Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

32 reviews

lambclown's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

THE READER FOR THE AUDIOBOOK WAS ASSSSSSS AND DIDNT KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE ANY JAPANESE WORDS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death and Abandonment

travisppe's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Very sad and mournful. Didn’t really land with me. I thought the concept was intriguing but the storyline didn’t connect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Abandonment, and Classism

my goodness, everyone dies

squidknees's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

lomahongva's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death

summermccoy96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Animal death

hapikohw's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was unfortunately underwhelming. I felt like a ghost to the story, or it was to me. Something felt vacant and missing. The premise was very appetizing, but the reality of the book for me was that I was gnawing on bones and left with no meat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, War, and Classism

amandadevoursbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a slim book that packs a punch. I read the translated text. 

Kazu is dead. He is haunting the place that he killed himself, Tokyo Ueno Station and Park. The book is mashup of a memoir and a slice of life novel. Kazu tells us about his life and his memories as he relates the conversations he observes first a homeless person and second as a literal ghost. 

It is a beautifully constructed story that is a story of migrations and their impacts on families. It presents the stark differences between Kazu's life and that of the Japanese royal family, and it lays out the life of a poorer man doing the best he can to support his family in the face of societal change. 

Some of the most interesting passages to me highlight how diverse Japanese culture is. A lot of times as a Westerner, we see the food, the music, the art, and we never see the family dynamics. This book peels the curtain back a little so we get a glimpse of a complex, dynamic culture. 

I just wanted Kazu to catch a break. He never does, and the ending is gutrenching

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

islesbiyana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Suicide

chrisljm's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The narration was very stream of consciousness, but unfortunately it wasn’t for me. However, something I did appreciate from the novel was how it lingered in my head and gave me things to think about afterwards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Torture, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, and Blood

karmajolie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Classism

Minor: Animal death