I mostly loved it but was twice disappointed. Once was Netflix's fault. I was determined to watch this drama without looking at how many episodes it has; I like not knowing. I thought E09 was going to be it because everything was wrapping up nicely but at the end, the part where they usually show scenes from the next episode, there WERE scenes and on the lower right hand side the usual 2 buttons... "watch credits" and "next episode". I was very surprised and hopeful that this next episode would be some years later and Yui and Uozumi would be a couple with a baby boy they named Torino or Naoki. Boy was I wrong.
Episode 10 was kind of stupid. We dealt with knowing Naoki had died and then finding his body. We saw the funeral and cremation and found out how and why he died. The end of E09 should have been the end. I would have been annoyed that they didn't end it with Yui and Uozumi getting together but it would have been nice than what followed in E10.
Yui wakes up the day after Naoki has disappeared since the mystery of his death was revealed and the murderer was arrested. As she's waking up, she's telling us she wanted everything to have been a dream. She then hears something in her apartment. She gets up and Naoki is in the kitchen cooking breakfast and Yui can see him! What? Right about there I was thinking, if this really was just a dream, they better explain what is going on.
Naoki is still dead but for some reason unknown even to him, he's been given time to go back. No idea how long before he's gone again. They decide to have Yui call Ouzumi to meet up. When he arrives, he see Yui and she apologizes for having had to bother him they're talking when Naoki comes out from hiding behind a pillar next to Yui. Uozumi freaks out. They go out to eat and they talk.
Yui tells Naoki she is going to invite his parents over. They arrive and they say they were wanting to meet with her one last time. Naoki is in a room close by listening to them. He had told Yui he didn't want to shock them so he said he wouldn't meet with them. It made me sick to listen to them talk about what a good son he was after the way they had treated him when he was a kid. Even when he was missing his mother revealed that after Naoki left home, the only time his mother bothered to contact him was when they need Naoki to help his younger brother by giving more bone marrow to him. Absolutely disgusted. Naoki's father was just as bad. Did not have anything nice to say and was so cold about it all.
At the end of E10, Yui and Naoki go to the beach and they sit on a log and talk. He tells her over and over that he loves her. She smiles and tells him she knows but he keeps telling her aishiteru until he is gone again, and this time, for good.
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