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Tiger in Wings Final Episode End Roll: Spring Beyond Hell

I apologize, I am writing this despite saying I was on a hiatus.

I was surprised by the final episode of "Tiger in Wings" (Tora ni Tsubasa).
Just one thing, about "hell".

The exchange between Katsuraba, Tomoko, Yone-san, and the others.
And the exchange between Tomoko and her mother.
And furthermore, the fact that the second verse of Yonezu-san's theme song played during the end roll.
I couldn't help but think, it really is "hell" after all.

At the end of the first week. The exchange between Tomoko and her mother.
Mother: "Are you prepared to truly see hell?"
Tomoko: "I am."
Narration: "And so, having defeated her final enemy, Tomoko safely obtained her ticket to hell."

Final episode.
Katsuraba (to Tomoko): "Even if you have blood flowing like you do, there are only a few eccentrics who would rejoice in that hell."
Yone: "No... there may be only a few, but they are certainly here."
At that moment, all of her classmates and seniors were looking at Katsuraba with intense gazes.

Mother: "How is it? The road to hell?"
Tomoko: "It's the best!" (crying)

In Yonezu-san's music video, Yonezu-san is sitting in a diner, and rioters are running wild inside and outside the shop, doing whatever they want.
Yonezu-san sits calmly or walks around leisurely amidst it all.
There are even parts that are rewound.

At first, I didn't understand what it meant at all, but once I thought of it as a depiction of "hell," it made perfect sense.

Yonezu-san walking leisurely through hell. Even transcending time and space.

The theme song begins with,
"Where does spring come around from? I became an adult without even knowing."
And in the second verse (which played for the first time during the end roll in the broadcast),
"It is only beyond the hell that people speak of that I see spring."

I didn't know where spring came from (no one taught me).
But I see spring "only beyond what others call 'hell'."

It is not "seeing spring even within hell," but "seeing spring only beyond hell."

The end of the theme song (this also played for the first time during the end roll):
"I have been myself since the day I was born. You didn't know, did you?
Goodbye, until we meet again!"

"I have been myself since the day I was born."
I think of this person and that person among the drama's characters.
(The end roll showed various scenes of various people, various "selves" one after another, didn't it?)
And it also feels like a cry from Yonezu-san.

There are many people who can only see spring beyond hell.
(As for me...)
A society where it is difficult for "me" to be "me".

If it were a society where "spring" came naturally to everyone, I don't think this drama or theme song would have been created. It makes me think.

However, I truly enjoyed it.
"There is spring beyond hell."
It was a drama that made me think that. My thanks to everyone involved.

I apologize, that is all.


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