Don't skip dialogue. The "best" parts of the writing are often hidden in the internal monologues between major choices. Community Verdict
To understand the album, one must understand the artist. etuzan jakusui onozomi no ketsumatsu best
The “best” edition’s introduction argues that Jakusui deliberately inverted the conventions of kanzen chōaku (virtue rewarded, vice punished) tales. No one is rewarded. Evil is not punished by authority – only by a dying woman’s hairpin. The lord who exiled Saburō remains unpunished. The world carries on, unfair and unmoved. Don't skip dialogue
Jakusui’s prose is famously , closer to an official chronicle than a love story. Descriptions of Oshin’s beauty are minimal. Saburō’s rage is never shouted – only observed as “a stillness before snow.” This restraint has divided critics. Some call it primitive; others, proto-modernist. The lord who exiled Saburō remains unpunished