How did you feel about the way he transformed through the series, and how he ended up?
Or put differently, Dainichi's mind (along with his body), making no discrimination between this and that, is like a great space ("emptiness"; kû) from out of which he transforms himself through self-differentiation into the myriad thing-events and beings.
After each chapter narrated by Alice we check in with another wandering soul, Daniel, a kind, mentally troubled, 60-ish hobo who daily traverses a grim, hidden city, gathering colorful bits of garbage that he transforms into art through a transcendental origami-like process.
His gifts lie in his sense of theater, his wit and timing and his understanding of the dramatic essentials of the stories he has transformed through contemporary, almost allegorical settings.
"He was giving his students direct insights into the very subject matter that was inspiring his own art; the frosted cakes, cream pies, lollipops and the trays of herring and sardines he was transforming, through the skilled application of paint onto canvas, into the most tactile and sensuous visual compositions imaginable".
He transformed the original through a radically different style of dance and the dramatic and psychological significance which he brought to it.
But they had also watched him transform through football.
The idea transforms through the process of abstraction into something that's larger ultimately than its original.
It slowly transforms through several flower-like phases of color and form, remaining in perpetual motion, before fading back to black.
The growth of an organism starts with a single fertilized egg cell which transforms through a development of concerted cell actions (such as division, signaling, etc).
