alasys's Manga

I feel like this sort of read can be a hit or miss for people; I’m just glad it was an amazing read for me. The MC had her moments where I wanted to strangle her for her sporadic annoying moments but overall, her character was written well. She was very kind and learned to be empathetic to even ghosts she had a bias against, and she chose to live a life where she knew she’d be happy living. I think that’s a good theme to take away from this because, despite knowing she’d live a normal, longer and healthier life without Damon (especially after he left her, therefore resulting in her not seeing the ghosts for a short period), she chose him because that’s what made her the happiest. Quality of life— she was here for a good time, not a long time. The story itself definitely was different from what I usually read, and I sobbed a bit at the end. It was a fitting and pretty realistic ending. It wouldn’t make much sense to end it with them living happily ever after when in reality, there was no fathomable way Liz could live on with Damon or the others.

The epilogue gave great insight in to their domestic life whilst also addressing the inevitable we as readers expected (because before the epilogue, we could only infer what their life would look like after that). Now, with Damon’s treatment of his son, I would like to think he did love him. In some weird ghost-like way, he really did. But I think he loved and cherished Liz more. She gave him new reason to live or explore life as a ghost, and I think that change in his existence was more impactful to him than what was portrayed. She’d always be seen in a different light than the rest of the world to him.

After Liz died and Damon decided to leave his son, it sort of made sense to me, considering that and all things. Liz can’t quite protect herself, so Damon, with the incentive of being in love with her, adapted to society and domestic life. Noah is capable of protecting himself from ghosts, so maybe his father didn’t see a reason to stick around in that house anymore. Domestic life wasn’t the kind of life he had been living up until meeting Liz again. His natural habit is the mountain, and his son is connected to him anyway. Too bad we’ll never find out what happened to Noah though. I wonder with him being part human that he might have lived a normal human life expectancy. Otherwise, yeah, too bad Damon wasn’t that invested in his son’s life, but it’s pretty obvious Liz has and always will be his #1.