Does your love end where the love of another begins? There are 4 films worth watching first to get a better understanding of this anime: this is "Michael" Marcus Schleinzer; this is "The Hand Rocking the Cradle" Curtis Hanson; this is "The Twisted String" Kim Ki-dok; and this is "Blood and Bones" Yoti Say.
This gloomy series will not be so interesting to watch owners of a logical mindset than those who subtly feel the ethics of relationships, because all the characters of this film are placed in a very ambiguous ethical situation, which has many shades and nuances that may be invisible and incomprehensible to logicians.
The main character of the film is a cold and insensitive girl Sato - an orphan, raised by a pathological aunt, who is a complete masochist, dutifully and subjectively perceiving her personality solely as an object of abuse for other people. Such an example clearly did not benefit the girl, which is why she grows up without the slightest understanding of what compassion, empathy, affection and, finally, love are. Being completely insensitive to others, Sato does not perceive as people anyone who tries to confess to her feelings - she only learns effective ways of manipulating people, while remaining lonely and insensitive.
This happens until Sato meets a little girl Shio on the street, who conquers her innocence and spontaneity. Feeling for the child trembling sister-motherly feelings, Sato leaves her and begins to live with her in a secret apartment. She tells the girl that the outside world is dangerous, so you can not go outside. Despite the fact that the girl is wanted, Sato carefully hides her from prying eyes, building a whole universe in the ill-fated apartment - a personal world in which only they are allowed together.
Of course, there are many who want to break this sweet idyll, as Stephen King once called them, “bitter people.” These are acquaintances, co-workers, perverts of all stripes and just random witnesses – everyone needs to stick their long nose into their personal paradise, destroy their love, steal their happiness. She is willing to die for her love, and she is willing to kill. Being intoxicated with passion, Sato begins to ruthlessly deal with every troublemaker. Anyone who dares to stand in her way dies a terrible death! A fragile sexy girl turns into a real maniac, shedding a sea of blood, from the bottom of which it becomes increasingly difficult to emerge. The dirty and vicious world of adults, filled with “bitter” people – from a maniac-masochist school teacher to a schoolboy-pedophile – is interspersed with the candy-vanilla world of the house, built and tortured by Sato for Shio, who does not worship and loves her soul like her own mother. Sato is absolutely convinced: for the sake of preserving this happiness, all means are good, no matter how many people die.
This anime is very tough, it has a lot of cruelty and disgusting characters. Rich on the themes of BDSM and pedophilia, the plot is revealed gradually, overgrown with significant details that make one evaluate the actions of the heroes not so clearly. The figure of the main character is truly tragic: not knowing true love, she easily takes passion for her and stands up for her with cold cruelty, sensitively understanding all the weaknesses and vices of other people around her like a dirty sticky mass. Creating lawlessness in the outside world, Sato carefully protects from them the inner world and, above all, the world of Shio. Sooner or later, however, everything secret becomes apparent, and the limit comes when crimes can no longer be concealed. This world was originally doomed, as was the expedition of Don Lope de Aguirre in the film Vernon Herzog Aguirre, the wrath of God. The madness that struck the fanatic-conquistador, in this anime equally strikes the main character. The whole world, with its vices and cruelties, seems to cease to exist when she crosses the threshold of the apartment, where the most beloved of all people is waiting for her. In these moments, all the screams subside and all the blood dries out. Other people’s lives don’t matter when it comes to their own happiness.
The series has a very ambiguous and shocking ending. Throughout the action, the viewer will feel like on a roller coaster, sympathizing with one side of the conflict, then the other. So the only positive hero, with tears in his eyes, looking for a lost sister and literally destroying himself along the way, at some point begins to be perceived as an inevitably impending rock, making him empathize with the maniac Sato, desperately defending her love (as she understands it). There will be a lot of ethical reversals by the end of the series, where not every episode, but even every scene, will question the moral implications that we could have hastily drawn. Even with a perfect understanding of ethics, morality and morality, it is impossible to say: what should the main character do in this story? Her mania is compassionate and understandable, although her actions cannot be justified. Tragedy is interspersed with cynicism; love with passion; innocence with perversion. Each character is the bearer of all this equally wholeheartedly and sincerely, and everyone deserves empathy, so from an ethical point of view, the picture is very ambiguous and complex. Here everyone is ready to die for his happiness and his love (which also has many forms and shades), without regard to the rest of the world. If love has no limits, why not build it on the bones of others? The film seems to imply that the only reason you're still not in heaven is because there are people around you who are preventing you from doing so. The truth is that everyone carries within him his own hell, beginning to live in it already in this life, making it inevitable for him to continue in the future life. However, is it possible to blame the main character for this, who has never understood this and is deprived of anyone who could enlighten her? I think she lived as well as she could and could.