Kicma

Vaguely defined contagion begets vaguely expressed allegory begets parade of death and despair. The vagueness can be ascribed in part to fansubs and the death parade ain't mere miserablism: as the ineffectual hero recedes into the background, the vignettes of his suicidal-cuz-mysterious-poison-gas neighbours evoke a collective protagonist of the modern kind, suffering alone right next to each other from a progressive malady they can't hope to understand. And dig that ending--joke's on science.