#B: it's an extension of Jack's actions with him as “pandora” and the Abyss as “pandora's box” if that makes any sense

[corvidlvr51]

please share your wisdom of the pandora hearts title meaning!!

First, thank you for the ask! I'm not very good at articulating my thoughts on this sort of stuff so sorry if it I sound incoherent. Also my take isn't anything new, it's been said before and it's fairly obvious in hind sight tbh (at least to me). I had just dismissed the title early on and hadn't noticed the connections while reading the manga for the first time lol.

I don't think the title is meant to represent a specific aspect of the manga, but rather thread together the main motifs of hope, despair, light & darkness, people's hearts and of course, love. I don't have any exact references on hand, but you can open almost any volume and find a panel with one of these themes pretty easily. What/who exactly is "pandora" or "pandora's box" doesn't really matter as it can apply to any of the characters or even the abyss itself, and hell even life in general.

It's like the main quote of the series, "Someone said that this place is engulfed in darkness. But, that doesn't mean there was never any light there". While it's very obviously about the Abyss, it can also be applied to the series as whole or individual characters. Oz even compares light and hope in one scene.

Jack talks about how Lacie brought him hope, but it was because of that hope he was engulfed in the shadows of despair and lost himself in them. Oz, on the other hand, starts the series an abused child who's lost his will to truly live, but he is able to find hope and love and ends the series happy and fulfilled. The manga is filled with awful and dark moments/events, but it's ultimately a story of hope & love & connection.

I'm going to stop myself there, so hopefully you get the point. There's a lot of ways to apply the title Pandora Hearts to the manga, as it's kinda just an encapsulation of the themes of the whole thing.

#pandora hearts #pandora hearts spoilers #Basically people's hearts are pandora boxes :) #ranlog #I didn't bring up the actual Pandora organization cause I'm not confident about how it slots into everything #my theories are either: #A: Mochijun just wanted to put the name Pandora into the manga somehow and choose to give it to the organization #B: it's an extension of Jack's actions with him as “pandora” and the Abyss as “pandora's box” if that makes any sense #C: a more cynical take on the myth with the organization “pandora” opening the Abyss as “pandora's box” and - #messing with what they shouldn't have/opening what they shouldn't thus releasing despair aka the chains and stuff #Sheryl outright says that humans shouldnt mess with things beyond their comprehension at the end of manga #although typing it out point C could also be extension of Jack's actions/character arc #but idk something just about it just doesn't feel right #like I'm missing the piece that makes it all fit together #if it even fits in the first place #or maybe the wrongness is just entirely in my head idk #uh anyways if you reading this anon sorry I took a while to answer I didn't even see I'd gotten an ask until today