Juujika no Rokunin - Vol. 24 Ch. 232.5 - Special Chapter: What Tool To Scrape With?

[MangaDex]

 

[Masterobi]

And now the end is here

 

[Drakun_Auger]

That last page's got to be a joke right? There's been no catharsis since the timeskip.

 

[Ochrolv]

People who read the epilogue but haven't read the story yet this is a warning. DO NOT READ THIS unless you hate yourself or being paid to do so. It is not worth your time or sanity like some of us who read it on initial release. Anyways glad that they managed to carry on Uruma's legacy even if they aren't happy with how life worked out for them. Thanks for the translations.

 

[Jack1996]

No more of this dogshit just because of being so deep into it to drop it.
Freedom

 

[Itsn]

That was completely pointless lol

 

[GhostOfBiki]

I'll remember you all in therapy.

 

[PhantomXTrinity]

Finally i finished this Edge of the Century manga

 

[Karikko]

"My name is Juujika, Juujika Rokunin"

 

[Lightbrand]

What is Juujika no Rokunin?

 

[Yoshida_Shun]

That's my girls! I'm proud

Great manga 10/10

 

[CulR]

Congratulations Juujika no Rokunin!! You are the worst kind of edginess: performative edginess. And with this epilogue, the mask finally slips.

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Referencing this comment.

The final chapter performs an extremely late metaphysical reframing. The title "The Sixth" confirms: Shun is no longer the avenger of the five. He is added to them. This is the manga attempting closure through absorption.

While this ending is technically coherent, it still feels hollow. It is consistent but not earned.

What it resolves​

• Where Shun ends up
• What he becomes
• A visual full stop (“closed”)

What it does not resolve

• Why this cycle existed in the first place
• Why Kyou mattered structurally, not just narratively
• Why the reader endured the escalation
• Why this conclusion required this much brutality to arrive at something that could have been stated far earlier

In the end, the manga burns through biotech omnipotence, identity ambiguity, and experimental cruelty just to say this:

Everyone who enters the system becomes part of it. There is no exit. Only reassignment.
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This manga confused duration with depth, collapsing the story inward at the end, but it does not re-contextualize it outward. Too late to justify the cost. The final image "closed" is not one that shows the story is complete. It reads more like "there is nothing more here".

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By contrast, an Azuma–Kyou unification would have required no rewrites and produced an actual terminal condition:

• Canon ending: Shun dies → joins the dead → cycle symbolically persists
• Alternative ending: Shun lives → becomes trapped → cycle locks

One is stopping the manga.
The other is ending it.

The canon ending fails because it is non-transformative. It commits the unforgivable sin of escalation-based fiction: the story arriving at a conclusion that did not require the journey. In other words, it revealed it was running without a destination.

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Calling this manga experience a catharsis is categorically wrong. Catharsis requires release through resolution, recognition, or transformation. All we got was senseless stimulation. An oxymoron.

But with that note the end:“Now’s your chance to binge the entire series! Experience the catharsis!” is the mask slipping.

The final chapter says “closed.” The epilogue says “open for business.” And that’s contract fraud.

The absence of a terminal condition, the very thing readers struggled with, is revealed to be the feature. This manga wasn’t about justice, revenge, or collapse. It was about sustaining sensation.

In the end, the author really is Kyou.
And the readers are Shun.

 

[Ingway]

"The Catharsis", more like the weight off my mind.

 

[Nosebleed]

The real Juujika was the friends we made along the way.

 

[Iceblink]

perhaps nowadays you would have real troubles determining if a photo was real or not

so it's over huh? damn I'll miss it. if anything it was entertaining, I think the author has a knack for a comedy manga

 

[Toxin45]

perhaps nowadays you would have real troubles determining if a photo was real or not

so it's over huh? damn I'll miss it. if anything it was entertaining, I think the author has a knack for a comedy manga

He is working o a new work next year reo and mimi look dead inside

 

[Mr_Cracker]

I like how the author said his next work is coming soon, hes never gonna get enough of terrorizing the public 😭🙏

 

[Mangamoz]

Man what a cool story, I wonder what the rest of it is like?

 

[Insignis]

That last page's got to be a joke right? There's been no catharsis since the timeskip.

I think I get this. If you find this manga and read the whole thing in one setting, you will see how shit it is, and your catharsis would be knowledge you didn't waste months or years on waiting for new chapters to slowly read this slop, and/or the feeling of relief that you are done and no more shitty chapters are there for you to read, that it finally ended.

 

[kritoleus]

Is there another chapter because this is the chapter 232.5, is there 233?