Kyoko Honda Quotes

Kyoko is dead before the first page, and everything she says in the series is remembered by her daughter, which means Tohru has chosen which sentences to keep. This one is worth noticing for the tense. Kyoko was a teenage gang member, the Red Butterfly, who terrorized her neighborhood until a student teacher named Katsuya bothered to ask what was wrong; the version of her Tohru knew was built after that, deliberately, by a woman who had been something else. So kindness as work is not a proverb from her, it is a description of her own conversion. The line also explains the daughter. Tohru's relentless niceness is a discipline she learned from a mother who had to learn it late, which is why it reads as effort rather than temperament, and why the Sohmas find it so hard to argue with.

Balanced antitheses are what the fandom remembers Kyoko for, and this is the most balanced of them, which is the problem. Her real lines are cruder and better: the ones about the ocean, the ones shouted at Katsuya, the threat to never forgive anyone who fails to protect her child. Those belong to a former delinquent. This one belongs to a greeting card, and it sits oddly on a woman whose defining scene is telling a stranger to shove his preaching. The Prelude film, which is Kyoko and Katsuya's story, is where the rough version of her lives. Tohru quotes her mother constantly, and part of the point is that a grieving daughter tidies the dead into wisdom. That is a true observation about grief and a poor reason to put the tidied version on a poster.