Link to original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/177013/comments/cfvyqb/started_reading_this_because_of_an_askreddit/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I finished reading it a few days after I posted the original, but I completely forgot updating on my thoughts until recently (when I decided to read through it again). The first time I read it I was not feeling emotionally affected by Saki's downwards spiral except for two parts: When her dad abused her, and at the end when she had enough money and it was stolen by those shithead teenagers. Fuck them kids honestly. I wanted so hard to believe that she did not die and it was a flashback to a bad patch in her life and that she grew up to be a great mother, but my mind was set that she does indeed die in the bathroom floor due to heroine overuse.

I started feeling worse about saki's situation after she was unable to resist the cocaine instead of the money. I felt bad because in my opinion, it felt she was so done and in so much pain that she would rather have that instant gratification from the cocaine well knowing that she seriously needed the money for that piece of shit Hayato. It felt as if her desires had gotten the best of her, and to be honest, in a much smaller scale, I would rather spend a good time playing video games than study for my finals or finish papers.

The story is overall well paced, and the art is fantastic in my opinion. Saki deserved better, and her blindness due to love led her to do bad things. While her decisions and lack of self control can be to blame at times, the story also helped me realize the extremes at which people can be shit human beings. It's a horrible combination and nothing can go well when you put a flawed protagonist in a shitty situation with shitty human beings, and thinking about that really helped me think about how well written this story is, specially since it makes me feel like shit after fapping to it.

9.6/10

One note: what is the general consensus of this subreddit towards the old man (kumagai?) From my perspective, he's not a bad person and arguably one of the only good people in the story.