Come to think of it, Mr. Sunshine felt somewhat like a slice-of-life series

Although many of the characters eventually die or flee,
fundamentally, when comparing the beginning of the work to the ending,
not much has changed.
Actually, since history is fixed, the drama couldn't have depicted it differently, but still...
It didn't feel like there was a massive shift in momentum through a narrative structure,
nor did it have a groundbreaking conclusion;
rather, it felt more like it just showed a certain part of the Japanese colonial era and ended...
It might feel that way even more because the series was quite long for a miniseries..
It was 24 episodes, and each episode was even 1 hour and 30 minutes long.