i have a very vivid memory of the last time i remember sobbing because of an anime/manga, and it was was definitely the end of JoJo Stone Ocean on December 3rd 2022. i had been watching it for that whole year and to have it end off the way that it did absolutely destroyed me for a few days, simply because throughout watching it i developed a deep, almost personal connection with some of the characters and it just ended in such a tragic way that i just dropped to my floor and cried. nearly three years ago! i just got done with this manga and i feel the same way, if not even worse. i feel physically sick while writing this and my whole body hurts. the story i have with this manga goes all the way back to nearly exactly a year ago when one of my mutuals on twitter just ended up quote tweeting a panel from chapter 2, i had already heard of this before but that was the moment where it just started living in my head for a while. i read some of it that winter but i quickly dropped it, and i'd only re read the first few chapters and actually give it a full read-through, now, in the same place, exactly a year later. throughout these past 2 days, while i was binging this, i had built a deep connection with the couple in question, and to have a bad ending this gutwrenching just makes me feel the same way i felt, in this very room, on this very floor, in this very body, in this very soul, 920 days ago. i could go on for hours on how spectacular this story is and how amazing this is but my spirit isn't well to do so.
this will forever be my favorite manga ever written, and it'll be shelved among my favorite pieces of art ever made — thanks hanamura and airi, i'm sick to my stomach 💕