Boku dake ga Inai Machi - Vol. 9 Ch. 49

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[sukaley]

thematically, this is a wonderful place to end it, but I wanted to see them develop a real relationship 😢this is like Your Name all over again

 

[Raydnt]

@sukaley
I can understand why they go for these kinds of endings, but I also dont like it.

Its why I prefer Weathering With You over Your Name, we see them interacting with each other in person and developing their relationship

Of course, in my opinion Weathering With You's ending also was a bit lacking

 

[CryptoParagon]

Much better ending than the one they used for it's ending in "Erased", although a lot of the earlier scenes have more impact in the anime. Glad I was able to find this here.

 

[SomeGuyWithHair]

Well...um...that was a bit anticlimactic. But good series nonetheless.

I enjoyed my time reading this. The only thing I can say about this manga is that it went on a steady pace. There was not a single bad part but there isn't any great parts that blew me away either. It was consistently flat line, but in a good way.

Some people hated that Kayo got married to someone else, but I think it's no problem. I didn't hate that part but I DO not like how it happened. Satoru was Kayo's closest and probably the best person she met. They spent so much time together. They supported each other and that support never wavered. I find it bizarre how she ended up with...who was it again?

Speaking of that guy, that's the second problem. He didn't receive any development, much alone screentime to fully support it. Him marrying Kayo came out of the blue which is bullshit.

Whether it's bullshit or not, nothing can really be done about it. 15 years is a long wait so I find it reasonable that she ended up with someone else. But to end up with someone as unremarkable as him...

What really made this manga great is the characters and dialogue. Boy was it good. The dialogue was simple yet refreshing. You know, I sometimes wonder, do people actually talk this way? Think about it, authors rack their brains to come up with a dialogue, can the same thing be said in real life? No. You don't walk around, or sit still to come up with something. Whenever you talk, it just comes out. And that's what I see here. No deep and profound bullshit that should've taken too long to realize and make you look like a goddamn philosopher. They were genuine thoughts that came from experience.

Characters were really likeable. They remain consistent, never deviate from their modus operandi. They were relatable. Their struggles, their will to overcome it and their motives felt realistic. They were fleshed out. A bit too young to have that mindset but can happen due to extreme circumstances, which indeed happened.

Debatable ending whether it's good or bad. I found it good because it's just like life, we have our ups and downs. It becomes exciting, then mundane. It's unpredictable, you don't know what will happen. And the fact that you expect a happy ending means you don't want life to work. Still, like a normal person with a positive mindset, I'm gonna be an optimist and hope that they do get together.

8/10.

 

[ThrystaVindr]

I think it's completely reasonable that she ended up with someone else, it goes along with the theme of "the town without me" and all the things he missed while he was in a coma - the story is largely told from his perspective, and from his perspective it IS out of the blue. ...Also let's be real, keeping her tied down for 15 years is definitely not what Satoru would have wanted.

 

[DSuper]

Wow. I really loved this. Definitely one of my favorites, loved the plot, characters, art was neat too. 10/10 read.

 

[That1friend]

I just came to see how they did the ending in the manga...feels good 😁

 

[Gothicgm]

Amazing. It was one hell of a ride, and I don't regret a bit.

 

[UXLZ]

This manga was overall excellent, but the final five chapters (after the killer's arrest) felt like utterly wasted filler. It, unfortunately, did not stick the landing. The the story wasn't advanced in any meaningful way, instead our time was wasted with simple flashbacks of things that had already occurred. Nothing interesting happened. The mother's one was somewhat touching, but the rest I could have done without.

We already knew that Ken'ya wanted to become a lawyer, and what his motivations for it were. We didn't need two entire goddamn chapters devoted to it.

Kayo ending up with Hiromi specifically was weird as fuck, they never even interacted in the rest of the manga. I think it should have just been her having married an unknown person. It feels like his name was picked out of a hat. 'He'll do.' I guess it was specifically there to say 'everyone moved on while the protagonist was frozen in time,' because it's not like either her or Hiromi had a single appearance after the one panel she randomly rocks up to say 'hey I got married and had a kid, bye.'

At first I was looking forward to seeing how things would go with Airi in the future when I saw there were a few chapters left after the normal 'useless open-ended ending' panel, but obviously the author had no idea how to write that and simply avoided answering the question with totally worthless flashbacks. They then loop back around to exactly the same useless open-ended ending panel.

So yeah, overall great manga, but the ending is fucking awful and leaves me feeling like my time was wasted. (Specifically in regards to those last couple chapters.) I almost wish you could split review scores somehow because I feel like the first 44 chapters are a 9 and the final 5 are a 5.

 

[tigerstar186]

Despite everything that happened, I can't help but feel it's kind of a bad end. Sure, they caught him, but in the original timeline he has 7 confirmed murders... (Brother, girlfriend, old town murder Ken'ya's dad looked into, and the 3 in Satoru's town as a kid, and Satoru's mom) In the new one, he's up to 12! (Brother, girlfriend, old town murder, "rival in love", father in law and 8 on the board in Ken'ya's office -1 for confirmed unrelated) Ken'ya also mentions 8 other murders in Chiba during chapter 44, potentially raising the number to 20 as I don't think the board in the office is meant to be that, as it points all over Japan rather than just Chiba, the board has kids on it which Ken'ya says the 8 weren't kids and the number is one off. He's also got two more attempted murders in the new timeline. In the original, he has one attempt on Airi. In the new, he has 3! One attempt on Kumi and 2 on Satoru himself.

Sure, Satoru saved the people he's close to, but if in doing so actually lead to more death, can you really call that a victory? If anything, his actions seem to have driven Yashiro to further action and success.

 

[HoangDinh]

Despite everything that happened, I can't help but feel it's kind of a bad end. Sure, they caught him, but in the original timeline he has 7 confirmed murders... (Brother, girlfriend, old town murder Ken'ya's dad looked into, and the 3 in Satoru's town as a kid, and Satoru's mom) In the new one, he's up to 12! (Brother, girlfriend, old town murder, "rival in love", father in law and 8 on the board in Ken'ya's office -1 for confirmed unrelated) Ken'ya also mentions 8 other murders in Chiba during chapter 44, potentially raising the number to 20 as I don't think the board in the office is meant to be that, as it points all over Japan rather than just Chiba, the board has kids on it which Ken'ya says the 8 weren't kids and the number is one off. He's also got two more attempted murders in the new timeline. In the original, he has one attempt on Airi. In the new, he has 3! One attempt on Kumi and 2 on Satoru himself.

Sure, Satoru saved the people he's close to, but if in doing so actually lead to more death, can you really call that a victory? If anything, his actions seem to have driven Yashiro to further action and success.

Why are you so sure he didn't committed crimes that weren't caught or successfully framed to others in both? The numbers aren't important here, it's the fact that he got caught at all.

 

[tigerstar186]

Why are you so sure he didn't committed crimes that weren't caught or successfully framed to others in both? The numbers aren't important here, it's the fact that he got caught at all.

I'm not sure. We don't know. that being said, the author gets to choose what goes in to the series and what we see, and they actively chose to show us a timeline that appears worse. That kind of incongruity in what we are being told to feel vs what is actually shown is unpleasant. It's a dissonance between the story being told and what seems to have "actually happened" in the narrative. It makes the framing feel biased and lessens the impact. It's like when people see The Hulk in the avengers and say, "Sure he helped save the world but look how much property damage that he actively, intentionally causes!"

 

[duaangka22]

It was a great ending, but to be honest I was expecting more from their relationship development. At least until they got to know each other.

 

[BakedBanana]

I guess it was specifically there to say 'everyone moved on while the protagonist was frozen in time,' because it's not like either her or Hiromi had a single appearance after the one panel she randomly rocks up to say 'hey I got married and had a kid, bye.'

Wow, now that you pointed it out I am surprised we got so little moments of Kayo, sad.

 

[GG334]

Aw, I was hoping we would see how Hiromi and Kayo ended up married.

 

[AnonymousContributor]

This manga was overall excellent, but the final five chapters (after the killer's arrest) felt like utterly wasted filler. It, unfortunately, did not stick the landing. The the story wasn't advanced in any meaningful way, instead our time was wasted with simple flashbacks of things that had already occurred. Nothing interesting happened. The mother's one was somewhat touching, but the rest I could have done without.

We already knew that Ken'ya wanted to become a lawyer, and what his motivations for it were. We didn't need two entire goddamn chapters devoted to it.

Kayo ending up with Hiromi specifically was weird as fuck, they never even interacted in the rest of the manga. I think it should have just been her having married an unknown person. It feels like his name was picked out of a hat. 'He'll do.' I guess it was specifically there to say 'everyone moved on while the protagonist was frozen in time,' because it's not like either her or Hiromi had a single appearance after the one panel she randomly rocks up to say 'hey I got married and had a kid, bye.'

At first I was looking forward to seeing how things would go with Airi in the future when I saw there were a few chapters left after the normal 'useless open-ended ending' panel, but obviously the author had no idea how to write that and simply avoided answering the question with totally worthless flashbacks. They then loop back around to exactly the same useless open-ended ending panel.

So yeah, overall great manga, but the ending is fucking awful and leaves me feeling like my time was wasted. (Specifically in regards to those last couple chapters.) I almost wish you could split review scores somehow because I feel like the first 44 chapters are a 9 and the final 5 are a 5.

Almost like they're bonus chapters... Who woulda thought so. Apparently in the volume they're decimal chaps.