Saya is absolutely devoted to Fuminori, and always has kind words of support for him. Saya is a young girl who appears in Fuminori’s world, and helps to keep him sane - or so he believes, anyway. An experimental neurosurgery procedure saved his life, but also doomed him to perceiving the “real” world as a horrifying place: walls of flesh, terrible smells, horrible monsters and nothing appearing as it “should” be.Įxcept for Saya. In this visual novel, we follow the protagonist Fuminori, who has been suffering with a neurological disorder since he was the sole survivor of a car accident. Let’s rewind a moment for those unfamiliar with Saya no Uta, though. And your imagination can inevitably conjure up something far worse than simple words on a page. And much of Saya no Uta’s most shocking material happens off-screen, so you never actually “see” it this, of course, makes things much worse for the reader, because it leaves your imagination to do the work. It’s messed up, it’s violent and it’s completely bereft of what one might call a “happy” ending, but it nonetheless knows that good horror is about understanding what you should show, and what you shouldn’t show. Urobuchi’s nickname stends from his work’s tendency towards dark and nihilistic themes as well as heavy use of gore, so you can probably predict where Saya no Uta is going if you’re not already familiar.Įxcept it’s not quite what you might expect. Saya no Uta is the work of Gen “The Butcher” Urobuchi, a writer who, over the years has given us, among other things, the anime Madoka Magica, the Type-Moon spinoff series Fate/Zero and the Psycho-Pass anime.

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