The finale wasn’t actually about Yano chasing Hiroshi, but rather about understanding Hiroshi. The big thing with Hiroshi is his ability to recognize someone. In an interesting use of storytelling, the reason for it is basically since the accident he looks at humans as animals. A great usage of the anthropomorphic theme, which doesn’t get used in anime that often this effectively.
The baseline for it is that Hiroshi as a kid was bullied, and the adults weren’t there in his life. But it is easy to understand how he got attached to animals. If we think of any pets we own and how attached we can get to them. Hiroshi’s ability to recognize someone was because in his mind he looked at them as an animal. It’s easier to distinguish a cat from a dog than it is fellow humans. Of course, gender, you can see some distinctions, but nowadays the lines between genders can be blurred.
The boss’s characterization is an interesting one. Based on the image we had of Dobu and Yano you would think he would be more of an antagonist figure, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It adds on to the point that Dobu isn’t as bad a guy as our first impression gave us. We saw with Hiroshi and the Daimon brothers that he took care of them. In fact, he regrets not being able to save Yuki.
There was a small indication that perhaps Sakura is the one who killed Yuki. When we look at the fallout of the incident and look at the many that were affected in some way or another. The one who is the true cause of the incident is roaming free. It is a constant theme that life itself is unfair. You could argue she influenced everything in this show except Tanaka’s flashback stuff and the relationship Miho and Dobu had with her killing Yuki. Those people affected need to figure out how to move forward when what they did is make one small mistake. But sometimes even one small mistake can add up and exponentially get larger if you aren’t careful.
