Love That Makes You Cry Episode 1

Japanese Title: Itsuka Kono Koi wo Omoidashite Kitto Naite Shimau

My Synopsis: Two orphans finding love in Tokyo. Simple story but so beautifully executed that you'll regret sleeping through the slower parts of the drama. 

Never have I missed so many details while watching a drama let alone watching merely just one episode. Even watching it the third or fourth time, I’m still finding new facets to this beautiful piece of work. It’s astonishing and it leaves me bewildered. 

I think I'm in love.

On a certain New Year’s, a young child named Sugihara Oto has become Hayashida Oto. Her mother (Sugihara) has passed away and she is adopted into Hayashida’s household. Despite her misfortunes, there’s an optimistic aura about her.

Oto asks her foster father whether it’s true that “Grape flowers taste like grape” and “Banana flowers taste like bananas.” Waiting for an answer, she calmly draws colourful flowers on her white porcelain-like pot (carrying her mother’s ashes) – an urn. Disinterested, the man simply tells her to stop using her Kansai dialect. Sadly, Oto nods but her mood is alleviated quickly when she sees snow for the first time. (I believe she’s in Hokkaido, somewhere.) 

[Autumn of 2009]

(There should be some historical relevance here, but I'm not familiar with Japanese history)

Soda Ren is waking up from a bad dream as tears trickles down his face. This isn’t something new to his girlfriend, Hinata Kihoko, who’s at his side dabbing his tears away and consoling him with kisses. The disparity between their classes is painfully obvious: she’s in brands and he’s in tatters. She even leaves him pocket money after spending a night at his place. Although it’s a goodwill on her part, Ren, an honest man, rushes to return the money. However, he’s interrupted by his friend, Chujo Haruta, who barges in.

Haruta isn’t nearly as righteous as Ren is. Apparently, he stole money from Ren and, not only that, he’s brazen enough to admit it casually because they’re friends. When he empties out his luggage after his trip from Hokkaido, Ren finds a purse that obviously doesn’t belong to Haruta. It was stolen. But Haruta insists he found the purse on the ground and took out the two thousand yen. That’s all.

Ren doesn’t like it but Haruta changes the topic: he wonders how a woman could sleep in his condo when it looks like it could house one of the biggest spiders. Amusingly, Ren pretends to be offended and tells him not to make fun of big spiders and then he tries to imitate one to scare Haruta. Cute.

Since they’re actually friends, I'll believe that Haruta somehow did pick up the purse. For now.

Ren’s honest nature is a double-edge sword as he is severely exploited at work, which is a moving company.  He’s doing nearly all the work; moreover, he does it diligently. Oh this guy. Even his boss takes advantage of this poor, naïve soul by deducting his pay claiming it’s for his future savings. He stares at her, silently accepting her explanation.

After a hard day’s work, he comes home to find his bed stolen and his room a mess. The culprit is none other than Haruta. Instead of kicking his friend’s arse, he cleans up after him. He finds a business card from the purse his friend “found”. Ren’s curiosity gets the better of him as he ventures in the purse and finds a letter. Some magical force must have compelled him to read that letter. This drama is dreadfully quiet at his point. After reading it once, he reads it again, and again, and again. The music slightly crescendos and Ren realizes the significance of this letter. Failing to wake up his friend, he bolts out the door, without any interruptions this time, to personally return the letter to Hayashida Oto, the name written on the business card (for Morita Cleaning).

Its morning in somewhere that is forbidden for entry; Hayashida Oto sits there, smiling warmly at the sun. She recites a prose she’s been repeating since childhood: “Grape flowers taste like grape; banana flowers taste like bananas; peach flowers taste like peaches.” A new verse?

Ren drives all night to Hokkaido. In the morning, he finally arrives to Morita Cleaning where he asks a female employee for Hayashida Oto’s whereabouts. Ever so smoothly, Oto flips her name tag and solemnly notifies (lies to) him that Hayashida Oto has died from shock of having her money stolen. Also, she slyly adds that Hayashida-san despised that thief. And so she has successfully guilt-tripped him. A feat that can be accomplished by anyone as long as the other party is Ren. Our naïve boy asks with his puppy eyes where Hayashida Oto’s grave is. Perhaps perplexed by his sincerity, Oto abruptly points to a direction that is most convenient for her right arm: the right side. He walks out in that direction. Lol.

Oto runs after him: What are you? I’d like to know too.

He replies that he’s from Tokyo and wants to return Hayashida Oto’s belongings. It seems that it would be obvious to Ren that the woman before him is Hayashida Oto when she demands for the 2060 yen. But it’s not.

Ren earnestly says: I thought she was dead.

Oto: Do I look dead?

Ren: And the grave?

Oto: Empty. At the present.

He is so relieved it baffles me. How are you surviving in Tokyo?

He returns her stuff but all she cares about is the 2060 yen. Poor Ren is bullied into returning the money despite not being the thief. At least she’s not that bad of a bully because she returns the exact change to him. Although it seems like Oto is convinced he’s innocent and a bit touched that he came all the way from Tokyo, all she does is give him candy. She tells him to eat it. And that’s it.

But there’s one important thing left to be returned. From his pocket he retrieves the letter.

Ren: After I read it, I thought I absolutely had to return it. This person (Oto) must have read this numerous times. I thought this letter must be this person’s source of strength and so I’m returning it, your mother’s letter.

Oto: Throw it away.

Briskly, she walks away and thanks him (in advance for throwing it). :(

As if nothing had happened, that night after returning to her house from work, Oto tells her foster father about the new flower seeds she bought but her words hang in silence when she sees her flowers in plastic bags ready to be disposed of. Apparently Shirai-san is installing a satellite and needed the balcony space that the flowers were hogging.

Elsewhere in town where Ren is having his dinner (he’s stuck in town because his truck broke down and the mechanics aren’t open until tomorrow), we learn who Shirai-san is from the local townsfolk: some rich dude that is to marry a girl 25 years younger than him. This girl is Oto. The gossiping doesn’t stop there and we learn that the foster father had agreed to the marriage without Oto’s consent. Ren hears everything. Ah, the beauty of living in a small town: nothing is a secret.

At Oto’s place, she obediently serves tea. Her foster father gleams at his new ($$$) watch from his future son-in-aw and urges Shirai-san to register the marriage soon. The talk is interrupted by a loud noise in the bedroom. Turns out Oto has a foster mother too (Auntie). The noise came from a tissue box that fell near the door. Oto curiously stares at the Auntie who has her back turned away from the door. Looking at the crutches hanging on the wall, I would assume Auntie is quite restricted physically and yet, somehow the tissue box landed near the door. Whatever the reasons are at least Oto is removed from that suffocating chamber.

Although the marriage talks have halted, the conversation doesn’t take a better turn. Foster father speaks ill of Oto’s real mother: for giving birth before marriage and for raising Oto improperly. Meanwhile Oto swallows everything he says. This is suffocating. Someone help this poor soul too.

As if it’s something to be proud of, the foster father bragged about how he disciplined Oto: he made her clean the toilet with her bare hands because “if you clean the toilet, your soul will become clean too.” The nerve of this guy. The foster father continues speaking: “If you make them work hard, they will show you filial piety twenty, or thirty years from now.” 

I pitied Ren, but she’s making my heart break.

That night, Oto can’t sleep. (She actually shares a room with Auntie where she sleeps on the ground, under her mother’s urn.) Meanwhile Ren is forced to sleep in his truck because he’s stranded for the night until the mechanics open tomorrow. He’s disturbed by some sounds and finds out the source: Oto. She’s throwing rocks at a pole with a siren atop it. When Oto spots him in her vicinity, she calls out loudly to the “thief.” He struggles to deny that he’s a thief and instead clarifies his occupation as a mover. And so, Mr. Mover it is.

Still across from each other, Oto shouts for an apple to which he questions why. She doesn’t explain it directly but mimes it perfectly: ‘Put the apple on top of your head and I will throw a rock at it’.

Mr. Mover shakes his head frantically. Complaining that he’s always shaking his head, she tells him to hold onto his neck so that he won’t shake it anymore. He does exactly so. Omg. She lets out a small laugh, and runs to him. I assume she concluded that this Mr. Mover is actually safe and not some creep. You sure though? Some guy that pure must be psycho. That’s just my opinion though.

Upon reaching him, she kneels down to see his licence plate and finds out he works at Shinagawa but he lives in Yukigaya Ootsuka. Oh, are we researching the guy already? This girl’s fast. She asks what’s inside the truck and he opens it for her obediently. Its boxes and boxes of canned peaches. Amazed at such a large amount of canned peaches, she tells him matter-of-factly that someone could fall in love with him over so many canned peaches. She doesn’t know how literal her words would be. Or does she? And then she quickly, very quickly, changes the topic.

Oto is quite the curious one as she asks whether it’s true you could walk from one station to another in Tokyo. He says it’s the truth and then she refuses to believe it. She casually hits him for lying. That casual hit, however, made him falter.

Oto gives him another candy. Does he get a candy every time he answers her questions honestly?

This time, he eats the candy in front of her, casting his gaze downward.

Oto watches him and smiles, putting the sweet candy in her mouth too. As I recapped this I gasped a very high pitched gasp here. Read more about this in my comments below.

It’s his turn to ask questions now (e.g. why she was throwing rocks at the pole) but she doesn’t answer him, instead she leads him to some forbidden place. He makes a side comment that she walks fast. When they reach her secret place, she explains why it’s forbidden: a dam was supposed to be built here which would have flooded the town but construction was halted because funds were lacking. She also confessed that she was disappointed at the termination because she thought the town deserved to be flooded. And then sirens would be blasting as people evacuate from the town. Ou. Dark thoughts. I kind of like it.

Ren seemed to have understood the meaning of her story and inquiries about her marriage. She asks if he’s a detective and Ren replies her ever so seriously: “I’m a mover.” Ai-ya.

Although she tells him to stop stalking her, she suddenly recalls that he had yakisoba with cabbage for dinner. So who’s the real stalker?

Ren tries to go back to the truck to retrieve the letter but she dismisses it. She doesn’t need the letter anymore because Sugihara Oto has already drowned in her imaginary lake. Unable to move, Ren stays with her and they watch their first sunrise together.

Oto returns home in the morning and bows to her mother’s urn. Auntie calls her stubborn for insisting to not bury it. Was Auntie waiting for Oto to come back all night?

After work, Shirai-san comes to pick up Oto to show her the wedding dress. He marvels at it but Oto’s mind is elsewhere. Finally, she musters up the courage to ask Shirai-san to borrow money in order to help Itou-san, a single mother, who lost her job and is struggling to pay her bills. However, Shirai-san has no interest in lending money to women who carelessly have children. Ouch. That’s a jab at Oto’s mother too…

Somehow she gets the money and slips it into Itou-san’s unit. Did Shirai-san actually lend it? On what condition though? Or is that her own savings?

It’s nighttime and foster dad brings up how he’s envious that his friend went to Hawaii. It's a courageous day for Oto today as she even confronts her foster dad of her true feelings: she doesn’t want to marry a man she doesn’t love. In exchange, Oto promises to work hard so she can travel by her own means. Foster dad is silent. He turns on the television, intending to ignore this conversation and calling her an ungrateful brat. Suddenly Auntie collapses on the ground in her bedroom.

Luckily, Ren, being diverted from the highway because of constructions, happens to be nearby and drives them all to the hospital. After Auntie’s condition stabilized, the foster dad shoos Oto away. Meanwhile Ren is still waiting outside the hospital for Oto. Such a good kid. Oto refuses to go back to the house though, and decides to go a family restaurant. As she leaves with Ren, Shirai-san happens to spot them. Someone’s pissed. Oh well.

Oto is thrilled to be at a family restaurant because it’s her first time. Overwhelmed with the menu options, Oto doesn’t know what to choose and even when Ren helps her choose, she still doesn’t know which sauce to get it in. Ren offers to order both sauces so they can share. She’s practically ecstatic. It’s cute. Even Ren smiles at her being all giddy.

At that moment, Oto looks up from her menu and catches him smiling at her.

Startled at the eye contact, Ren stares downward. Smiling, Oto puts the menu down. Guys, trust me, this part is important too.

Within seconds, Oto has taken full control of the conversation. She asks if he has a girlfriend and to her dismay, he answers yes without any hesitation. Immediately she asks him to describe her – almost too quickly. He simply tells her she’s a company employee. I think most people go for the personality when they’re asked to describe someone. Without stopping to hear Mr. Mover’s answers properly, Oto bombards him with questions like: “Do you ever stand on the opposite sides of the ticket gate and say ‘I’ll call you’?”, “Do you go to firework festivals?”, and “Do you go to furniture stores together?” Mr. Mover doesn’t get the significance of any of these questions, then again they’re all a girl’s romantic fantasies that guys cannot comprehend, let alone with Mr. Mover’s IQ...

Despite Mr. Mover’s lack of understanding, Oto’s questioning continues. She’s curious about his girlfriend’s fashion sense and even compares it with herself. It seems like Mr. Mover doesn’t pay too much attention to his girlfriend but when forced to compare the two, he chooses his girlfriend as the one with the better fashion sense. He tried to be polite but the offense was already taken. Oto argues that she is fashionable and that truly stumps him. Searching, she picks up her scarf, as if that was an attestation to being a fashionista. They both laugh now. Using her logic, Ren argues that a sheep would be the most fashionable then. I really don’t want to be laughing at this kind of joke, but I am because they’re too cute.  

Without being asked, she reveals that she’s dated this guy, Hori-kun, from third year of middle school to third year of high school. Ren asks what she liked about him and Oto simply answers: "his downward glance". She’s genuinely surprised when he doesn’t get it. Then she tells him to try it and he does but he drops his whole head downwards instead. Oto continues to reminisce about Hori-kun: “The people you love, you don’t see them because they’re there; they’re just there when you look, for example in the classroom… “And her words get lost in her train of thoughts.

I’m assuming her relationship with Hori-kun didn’t end too well as she has to find out about his current condition (at Sapporo University) through an acquaintance. She tries to distract herself from thoughts of Hori-kun by concentrating on the desert menu. Or maybe she’s distracting herself from her impending misery because she reveals to Mr. Mover that she’s decided to marry Shirai-san. Thanking Mr. Mover for bringing her letter, she lies through her eye-smile that she now has the energy to continue with the marriage.

Looking down, Ren doesn’t know how to console her.

Oto: Mr. Mover, that was a really nice downward glance.

He smiles and looks down again. He’s doing these glances unintentionally, right?

It’s raining when they’re leaving. When he drops her off, he scrambles to find her an umbrella. She can care less about getting wet; however, she’s more interested in the deeper reasoning behind why he came all the way from Tokyo to return her letter. He explains he’s the same as her: both parent-less and both having a source of energy. Satisfied with his answer, she runs off in the rain sans umbrella.  

She’s about to enter the house when Shirai-san leaves, He was dropping off her foster parents but that’s not all, he’s retracted the marriage. With the watch in his hand, the same watch he had given to foster dad a day ago, he advises Oto to keep her legs together. A look of disgust hangs on his face. This is sickeningly repulsive. She’s appalled at the accusation but she’s more worried about her foster dad’s opinions. Rushing inside, she’s relieved to find her Auntie sleeping peacefully. But fear strikes her when she notes her missing urn. She looks for it but stops when the urn starts rolling towards her. Emptied of all its contents. OMG HE DID NOT JUST DO THAT. And then there was a sound of flushing. THAT SCUM!

Ren tries to leave for the second time today but he’s stopped by a landslide this time. It sounds pretty serious as sirens are blasting about.

Oto is still kneeling near the emptied urn. The scum casually sits back in the living room as if nothing happened and offers her another marriage deal with a divorced man that’s even older than Shirai-san. Dazed, she kneels there, agreeing to anything. Poor girl, can’t you cry or yell or something!  Suddenly, Auntie walks(!) to her, ushering her to run away to a place she likes. THANK YOU. And she runs. In the pouring rain. Escaping from her house. In the background, sirens are going off. 

Instinct tells her to run towards the headlight, and sure enough, Mr. Mover happens to be passing by. Being slow all the other times, he’s quick to understand her situation now and reaches out his hand to her. Pulling her in, he lifts her to the passenger seat and off they head to Tokyo. In the process of her escaping, she even loses her shoe. 

They’re both silent in the truck. Ren returns the letter to her now. It reads:

“To Oto. It’s the middle of the night, just past 2 am. Thinking that this may be my last chance, I asked the hospital staff for some paper and a pen but it’s embarrassing because I can’t write properly anymore. If you hold up the paper to the light, small flowers will appear. Wonderful, isn’t it? Oto I will be gone soon. Time passes in a blink of an eye and I haven’t finished anything. I can’t die yet because you will be left all alone. Oto, I greatly regret bringing you into a world where you have no father. And I can’t even tie your hair for you anymore. But even so, I am glad I gave birth to you. You were such an inquisitive kid. ‘Why is ‘water wet?’ ‘Why does hair keep growing and eyebrows stay a certain length?’ ‘Why is there loneliness?’ You didn’t need a picture book, you’d dream up your own stories while listening to me speak. While looking at the tiny you following me, who was used to walking fast, saying ’It’s alright.’ I always thought: ‘This girl has a great strength to push through life.’

Flashback: Oto is indeed strong, even as a child, because she calmly accepted her Auntie taping over all the “Sugihara” to “Hayashida” on the labels of her belongings.

“Oto, meet many people. Look freely, talk freely, and live freely. I think that is a precious gift you were born with. I wonder if some day you’ll go to school and make friends. Become a middle schooler, then a high schooler.

Flashback: Through elementary school to high school, Oto’s responsibilities only grew to be more laborious: from continuously doing chores (washing the toilet with her bare hands) to taking care of Auntie and to having part time jobs.

“Will you fall in love? I wonder what kind of love it will be. Falling in love is not always happy, it can be painful too. I’m sure that we possess the feeling of loneliness so that we could meet someone.”

Flashback: The text message on her phone from Hori-kin (in 2006): ‘Oto-chan, let’s take the entrance exam for Sapporo University together! If you have time, come to the classroom tomorrow to look at the material, okay?’ In other words, her love wasn’t all that happy, only Hori-kun went to Sapporo University.

“At times, life is tough but you can forget about it when you’re in love. Fall in love. Then someday I hope you’ll meet that one person. I’m sure he’ll be able to give answers to you questions. He’ll listen to you story. He’ll be happy you were born. Grape flowers tastes like grapes, banana flowers taste like bananas. I believe that love is something that leaves a mark from one heart to another heart. When Oto is laughing, Mom is laughing too. When Oto is running, Mom is running too. My beloved daughter, my beloved Oto, I love you. Please be happy. Mother.”

Shuddering in her sobs, Ren leaves her be. He only interrupts her thoughts when he wanted to point out the sunset to her. Their second sunrise together.

He drives her to Izakaya where her friend lives. Before she leaves (in his slippers), he offers her a canned peach as a present to her friend (because it’s rude to drop in to a friend’s place empty-handed). She tells him she’ll be right back and he waits for her.

However, a girl (Ichimura Konatsu) comes running towards Ren, crying for help. When Oto comes back, the canned peach is still in her hand, meaning she couldn’t find her friend, Mr. Mover had already disappeared.

[January of 2011] 

(Another New Year)

A year later, Oto still hasn’t seen Mr. Mover. She now lives in Tokyo, an unfamiliar city, with unfamiliar streets and with unfamiliar faces. Walking about every day, she won’t meet the same people. But she still wonders where Mr. Mover is. And she still keeps the canned peaches, right next to her mother’s letter.

Oto works part time at a gas station. When a limousine cruises in a man inside offers her a drink. She looks away without answering and the man smiles. Apparently, she intrigues him.

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Exquisite. I wish I had the eloquence to capture this drama’s beautiful essence. I'm afraid I won't be able to this drama justice but I can't leave my thoughts on this beautiful drama unwritten. After deciding to recap this, I had to watch this episode again and again, and each time I found something new. It’s amazing. It’s like an adventure of my own, leaving me ecstatic with every new revelation. It was like I was falling in love over and over again. The storytelling is amazing. The tone of this drama is soothing. 

Before I delve into the deeper analyses of this drama, I just have to mentions this: I don't remember ever being so shocked from a drama until I saw that scene where Foster Dad emptied out Oto's urn for her mother and flushed her ashes down the toilet. Oh my god. Even typing it out makes me feel disgusted. Just recalling that scene leaves my brain blank and my jaws opened. How can someone even think of doing something that awful? Kudos to you, drama. Kudos to you...

Oto falling in love with Ren

I thought it was a gradual process until I re-watched that scene; that scene being the second time she gave him candy, he casted that downward glance and she smiled at it. Eureka! That's the moment she fell in love! How on earth is anyone supposed to catch that the first time around without knowing she has a thing for downward glances? But man was I ecstatic to have discovered it. And he kept doing those downward glances during the family restaurant scene, which just means she was falling deeper and deeper in love with Ren. 

Ren’s coincidental appearances aren’t just coincidences

The first time he was prevented from returning home was because of the construction and the second time it was because of a landslide from the heavy rain. During the second time, sirens were blazing about. Each time, he coincidentally bumps into Oto and helps her. These encounters weren't coincidences. 

Remember Oto’s dam story? It starts off with a construction of a dam (that was later halted). Then she wishes a flood would drown the city. Finally, she made a comment about sirens blazing about to evacuate the townsfolk because of the flood. Doesn’t that sound awfully familiar to the trajectory of this episode? Ren is turning her story into reality. 

The ending of Oto's story had the town safe from flooding. As a result though, she’s drowned her own self, Sugiharai Oto, in her imaginary lake. Having to stay in this town, she has lost her virtues, her dreams, and her happiness, all were embodied as Sugihara Oto, the one that drowned in her mind.

The ending of this episode had Ren save Oto, but it isn’t Hayashida Oto he saved, it’s Sugihara Oto.  By leaving the town in the midst of a heavy rain among blaring sirens, Ren has helped Oto drown the Hayashida Ota she hates in the town, freeing the self she has suppressed for so many years.

Remember the pole that Oto was throwing rocks at? It was a street light but it also had a siren. Oto wasn’t aiming just at the pole. She wanted to hit the siren. To set it off. To manifest her imaginations. To evacuate the town. She wanted to save herself.

Ren had asked her why she was hitting the pole but she wouldn’t reveal it. It’s not until he was stopped by an official notifying him of a landslide that he looked up at the pole with the blaring siren that he realized Oto’s true intentions. And that's how Ren knew how to save Oto.

Oto’s letter

I’m starting to believe that Oto had actually “dropped” her bag to purposely lose the letter. The first thing she asks from Ren when he returns her belongings is the money and not the letter. It’s odd when the letter is so important to her that she would want to throw it away. But reading the contents of the letter made me realize why she would want to discard it. It reminds herself of the self she can never be. She never had a normal school life. Her love has ended and would have forever ended if she married Shirai-san. However, the letter did do one thing, it brought her Ren, the one who would be happy that she was born.

I really liked how Oto place the canned peaches right next to her mother’s letter. In Oto's heart, Ren and her mother are equally important.

Peach

'Peach' was never included in her mother’s letter or the first time Oto recited the prose. It was only mentioned that day when Ren arrived at her town, driving a truckload of canned peaches.

So assuming Ren is the peach, then Oto is the peach flower. The meaning of the poem, that “peach flowers taste like peach” was meant to say that the flowers that grew with the peach seed taste like peach themselves. The peach has left a mark on the flowers. Just like Oto’s mother had said in the letter that love leaves a mark from one’s heart to another, Ren’s heart (or love) has left a mark on Oto’s.

Adam and Eve; The Apple and The Forbidden

The drama is channeling Adam and Eve, right? Eve and the forbidden apple paralleled to Oto and the forbidden area. Eve tempts Adam to eat the apple paralleled to Oto leading Ren into the forbidden place. The apple brought the downfall of mankind, while Oto’s story about the forbidden area allowed Ren to help Oto escape. Is the drama trying to highlight the hardships Ren and Oto will face in Tokyo as did Adam and Eve did on Earth?

Cinderella

We don’t get a pumpkin carriage, but we do get a peach truck.

Don’t know whether it was midnight when she lost her shoe while running away from home but that scene is practically screaming a Cinderella trope. Yet, it’s a little reversed. I’m thinking the Prince Charming was actually Shirai-san, the rich dude that came to the town, looking for a bride to marry, saving her from tatters, and saving her from her foster mother father. That’s Shirai-san’s role, right? It’s just this Cinderella happens to not love this Prince Charming. Instead, she fell in love with the charioteer driving the peach truck.

Auntie

She’s no evil step mom, but she might be the fairy god mother. It wasn’t a coincidence that a tissue box fell near the door. She threw it at the door to interrupt the marriage talks. Later when she fell off the bed and needed to go to the hospital, she had wanted to support Oto’s decision in refusing the marriage. At the very end, it was her words that had set Oto free. Thanks fairy-god mother!

I had no intention of recapping every single detail of this god-divine drama but how could I not after I had realized the immense quality invested into each scene. Subtlety is a beautiful thing and this drama has mastered it. 




Credits to Sanashi and Ueto_senshi for the subbing and the timing!

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Love That Makes You Cry Episode 2