Oct 28, 2023
You know, I think you tried way too hard to refute YOASOBI's message and you came worse in the end. The moral here is that love's salutary force can rescue those under Thanatos's influence. But while that may be true, I'd like to point out what suicidal people get told. That your family will miss you, that your friends will be sad. They're deemed selfish for caring about their own wellbeing above that of others – here, in stark contrast the girl calls herself selfish for caring about his well-being. And you know what? I think that's just saccharine and creates what is ultimately a trite narrative. The guy realises suicide is bad, woop.
I think the guy killing himself would've reified his conviction; it would've made it apparent that some people will not be saved and that we should condemn the machinations that have let them reach this point of no return – the last stop on the midnight train, as you have so beautifully put it. You would've rejected YOASOBI's message too, by painting suicide as a cruel, delusional act which doesn't eternalise, rather opposes love in any form. And should you have wanted the main character to realise it at the end, you could've shown Thanatos leaving his side at the last second – proving himself (or herself, I guess) to be nothing more than the vacant temptation the girl correctly identified them as.
Alas, that wasn't the case here.
