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>The self-hating lesbian struggling with her impure feelings.

Sounds like boring personal drama more than yuri to me. What, like girlfriends, sasameki koto? Its been too long, I read other yuri doujins/oneshots at the time that were not like that.

>KNM focuses entirely on Himeko and Chikane's relationship.

Not true. Every character is shown to have trauma and how they deal with it throughout the story. Soma with his brother, the orochi, Himeko's friend, Himeko with bad parents and her bullies. The high standards Chikane and her onlookers held herself to.

>the anime version has them overcome their tragic 'destiny' of being torn apart, by having them re-unite in Himeko's lifetime

Although I did say having one of them sacrificed while the other has to live on felt right, I never said anything about Himeko having to suffer for it until she dies. She should be rewarded to see Chikane again for choosing to live. That might be having your cake and eat it too situation but KnM isn't a cynical story.

For Chikane being alive and breaking the destiny, I always interpreted it more as a change in perspective. Instead of waiting a lifetime, maybe after a few years after the last life they materialize a new body since their souls are tied to a god, but they still forget and have to fight the orochi sooner. It could be a gift from ame-no-murakumo for Chikane not blaming her having to do this whole cycle business, and maybe to prevent one of her avatar-disciples from going rogue again. The bottom line is, the cycle of having to defeat the orochi and restarting their relationship will continue and is immutable, but as long as they get to meet each other, they'll keep falling in love over and over again. Those small chances to see each other again will always be worth it.

This is still basically what the twin endings is but they don't grow up or see each other as often, which makes this the objectively less happier ending, but I feel this is more thematic.

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Happy Birthday to my OTP!
hopefully one day the translator of the himegami no miko manga finally tls the extras he said he was gonna do