Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. From the very start, I felt the pulse of what this series had to say, and every bit of it was paid off.
The understanding of people in this way, how one person leaves a piece of themselves in everybody they impact, how every piece is unique... how every person takes those pieces and makes them a part of themselves, small or large... it's a very mature and real understanding of the relationships between people. Showing that, the pain of loss, and what it is like to keep living and keep growing and changing while still keeping those pieces as a part of you... and having all of it be shown as something beautiful... I've long since seen the world this way, and understood loss this way, be it death or simply drifting apart. It is a beautiful thing, and having this work capture that beauty makes it quite special.
I will treasure this work for a long, long time. Thank you for the translation, for letting me read this — thank you for this new piece of me.