Category: Personal

I found the ending of an old anime I used to watch… well, I say “old”, but it was released in 2007. It’s about young love, and decides to mask what is a depressing story in cutesy paper. If the story itself just decided to pull one gut punch and call it there, I would be okay with it, but when it reaches out it’s hand to tell you “It’s going to be alright”, it decides to kick you in the gut as soon as you get back up. This abusive relationship between viewer and show culminates when the main female protagonist, who was always depicted as sickly, dies in child birth, leaving the main male protagonist to live in a drunken stupor for 4 years, with the child’s grandparents taking care of the child. This would be the gut punch. Eventually, the grandparents leave the child with her father for a month as they go on vacation. The child brings light back into the father’s life, and he’s doing much better, taking the child in full time. This is the outstretched hand. Winter would soon be upon then, and the Father and Daughter would go to the local park to play in the snow… when a blizzard hits… and its revealed that the daughter is just as sickly as her mother, dying in the cold… Kick in the gut. I don’t know whether to call the piece art, or abuse… but the fact that just the ending song can cause these feelings rushing back… is not exactly thrilling…