As she participates in a study session with Maaya and a bunch of other guys and girls, Saki remarks to us how she used to rely entirely on herself. But when neither she nor any books hold the answers, she’s learned from Maaya and Yuuta that it’s okay to rely and lean on others. It’s not just beneficial, but vital to get through life in one piece.
It’s a lesson both Saki and Yuuta have to learn from one another as well as the people around them. On her lunch date with Yuuta, Kaho isn’t fazed when he seems distracted and is trying to force a conversation. We gradually learn that her interest in him is beyond attraction. While that’s part of it, as she likes how fair, direct, and kind he is, there’s also this sense that she, and only she, can do something for him.
Yuuta was distracted when he spotted Saki with Shingo, one of the boys in her study group with whom she’s on a konbini snack run. Shingo later shoots his shot in classic anime fashion—as a train is rushing past. Saki hears him say he likes her. It just doesn’t do anything for her.
Saki thanks him for telling him and is glad he feels that way, but she’s certain she won’t be able to see him that way. She remembers the college professor telling her how to tell if the feelings she had should be treasured, and that’s exactly what transpires.
Kaho invites Yuuta to join her for a night in Shibuya, but her intentions aren’t carnal, but rather, shall we say, Samaritan. You see, Yuuta, whom Kaho can tell is holding something back, reminds her of her past self. She lost both parents and their families were jerks about it, causing her to feel humanity had betrayed her faith in it.
Kaho can tell Yuuta hasn’t had strong women to rely on in his life, because for a long time she didn’t either, at least until her auntie adopted her and restored some of that faith. Kaho relays the same advice that aunt gave her, which she found liberating: don’t ignore your feelings. Make peace with your heart. Feelings are selfish things, and bottling them up and pretending they don’t exist won’t work; you’ll only end up scarred.
During Yuuta and Saki’s next meal alone together, Days with My Stepsister commences the full realization of its premise: that stepsiblings falling for each other doesn’t have to be a joke, or porn. It wanted to sincerely explore that scenario with an open, fully bared heart.
So long Yuuta and Saki had been walking on eggshells around each other, but Yuuta takes Kaho’s advise, exercises a bit of selfishness, and confesses his feelings for Saki. His voice has been so stoic and measured, but here you can feel the emotion behind it, and in her reactions that are a combination of confusion, relief, elation, and fear.
When the visual production is a on a tight pursestring, the direction, audio, and most importantly lack of audio play a much stronger role, and within those confines, these final scenes are executed to perfection. Saki is overwhelmed by emotion following Yuuta’s confession (a stark contrast to her non-reaction to Shingo’s), so she runs to her room.
But Yuuta, who won’t leave things this way, follows and knocks on her door, softly, gently, patiently. Here, the silence Days has used so expertly throughout the season has never sounded more weighty or powerful. Finally, we hear the subtle shuffling that indicates she’s coming to open the door. She tells him she’s okay with what he’s said, and pulls him into the room with her.
As her hands tremble and she holds back tears, she embraces Yuuta, then holds is hands in hers, in such a way as their hands are lit by the sun peeking through the curtains. That intense light focused only on their joined hands couldn’t be more appropriate, as it’s a perfect visualization of the connection they finally able to break through and make together.
Saki admits to having feelings for Yuuta as well, but like him she’s not sure whether they’re merely for a sibling, or something else. What they both agree on is that neither of them want to cause even the slightest bit of trouble to their adorable newlywed parents, both of whom work so hard to provide them the comfortable lives they’ve had.
But in coming clean about their feelings for one another, Saki and Yuuta are in a much better place. Now they can share the weight of those feelings rather than suffer in silence or solitude. They both admit they get jealous and anxious when the other is with someone of the opposite sex.
Saki proposes that they continue to act like brother and sister—even if they aren’t brother and sister in their newly bared hearts. They are counting on one another as they work through this together, already greatly buoyed by the prospect of how much easier it will be working as a team than toiling alone.
No sooner do Saki and Yuuta come to this profound understanding and agreement do the final end credits roll. Days got in, got out, and went hard when it mattered, never straying from its ideals, its focus, and its gentle, earnest sincerity. It was a genuinely moving finale, and the voice actors behind Yuuta, Saki, and Kaho all knocked it out of the park in the clutch.
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