I just finished the anime.
I've known about the existence of this story for a little over a year now, and from what I understood, it was a tragedy. That's all the info I had and so I avoided it. Mostly due to that but I also didn't want to go out of my way to find the anime or manga. But to my detriment, Netflix decided to make emotional distress easy to access.
During my three days of watching, I was on edge just KNOWING either Ash or Eiji wasn't going to make it (my guess was Ash, but it was still a toss up), but by the final episode... Things are good? Sad, but they're alive! So I thought, maybe the tragic part was that they can't be together...
Fucking hell man, I let my guard down for HALF OF AN EPISODE!
Hope really can make things worse, can't it?
This whole time Ash has been surviving the most brutal shit fuckers could throw at him but now one stab wound by the last remaining enemy...
I think I understand why, but this fucking sucks. I should have listened to myself and just kept ignoring this beautifully tragic, heart wrenching story. At least then I wouldn't be crying right now.
I just needed to vent a bit. Sorry.