It wasn’t as if he was the only member of his family feeling underappreciated or downtrodden. Even so, you can’t deny his family is being a lot nicer to him now that he’s a machine, when before, only his dog Hanako seemed to care whether he lived or died.Īt the same time, perhaps they weren’t ever as disdainful as the earlier episodes depicted maybe we were just seeing things from Ichirou’s woe-is-me perspective. In an earlier talk with his boy while walking home, Ichirou tells him how death makes life precious, and that now that he’s a machine he realizes he took being human for granted. He takes the fam out to eat and they take a riverside stroll afterward, in a wonderful display of family camaraderie. He’s not in a good place.Īs for Ichirou, honesty proves to be the best policy, as his family quickly embraces him (I love how his office didn’t even acknowledge him as the healing god on TV).
Hiro is also constantly hearing desperate cries for him to just effing die already for all the horrendous shit he’s done.
Hiro splits before he arrives, and later watches Shion and her grandmother from afar, not daring to get too close lest his awfulness infect them any further. He shows up in Andou’s room to read the latest Jump, but Andou can’t allow the charade to go on, and calls Ichirou. When his wife asks him to describe their honeymoon, he recalls every detail with such emotion both she and Mari end up bawling and embracing him…of course he’s their Ichirou. Only his son stays away, still understandably weary of this shocking news.Īs for Hiro, his arms aren’t coming back, and he seems to have given up on destroying Japan. That fear was only amplified when Ichirou showed his entire family the machinery within him, confessing to them that he might not be their Ichirou, but a fake. Early in this final episode, I was deathly afraid Hiro would somehow repair himself and pay Ichirou and his family a visit, and there would be no way Ichirou would be able to fight Hiro off and save his family indeed, they’d likely be part of the ample collateral damage of such a fight.
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