[S14E20] NANA, chs. 78–80

0:12:26: Looking back on the series as a whole

0:27:51 Synopses

0:35:38 Some discussion of the volume overall

0:40:43 Chapter 78 discussion

1:26:47 Chapter 79 discussion

1:58:02 Chapter 80 discussion

2:39:28 Discussion of uncollected chapters 81-84

3:18:29 Plugs and outro

Post-ED chat

OP: "Punk Mushi no Onna" by Jun Togawa

ED: "If we belong" by Aiha Higurashi

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Death, fatal car crash

Funeral, unfinished business, extreme grief

Discussion of details of a brutal and disfiguring death on a dead body

Drug use and addiction

Suicide, self-harm, drowning

Childhood abandonment, neglect trauma

Abusive relationships, manipulation, controlling behavior

Cheating and infidelity

Divorce, messy breakups

Misogyny and sexism

Sex and sexuality

Mental illness and distress

Self-starvation

Alcohol

One! Two! Three! Four!

In the moonlit white forest,

I am burrowing into tree roots

where many cicadas will emerge.

Ah ah!

This is the image of me as I reach my final metamorphosis

from thinking too many thoughts of you.

In the moonlit frozen forest,

I am an insect woman drinking tree sap.

When at last

you finally notice me

with my amber stomach,

the girl who transformed into an insect,

parasitized by a strange grass

growing stems of sorrow from her amber back.