/jp/ - Otaku Culture

So I've just now finished Saya no Uta and I can say this: of all the works of art that I have read, watched, listened to or played, Saya no Uta is the shining paragon of escapist fiction.
To wit, the protagonist, Fuminori, finds that he has rejected the world, and it is not the other way around, as he, or rather the writer, one Urobuchi Gen, stresses the point. The world is not hostile to Fuminori, but rather Fuminori's own perceptions violently force him out of it: he cannot live in the world, for nothing in it he finds acceptable to his senses. But there is an exception, a deluge in a place Fuminori calls home where his very own world exists, and then still it's just three rooms... but he has his "wife", or in other words, a fantasy of perfect femininity: perfectly beautiful, perfectly petite, perfectly compliant, perfectly bound to him, a simulacrum of an ideal mate who "fulfils [Fuminori's] wishes before [he] ha[s] them" and will never ever abandon him to the cruelty of actually living out a life in the outside.
Urobuchi's projection spends the days going to university, but he isn't really there, he only does it to keep the illusion of living in the real world, there he manages nothing and hurries to return to the only world he can live in, the world that has no place but for him and his fantasies. In this world, Fuminori lives through Saya: it is she who saved him from despair and gave him a purpose to live, even if in the fantasy world, it is she who actually did the paint job to help Gen draw the borders of his world, and it is she who even cooks for him and does what goes for chores. She also wants to bone all the time and he doesn't even have to use contraception, not to say that she swallows, and you dare not skip over this!