Spoiler: consider reading this only after finishing Last Episode
Horror film
Long time ago I watched Hideo Nakata’s リング, and was very not satisfied with that. After all frustration, researching, and chasing, the protagonist can’t do anything to stop the curse. And what I do not expect was how curse works, people just accept it? Seems like the one.
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
– Genesis 3 17
There is nothing like human can do anything with, right?
The same hollowness came to me years later, today.
Airplay
Did Sena choose her career over her lover? If think so, that guy is definitely airplay.
– pyuahua
…Well, that’s the only possible explanation I can come up.
However, I skipped all others routes that didn’t notice.
On the other hand, if Sena is completely defeated by the other girls (and you have to choose the option that explicitly states “I’m not interested in you anymore” in front of Sena). In Rinka-chan’s route and Yui-chan’s route, Sena doesn’t transfer to another school, and probably gives up her activities in Glorious Days and enjoys an ordinary schoolgirl life. Ayane’s route is quite difficult to interpret, though.
In others words, Koutarou himself is the reason why Himeno Sena eventually left Mikagegaoka resulting Koutaro’s 3 novels come into being as well as the song Glorious Days. What a Marxist dialectical relation is 21 century Japan.
琵琶行
( a Tang Dynasty poem )
自言本是京城女，家在蝦蟆陵下住。
十三學得琵琶成，名屬教坊第一部。
曲罷曾教善才服，妝成每被秋娘妒。
五陵年少爭纏頭，一曲紅綃不知數。
…
門前冷落車馬稀，老大嫁作商人婦。
商人重利輕別離，前月浮梁買茶去。
去來江口守空船，繞船月明江水寒。
夜深忽夢少年事，夢啼妝淚紅闌干。
The most scary part is what Natsuko said:
She … Himeno-han who had long since put the past behind her, married someone else, and was a housewife in her own right. She had forgotten all about Kunimi. In other words, what Kunimi is doing was just an annoying, ridiculous, one-man effort. That’s a possibility.
– Natsuko
Koutarou afterwards replied with something like “that’s love”, that part was most incredible for me.
Neurasthenia
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