Nora to Zassou · review
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This review may discuss plot details.
What a experience. This manga is very touching and very deep. It shows how broken people can help each other and how to deal with the feeling of wanting do die and how to learn to appreciate life. Saori is a depressed girl that ends up in a lot of risky situations, sleeping with random man, almost being murdered, just to avoid being abused by the person who was supposed to love her the most: her mother. While Yamada lives an empty life since his daughter died and his wife blamed him for it and left. The two find balance into this darkness, they arethe ones meant to each other, to be a family. Together they growed and finally found happiness again after all that trauma.
Even though all I wanted was for them to be happy, to Saori to study art and date the kind boy who is in love with her, the ending is bittersweet and the most realistic it can be, it exposes the sad truth of reality.
Once her mother is not willing to help, Saori has no home, her mother tells her to live on the streets, but when she's finally welcomed by a true parent, the "justice" of society is to sepparate two people who live happily and are able to care for each other.
The manga shows this hipocrisy while the other policeman who actuallly was a pedophile, is forgiven because of his high status.
Therefore, by the end, Saori and Yamada are far apart, but the impact they had in each other lives will be eternal, as represented by the hands pointed to the sunlight.