing her feeling guilty of anything. Even of things like wasting Presea's tablecloth after defeating the mud monster)

I think that the jump to Cephiro needed to be done with a very strong wish in the heart of the one causing the jump, and the ones making the jump will return to their home world once the wish is fulfilled. In the first season, Emeraude wanted to die, so the Knights returned to the Tower as soon as she did. That, I believe, is one of the small mercies built into the Pillar System for the summoned executioners, that they return home to deal with their reactions at home, surrounded by friends and family, rather than seeing the rather ugly consequences of their actions on Cephiro.

In Hikaru's case, her wish (from the DVD subs) was "I want to go Cephiro once more, and this time I want to do something for that land that the Pillar, Princess Emeraude, protected so dearly!" The clear wish, combined with her incredibly strong magic, allowed the jump to occur. At the end of the season, her wish has been fulfilled: Debonair was defeated and the remnant of the world was saved. So then, with no wish tying them to Cephiro, the Knights have to return home, no matter how much they might like to stay.

But Hikaru's managed to cause the jump once already, a similarly strong wish ("I want to return to Cephiro so we can be with the people we love," perhaps) might allow another return trip. The manga had the Knights returning to Cephiro in the last chapter, and implied they'd made the jump back and forth several times already, in a "our heroes' lives continue on, but our story ends here" kind of way.

The pillar system itself

Ironically, Hikaru came to understand the Pillar System much the same way that her former adversary Zagato did - that it wasn't acceptable for another person to sacrifice herself completely for the welfare of others. To be the Pillar you essentially had to become a slave without any feelings or desires of your own. Every minute of your life had to be dedicated towards the welfare of Cephiro and its people. You could love no one else and no one could love you. Such self discipline is achievable and typically associated with monastic life however no one should ever be forced to live such a life against their will. So by that standard Emeraude was a failure, but that doesn't necessarily mean that her successor would be or the Pillar System as a whole failed. So Dyeka-san has a good point about it being foolish to abolish the Pillar System. However my opinion is that keeping such a system would be like a parent never letting her children grow up. The children would become stagnant, lazy, and uncreative if they do not have their own destinies to pursue. So in that regard, abolishing the Pillar system was a way of setting the people of Cephiro free - no longer would they be dependent on the Pillar system and they would be responsible for their own destiny from now on.

This freedom is the final gift of the Magic Knights to Cephiro and why the MKR series has such a happy ending. Even though they couldn't stay behind with their friends in the anime, the Magic Knights knew that they had made all of their sad friends very happy. (Primera is the only Cephiran character in the second season that is consistently cheerful throughout.) The Pillar system that had brought everyone so much sorrow was gone and they were all free from now on.