Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 203 - Commissioned Investigator (Post-investigation Report)

[Fri]

Oof. The reveal about Hama's dad is really tragic. Though this also gives her more motive to accept gray jobs...

It occurred to me in the last couple of chapters that with all the hinted apocalyptic scenarios tied to some of the jobs, the world ending is a very feasible ending for this manga. Especially since we know other universes exist, so we can still get a "happy ending" with Hama and Yume escaping to another universe while everyone else dies.

Except for Daidai. She may genuinely be the savior after all, or the lone survivor

It'd be like Jojo Part 6 with Rohan, where Daidai don't even notice the world is ending.

 

[Vainfire]

Damn, they're REALLY doing the 'All the big world ending threats are running into each others'? That's a first for that kind of story.

It's very rare, but it does happen. Another example of this is "You Will Hear The Voice of the Dead" or Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi by Uguisu Sachiko. You're right though; episodic horror manga (episodic horror anything tbh) suddenly doing all the callbacks to put everything in its proper place is really quite difficult, it's why anything that tries to do it sticks mostly to vague gestures rather than a coherent narrative--see PTSD Radio by Nakayama Masaaki as an example of callbacks that don't cohere.

 

[sotokouya]

ngl nagomi's dad kinda give me sasuke vibe in a not-so-deadbeat dad

 

[fennec]

It's very rare, but it does happen. Another example of this is "You Will Hear The Voice of the Dead" or Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi by Uguisu Sachiko. You're right though; episodic horror manga (episodic horror anything tbh) suddenly doing all the callbacks to put everything in its proper place is really quite difficult, it's why anything that tries to do it sticks mostly to vague gestures rather than a coherent narrative--see PTSD Radio by Nakayama Masaaki as an example of callbacks that don't cohere.

I've done deep-dive comments on PTSD Radio before, and the callbacks actually are more coherent than it initially appears. That one has an actual plot (it's all set in the same city, and can be traced back to the god of hair) but the manga stopped before all the connections could be revealed. Still hoping it gets finished someday...