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A review by alexampersand
Birthday by Kōji Suzuki
3.5
It was well written for the most part, but sort of felt extraneous. The first story just reiterated a story we already knew, but from a different characters perspective. The second story filled in a gap from Sadako's history, which was fine but sort of dragged on a little for me.
The final story was probably the most interesting, and functions as a sort of epilogue to Loop, filling in what happened after the ending. But in some ways this actually left me pretty unsatisfied, especially what felt like a big expository paragraph with some very unsubtle writing about how important diversity is. Maybe that was a translation issue, but it just felt very hamfisted.
I think I would have enjoyed these if the stories were a little shorter and functioned as real snapshots, but as it was it felt too long for what little they had to offer in the way of plot.
The final story was probably the most interesting, and functions as a sort of epilogue to Loop, filling in what happened after the ending. But in some ways this actually left me pretty unsatisfied, especially what felt like a big expository paragraph with some very unsubtle writing about how important diversity is. Maybe that was a translation issue, but it just felt very hamfisted.
I think I would have enjoyed these if the stories were a little shorter and functioned as real snapshots, but as it was it felt too long for what little they had to offer in the way of plot.