Moon Moonlight Shadow Yoshimoto Analysis

However, bringing back the dead comes with its consequences like losing them all over again as Yoshimoto wrote: “Hitoshi waving goodbye. It was a painful sight, like a ray of light piercing my heart.” (p.148) Urara tries to convince Satsuki that this final goodbye is good for the heart, but she ignores her, recollecting the unbearable hurt she felt the first time she witnessed Hitoshi’s death. In “Moonlight Shadow”, Yoshimoto portrays the theme of grief by expanding on closure. Bringing the nonliving back to life is nice if we’re dreaming, but in the end, we have to face reality and accept that our loved ones are gone for