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recycled_personalities's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Progressive for it’s time. Seen through a mordent lens, it could be better in its representation. Great examination of grief.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Alcohol, Murder, Alcoholism, Medical content, Bullying, Grief, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Abandonment, Addiction, Death of parent, Death, and Hate crime
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
The ultimate heartbreak cure
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‘I watched the rows of windows in the tall building across the street from the bus stop, suspended, emitting a pretty blue light. The people moving behind those windows, the elevators going up and down, all of it, sparkling silently, seemed to melt into the half-darkness.’
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‘I watched the rows of windows in the tall building across the street from the bus stop, suspended, emitting a pretty blue light. The people moving behind those windows, the elevators going up and down, all of it, sparkling silently, seemed to melt into the half-darkness.’
‘“It’s cold!” I exclaimed. “Yuichi, it’s cold, cold, cold!” I buried my face in his arm, gripping it fiercely. His warm sweater smelled like autumn leaves.’
‘Who is it we have such little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated- defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable. Tonight, again, i felt the darkness hindering my breathing. In my heavy, depressed sleep, I battled each demon in turn.’
‘The forlornness I had felt in relation to Yuichi since hearing about Eriko’s death was linked with the idea of ‘telephone’. Since then even when he was standing next to me, I had felt as if Yuichi were in some other world, at the other end of a telephone line. And that other world was darker than the place where I was. It was like the bottom of the sea… His words sounded far away, travelling over the cable, through the night.’
‘Look at you, I thought. Thanks to a sudden whim, here you are hanging from a roof, planting white puffs of breath. You’ve really outdone yourself this time.’
‘Then I became aware of the heavy atmosphere in the room. I felt that I was inside Yuichi’s nightmare, and that if I stayed here too long I, too would become part of it, destined to be snuffed out in the gloom.’
‘It was the kind of frozen morning in which moon shadows seem to be pasted on the sky. The sound of my footsteps resonated in the silent blue air and faded away into the emptiness of the streets.’
‘For waving goodbye, I thank you.’
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Transphobia
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