drama review part 2: hanbun aoi

At this point, we knew the cheerful, hardworking and creative Suzume had made her dream to be a manga artist come true.  She is left by her best friend Ritsu and two close friends at work. Basically, she is alone in achieving her dreams.

But, the thing with Ritsu is, he had become part of her life. So when her neighbours back in the village had a wedding ceremony, she had to attend it even though she afraid of meeting Ritsu. This is the first time in her life they not talking to each other for years. She manages to avoid Ritsu during the ceremony as she comes late (had problems with her clothes). However, when her best friend Nagano tells her that Ritsu had broken up with Saya, she can't control her delightfulness.


She just feels she had to meet Ritsu so she chases the train at the station and blows the whistle that she always used to call Ritsu during their childhood. However, the train had taken off and left Suzume with disappointment. Miraculously, Ritsu doesn't take that train and they finally met.

They catch up with each other before both of them take the next train returning to each other place (Ritsu currently continue his study at Kyoto).

Then this happens,

"I decide to fulfil your dream to see me as a robot engineer and currently working at the robot company", said Ritsu.

"How do you know about it?"

"Here, I take this paper that you put on the wishing tree back in Tokyo".

"So, would you marry me?", said Ritsu. 

And the wishing paper flies away.

We keep Suzume answer as a secret first.

Once, when Ritsu had a crush with Saya back in high school, Suzume makes a manga about their love story. How Ritsu fall in love with Saya's delicate and elegant. But as Ritsu and Saya had to part away, Suzume does not know how to end the story. 

The story is call 'God Fate' (i actually don't remember). In the story, God had destined Ritsu and Saya character to be destined together but the paper slip away from God's hand blew by the wind. They are apart for many years until they are 55 years old. At that time only God found back the destiny paper of Ritsu & Saya. They live happily ever after.

Come back to reality, the screen shows few years later. At this time, Suzume is 28 years old and still struggling to be the top manga artist, competing with other new talents from other company. She feels burn out and say she suppose to accept Ritsu's proposal few years back.

Yes, she says no to Ritsu. Without explaining why and they are part away again until now.

So Yuko & Bureto convince Suzume that she should find Ritsu before it too late. She said she wants to be successful first before confessing her love for Ritsu. However, a mail came to Master Akikaze, Suzume and few of her friends. 

Ritsu had been married to a girl and live in Osaka. 

Suddenly, Suzume feels she hit rock bottom. She cries on her bed a few days, reluctant to eat or work. She is too depressed with the news. She blames herself for not accepting Ritsu proposal back then. Now she realised that she really love Ritsu more than just a friend. She blurts out all her rage, including blaming Yuko and Bureto for leaving her alone to go through a different path of life. At this moment, I realised Suzume is not a total innocent girl, she just prefers to keep her anger and dissatisfaction alone. She blamed everything including herself.

For the last time, before move on with her life, she quietly visits Ritsu's house in Osaka. She blow the whistle, but it is Ritsu's wife appear at the balcony (doing laundry). She asks if Suzume is looking for someone but Suzume just left. Suzume decide to end her career as a manga artist as she no longer has inspiration to write. But Master Akikaze insists that she must make a last piece of manga-work as a farewell to the manga world.

She gives everything to complete her last piece of work until there is no emotion left for her. All her sad, disappointment, hope and rage are dedicated in the piece, with the help of Master Akikaze that finished up Suzume's work. Suzume promise herself to never look back, never again draw.

  At this moment I feel in reaching for our dreams, sometimes we can't help but satisfy with the average achievement even though we had given our best. Not everybody can be very famous or very successful in their field, so when the right time comes, we have to let go of the dream and create other dreams. 

Life still goes on even though we feel that our world stop spinning. So does Suzume. She found a new ordinary job at a shop and continue her life in Tokyo. She met a man, marry him, got a daughter and everything will be fine. She really blessed with good people around her. 

Another happy ending for Suzume.