“Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what’s the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? For Hanio, both paths led to the same thing: death.”

“Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what’s the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? For Hanio, both paths led to the same thing: death.”

— Yukio Mishima