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Then Looking-Glass Insects… The first half was tolerable, then it splits into true and Kimika routes. Let me first say that the LGI Kimika route contains one of the only instances of what I would consider to be actually “bad” writing in Subarashiki Hibi. And that is when Kimika and Zakuro remain in the school until nighttime after they get their clothes dirty. The justification given for this is weak and basically the only reason they do this despite knowing the danger involved is to set up the scene in the park. Despite this, I enjoyed the Kimika route for the most part since it gave me a justice boner seeing the bad guys beat up. I would have appreciated a CG of Megu and Satoko being torn apart limb from limb though.

Next, unfortunately is the LGI true route. It took me ages to get through because of how shitty it made me feel. Scene after scene after scene of seeing the emotional torture of Kimika and poor Zakuro. And it’s just great, isn’t it? Seeing time and time again, a scene where the two might be able to defend themselves, and then, out of nowhere, there come Shiroyama and the Fuckers to ruin everything. Watch this, /jp/. You can actually pinpoint the line when my heart ripped in half.
>「あ、高島みーつけたっ！」
Zakuro gets caught in the alley and gets raped and pillaged. At that point I was done. A broken man. When they kept going and showed me Zakuro’s friend getting raped by a dog I had already gone mad. I looked at her getting fucked by the dog and I just laughed. Perhaps that was my only way of coping. When they jumped off the building I could only think “good riddance.” Zakuro’s death also meant the end of my suffering so I was happy to see it.

If I were to say some positive things about LGI, it would be that it provided the confirmation of the suspicions I had while going through Invention, and it had the Cyrano stuff. Interesting to see “mon panache” taken the two different ways. I guess. None of it made up for the bullying though. But in a way I finally had an optimistic take on Subahibi - it could only go up from here.

Jabberwocky, Which Dreamed It, and Jabberwocky 2 were all pretty good and had some emotional moments. There were some neat revelations that I didn’t see coming, like Tomosane being the “original” owner of the body. (I wonder why Tomosane saw ‘himself’ as the image of the original Takuji? And why he regained consciousness just as Takuji was getting raped?) Whatever. JW2 in particular was neat. The heavy use of new, varied background art in the village was really pretty, and I felt it probably had some thematic significance. Like maybe because those memories were of times before Tomosane’s existence was discontinuous they were more vivid and colorful. Anyway no complaints here really.

Then lastly, the endings. For the 素晴らしき日々 end, I don’t really think I got what Kimura and Tomosane were talking about. It went on a long time and there were some poems I couldn’t really understand; they provided an interpretation but I think I missed the point here. If there is one scene I should reread it’s probably this one. I liked that they showed Hasaki’s justification for forgiving her mother though. I can’t agree with it but it’s just an alternative worldview I suppose. For the 向日葵の坂道 end, I think that it’s important that Hasaki could see Yuki which I’ll talk about later. And for 終の空II… Well, that’ll come later too, I guess.