Yet another show that fooled a bunch of people into believing it's "deep" just because it asks some existential questions, no matter how dumb the answers it offers are.
Up until the 11th-12th episode this show seemed quite promising. Episodes 13 and 14 in particular are just horrible. They depict suicide as if it was a spur of the moment childish tantrum for most victims and then preach about one's social responsibility not to kill oneself. In ep. 14 literally every cliff-dweller gets the solution to their particular problem served to them precisely because they attempted suicide. What's the message? Suicide is bad or suicide solves all problems? Or maybe only unsuccessful attempts do that?
What is also really missing is the question of all these loved ones embracing them back now that they've shown just how fragile they are. The question being, why? Are they feeling guilty or would they do it anyway given enough time? First seems way more likely. Relationships based on feelings of guilt and responsibility like that are bound to fail, but this whole angle seemingly doesn't even occur to the creators, so they don't address it.
They also do the suicide switcheroo twice (ep. 13 and finale) for dramatic effect, with Sato just becoming suicidal in the heat of the moment, because, you know, that's how suicide works, apparently. Dramatizing an act as serious as suicide in such a way cheapens the show immensly.
From ep. 15 it's mostly all filler until the last couple of episodes which suffer from the same issues ep. 13 and 14 did, albeit less so.
Up until the 11th-12th episode this show seemed quite promising. Episodes 13 and 14 in particular are just horrible. They depict suicide as if it was a spur of the moment childish tantrum for most victims and then preach about one's social responsibility not to kill oneself. In ep. 14 literally every cliff-dweller gets the solution to their particular problem served to them precisely because they attempted suicide. What's the message? Suicide is bad or suicide solves all problems? Or maybe only unsuccessful attempts do that?
What is also really missing is the question of all these loved ones embracing them back now that they've shown just how fragile they are. The question being, why? Are they feeling guilty or would they do it anyway given enough time? First seems way more likely. Relationships based on feelings of guilt and responsibility like that are bound to fail, but this whole angle seemingly doesn't even occur to the creators, so they don't address it.
They also do the suicide switcheroo twice (ep. 13 and finale) for dramatic effect, with Sato just becoming suicidal in the heat of the moment, because, you know, that's how suicide works, apparently. Dramatizing an act as serious as suicide in such a way cheapens the show immensly.
From ep. 15 it's mostly all filler until the last couple of episodes which suffer from the same issues ep. 13 and 14 did, albeit less so.