Shuumatsu no Valkyrie - Vol. 29 Ch. 124 - Man Who Never Give Up

[Wanderer00]

Hm...maybe it ends in a tie or mutual kill?

 

[otakuningen]

Was that effing Messi on page 19?? He ain't even dead yet tho😭😭

 

[ScottChegg166]

Was that effing Messi on page 19?? He ain't even dead yet tho😭😭

Everyone dead, it's the end of the world.

And welcome to the 'waiting for the next chapter to drop' club everyone.

 

[Kagimizu]

It's sweet that when the voiceover talks about him fighting for 'humanity's hope' they exemplify this by cutting to an old British pervert who slaughtered impoverished sex workers

Well you see...

Spoiler

Side/supplementary material tells us he's not the real Jack the Ripper, and may have even offed the real one. He's actually an MI6 agent who has no publicly known name. He either used the name in life as cover for his missions, or was willing to use the identity to fight in Ragnarok.

 

[Babymech2]

Well you see...

Spoiler

Side/supplementary material tells us he's not the real Jack the Ripper, and may have even offed the real one. He's actually an MI6 agent who has no publicly known name. He either used the name in life as cover for his missions, or was willing to use the identity to fight in Ragnarok.

That... Honestly kind of sucks. It was a weird dumb swing to make him Jack the Ripper for name recognition and shock value, but they could at least commit to the bit.

 

[Kagimizu]

That... Honestly kind of sucks. It was a weird dumb swing to make him Jack the Ripper for name recognition and shock value, but they could at least commit to the bit.

I'm going off of remembered second-hand info, in fairness. Might be misremembering certain details or context. His backstory that we were shown is real, however.

But also, there's another way to look at it. Jack the Ripper is the most infamous serial killer in modern history, and one of the most infamous throughout history as a whole. And this is a man who (presumably) already lived and died for king and country in spite of the circumstances surrounding his childhood.

And now, for the sake of humanity's continued survival, he takes on the persona of Jack the Ripper- with all the vitriol and hatred that comes with it- on top of risking his very existence like the other combatants. Mortal and deity alike will see and know him as a cruel bloodthirsty monster, with neither thanks nor appreciation for what he did.

Yet he does it anyways, with neither hesitation nor complaint. I dunno about you, but that kind of unwavering self-sacrifice for the good of others is one of those things that can get me feeling emotional.

 

[Babymech2]

Yet he does it anyways, with neither hesitation nor complaint. I dunno about you, but that kind of unwavering self-sacrifice for the good of others is one of those things that can get me feeling emotional.

...I get what you're saying. Heck, if it hits for me I might even feel some of that same emotion. However, when it doesn't hit it's more like:

"Here's my manga! You wanna guess who the hero is? It's Hitler! Isn't that so weird?! Hitler's the hero who has to use his kung fu to save the orphanage! But why would Hitler do this? What's his real motivation? It's a mystery.

Psst, it's actually James Bond wearing a Hitler mask, so that makes him twice as cool."

(I'm assuming that this subterfuge applies to the Jack the Ripper spinoff as well. If it's only for this manga - that doesn't make sense, this is the afterlife and the gods know exactly who the souls are)

 

[pandascepter]

Old fart got reminded he got his own old fart.

 

[Moridin69]

Fake-Odin, man, what do you expect? Sure, humans, in general, might give up all the time (and thankfully, many don't), but these are peak humans across all of human history. Why would any of them have such a weakness as "giving up when it gets hard"? The alternative is true death, give it your all until you literally can't!