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Watched today Ugetsu Monogatari at uni for a class, and came out thinking about what does it mean that Ugetsu Murata from Given has that name. The film is pretty phamtasmagoric and the title is translated literally to something like “Tales of Moonlight and Rain”, which listening to my teacher is meant to refer to the ilusory and fragile world that’s experienced when those elements came together and makes up what the atmosphere around what the four main charas end up experiencing; ambiguous supernatural elements + a comment on war and men and how it affects their families(their wifes especifically in this case). Is also the loose adaptation of two or three tales of a collection by the same name written by author Ueda in 1776, and the title is no coincidence…

Right so it seems Ugetsu has the connotations of mistery and magic, as in, nights where anything could happen. Back already in the sXVIII. So, I like the name, both what it means and the way it sounds outloud but I wonder, uh. Why the chara in Given has that name. He does give a bit of pseudo-gothic/haunted vibes at the start… if not by the supernatural.