If this ends exactly the same way as the anime im going to be really disappointed.
even though in real life sato is obviously a bad guy, this is a story so please give satou a good end~ the author already went out of the box with this story, with sato being like a super yandere, killing people and kidnapping a loli, then suddenly the ending becomes a run of the mill bad guy dies, it's like how shouko tried to hear out sato but didn't have to guts to accept her. please author-sensei, i know it's gonna be controversial, but i hope you'll find the guts to give a bad guy a good ending to truly make this story unique and different! :3
I think the point of this story is that Sato is so damaged, and has done so much damage to others as a result, that it's just not sustainable. There can't really be a happy ending here. She's murdered, she's kidnapped. We the readers, as a witness from the outside looking in, have to accept the flicker of what could have been but never will be that we can see, and the melancholy "happiness" that as twisted as she is, Sato did find some mote of happiness and peace before her inevitable sad end.
Yea but i feel like she's just trying to make do with the cards she was dealt. and also it's funny that after all her crimes, i feel like the only one that was uncalled for was when she did in shouko. the person she murdered was as seen in the anime going to kill shio, and i wouldn't call it kidnapping if she took a girl left there to fend for herself. i could think of like a dozen much more horrible scenarios that could've happened to shio if sato wasn't there. and yes you could argue that she should've returned shio to her family, what would she be returning to? shio's mother already accepted the fact that her daughter can't live in that situation anymore so she let her go (which could've been handled a bit more properly than just leaving her there) and watching the anime, i feel like the brother is actually a bad guy since yea, he was just trying to get back his family, but what will they return to? they barely had enough to eat and he prolly drained their resources even further from printing and posting all those posters (here in where i live, photocopying is crazy expensive you could eat a full meal with the cost). all in all, i guess i just wanna see sato have a happy ending. because of the idea of someone in a situation where their only choice is a bad ending is just so sad. i feel like the author giving the story a good ending would be like saying "it's never too late for anyone, no matter what they went through". just gives hope i feel. but with the anime ending, it felt so sad, like after going through all that shit her reward is dying. geez. anyway, before someone responds with "reality is like that, it's cruel" and all that, i know it full well and is the very reason i'd like to see a good end for a person who went through a lot, it just sends a message i guess of there's light at the end of the tunnel. and i think it wouldn't be condoning doing crimes since as i stated only shouko's was uncalled for, but that's just me, guess i really fell for the author selling sato as like the tragic heroine >w<