Baka ga Zenra de Yattekuru

[MangaDex]

 

[totallynotmike]

It's more than good, but somehow left bad aftertaste.

Probably because

Spoiler

we never get to see a proper resolution for "naked idiot" - he barges into other character(s) lives, and by chapter seven or eight, he's effectively gone. At times author even suggests that he may not be real (this kind of storytelling device probably works for serialized works, when going back and rereading isn't as easy as for collected editions). That is, until chapter nine, when the reader fully gets to appreciate how broken a man he is - which is a result of not anything dramatic or tragic, but simply because of inability to give up. "To live is to choose, and choice is exclusion" - in the end you can only pity mysterious nudist, because his choices clearly drove him into a corner.

It's a weird title - short slice of life filled with little musings about the nature of creative process and high risks that come with it. Maybe it's really true that the ideas possess people, and not the other way around.

Sorry for rambling.

 

[subliminal]

A good story but bitter sweet in its conclusions.

 

[ella_]

10/10

 

[Atzerkins]

This is one of my all times favourites, I come back and read it sometimes.

@totallynotmike, you do realise

Spoiler

that the naked idiot is the protagonist himself? The reason he doesn't appear is because both versions of the protagonist fuse together.