Dandadan - Ch. 252 - Ken Takakura

[MangaDex]

 

[fight2live]

i was bracing myself for sad Okarun backstory but turns out i wasn't bracing myself enough i'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight

 

[MsW0lf]

It turns out that Okarun wasn’t exactly as okay as he made out to be...

 

[CountryMage]

I'm still of the mind that this club has someone else's NTR trauma, but this backstory would certainly explain why Okarun could be in a coma in a warehouse somewhere for like a week and nobody came looking for him.

 

[Morose]

Now i wonder, whether that bully of Okarun, aka., Hase, won't turn-out to be his step-brother, which turns it into his redemption arc later?

 

[Morose]

It turns out that Okarun wasn’t exactly as okay as he made out to be...

Is that why he is a liar?

 

[the_legendary_klobb]

Okarun's family and living situation was a long due plot point to be explored. I had the feeling it wasn't good, but the level of bullying received is way higher than I expected.
How many years of silent suffering? It's no wonder he can take so many punches with little reaction.
Interesting parallel, the sign he was making to contact the aliens is very similar to the one Momo used for learning to control her ki.

 

[Adelle]

the start kinda reminds me of Bruno Bucciarati, except it turned out worse for him. Actually this is like Bruno Bucciarati and Giorno Giovanna's backstory combined but getting even worse till he meet Momo.

 

[ysil69]

Bro what a piece of shit mom. Yeah the dads shit too but that's why she left him, and then she just never checks in on Ken again.

Now we know why Ken's parents don't give af about him constantly not being home.

 

[Morose]

Yeah the dads shit too but that's why she left him, and then she just never checks in on Ken again.

Are we sure the mom left because the dad was shit?
Or did the dad become shit because the mom cheated on him and left, and as years passed by he had work trouble which broke him more?

 

[Icantseelol]

Okarun's family and living situation was a long due plot point to be explored. I had the feeling it wasn't good, but the level of bullying received is way higher than I expected.
How many years of silent suffering? It's no wonder he can take so many punches with little reaction.
Interesting parallel, the sign he was making to contact the aliens is very similar to the one Momo used for learning to control her ki.

Makes you wonder if perhaps they were unintentionally contacting each other and ended up at the same school due to this.
The whole momo is an alien, while thinking yokai are real and aliens are not, while Okarun is a yokai and thinks aliens are real while yokai are not definitely seems all but confirmed here in my eyes.

 

[Eddnom]

The magazines conveniently appearing on the same spot is suspicious.

 

[Morose]

The magazines conveniently appearing on the same spot is suspicious.

True.
Finding one or two can be chalked-up-to-coincidence.
But not that many, especially on a regularly basis.

 

[negitoro]

I came for the aliens and spirits and the shonen fighting and somehow, now, the only thing I care about is that Okarun and Momo find their happy ending.

Goosebumps.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Makes you wonder if perhaps they were unintentionally contacting each other and ended up at the same school due to this.
The whole momo is an alien, while thinking yokai are real and aliens are not, while Okarun is a yokai and thinks aliens are real while yokai are not definitely seems all but confirmed here in my eyes.

I feel like that theory took a hit by revealing Okarun has actual parents. Although they could be a memory from when he was a human or something. But Turbo Granny outright said last chapter he was human until this transformation, and I really doubt she or Seiko would be mistaken about that.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

I'm still of the mind that this club has someone else's NTR trauma, but this backstory would certainly explain why Okarun could be in a coma in a warehouse somewhere for like a week and nobody came looking for him.

I agree, but rather than another human's trauma, I think it's a jealousy-based yokai.

 

[letthemread]

That escalated quickly

 

[Kitsune_115]

Okarun
Someone give him a kiss on his forehead

 

[CountryMage]

I agree, but rather than another human's trauma, I think it's a jealousy-based yokai.

All the yokai we've run into so far, were born of some human trauma.

 

[kohakusan]

The magazines conveniently appearing on the same spot is suspicious.

I was about to say that, how many magazines are thrown away like that? It's weirdly suspicious