![]() But it has given her a depth she lacked and a perspective that now keeps one eye on the future. She’s more serious now, she has something to lose. Setsuko in the final volume is not quite the Setsuko we first met. She’s had to figure out what to do on her own, even sometimes ignoring perfectly sound advice by people who love her, in order to become the woman she wants to be. No magic power has granted her the ability to handle things without getting hurt. Yukino in this final volume is still Yukino. It’s about two adult women who fall in love with one another and have to navigate a very complicated path in between coworkers, friends, family and, trickiest of all, their own expectations. (Read that as you might Goldilocks talking about the middle bed.) Octave has the ending I’ve always wanted to read. Octave is the story I have always wanted to read. Now, on to our regularly scheduled review: Let me sum up by saying this to those long time readers – had you started learning Japanese when you started reading this blog, you’d be able to read Octave in the original by now. That’s why I write Okazu and I very much hope that’s why you read Okazu – to be motivated. So, when I write today about how great Octave is, what I *hope* is that you’ll finally be motivated to buy it, to sacrifice some of your time and learn a little Japanese, to show support in the only way that has any meaning in our world – with your money. To all of you who support the industry, I do it for you. I do it for the many of you who do buy the manga, the magazines, the DVDs, the novels, etc. I do not do it for those of you who would rather construct rationalizations about why you just can not support people who do this for a living. I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again – I think I have the *greatest readers in the world.* But for those who do think that way, let me assure you that that is not why I write Okazu. I know this does not apply to all of you, or even to most of you. Because that person feels its okay to take the hard work of the artists, writers, their assistants, editors, and printers and basically not care that all that is not worth anything more to them than what they can get for free. So, when I saw a forum post recently written by a long-time reader of Okazu that linked to a review here with the comment, “Ooh, I can’t wait to read the scans!” it made me sad. ![]() ![]() To share good titles with you, to give you all links to places to buy these good titles, to motivate you to learn a little Japanese, for entertainment and, obviously, because it pleases me to do so – that’s the entertainment I get from it. ![]() I write reviews here for several reasons. I promise not to name names or rip anyone specific up, but I really need to get this off my chest. Before I get on a pedestal and start declaiming the wonderfulness of Octave, Volume 6, ( オクターヴ), I hope you’ll indulge me. ![]()
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