On one hand I love how Mamiya spirals after his death, desperate to bring him back, he doesn't listen to Sada's last words, doesn't care about himself in the slightest. It feels human, the same way character's in Nemui's other works do. I was aware this wasn't going to have a "happy" ending after Mamiya talked about his previous experiments, but calling Sada's death is different from experiencing this emptiness that the author depicted after his actual death. We don't get anything, just the pure desperation and grief that comes from Sada's death. There's no extra with Mamiya living his life in spite of the immense grief he feels, it's all just empty, there's no "winning". Coming for the toxic cannibal yaoi and getting a bucket of cold water thrown at you in the form of death as the absolute ending. I don't think I've seen the death of an MC depicted in this way before, it definitely wasn't something I expected tbh
On one hand I love how Mamiya spirals after his death, desperate to bring him back, he doesn't listen to Sada's last words, doesn't care about himself in the slightest. It feels human, the same way character's in Nemui's other works do. I was aware this wasn't going to have a "happy" ending after Mamiya talked about his previous experiments, but calling Sada's death is different from experiencing this emptiness that the author depicted after his actual death. We don't get anything, just the pure desperation and grief that comes from Sada's death. There's no extra with Mamiya living his life in spite of the immense grief he feels, it's all just empty, there's no "winning". Coming for the toxic cannibal yaoi and getting a bucket of cold water thrown at you in the form of death as the absolute ending. I don't think I've seen the death of an MC depicted in this way before, it definitely wasn't something I expected tbh