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Nov 2, 2021
I think a review I had read earlier puts it best; it's incredible just how happy and sad this story can make you through every chapter. I don’t know what else to say other than it’s a beautifully composed story illustrating the darkest hardships of life, but also how love, connection, and understanding can balance that to make life worth living. The pains the characters and families go through are experiences no one should have to endure, and yet they rely on one another to continue finding the light in the world.
Of course, Tora
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and Kaoru’s relationship is at the core of the story, and the unbounding love they have which makes up the purpose behind the title “Will you marry me again if you are reborn” is beautiful and worthy of envy. But it gives you, it gives me, hope to find happiness and comfort in family. That there are those out there who make you feel understood and appreciated, that you can get through anything as long as you’re with them. People worth protecting, and people worth being vulnerable with.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 2, 2021
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What’s so beautiful about this story is the subjective understanding of what happiness is, and what gives life meaning. We find the main character, Kusunoki, at a failing point in his life, where to find any enjoyment out of the life he no longer cares for, he decides to sell the rest of his life away. Ultimately, the story transitions to one of reconciliation in the face of tragedy between Kusunoki and Miyagi. The build up to their relationship is beautifully developed, to the point where I truly didn’t even expect there to be a
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fully romantic aspect between them in the end. That made it all the more lovely when they did find communal love and understanding between one another.
That’s another core theme of this manga: communal understanding on an incredibly deep level in the face of a cruel and tragic world / life. From their childhood friends they thought they couldn’t be without, to each other, Kusunoki and Miyagi have a relationship built on understanding that goes beyond words. This incredible connection explodes beyond the page, and it’s one you feel more than anything. It’s hard to put into words even here, and that’s just how successful the storytelling is. I just thought it was beautiful. That untold connection is expressed to the minor characters of the story as well, as their relationship is quite literally invisible to all, yet is felt by those around them. It’s an expression of the power of connection and happiness, and how that becomes the catalyst for making others happy, too. Perception and being seen are such important aspects of happiness which make you understand the point of being alive. At the same time it recognizes that life is not always fair in that way, and without the conditions of the story, both Kusunoki and Miyagi would have ended up living lives devoid of happiness entirely. So we get a beautiful snapshot of what’s worth living for.
If I had any gripes, they were all plot related; I find the story and characters all incredibly beautiful. The first is who the heck is purchasing this time / health / lifespan? Are they those who can receive “points” from the lifespan they purchase? In that sense I can understand how a life can be worth nearly nothing, as the emotional “points” you could receive from a life that has little happiness or meaning would be undesirable. But similarly, time could be worth significantly more than that lifespan considering it’s up to the user to decide how to use that time. The same goes for health where, meaningless life aside, if your health remains intact, it could be priceless to someone who has a meaningful or important life relative to the donor, however poor health.
Those were all just curious things to think about. I find the story beautifully unique, and incredibly thought provoking both in terms of if this were a real situation, and the psychological considerations of the meaning of life and happiness. I’m so happy it’s as short as it is, and it gave me a feeling of appreciation and inspiration, which I think is the best thing you could ever be given.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 2, 2021
If there’s something that this manga has done perfectly, it's in creating atmosphere. There’s nothing new to be said about a post-apocalyptic world where machines have outlived humans in a sprawling urban zoo, but the minimal world building verbally expressed compared with the extensive environment and atmosphere shown through Yuu and Chi’s experiences creates a strong bond between the reader and main character. There's a beautiful juxtaposition of us viewing this depraved world through the eyes of someone who has adjusted to this way of life, and them experiencing relics of the past we may be used to with regular
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fascination.
I love massive magnitudes, and the constant need for them to be travelling upwards through these towering structures creates a really beautiful sense of scale that only amplifies the emotional impact that comes with being some of the last humans alive. Naturally, that overwhelming presence gives the close bond between the girls a beautiful backdrop to be compared to. We experience this warm and loving bond against a massive, soulless environment: reading books together atop a multi-story bookcase in a tomb-esque room, snowball fights on top of an oppressive tower that stands above anything else, baths in water tanks that used to feed humanity, long since empty. It’s a story about perseverance of character and enjoying what life has left to offer in a place that hasn’t felt warmth in decades.
If there are issues for me to bring up, it would be that it’s never expressed to us why the world has ended up this way, even subtly. I love the minimal world building as I’ve said, and how instead the focus is on the emotional impact of the environment. However, in the estimated 10 or so years between when we know there was cohesive society and the current events of the manga, something has happened which has wiped out most of the human and animal races, along with massive amounts of infrastructure. I would find this point understandable if it had happened before the girls were born as to detach the reader from any connection with the past world through the main characters, yet it’s strange to me that the girl’s have clearly experienced the downfall of civilization firsthand and that’s never explored or mentioned beyond them being sent out by their grandfather when they were very young.. At first, I felt the atmosphere implied that humanity has been strongly declining over decades. I was surprised to learn how quickly it all happened and how that fact is only glossed over. If anything it would make more sense to me that the girls have always experienced this type of life.
One last subtle point: for being some of the last humans alive, when Yuu and Chi meet other humans, there really isn't as much excitement as you'd expect? I think it's fitting with the tone of the story, and for that I wouldn't change it, especially when the interactions between the characters continue to be beautiful. Just something I noted.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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