Niice

that was DEFINITELY NOT the ending i expected! gah! heart wrenching! i expected the art dealer to have bought the property and had a replica of the artist's signature placed on the name-plate... as that man's final masterpiece it should have been preserved for posterity! :(( sad sad sad! he spent the final three months of his life working himself to death to only leave this world before his 'audience' could join him in appreciating the flowers blooming in the gardens and the beauty of the restored chateau that so resembled the loving home those two had lived and grown up in. the art dealer could have even placed mementos of those two's life together, the artist's paintings on the walls, pictures of their happier days in the first chateau... a true living memorial to that man's life and his happiness. it would have made a lovely museum or a B&B hostel/hotel for art appreciating customers.

i wonder if the show-runners created this episode as a social and political commentary about real-estate problems in Japan? the old is bulldozed and destroyed nigh on every-day in Japan to make way for new construction projects. a house, apartment complex, high-rise, or even a commercial structure that's 25 plus years old in Japan is often considered worthless compared to JUST the land that's underneath it.

the death taxes alone on inheritance often make a former family home for generations a huge financial burden on the remaining family members when the 'elder of the family' passes away without enough life insurance or other cash in their accounts. so these oldest of homes are often left abandoned and they slowly rot away till some real-estate speculator or investor comes by. they buy the land and house on the cheap. all they have to do is pay the back taxes and other legal fees for the bureaucratic red tape and tear everything down. then they resell just the land to somebody else for a profit.

it's kind of like the reverse of 'flipping a property' here in the US. instead of fixing a place up and reselling everything for a profit, most home-buyers etc. in Japan want the newest and best technologies and materials used in modern ground-up construction. sure, Japan has a shit-ton of earthquakes. so the newer a structure is the more resistant to tremors it will be. but, what is the sacrifice when structures that are perhaps part and parcel of an area's 'grass-roots history' are suddenly vanishing left and right?

this is sad,,

I'm so happy to see there's lots of comments on almost every episode of this. On the last gogoanime I used (for a long, long time), there'd be stretches of dozens or sometimes hundreds of episodes with 0 comments, even on the biggest episodes and arcs like the Desperate Revival or Clash of Red And Black. I just wanna see one of my favourite anime get some love
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Beautiful episode

poor shishikura kun being bullied. but he really tried to burn down the manision lmao

dejavu at the beginning they already used this intro before

Boring and super obvious.

The old graphics in the preview
Their faces are funny the mafia and genta

Man this feels like episode 1050

That mortgage company guy Shishikura feels out of place... like he's from a different show.

SKIP

Why?

shyishikyura chyaan~~~.