![]() ![]() The few questions that Sakura no Uta does tackle throughout its story are much more down to earth - the question of talent, the meaning of a happy life, and the effect interpersonal relationships have on all that - it does lightly allude to and quote various thought-provoking works of literature - Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Maugham, and the nigh incomprehensible Nakahara Chuuya - but in the core it’s just a drama about one man’s struggle against the unfair nature of fate, against his own fickle talent that would betray him only when it counted most. ![]() For starters, you shouldn’t come into it expecting another Subarashiki Hibi, as while Sakura no Uta definitely has its fair share of ideas, it isn’t really a work specifically designed to explore the higher existential questions of avant-garde philosophy like the aforementioned masterpiece. The experience of reading this long awaited work of probably the most erudite of visual novel writers, Scaji, can be both amazing, and somewhat disappointing at the same time.
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