The only problem this whole series has, the sole one, is that the writing insist on making Jun the protagonist instead of giving us more from other characters like Hotaru. We can praise how consistent the character is since the very beginning, but to "appreciate" this you have to endure him. I HATE HIS CHARACTER! He is a "bad person", how can he never learn anything, never improve! One of the most disgusting characters I met in fiction.
I'm watching now and very surprising, it doesn't "feel" old at all, it's very well made AND very well written. All episodes have at least one or two strong scenes, this drama was made with much care and love.
Intrigued by your comment. I also felt the ending was slightly off-place, but likely not for "Lynchian" reasons.…
I'm sure I wrote about it someone by I can't find where... now I can't remember all the details. Remembers the scene when one of her staff goes to her room and comments that he hear someone singing, I think? Asks if she was singing and she denies? Some people says that there's nothing really "wrong" with the story, that nothing strange was happening, she was just imagining and nothing more, that scene just meant that she was practicing to her audience when she was alone. But wasn't that maybe just a diversion? Instead of "proving" that there was nothing maybe, I say that perhaps that scene "proves" that she was doing things that even she wasn't aware, doing unconsciously. Get my point? Again, I don't remember all the details now, but strongly felt that something was wrong with her (not just with her attitude). The strange coincidences, the fire, her surviving boyfriend, the "monster", that mysterious sheep... was that sheep really there at the end? Was she really singing at the end or was just another fantasy?
Not that any of this means something bad, it can also mean something good, because in the beginning she was imagining just bad things, always fearful and distrustful. At the end this had changed and she was having much happier thoughts.
I need to watch it again someday, to check these suspicious and think more about if that story about the japanese soldiers have any special meaning.
This movie was disappointing. Starts well presenting Tsugumi with this evil like mindset, but soon enough we stop seeing her emanating that evilness and becomes and boring romance.
I still watching and I want to know, was this filmed all in one go (making it ignore the technology changes) or the episodes where at least partly filmed during various years?
Don't put this on spoilers because people have the right to know this before hand. At first looks like just a "comfy" romance, with two lost souls finding each other and forming a family. But no... it's not it. When you finish you'll realize that from the beginning it was actually a "forbidden" romance... between the protagonist and the little girl. You'll instinctively deny this while watching the first episodes, but the ending recontextualizes everything and everything makes sense in retrospect. The story could have ended 10 minutes before leaving you feeling relived, still able to deny, but no, the story ends only after shredding all doubts that yes, the romance was between the man and the little girl all along. They actually put the effort of making the two officially getting together when she completes 20 years, exactly after she reaches majority to make it seems "appropriate". It's a pedophile story in disguise and I wish the story was more honest about this.
It's hard to forgive how this story developed and ended.Some could argue that parts of the story were absurd on…
The way Towa survived was ridiculous! The whole scene was already having a very hard time convincing me on the danger of the situation, with that factory having so many doors and windows making so easy to enter and leave, but the characters believing that Towa had died apparently because his whole body disappeared like smoke without leaving a trace? This was so unnecessary and his survival adds nothing to the story.
Now, what I really was wanting to complain for a long time, Ren. He was truly really the real the biggest and single "retard" in this story! For what I understood he isn't "100% legally normal", he would be something like a savant, maybe, but doesn't matter. He was the big villain! He did everything wrong, everything! I understand his fear of losing that place for him and his sister in the beginning, but how can he claim to be making all that bad decisions to "protect" him after the girl gets blinded! There's no excuse and he had no right to appear at the charity concert at the end.
Also, file and process against Takegami, and the judgement starts already at the next day? There was no investigation? No one gave their testimony in advance? Just one of the people involved were heard? WTF!! It's just the drama making an effort to show how wrong the justice system in Japan is or is just the drama being bad? It's not possible that something like this can happen, just hear one side of the story and believe 100% without question. And the story completely ignored that Taeko was raped more than one time, they just need to go that that police station to denounce that she had already tried to seek help and the system was complicit. Oh, and I also felt that the story kinda "forgotten" that she was pregnant by the end.
It's hard to forgive how this story developed and ended. Some could argue that parts of the story were absurd on purpose to "denounce", bur really, t was ridiculous. I was already thinking on advance about all the complaint's I could make here while I was watching the last episode but the last minutes made me mad! Read my next comment in spoiler.
What the f... When we first see how that Kazuma goes about trying to find his sister I already thought he was a moron, half-crazy, but holy crap! DUDEEEEEEEEEE!
I HATE HIS CHARACTER!
He is a "bad person", how can he never learn anything, never improve!
One of the most disgusting characters I met in fiction.
Anyone else?
This site have so many strange omissions.
All episodes have at least one or two strong scenes, this drama was made with much care and love.
Remembers the scene when one of her staff goes to her room and comments that he hear someone singing, I think? Asks if she was singing and she denies? Some people says that there's nothing really "wrong" with the story, that nothing strange was happening, she was just imagining and nothing more, that scene just meant that she was practicing to her audience when she was alone. But wasn't that maybe just a diversion?
Instead of "proving" that there was nothing maybe, I say that perhaps that scene "proves" that she was doing things that even she wasn't aware, doing unconsciously. Get my point?
Again, I don't remember all the details now, but strongly felt that something was wrong with her (not just with her attitude). The strange coincidences, the fire, her surviving boyfriend, the "monster", that mysterious sheep... was that sheep really there at the end? Was she really singing at the end or was just another fantasy?
Not that any of this means something bad, it can also mean something good, because in the beginning she was imagining just bad things, always fearful and distrustful. At the end this had changed and she was having much happier thoughts.
I need to watch it again someday, to check these suspicious and think more about if that story about the japanese soldiers have any special meaning.
Still recommend.
Starts well presenting Tsugumi with this evil like mindset, but soon enough we stop seeing her emanating that evilness and becomes and boring romance.
I can't "believe" that ending at all.
At first looks like just a "comfy" romance, with two lost souls finding each other and forming a family. But no... it's not it. When you finish you'll realize that from the beginning it was actually a "forbidden" romance... between the protagonist and the little girl. You'll instinctively deny this while watching the first episodes, but the ending recontextualizes everything and everything makes sense in retrospect. The story could have ended 10 minutes before leaving you feeling relived, still able to deny, but no, the story ends only after shredding all doubts that yes, the romance was between the man and the little girl all along. They actually put the effort of making the two officially getting together when she completes 20 years, exactly after she reaches majority to make it seems "appropriate".
It's a pedophile story in disguise and I wish the story was more honest about this.
The whole scene was already having a very hard time convincing me on the danger of the situation, with that factory having so many doors and windows making so easy to enter and leave, but the characters believing that Towa had died apparently because his whole body disappeared like smoke without leaving a trace? This was so unnecessary and his survival adds nothing to the story.
Now, what I really was wanting to complain for a long time, Ren.
He was truly really the real the biggest and single "retard" in this story! For what I understood he isn't "100% legally normal", he would be something like a savant, maybe, but doesn't matter. He was the big villain! He did everything wrong, everything! I understand his fear of losing that place for him and his sister in the beginning, but how can he claim to be making all that bad decisions to "protect" him after the girl gets blinded!
There's no excuse and he had no right to appear at the charity concert at the end.
Also, file and process against Takegami, and the judgement starts already at the next day? There was no investigation? No one gave their testimony in advance? Just one of the people involved were heard? WTF!!
It's just the drama making an effort to show how wrong the justice system in Japan is or is just the drama being bad?
It's not possible that something like this can happen, just hear one side of the story and believe 100% without question. And the story completely ignored that Taeko was raped more than one time, they just need to go that that police station to denounce that she had already tried to seek help and the system was complicit. Oh, and I also felt that the story kinda "forgotten" that she was pregnant by the end.
Some could argue that parts of the story were absurd on purpose to "denounce", bur really, t was ridiculous.
I was already thinking on advance about all the complaint's I could make here while I was watching the last episode but the last minutes made me mad! Read my next comment in spoiler.
When we first see how that Kazuma goes about trying to find his sister I already thought he was a moron, half-crazy, but holy crap! DUDEEEEEEEEEE!
Seriously?
She looks just like young Sayuri Yoshinaga in this movie.