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I disagree. When I saw the show, I did sympathize with Yukio in that she\'s a young girl whose clearly struggling against overwhelming odds, but it\'s also clear that she\'s using her intelligence and knowledge for self-deception. Rock points this out to her when Ginji dies. He tells her that she basically lied to herself by telling herself that she wanted to be part of the criminal underworld, when in reality all she wanted to do was be with Ginji. It\'s an interesting parallel with Rock, who is far more self-aware. Rock, while at first attracted to the life of a criminal, realizes the incredible danger and inherent dispair that saturates the criminal underworld at the end of the arc. Unlike In the end, he realizes that being a criminal isn\'t all it\'s out to be, but unlike Yukio, Rock never had anything to care about in a legitimate lifestyle, whereas in his current profession he has a crew that respects him, and he has Revy, who has already shown to him that she cares about him and is willing to risk her life for him. In the end, I didn\'t really sympathize with Yukio at all. I just pitied her because her self-deception caused her to lose everything about which she genuinely cared.
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I disagree. When I saw the show, I did sympathize with Yukio in that she\\\'s a young girl whose clearly struggling against overwhelming odds, but it\\\'s also clear that she\\\'s using her intelligence and knowledge for self-deception. Rock points this out to her when Ginji dies. He tells her that she basically lied to herself by telling herself that she wanted to be part of the criminal underworld, when in reality all she wanted to do was be with Ginji. It\\\'s an interesting parallel with Rock, who is far more self-aware. Rock, while at first attracted to the life of a criminal, realizes the incredible danger and inherent dispair that saturates the criminal underworld at the end of the arc. In the end, he realizes that being a criminal isn\\\'t all it\\\'s out to be, but unlike Yukio, Rock never had anything to care about in a legitimate lifestyle, whereas in his current profession he has a crew that respects him, and he has Revy, who has already demonstrated that she cares about him and is willing to make sacrifices for him. Yukio had her whole life ahead of her, a life that she legitimately enjoyed and one she found fulfilling, but she threw it away out of a desire to be with Ginji, and she justified it to herself by saying she was fulfilling her obligations to her family. In the end, I didn\\\'t really sympathize with Yukio at all. I just pitied her because her self-deception caused her to lose everything about which she genuinely cared.
