Happy of the End (2024) Episode 4

8 Comments to “Happy of the End (2024) Episode 4”

1. I thought that ep. 3 was rough…

   This is the first time that when a show is airing, i have read the whole manga. I did that a couple of days ago, cause i could not wait. The manga is very good, but disturbing.

   What stands out in this show is that it really captures the manga well. Nothing is being fluffed up. In fact, I find this episode even more difficult than the manga, cause the scenes are so dark. I must applaud the young actor but allso the adult actors to be able to portray this, cause this is difficult.

   Also, the often vulgar language from the manga had been kept. And that is a good thing. I had not thought the production team would be able to portray the manga so good and realistic as they have done now.

   I cried during this episode several times and I know next week will not be different.

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2. This series is so difficult, dark and so heartbreaking. The story of the two of them touches me so deeply. What Haoren has had to experience and endure since early childhood.
   The terrible experiences with the “mother’s” boyfriend… life on the street… selling his body to really abnormally disturbed people… looking for a kind of “security” in injured and battered people… I was particularly shocked by the scene when Haoren was so tortured by a regular customer (hit and cut) that he was really close to death. When the pimp was about to send him back to the same customer – who probably asked if he could torture Haoren to death this time – Haoren’s own self as a small child appeared to him. His childlike self reached out to him to free him from this situation.
   This scene was so painful that it really has a long lasting effect and you will think about it for a long time.
   What do some people have to endure. I hope that the two of them support each other and at least find some happiness…
   A really impressive series…

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3. I also loved how the ‘child in him’ rescued Haoren….when they both understood that this is it…its either find the courage to run and live, or perish as a miserable trash…it was so brave that they didn’t give up….it was so beautiful that they chose to live, even with all that shit they they went through 🙂

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4. This is beyond heartbreaking….and yet hauntingly beautiful…

   That Haoren has hope and wants to protect (and love?) Chihiro after having endured such unimaginable trauma, gives me goosebumps…and yes, I was crying through most of this episode and part of the earlier one too…..that empty, defeated look on Haoren’s face – as a child, then a teenager and even as an adult….it’s just kills me

   I am so invested in this now…..I want to know more about them, I want to have hope that they will both find love, care and a safe space, at least in each other….even if that comes via somewhat damaged ways, heartbreakingly damaged as they both are….I want to see them feel safe and loved….

   This show goes to the top three of my current favourite list right away

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5. Wow Haoren’s backstory is so heart wrenching he had to go through such terrible life experiences for a majority of his life 😭😭😭😭 I’m happy that Kaji found him again!!!! Idk how this situation with his mom is gonna affect him now and who is the culprit??!🤔

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6. I am finding this to be a very very sad and disturbing series.

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7. “I always watch from the outside.” The episodes just progressively get heavier and heavier with every new revelation of their past/upbringing. They both are so pitiful and broken. What Haeoren had to go through as a child was painful and disturbing to watch, I had to pause and take a breath; it gives context to why he acted the way he did towards Chihiro last episode (though still abusive and wrong).

   “Stop looking at me. Don’t look at me like that.” His empty, soulless eyes watching from the outside…All he wanted was for his mom to protect him. All they both wanted was a normal life; to be loved and wanted by someone just enough. 🥺

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8. All I can manage to say right now is that this is beyond dark and disturbing… Haroen abandoned and treated like discarded trash. He’s so damaged. Both these MLs are so damaged. All they wanted was to be genuinely loved and cared for. And, especially by his mother for Haroen. The meaning of his name too, so tragically symbolic…😭

   That haunting backstory… “I always watch from the outside”

   This is so overwhelmingly deep for me😭😭😭

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