"The fuck is this Goddamn masterpiece??!?!” Was my exact thought when they were on the train to “Shangrila”. I’m not that mad at the unhappy ending though, I really wish if there was going to be an extra it would have been them meeting again as adults or as a longer spin off.
Coulda done without the villain pedo extras tho- felt redundant to the plot and also who wants to read that?
If I was the author after they got off the train I would have had the mother’s apology STICK. Have her accept Kirino and let him live however he wanted whether that be as a fem gay man like Mishima or as a woman which he seemed to want? I know Kirino chose his mother as his happiness... but like Mishima’s mother said to her son, that him sacrificing how he wanted to live his entire life to stay connected with her must truly be unhappiness... and I can’t understand his choice.
I honestly from a realistic perspective, can only see that as fear to break away from her expectations and possibly lose her (and be alone in the world) which makes since given the way he was in the beginning, afraid and lashing out. Or maybe guilt that she was alone “because he was born” so he also feels like he has to stay with her and take care of her because of “her sacrifices for him”.......
That line about them each making their choices for happiness... seems like bullshit to me. Who is really going to marry and repeatedly fuck someone that makes them want to vomit and they don’t even like... for the sake of their mother? And THAT is their happiest option? I could understand it being fear but that endurance and suffering could never be happiness (let alone the happiest option given the alternative [Mishima’s choice or Thailand]). He’d likely have a tougher relationship with his mother, or MAYBE lose her, but gain people who could love his true self).
I kinda really wish Mishima hadn’t let Kirino go back home as cold as that sounds. The father said she was back from the hospital and resting and really all that happened is she fainted from stress... I think that was the critical moment and I think maybe mc could have said something whether it be “do you really want to live a life full of enduring unhappiness just for someone else?” Or “Let’s go now, or you’ll never get to see what you could be missing out on for the rest of your life.” Maybe something better than that but fuck just something.
Besides that whole choice thing, their friendship was cute as fuck and I wanted to see an extra of them cross dressing and hanging out living their best life together My heart, I feel it crack
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