Its been so long since I’ve read the manga I’ve forgotten everything about this. That’s a good mindset to start it off. But I have a feeling the anime won’t end up as hard hitting as the manga tho, there are so many inner monologues and self reflections that are very hard to pull of in anything but a book or a manga. I’m hopeful.
It is a rare thing, indeed, to find a story that dances delicately between two intertwined emotions, each as distant from the other as the earth and the sky. One evokes a fragile sense of hope and longing; wishfulness. The other drapes a veil of melancholy over something tantalizingly close yet impossibly out of reach; wistfulness. Its a bittersweet ache that lingers long after an episode comes to a close. The Bartender, for as fantastical as it is, leaves me in a tear’s break every time. It reminds me that life can never be as beautiful as a story or as consistent, but that it does have moments that you cherish for years to come.