BOX - Something's in the Box - Vol. 3 Ch. 22 - All's Right with the World

[MangaDex]

 

[BreadBunny]

is it just me or does post-ending Megumi look identical to Kyoko? Anyway this was a lot of fun to read. A really cool mystery manga.

 

[es_kan]

Whew, the box just ate his brother's existence! What did it take from Jingu again? Must be a part of her memories or personality, with that chunk from her head missing.

So happy for Megumi to get her best ending.

Thanks for translating!

 

[danbellucci]

Thanks for the chapter and for translating this whole series!
I usually don;t like this author's manga's they're usually too exposition heavy and boring, but this one was really cool

So the thing that the box takes is represented by the thing that it makes invisible?
Megumin had his penis made invisible, megumin had part of her head invisible, kyoko had her face made invisible, the main character I don't think had anything made invisible .
megumin had his sex taken by the box and apparently that made him a female rather than sexless, megumin had her sixth sense taken by the box, the main character had his dead brother taken by the box so that his parents would stop mourning .
What did Kyoko have taken? Her whole personality? Her entire knowledge of the supernatural?

I still feel a bit bad for mr yamauchi, the bald local historian. He found a loophole in the rules and nothing wrong and the box still killed him in an unfair way.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Wrote your name in the crossword bro, you lost.

 

[Babymech2]

They gave up the remaining chapters, and reality rewrote itself so that it was like the series always ended here... Thanks for the translation!

 

[tedy2004]

Thank you for the translation, was a fun read.

 

[SystematicChaos]

Thanks for the chapter and for translating this whole series!
I usually don;t like this author's manga's they're usually too exposition heavy and boring, but this one was really cool

So the thing that the box takes is represented by the thing that it makes invisible?
Megumin had his penis made invisible, megumin had part of her head invisible, kyoko had her face made invisible, the main character I don't think had anything made invisible .
megumin had his sex taken by the box and apparently that made him a female rather than sexless, megumin had her sixth sense taken by the box, the main character had his dead brother taken by the box so that his parents would stop mourning .
What did Kyoko have taken? Her whole personality? Her entire knowledge of the supernatural?

I still feel a bit bad for mr yamauchi, the bald local historian. He found a loophole in the rules and nothing wrong and the box still killed him in an unfair way.

Aside from the fact that you called both Megumi and Jingu "Megumin" you got it mostly right.
Koji (now Koichi) didn't have a part of his own body go invisible, it was a part of his mom's head (her memories of her son) and his brother's old room that went invisible.
As for Kyoko, it's implied that she had her "curiosity" taken, which was represented by her eyes going invisible. If you read the ending pages of volume 1 you'll see that Kyoko has appeared in a number of Morohoshi's stories, and each time the "kyo" in her name means something different. Morohoshi hasn't confirmed whether these are all the same person, or different people, or different personalities within the same person, but in this manga it was the "curious" Kyoko that we got to know, and by the ending there was never a "curious" Kyoko, and instead we have a "teacher" Kyoko who has no memory of anything that just transpired. To me that strongly suggests that the "curious" Kyoko was its own personality that no longer exists, but that's just my theory and maybe Morohoshi didn't mean for it to be so cut and dry.

EDIT: I think one thing that really stands out is that the thing inside the Box is not some malicious entity (its guide notwithstanding). It didn't take anything that the participants didn't somewhere deep down want to give up. Koichi felt the death of his brother ruined his family, Megumi had gender dysphoria, Jingu felt her sixth sense wasn't entirely a blessing, and the Tanis had nothing to live for but each other. Not sure how Kyoko would fit into this; maybe on a subconscious level she felt her curiosity was getting her into trouble, or maybe she was just curious about what if she gave up her curiosity.
So that makes the case of Mr. Koda and Mr. Yamauchi a little more tragic. By trying to cheat the Box, they were proving that they were too afraid to give up something that they really wanted to give up. We'll never know what the Box might've taken from them; it might've taken away Mr. Koda's business, and for Mr. Yamauchi it might've had something to do with his closeted homosexuality. But because they were too afraid to give anything up, they failed the test and the Box killed them.

 

[Doomroar]

Kyoko get on that harem action, you know you want to mess with them, or were her sense of mischief along with her curiosity the things that she lost?

Damn so Koichi sacrificed his brother's existence to heal his mom, well he was already dead, but the memories tho, while the other 2 girls pretty much lost nothing big, Jingu never wanted her 6th sense, and Megumi wanted to transition anyways

I insist that inside the box, there's another box with all the things it has hoarded

In a way everyone something else in return, Koichi's family is happier, Megumi is now a girl, Jingu became able to integrate herself in social circles, but what did Kyoko gain after losing her curiosity?

 

[ghostkun]

This was a fun read, all in all. I quite liked it.

... Megumi was drawn like a girl so much that I couldn't really tell what the difference was for a bit lol.

I wonder if there is something to the inside of the box containing... 'instances' or alternative worlds that contain all the 'loss' from the restructuring of causality. 'What was' or 'what might have been'. I could see that causing them to cry. It's like seeing all the futures that will never be, that might have been.

Or not, I couldn't say, I lost a bit of the narrative before the translations picked up again. Either way, a pretty satisfying conclusion.

 

[Tsubakikyun]

A bit sad the curious Kyoko is gone... But at least Megumi win big here, glad for her!!
Thank you so much for translating this series, it's truly an enjoyable ride!!

 

[HCO]

Thanks for the TL. The series was worth the read.

 

[AroMaybeAce]

Seeing No Such Couple ever existed next to the Tanis made me cry I can't lie, I think them and Megumi are my favourites in this manga

 

[shelliana]

This was a beautiful and fascinating manga. You could say it's the peak of the mystery box genre. (ba-dum-tssh)
The extra little puzzles on the covers added a lot too. Definitely interested in a physical copy of this and reading more from the author.

Kyoko get on that harem action, you know you want to mess with them, or were her sense of mischief along with her curiosity the things that she lost?

Damn so Koichi sacrificed his brother's existence to heal his mom, well he was already dead, but the memories tho, while the other 2 girls pretty much lost nothing big, Jingu never wanted her 6th sense, and Megumi wanted to transition anyways

I insist that inside the box, there's another box with all the things it has hoarded

In a way everyone something else in return, Koichi's family is happier, Megumi is now a girl, Jingu became able to integrate herself in social circles, but what did Kyoko gain after losing her curiosity?

In Kyoko's case, back in chapter 13 she said that she was a cat that was willing to die to have her curiosity satisfied (even if she denied that she meant it literally later). And right after she said that, the witch girl (who seemed to already know what everyone was meant to sacrifice) said that she'd have her wish granted when she reached the end. So I think that in order to finally have her curiosity fully satisfied by having seen every part of the box, she was willing to kill herself or in her case, this iteration of herself.

If you think about how the post-box Kyoko is now Kyo as in teach, in order to teach you need to know things, by having had some sort of curiosity and then fulfilled that curiosity by learning (never mind how often people are made to learn things they have no interest in...), so that could symbolize the new version of Kyoko is a Kyoko who has had her curiosity satisfied and now wants to primarily share knowledge rather than gain it.

Though also I just had the thought that all the different Kyokos could be explained by the different world lines created by the box if we wanted to tie everything together 🤔 Though I kind of just like her being strange and mysterious. Would love to read the oneshots with her too.

 

[danbellucci]

Aside from the fact that you called both Megumi and Jingu "Megumin" you got it mostly right.
Koji (now Koichi) didn't have a part of his own body go invisible, it was a part of his mom's head (her memories of her son) and his brother's old room that went invisible.
As for Kyoko, it's implied that she had her "curiosity" taken, which was represented by her eyes going invisible. If you read the ending pages of volume 1 you'll see that Kyoko has appeared in a number of Morohoshi's stories, and each time the "kyo" in her name means something different. Morohoshi hasn't confirmed whether these are all the same person, or different people, or different personalities within the same person, but in this manga it was the "curious" Kyoko that we got to know, and by the ending there was never a "curious" Kyoko, and instead we have a "teacher" Kyoko who has no memory of anything that just transpired. To me that strongly suggests that the "curious" Kyoko was its own personality that no longer exists, but that's just my theory and maybe Morohoshi didn't mean for it to be so cut and dry.

EDIT: I think one thing that really stands out is that the thing inside the Box is not some malicious entity (its guide notwithstanding). It didn't take anything that the participants didn't somewhere deep down want to give up. Koichi felt the death of his brother ruined his family, Megumi had gender dysphoria, Jingu felt her sixth sense wasn't entirely a blessing, and the Tanis had nothing to live for but each other. Not sure how Kyoko would fit into this; maybe on a subconscious level she felt her curiosity was getting her into trouble, or maybe she was just curious about what if she gave up her curiosity.

Yeah Kyoko was the only one who got screwed over. maybe because she wasn't originally given a ticket and puzzle to enter

 

[nkicflt]

omg it's such a good series. Thank you for translating until the end!!!!!!!

 

[Doomroar]

This was a beautiful and fascinating manga. You could say it's the peak of the mystery box genre. (ba-dum-tssh)
The extra little puzzles on the covers added a lot too. Definitely interested in a physical copy of this and reading more from the author.


In Kyoko's case, back in chapter 13 she said that she was a cat that was willing to die to have her curiosity satisfied (even if she denied that she meant it literally later). And right after she said that, the witch girl (who seemed to already know what everyone was meant to sacrifice) said that she'd have her wish granted when she reached the end. So I think that in order to finally have her curiosity fully satisfied by having seen every part of the box, she was willing to kill herself or in her case, this iteration of herself.

If you think about how the post-box Kyoko is now Kyo as in teach, in order to teach you need to know things, by having had some sort of curiosity and then fulfilled that curiosity by learning (never mind how often people are made to learn things they have no interest in...), so that could symbolize the new version of Kyoko is a Kyoko who has had her curiosity satisfied and now wants to primarily share knowledge rather than gain it.

Though also I just had the thought that all the different Kyokos could be explained by the different world lines created by the box if we wanted to tie everything together 🤔 Though I kind of just like her being strange and mysterious. Would love to read the oneshots with her too.

That sounds interesting, but what will she teach if she also lost her memories tho?

 

[Cosmism]

Whew, the box just ate his brother's existence! What did it take from Jingu again? Must be a part of her memories or personality, with that chunk from her head missing.

So happy for Megumi to get her best ending.

Thanks for translating!

It took her sixth sense.

 

[Cosmism]

EDIT: I think one thing that really stands out is that the thing inside the Box is not some malicious entity (its guide notwithstanding). It didn't take anything that the participants didn't somewhere deep down want to give up. Koichi felt the death of his brother ruined his family, Megumi had gender dysphoria, Jingu felt her sixth sense wasn't entirely a blessing, and the Tanis had nothing to live for but each other. Not sure how Kyoko would fit into this; maybe on a subconscious level she felt her curiosity was getting her into trouble, or maybe she was just curious about what if she gave up her curiosity.
So that makes the case of Mr. Koda and Mr. Yamauchi a little more tragic. By trying to cheat the Box, they were proving that they were too afraid to give up something that they really wanted to give up. We'll never know what the Box might've taken from them; it might've taken away Mr. Koda's business, and for Mr. Yamauchi it might've had something to do with his closeted homosexuality. But because they were too afraid to give anything up, they failed the test and the Box killed them.

For Kyoko, she was willing to die in order to satisfy her curiosity by participating in the game. However, the cube only takes away a part of an individual, so it stripped her of the curious personality instead of taking her life. The cube only takes one thing. Any other changes are part of a domino effect. In Koji's case, his name changed because the cube took away his brother's existence. For Kyoko to have her name changed and to lose her memory, the theory that the cube erased the version of her that experienced the game is the only plausible explanation. (Besides, the use of the word 'cat' to refer to herself is reminiscent of the idea of a cat's nine lives; the multiple personality theory is consistent with our understanding of Kyoko.)

Interestingly, Kyoko isn't shown crying from the inexplicable feeling of loss like the others, and she makes a knowing gaze towards the fourth wall. She's been a fairly enigmatic, deus ex machina character the whole way through.