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Yuju is definitely dead. His mom set herself, the house and her husband on fire when she found out about it.
The fate of Giju and Young-do is shown in a way that leaves a lot of room for interpretation but to me it is clear that Giju killed himself by jumping from a building and Young-do was killed by the killer we saw earlier in the story. The last scene (in my opinion) is them meeting in the afterlife.
I Giju's and Young-do's deaths are tragic but Yuju's death was too much. It'll take me a while to get over that.

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Did they have Young-do killed because they think he killed the sister? This feels like one of those stories that was canceled and had to be wrapped up quickly but it also didn’t make much since from the start for me.

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No, Young-do was killed because he was part of the group (which was lead by his blonde friend) who tried to betray the old man/the old boss, means it was a mafia thing and completely unrelated to her death.
I don't think he had to wrap up quickly, that usually never happens anyway. Looking back now there was a lot of foreshadowing and many hints that it'd end this way. I really liked it but I also think that the author was a little bit troubled sometimes and some things could've been written better but I guess that's something that could be solved with a little bit more experience.

Thank you, I just read the last 8 chapters and I was totally confused. Also, I think you are right, the story is soo good and there is a lot of foreshadowing (the bird, the cage, the mother, etc.) but, sadly, in comparison with the previous chapters, the ending feels a little fast paced and to abstract to fully enjoy it.

Damn your explanation for the ending is incredible !
The ending had been bothering me for a month now, I wish I'd seen it earlier... Now I get what the author was going for, and I do find it interesting.
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I also can't deal with Yuju's death, she doesn't even show up in the afterlife :'(...
I think that rather than meeting Young-do in the afterlife, it's more like while thinking about how miserable his short life has been, Giju realizes that the only good thing that ever happened to him was meeting Young-do. Or something like that... It's a cruel story anyhow.

Like others I still think the story was shortened and the ending was rushed. It wasn't doing super well on korean Lezhin (it wasn't in the BL op 100 in it's last weeks which is underperforming for an ongoing series from a seasoned artist), the author even stopped mentioning Saha on his social media near the end and we never got author's notes (which practically never happens on Lezhin)...
Despite the fact that most of the stuff that happens in the end was foreshadowed, I remember some other forshadowing, in the very begining, that was never adressed later. For example (I don't remember in which chapter it was exactly) the narrator says something like: "Later Young-do would ask Giju what he would do if he had xxx amount of money, and Giju would respond that he only needed Young-do", but their relationship never got to a point were they had these type of old couple's conversations... I feel like all the latest events were supposed to happen way later, unless this is a conversation they have in the afterlife?
There also the huge plot hole regarding Giju's mother. There's a lot of foreshadowing regarding his past, with the lady in the convinient store recognizing him, for example, and, if I recall correctly, it was implied that the people with who Yuji stayed before getting kidnapped were linked to Giju's mother. But in the end we only learn that she supposedly chose to leave him with his godforsaken adoptive parents, but we're never told why she did that...
Finally, when the narrator shows up for the first time, she tells him something about "saving those girls", but that was also eluded. Btw, any theories out there about the narrator ? Is it like in Digitalis where she's some sort of godess watching over the characters, is she a creation of Giju's mind or was the author simply trying to be meta ?


I don't know how to feel about all this... It started great and it later became quite trippy (which I like) but something is off with the ending, it's too evasive and the pacing was not so great (￣∇￣").
At least this is a series I will remember !

Something importan to note about Yuju
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She "kinda" appears at the afterlife, if you see baby Giju hand, there is a little bird, like the one he imagines in the cage. Of course, this can be a mere symbolism but is nice to see it :)

Now that I know there's no epilogue or a proper author's note I also think that maybe something else is the reason why it ended this quickly.
He went on Hiatus twelve times while writing Saha. A 52 chapters long series with short (mostly black and white) chapters that was released three times a month. Some of those breaks lasted up to a month.
It wasn't his first series with a release schedule like this. He wrote another series for Lezhin that's almost twice as long and he only went on hiatus a few times while writing that one.
I still can't imagine that they suddenly canceled his series but it's possible that he wasn't satisfied with the story, had problems wrapping things up and maybe Lezhin wasn't willing to give him more time or maybe he didn't want to work on it anymore.
I had a similar experience with Delicious. The story itself was great but the ending was a little bit lackluster. Everything was wrapped up but it wasn't as exciting as it could've been.
The epilogue was four sentences long and most of the text was about how disappointed the author was in his own work.
Whatever the reason was, I hope that he will have less problems with his next series (and get another series on Lezhin so that we get an official translation ;) ).

Yep, that's how I saw it as well.