emeraldreverie's review
5.0
This series is a masterpiece and this concluding volume is perfect. The pain, the catharsis, the yearning, the need, the anguish, the homage and appreciation, all shine and vibrate. I cried. Highest recommend.
psykobilliethekid's review against another edition
5.0
This series is exactly what I needed to read at the time in my life I needed to read it the most. I've been having trouble with making video games. I have my own passion project, but I've had the hardest time trying to get my code to work, dealing with trolls telling me my coding sucks, and being told by someone I love that "making games in a waste of time."
All of this has caused me to come to a shuttering stop in doing anything game related outside of playing games after work.
But reading this series, which broke my heart at points and hit too close to home at others, made to remember something from my childhood. When I was growing up, my grandfather, my PopPop, was the father figure in my life. When I would cry and say I couldn't do something, he would say "Stop saying you can't. You can! If you believe you can, then you can!"
Reading this series makes me feel like he was my own sensei. Even though he died when I was 6, I can still remember his voice saying those words. "You can! If you believe you can, then you can!" In a way, it's my own version of "Just draw."
So I'm going to stop thinking that I can't code my games. I can code them. I believe I can, so I know I can! And if I get stuck, there's TONS of help out there that can show me the way through.
Thank you PopPop for being my sensei. And thank you Higashimura-san for writing this. It's the perfect start to a new decade.
All of this has caused me to come to a shuttering stop in doing anything game related outside of playing games after work.
But reading this series, which broke my heart at points and hit too close to home at others, made to remember something from my childhood. When I was growing up, my grandfather, my PopPop, was the father figure in my life. When I would cry and say I couldn't do something, he would say "Stop saying you can't. You can! If you believe you can, then you can!"
Reading this series makes me feel like he was my own sensei. Even though he died when I was 6, I can still remember his voice saying those words. "You can! If you believe you can, then you can!" In a way, it's my own version of "Just draw."
So I'm going to stop thinking that I can't code my games. I can code them. I believe I can, so I know I can! And if I get stuck, there's TONS of help out there that can show me the way through.
Thank you PopPop for being my sensei. And thank you Higashimura-san for writing this. It's the perfect start to a new decade.
febrfebrfebr's review against another edition
4.0
Spoiler
Hidaka-sensei terlihat baik-baik saja setelah didiagnosa kanker, menolak masuk rumah sakit dan tetap melanjutkan kegiatannya mengajar dan melukis. Ia mengumpulkan murid-murid lamanya semata untuk mempersiapkan pameran yang diperkirakannya baru akan dilaksanakan setelah kematiannya. Hidaka-sensei tetaplah Hidaka-sensei seperti biasanya.Karena tidak mampu berkonsentrasi mengerjakan manganya, Hayashi kembali ke Osaka tidak lama kemudian. Hayashi kembali tenggelam dalam hidupnya di Osaka dan mengesampingkan pikiran tentang sensei hingga tiba sebuah kabar duka.
Hayashi mengenang saat terakhir berjumpa dengan sensei, ketika ia mulai melemah dan lebih banyak berbaring di futon, namun tetap menggelar kanvas dan melukis di samping futonnya pada saat-saat ada tenaga. Hingga saat terakhir pun, sensei tetap melukis. Ketika berkumpul dengan murid-murid lama Hidaka-sensei setelah pemakaman, terungkaplah bahwa pesan terakhir senseipun adalah, "just draw". Pesan terakhir sensei tersebut terus diingat Hayashi hingga kini, dan menjadi penyemangatnya pada masa-masa sulit yang kemudian dihadapinya. Bagaimanapun sulitnya hidup, Hayashi terus mengingat bahwa ia tetap bisa menggambar untuk menyokong hidupnya.
makifanclub's review
5.0
the ending had me tearing up, this series really spoke to me in a lot of ways and i’m very glad the author shared this story