Unable to choose between Hina or his mom...Yuma took the third option. Unfortunately...Hina's starting over...99 stories to go, Hina..also yeah, his dad and step mom deserve whatever the fuck that happens to them. Look at the step mom smiling as the kid getting stomped on...
100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death - Ch. 100 - Mom
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Masterful ending. What a great series. One of the best.
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I might be dumb but I just got this. So Yuuma never did the 100th ghost story but Hina still did (it’s actually her first one) so she could meet him huh. Full circle in a way.
Thank you for taking the time to explain.
Wait a sec.
She's starting over the 100 stories to meet Yuma again...
holy shiet I genuinely didn't think this is how it would end. I had envisioned many possible endings for this series but this is completely unexpected, I'm amazed ngl
thanks for doing this series till the end, this truly is a great horror series.
thanks for doing this series till the end, this truly is a great horror series.
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you love to see a series stick the landing!
this was a strong 8/10 series for me - good horror elements, if not slightly repetitive at times, and the overarching story was interesting + had a couple of very memorable moments
this was a strong 8/10 series for me - good horror elements, if not slightly repetitive at times, and the overarching story was interesting + had a couple of very memorable moments
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Strong ending! Many serialized j-horror stories have trouble with their endings... this was a much better ending than even famous works like I Am A Hero and 20th Century Boys. It was bitter, final, yet leaves just enough gnawing dread that you'll still be feeling perturbed after finishing the story.
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Kinda wish Hina used boku to refer herself too so the twist is the title was actually not about Yuma but Hina since Yuma stopped at 99th story, but otherwise a solid ending!! Thank you so much for translating this, def will reread this one day to fully get all foreshadowing etc 
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Something extra sad i thought of is she'll probably complete the ritual unlike mc and unleash a horror on the world
And the entirety of the overarching story of the last 99 chapters becomes the 1st story, and if you think about it, it also follows the pattern of Hina's horror story being a lot more kind and compassionate.
The writing in this series alone separates this author from the rest. Matono Anji is HIM
The writing in this series alone separates this author from the rest. Matono Anji is HIM
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good ending honestly, usually I don't like endings with "and the cycle continues" because of stupid and bad execution but this one is done well. Hina is just an elementary kid who already carrying guilt than even an adult needs a therapy for months or years, so her doing the only method she know to bring back the dead to the living, even if it contradict to Yuuma's action and wishes, is understandable.
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these two who can't be called parents did acutally deserve their fates and will surely end in prison when they will check the poor boy's body. "Why does he have SO many bruises?"
father: he falls alot! stupid kid!
Stepmother: yeah! he is a waste of air.
some time later they are being beaten up by their cellmates
Poor kid i wish he could get a happy ending but.. i hope he gets that in afterlife.
a really good story to follow.. but i didn't expect this bittersweet ending.
father: he falls alot! stupid kid!
Stepmother: yeah! he is a waste of air.
some time later they are being beaten up by their cellmates
Poor kid i wish he could get a happy ending but.. i hope he gets that in afterlife.
a really good story to follow.. but i didn't expect this bittersweet ending.
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Couple of things worth noting:
On pg. 10 Yuuma sees a vision of a Mother and Child which is gone in the next page panel.
You can see the same book Yuuma was reading in the library "The Afterlife" now sits on Hina's bookshelf.
The framing of Hina's bedroom mirrors Yuuma's (bed on the left/door on the right vs. the opposite for Yuuma).
Hina is wearing the same Dark Star-decorated shirt Yuuma would often be seen in (first appearance in Ch. 19 and last in 97).
Hina also has a stuffed doll (in this case a rabbit) like Yuuma's horse plushie Umakin.
She has the same 100-day calendar on her wall now.
Ch. 1 begins fading from black with Yuuma switching on his desk lamp while Ch. 100 ends back to black as Hina switches her's off.
Overall, this was a truly masterful 10/10 work.
Not too many mangas that were structured to be long-runners from the start (and escaping the Axe) managed to stick the landing by the end, and even fewer within the horror genre. There were no M. Night Shymalan tweeeests, no sudden deus ex machinas, everything that happened across the story logically fed into the conclusion in a natural and convincing manner. The author was able to craft a very compelling meta-plot while dedicating only a few pages out of each chapter towards it and yet maintained great pacing without stalling or jumping ahead (the days being X'd out on Yuuma's calendar in the background of each chapter were steadily marking off the time remaining). This was an excellently planned series.
The stories themselves were varied and interesting, and the tone of each shifted depending on the storyteller at the time always with some subtext relating back to what was happening in the main story. The rough yet composed art gave the horror a very gripping and macabre feel, but also added a lot of tenderness and life to other moments of the story as well (great example being the colorized pg. 14 of this chapter). I felt no sympathy for the fates suffered by Yuuma's Dad and Stepmom but do for the first police officer and Kido. In the end, they all became victims of what is now only the first ghost story in Hina's own Round of 100.
My "favorite" stories were Ch. 29 & 35, worth rereading for the horror and emotion respectively.
Thanks so much for the TL of this series.
On pg. 10 Yuuma sees a vision of a Mother and Child which is gone in the next page panel.
You can see the same book Yuuma was reading in the library "The Afterlife" now sits on Hina's bookshelf.
The framing of Hina's bedroom mirrors Yuuma's (bed on the left/door on the right vs. the opposite for Yuuma).
Hina is wearing the same Dark Star-decorated shirt Yuuma would often be seen in (first appearance in Ch. 19 and last in 97).
Hina also has a stuffed doll (in this case a rabbit) like Yuuma's horse plushie Umakin.
She has the same 100-day calendar on her wall now.
Ch. 1 begins fading from black with Yuuma switching on his desk lamp while Ch. 100 ends back to black as Hina switches her's off.
Overall, this was a truly masterful 10/10 work.
Not too many mangas that were structured to be long-runners from the start (and escaping the Axe) managed to stick the landing by the end, and even fewer within the horror genre. There were no M. Night Shymalan tweeeests, no sudden deus ex machinas, everything that happened across the story logically fed into the conclusion in a natural and convincing manner. The author was able to craft a very compelling meta-plot while dedicating only a few pages out of each chapter towards it and yet maintained great pacing without stalling or jumping ahead (the days being X'd out on Yuuma's calendar in the background of each chapter were steadily marking off the time remaining). This was an excellently planned series.
The stories themselves were varied and interesting, and the tone of each shifted depending on the storyteller at the time always with some subtext relating back to what was happening in the main story. The rough yet composed art gave the horror a very gripping and macabre feel, but also added a lot of tenderness and life to other moments of the story as well (great example being the colorized pg. 14 of this chapter). I felt no sympathy for the fates suffered by Yuuma's Dad and Stepmom but do for the first police officer and Kido. In the end, they all became victims of what is now only the first ghost story in Hina's own Round of 100.
My "favorite" stories were Ch. 29 & 35, worth rereading for the horror and emotion respectively.
Thanks so much for the TL of this series.
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Yes it failed. Rather than sacrifice Hina to have his Mom return in life, Yuuma killed himself after the 99th story to prevent the ritual's completion and go to otherside to be with her instead. The possessed Hina we saw before really was his Mom after she had burned the photo earlier, it just wasn't permanent yet with his Mom able to relent and let Hina assume control until she fell asleep/unconscious.
This is why Yuuma asked her to let Hina take over for the last day and go home after the 98th Story. It allowed Hina to become in control for the period before the ritual ended and without his Mom present to pressure him to finish it. If you go back and re-read Ch. 99 he was startled that his Mom still had not left to Hina's home yet so he originally wasn't even going to tell the 99th story but did so before killing himself after it was over and she left cutting it close in the process. He probably thought (correctly in my view) that if she had stayed he wouldn't have been able to resist the temptation to finish the 100th story himself.
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