I see many people not understanding the end and saying it was sudden, but I don't think so. In a lot of scenes following him getting beaten up, he's hurt and shows sequels of being hit on the head, so his death was predictable, I must say. Especially in the end, he loses control of his hand at work and his legs on the way. Even on the train, the tangerine fell off, and he had difficulty talking. I'm guessing he got a concussion or something similar. Him not getting a check up despite being told multiple times following his injury was a foreshadowing for the viewers.
For the writer to decide to have him dead was a way to make this story a real tragedy, which was too much. This was not needed but oh well. I can understand why, in a way. A nig theme of the story is being connected to the past vs. forgetting it and going on with life. How would Minako live from now on, still clenched to the past, with her new bio father and step bro with whom she shares a reciprocal doomed love? This would've been a tragedy on its own don't you think so?
As a side comment what is with KimuTaku and having to play chharacters with doomed love with his own siblings lmao. First, I watched Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi, then it was Karei Naru Ichizoku, and now this one.
90s drama really liked to write tragedies. A lot of hints of the big Greek tragedies and I'm totally here for it, don't get me wrong. There's something appealing to all this tragedy and heavily psychological which I lovee!
Contrarily to other comments, I honestly preferred the second season to the first. I loved both of course but…
I guess Koyuki didn't actually die? I kind of like this happy ending for everyone at the end. Afterall this drama is part of the softer ones Nojima Shinji has written so I didn't expect much drama and angst; while of course still keeping it realistic.
Contrarily to other comments, I honestly preferred the second season to the first. I loved both of course but I really think it was a good completion to different character plots. It was filmed 4 years later, with all of them getting older, they all have different challenges in life and this was really well depicted in the drama.
For the writer to decide to have him dead was a way to make this story a real tragedy, which was too much. This was not needed but oh well. I can understand why, in a way. A nig theme of the story is being connected to the past vs. forgetting it and going on with life. How would Minako live from now on, still clenched to the past, with her new bio father and step bro with whom she shares a reciprocal doomed love? This would've been a tragedy on its own don't you think so?
As a side comment what is with KimuTaku and having to play chharacters with doomed love with his own siblings lmao. First, I watched Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi, then it was Karei Naru Ichizoku, and now this one.
90s drama really liked to write tragedies. A lot of hints of the big Greek tragedies and I'm totally here for it, don't get me wrong. There's something appealing to all this tragedy and heavily psychological which I lovee!