Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
INNOCENT LOVE, YOU ARE MY NEW FAVORITE. I spent most of the first episode going "wait-- did they really just-- no, they can't really be hinting that--"
Then I remembered this is the screenwriter of Last Friends, bringer of trauma, abuse, incest, rape, and lesbians, and I realized with exultation that anything goes.
Seven years ago Kanon's parents died in a house fire that police arrested her hikikomori brother for. Now she's shunned by employers, haunted by reporters and living alone working dead-end jobs with occasional visits to her brother's prison.
Somehow she still affords beautiful coats and elegant scarves.
Kanon lives through the happiness of strangers, stealing people's family photos and taking pictures of unknowing couples on the street to hang on her Sad Little Wall of Loneliness, which I love. Give her issues! Give her PTSD! Give her the hero's tragic backstory and all the hang-ups that go with it! I swear, if her biggest problem is that she can't get a man, I'm going to drink heavily and rewatch Koshonin until I can imagine Japan as a happy place where all women are independent and heavily armed.
Here is Kanon's love interest, pianist Junya.
He is good-natured and adored by children and hiding a woman in a locked room of his house.
Seriously, what the hell? I mean, is that-- legal? Can you do that? Keep your bedridden girlfriend on life support in a LOCKED ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE? She sure looks happy.
Junya's best friend has a massive gay crush on him. He invites Junya to spend Christmas Eve together, and looks heartbroken and alone when he doesn't show. He even turns down a passing skirt, telling her he's already taken.
I won't get my hopes up, as Asano Taeko deals with her gay characters by having them repressed and unrequited. I'm not bitter. SEE HOW UNBITTER I AM? LA LA LA.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure Kanon's brother loves her a little too much.
Because Kanon tells him there's someone she likes, and her brother, thinking about it, FLIES INTO A PSYCHOTIC RAGE and has to be subdued by guards after beating the shit out of his cellmate.
This is even more traumatic funnier when you realize Kanon has the utmost faith in his innocence. "He's a very gentle person!!" Um...
The opening is very pretty and a complete rip off Last Friends, what with Utada Hikaru crooning as everyone runs around doing nothing with convenient one-word English to sum up their problems for us.
I wonder if the betrayal is locking her up? That would piss me off too.
LOL!!! DENIAL. WITH A LONGING LOOK AT JUNYA'S BACK AS HE RUNS TO KANON. VERY SUBTLE, SHOW!
I wonder if there's more to the fire than meets the eye. If the reporter is searching for the "truth" of sisterluster's "sacrifice"... a;dfhsdfd someone stop me, I can feel myself getting invested in this. I DON'T NEED ANOTHER SOULCRUSHING MYSTERY DRAMA. NO NO I REFUSE.
More pretty:
Itty bitty Yagi Yuki! ♥ ♥ Shizukuuuuu!
Basically: trauma and love triangles and closeted Narimiya Hiroki. My kind of drama!
Also, thank you to the like, sixteen people who told me about Horikita Maki, Kuroki Meisa, Maya Miki and Yagi Yuki together in the upcoming special about a real-life crossdressing princess who became a Japanese spy. You guys know my taste and look out for me so well. ♥ ♥
Then I remembered this is the screenwriter of Last Friends, bringer of trauma, abuse, incest, rape, and lesbians, and I realized with exultation that anything goes.
Seven years ago Kanon's parents died in a house fire that police arrested her hikikomori brother for. Now she's shunned by employers, haunted by reporters and living alone working dead-end jobs with occasional visits to her brother's prison.
Somehow she still affords beautiful coats and elegant scarves.
Kanon lives through the happiness of strangers, stealing people's family photos and taking pictures of unknowing couples on the street to hang on her Sad Little Wall of Loneliness, which I love. Give her issues! Give her PTSD! Give her the hero's tragic backstory and all the hang-ups that go with it! I swear, if her biggest problem is that she can't get a man, I'm going to drink heavily and rewatch Koshonin until I can imagine Japan as a happy place where all women are independent and heavily armed.
Here is Kanon's love interest, pianist Junya.
He is good-natured and adored by children and hiding a woman in a locked room of his house.
Seriously, what the hell? I mean, is that-- legal? Can you do that? Keep your bedridden girlfriend on life support in a LOCKED ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE? She sure looks happy.
Junya's best friend has a massive gay crush on him. He invites Junya to spend Christmas Eve together, and looks heartbroken and alone when he doesn't show. He even turns down a passing skirt, telling her he's already taken.
I won't get my hopes up, as Asano Taeko deals with her gay characters by having them repressed and unrequited. I'm not bitter. SEE HOW UNBITTER I AM? LA LA LA.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure Kanon's brother loves her a little too much.
Because Kanon tells him there's someone she likes, and her brother, thinking about it, FLIES INTO A PSYCHOTIC RAGE and has to be subdued by guards after beating the shit out of his cellmate.
This is even more traumatic funnier when you realize Kanon has the utmost faith in his innocence. "He's a very gentle person!!" Um...
The opening is very pretty and a complete rip off Last Friends, what with Utada Hikaru crooning as everyone runs around doing nothing with convenient one-word English to sum up their problems for us.
I wonder if the betrayal is locking her up? That would piss me off too.
LOL!!! DENIAL. WITH A LONGING LOOK AT JUNYA'S BACK AS HE RUNS TO KANON. VERY SUBTLE, SHOW!
I wonder if there's more to the fire than meets the eye. If the reporter is searching for the "truth" of sisterluster's "sacrifice"... a;dfhsdfd someone stop me, I can feel myself getting invested in this. I DON'T NEED ANOTHER SOULCRUSHING MYSTERY DRAMA. NO NO I REFUSE.
More pretty:
Itty bitty Yagi Yuki! ♥ ♥ Shizukuuuuu!
Basically: trauma and love triangles and closeted Narimiya Hiroki. My kind of drama!
Also, thank you to the like, sixteen people who told me about Horikita Maki, Kuroki Meisa, Maya Miki and Yagi Yuki together in the upcoming special about a real-life crossdressing princess who became a Japanese spy. You guys know my taste and look out for me so well. ♥ ♥