Dareka ga Kaita Manga - Vol. 3 Ch. 23 - Untitled

[MangaDex]

 

[Skullkrusher]

Could be an open-ended non-ending, could be they both got whacked by the ghost and Lovecraft's cat, could be anything really.

 

[Parnifia]

RIP

 

[Makoto912]

i just randomly opened the last chapter and I thought that the author really got hit by something terrible lmao😭.
Till I realized that most horror mangakas do something like this for their last chapters

 

[LuxLunar]

Hope they find the author soon

 

[Lunkli]

So Komori-2 wasn't actually Komori-1's old partner, then? We also see Komori-1's face here, but the foundation of where this chapter came from kind of makes the actual truth of what's shown here kind of vague. It's not coming from "Komori Hiki" but instead from an unknown email address. So was this drawn by him? Was it drawn by Komori-2? Was it drawn by the figure shown at the end here? Or was it drawn by somebody else entirely?

Also, I'm kind of doubting if this is actually the last chapter. It's already pretty meta, so, like, you know. I wouldn't consider a fake-out ending completely outside the realm of possibility. As far as I can tell, there's nothing on the official Comic Days site that actually says that this is the end besides the chapter being referred to as "最終話" in its title, which always has the chance of being a red herring, considering the fact that other manga on the site use different chapter numbering schemes, indicating that they're manually added by the author rather than by some script built in to the site.

Like, I wouldn't be surprised if this really was it, but I also wouldn't be surprised if there was still more coming, you know? Also, if this really is the end, I'm kind of wondering if Komori's actually going to stick to the bit about going missing. Are they actually just going to quit (or change pen names) solely for the sake of this ending? Kind of hilarious if so.

But if they are planning on quitting, I wonder why they chose to publish this with their existing pen name from Kamigakari? I guess it could just be to establish themself as a mangaka, but at the same time you kind of have to wonder if there's a connection between the two series... Kamigakari was referenced last chapter, after all.

 

[cavanal]

Small thing, but on page 14 the Japanese text on the panel implies that the friend died at around 3:30

 

[Kese04]

Thank you for translating this series, TripolarFandom26.

 

[EchoGirl]

ended sooner than i thought but better than dragging out at least

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Im in your pc, eating your interwebs.

 

[Hitspark]

Isn't that the girl on the cover art? Like the only difference is the lack of pupils. So the entire time, from the first moment we saw the cover, we were watching the tales and torments of the antagonist.

My only question is.....she single?

 

[Riorio56]

Damn why such good Manga end

 

[libermn]

Thank you for the chapter!

It ended!

Did this get axed or was it planned?

Is his previous manga a setup for this series or did the author decide to quit making manga and do this meta series? or maybe he will return like nothing happened?

Either way, it's pretty good. I quite enjoyed it.

 

[Unitedroad1]

What a scary ending given the rest of the manga. This unknown woman is presumably the source of the manuscripts, which means the manuscript for chapter 1 is just her blatantly taunting the man she plans to murder.

I think we might even be able to assume chapter 1 is a real story, honestly. In chapter 5 the author comments on the fact that the latest manuscript seems based on a real life murder + disappearance case (it’s the child diary chapter for those who don’t recall). The culprit in that story is very similar to the woman in this final chapter—a smiling figure bringing about calamity. The only reason I can’t positively identify them as one and the same is that the manuscript imitates a child’s drawing and so other than the smile the culprit doesn’t have any clear features. But if the smiling stranger who looks like a friend or family is connective tissue in Chapters 1, 5, and 23, it would be weird for 5 and 23 to be real stories within the setting and not 1.

There’s a lot of ways you can interpret it though—maybe Chapter 5 isn’t related to the overall narrative and the smile is a red herring. Maybe it is connected but the entity haunting the author isn’t responsible, and it’s just using known facts in a cold case to construct another taunt, one that we and the author won’t recognize until it’s too late. I do lean towards it being the same figure or entity though. Because we have the element of the smiling stranger connecting Chapter 5 and Chapter 23, and the element of the lookalike connecting Chapter 1 and Chapter 23. My best guess would be some sort of body-snatcher or imitator who never quite nails the face, intentionally or unintentionally?

I don’t know and I’m sure there are other connections to be made, this is just spitballing at 7 AM.

 

[Unitedroad1]

Is his previous manga a setup for this series or did the author decide to quit making manga and do this meta series? or maybe he will return like nothing happened?

I think it was just a one off, though it’s not like I can read Japanese so maybe his previous manga ends with “now, someone is going to draw a manga”. It exists in a long tradition of authors inserting themselves in their own work, especially horror authors. For example, you’ve got Garth Marenghi, and then that shameless imitator Stephen King

 

[Voyvoy_]

Damn!! This work is such a fresh take on classic J-horror elements! Enigmatic, creepy and blurs the lines between fiction and reality in such a nice way. The meta commentary is so interesting and makes me wonder how much of it is actually based on truth.

Was Hiki Komori really a joint pen name at all? If it was, are they still making manga together or is this really a solo project?

Somewhat managed to fill the 100 Ghost Stories shaped hole in my heart.

 

[DefeatTheSheep]

had this thought as I was going to sleep—but maybe the girl at the end is the ghost of his daughter? If he was with Hiki Komori, and she got pregnant then died, maybe the baby ghost decided to possess the computer. Then it aged itself up as the manga progressed.

Or maybe the manga came to life and killed him or something. Writers sometimes consider their work their child, so it would be metaphorical in this case.

 

[JustALolicon69]

This was a fun one...sad it got "axed"....RIP Komori Hiki

 

[kaijuuqueen]

One of the really fun things is rereading over and over as we get more information. It does feel like this might have all been a way of warning the mangaka.

Thinking about it again, the watching eyes from the gaps in Chapters 2 and 14 match the eyes from the computer tower.

In chapters 2, 3, 11, and 21, something is born from inside and in an increasingly grotesque way.

In chapter 9, the danger came from attention. That's also kind of true in chapter 2 as well. Wow, chapter 2 foreshadowed a lot.

I could probably keep going

Or maybe the manga came to life and killed him or something. Writers sometimes consider their work their child, so it would be metaphorical in this case.

The second volume cover reinforces this idea and continues the conceit of something being born at the cost of the creator

 

[tsunamizero02]

Wonder if they'll pull a long con and just never make manga again...or at least change their pen name.
Sure, people will figure it out from the art style and what not, but at a glance this would be the last thing "Komori Hiki" ever drew.