Chi no Wadachi - Vol. 16 Ch. 137 - Remember

[ArgoFreese]

So... it's hurt people hurting people to feel less hurt?

 

[Shareazu]

MC is empathizing at this rate, which is what you don't do with abusers

I agree, but at the same time i think it's mostly him understanding the reasons (despite it still being unjustifiable) for his mother to have acted the way she did. This was something that was buried deep in his mind for decades, he liked his mother and wanted to know why she did the things she did. Getting to finally understand it a bit may have brought him some peace of mind at least.

Still, i gotta agree that this series was just plain weird. I guess the final message will indeed be about the harm that generational trauma causes in families.

 

[nhernandez90]

Getting to finally understand it a bit may have brought him some peace of mind at least.

I hope. Personally, though still imho it would be too much of a copout, given how ambitious and well paced this whole series has been.

 

[Kaeos999]

Common parent child relationship in ohio

 

[nommi]

It's not similar, it is textbook trauma bonding. Clearly by means of power imbalance, which is the reason I feel this is so half-baked

MC is empathizing at this rate, which is what you don't do with abusers. So either the author is going through the most destructive path just because (again, just lazy storytelling), or they just read a buzzfeed article about trauma bond and thought it was enough to base a whole series. I get the idea but it still feels conveniently meaningless.


Yeah and if this is the way this author does their stuff I'm glad.

Valid points, I haven't been the biggest fan of his potrayal of the mother either, but I doubt he's gonna end this half-baked like you said. This could all very easily change within the next few chapters.

As for his other works yeah, Flowers of Evil starts as a psychological thriller but becomes entirely a character study in the second half. The ending for that was really amazing, which is why I have faith in this one.

 

[smoothw]

Crazy textures on the mother's face in silhouette in that one panel.

 

[justanothermanganerd]

I've been pretty bored of this since the time skip and honestly felt like it had been going downhill for a decent while at that point. low text and nice visuals have kept me around but this is dragging hard and doesn't feel like it's needed nearly this many chapters.

 

[Madsrc]

It was a great chapter. I'm glad they're finally starting to understand each other, but I wonder how they're going to handle this state of mind. I loved the page at the end where they stood side by side on that cliff. It seems like it's time for them to leave the blood trail behind them. I think there will be colored pages for the next chapter.

In my opinion, I don't think the story is dragging on. I still read it with the same excitement as the first day. I love reading the discussions about this series, but I've often found that some people expected wrong things, like an incest family story, or that Seiichi could be a serial killer. Maybe some people were expecting something thrilling like in the prologue, but I don't think that's going to happen. The current part of the story is like the sad quiet after the storm and the rebuilding of something that will never be the same again. I like to see two broken people touching each other's hearts and trying to understand each other, even though one of them has done terrible things.

After all, this is a somewhat autobiographical work. It was very clear that the author still had things to tell. We can see this in all the works he has written so far. Shino, Aku no Hana, Inside Mari, Chi no Wadachi and Okaeri Alice. They are all based on some of the author's experiences in his life. It still amazes me that the author even got married and had a child.

 

[Chaplin15]

Finally caught up! It really looks like the ending is near, and yes, as someone has already pointed out, it's the last chapters of "The flowers of evil" all over again in both pacing and story vibe. With that in mind, we only have 3 story threads left to unravel IMHO (the mother-son relationship, the death of Seiko and the death of Seiichi) so we shall see how Oshimi will close the story. And yes, I say deaths because, honestly, even if they manage to come to an "understanding" regarding their mother-son relationship, there have been multiple indications throughout the story pointing to the death of both characters, if only because is the only way both of them think they can be "cured", if that makes any sense.

 

[SubjectXIX]

I enjoyed this manga. I am excited for the final arc!

 

[nonexistent696969]

she keeping her promise from herself back then to sei. but why did she ended up "kill" sei ?

 

[AnotherRat]

would.

 

[HoangDinh]

would.

God damnit, again! I knew it. Pattern seeking behavior 👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹