TS Medic’s Battlefield Diary Chapter 143 Discussion

Webnovel reader here, caught up to the latest chapter.

First off, do not be fooled by its setting and compare it to something like Youjo Senki. This is nothing at all like anything else currently floating around. It is a piece of WW1 media, with a light fantasy skin painted over the top of it to bait people into reading it because us weebs wouldn't read it otherwise.

And secondly, on that note, it is genuinely one of the best pieces of WW1 media ever made, up there with the greats like All Quiet on the Western Front, They Shall Not Grow Old, and 1917. It's certainly the best to come out of Japan and it's probably the best one to come in a long serialised form in general.

This is a story about being in Hell and struggling to have the desire to survive. It's about the instantaneous nature of tragedy and how it can come from nowhere and take everything in an instant. It's about the fleetingness of human connection. It's about how everyone, on every side, of every temperament and every background, lives the same, smiles the same, loves the same, cries the same and dies the same.

And despite being deeply miserable, it is also deeply touching and emotional. Even when you lose everything, you're not alone; everyone else is just like you. The common root of suffering turns strangers into people you understand and trust in an instant, fleeting connections power through the despair of tragedy and give you hope and the will to trudge through hell. Everyone, no matter where they come from, dies the same, yes, but they love the same, and they smile the same. Life is precious, so don't waste it on hating, don't waste it on fighting.