Dareka ga Kaita Manga - Vol. 3 Ch. 16 - Y-Kun

[MangaDex]

 

[NotALewdGuy]

Ngl, that's pretty metal.
Cool in a sense

 

[ocsibrm]

Reasonable solution to the issue.

 

[Kese04]

Can't say I understand this one. People were mistaking him for Y-kun, even without seeing him, and then he cuts off his face to prove he's R-kun? Certainly that wont matter to the calls, right? And if he removes his face, I don't see how that would make him more identifiable. Don't most people look more alike if their face is removed? (i.e. two faces with no skin likely looks more alike than two different faces with skin)

 

[EchoGirl]

Oof on the street is one but i'd def be scared off by a phone call

I wonder if Y-kun will get a side to this too

Can't say I understand this one. People were mistaking him for Y-kun, even without seeing him, and then he cuts off his face to prove he's R-kun? Certainly that wont matter to the calls, right? And if he removes his face, I don't see how that would make him more identifiable. Don't most people look more alike if their face is removed? (i.e. two faces with no skin likely looks more alike than two different faces with skin)

Yeah i expected him to carve into his cheek "I am R" lol

 

[Parnifia]

The nonsensical nature of the story is probably intentional. After all, someone here is losing their sanity.

 

[Forkuth]

Its probably some multiple personalities or something

 

[farranpoison]

Can't say I understand this one. People were mistaking him for Y-kun, even without seeing him, and then he cuts off his face to prove he's R-kun? Certainly that wont matter to the calls, right? And if he removes his face, I don't see how that would make him more identifiable. Don't most people look more alike if their face is removed? (i.e. two faces with no skin likely looks more alike than two different faces with skin)

I think it's more like it's already supernatural that people are mistaking him for Y, and even in the last call he yells that he's not Y and the caller goes "Oh, so you're R" even without him saying it, which adds on to the supernatural nature of whatever is going on.

And then he goes insane, cuts his face off to "prove" he's not Y, and that somehow makes other people recognize he's R instead without, again, him saying so. So clearly some kind of curse or whatever really had it out for this guy for whatever reason.

 

[SMAXZO]

I was thinking it be some supernatural horror that Y is inside him or he is actually Y just amnesiac or a split personality


But that ending..that ending got me laughing..

 

[drepurp]

R-Kun AKA RED SKULL

 

[kaijuuqueen]

It's just that R-kun is "not Y-kun" so when something says "Oh it's not Y-kun" (like yelling, stop calling me Y-kun or taking your skin off) then that means this is R-kun

 

[negativeinfinity]

Could've just, I dunno l

 

[Hitspark]

"People keep mistaking my face and number for someone else and it's driving me crazy."

"Have you considered plastic surgery and or turning on call screening?"

"Nah, I just did that thing the Joker did and turned my face into a mask."

"Oh alright, totally reasonable."

 

[Lunkli]

Face = identity, so removing your face = forfeiting your identity. But with the doppelgänger reference, maybe it would be more accurate to say that R removing his face = forfeiting his identity to Y. But the fact that he keeps the face to use as a mask could then be interpreted as him still superficially clinging to that old identity. But now instead of "being mistaken for Y," he's "disguising himself as Y." So when he reveals himself, he's doing just that. He's no longer correcting people, he's revealing his "trick."

In terms of the manga's themes as I've theorized about in previous comments... I guess the "alternative definition of seeing" might have something to do with identity and recognition, then? Chapter 17 also had a focus on faces, and the centipede there having the eyes of the people in the photographs could be connected to the idea of "taking an identity" which is embodied by their faces. So like how in this chapter, R gives up his face so as to forfeit his old identity to Y, the centipede takes other peoples faces to build up its own composite identity.

Also, I'm a bit curious about the "censorship" of the names in this chapter, using just the single letters "Y" and "R." Names are also associated with identities, though not to the same extent as faces, of course. So the abstraction of their names might be related to the abstraction of their identities as a whole, maybe? Which could then be related to the fact that they're both confused for each other. The fact that they're both "abstracted" might be what caused them to be confused for each other.