Saki ARIMA

Saki, personaje hecho para darle un pasado oscuro a la obra y que en la mayoría del anime hayan grandes cambios, Saki muy buen personaje, pero una aberración de madre...

I understand her and why she did things but she still a BITCH

I agree wholeheartedly with the comment below regarding the story's framing of her abuse- the only thing I can add to that is that perhaps Kosei still saw his mother through rose colored glasses, but that still doesn't make up for it.

She's unfortunately quite realistic and I can understand her to a degree, but the way the story framed her and how it absolved the fuck out of her horrendous acts of abuse towards her child that left him scarred and traumatized is a huge dealbreaker for me. This character and the writing around her, more than anything else, spoiled this series and held it back from what it had the potential to be at the start.

Not to get like super personal or anything, but being someone who witnessed psychological and was on the recieving end of verbal (and in the past near-physical) abuse as a misrepresented method of showing "tough love", I can actually sympathize with Saki, despite still condemning her actions. I think whats most important is that people understand this character, and why she was what she was, rather than subjectively hating her for abuse alone. For that reason I might as well put her on my liked characters list.