This page is a dedicated love letter, to one of the very first visual novels I ever was introduced to back when I was in middle school. This VN is not for everyone, and for some reason quite a few people have placed this media onto "worst possible media that is so disturbing you will wanna bleach your eyes out"!!

People nowadays seem to be extremely sensitive to anything remotely dark in nature, like they are sheltered or babied way too much. I understand not everybody likes really dark content, or even disturbing content. But to simply hate on a piece of media and those who enjoy it, simply because it isn't your cup of tea, just puts a sour taste in my mouth. I would define this story as 'Grotesquely Beautiful'. This VN has made me cry and sob grossly over and over the many times I have read it, voice acted it, anything.

The dynamics between the main guy, Fuminori and the girl named Saya, are so incredibly strong, and shows you just how much a person's psyche can be affected, and manipulated when they feel they have nobody else but a single person to help them feel any semblance of normality. If you do not want any spoilers, and want to witness this story unfold yourself, I strongly recommend doing so, it is available on steam, uncensored. You can also buy it through the original developer's store here! From here on out, I am going to be talking about the story, and why it resonated with me on a personal level, and why I wish more peopel viewed it more than just "that one VN".

Our main character, Fuminori, is in a horrid accident which causes his mind to become essentially, beyond repair. Everything he see's and hears is greatly distorted, and has become this meat, rot, monster infested world beofre his eyes. Even those he used to remember fondly have become nothing more than these putrid things. On the verge of utter insanity, feeling as if he has no more hope in the world, suddenly appears Saya. And to Fuminori, she doesn't appear as a disgusting, mangled, fleshy abomination. But instead, this serene, and beautiful girl. Finally he is given a semblance of hope, a reason to be alive! No longer wishing for death, but instead wanting nothing but this girl's embrace, and company, even love, everything he hasn't had in so long, he of course would crave. It is human nature, we are social creatures by design. Even the most anti-social of humans, would go insane without having someone to talk to. Some form of contact. Whether it be talking, embracing, spending time together, or even intimacy. Things we often take for granted until it is taken from us in some form. Like it was stripped away from Fuminori.

Just as Fuminori finds companionship within Saya, she too finds within him. They are bonded to one another. Whether that's a good or bad thing is I feel up to interpretation. You are given different endings of course, like any Visual Novel. But the morality in question is one people often struggle with. Afterall, humans are what defined 'good' and 'evil' in a way if you think about it. As you can clearly tell, Saya is not ordinary, she is the creatures that Fuminori see's his friends as. Some semblance of them. An eldritch abomination. But she is more than just 'an evil monster'. She has her own plans, and her own motives. Her own survival and her own wants and needs in mind. Just like any human does. Many people despise Saya for the things she does, when in truth, she simply is doing what was done to her when she was tested on by scientists; humans.

Needless to say, there is alot of disturbing imagery, gore, death, and of course sexual themes, there is even rape involved, including turning one of Fuminori's friends into an essential slave. But don't allow these things t odetere you from witnessing the story yourself. Save your judgements, and don't think of 'what is or isn't morally right or wrong'. Try to view the story from a neautral out look, from an artistic point of view. It is such an under rated master piece created by the very man who gave us Madoka Magica. And we all know how well he is at creating dark subject matter, and causing you to question a lot of things. I feel like I've just been sort of rambling, and not really forming concisive thoughts. But it's really hard to put into the words the true beauty of this game, this story. If you are a fan of the disturbing, the gritty, anything relating to cthulu/H.P. Lovecraft, horror, and like stories that make you question things, and think about what is going on. Give this a try. For art is to comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. Always remember that, for it is true.

Saya no Uta has a very special place in my heart, because it was something I saw back in a time where censorship was a huge thing, where anime and manga was still very much "weird" to be into. You were looked at odd to like anything similar to it. Your parents always thought you watching the tamest of anime's meant you were also watching hentai for some reason. It was my first piece of true disturbing media, and did it disturb me? I'd feel weird to say 'not really'. Did it make me emotional? Yes, it did. It gave me a sort of comfort I needed in a dark time in my life. I am someone who takes comfort in dark media and horror, I have yet to know the reason for this. But i've always been this way, ever since I was a kid. I was the kid who watched Courage the Cowardly dog, Aahh! Real monsters, and other oddball cartoons that normal kids didn't like. Maybe it's my neurodiversity, whatever it is, I'm glad that I can appreciate dark media, and not judge it or shun it. For if we are to censor what disturbs us, then what we find comfort in, will also be censored as well. Censorship doesn't stop at what we don't like.