Italia-jin no Onnanoko ga Isourou Suru Koto ni Natta (Pre-Serialization) - Ch. 71

[MangaDex]

 

[justsomeguywhoreadsmanga]

Well, it was a pretty nice manga. ^^

 

[Lake1A]

If this is done, then this should be marked with the END tag, no?

Manga was nice indeed.

 

[alleycatboy]

wonder why this manga has the tag "Suicide" on Anilist?

 

[gsoarsxt]

:')

 

[TestAddress]

so.. why is there a serialization version?

 

[KuhaKenuvo]

The ending give me chills for some reason. Though, I really love this manga. Hamita was really skilled at creating a mess of emotions which feels somewhat ordered in this manga, somehow.

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

This ending felt abrupt, but at least the story stopped dragging things out with more drama.

 

[dogmeister238]

The ending give me chills for some reason. Though, I really love this manga. Hamita was really skilled at creating a mess of emotions which feels somewhat ordered in this manga, somehow.

I skimmed through the manga so maybe I’m missing something, but didn’t it go from happily ever after to “and then she died” in like 3 panels?

That’s like the most hamfisted cliche ending ever. In fact that’s the HIMYM ending lmao.

Was there like a whole “she struggled with depression” thing going on? Or a terminal illness thing? Cuz otherwise it doesn’t feel deep, it just feels like a shallow and cheap way for the author to crudely invoke negative emotions without actually building a message around it.

Basically it makes the author seemed unskilled and desperately trying to compensate for the lack of depth in the series by jamming in some corny, gaudy shock ending and trying to pass it off as some profound comment (that doesn’t exist).

I sort of get what the author might be trying to do, which is to use the death scene as way to give perspective on her life and its influence, but the way it was done was so gaudy that it just weakened the overall narrative when considered in context and with the tone.

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

I skimmed through the manga so maybe I’m missing something, but didn’t it go from happily ever after to “and then she died” in like 3 panels?

That’s like the most hamfisted cliche ending ever. In fact that’s the HIMYM ending lmao.

Was there like a whole “she struggled with depression” thing going on? Or a terminal illness thing? Cuz otherwise it doesn’t feel deep, it just feels like a shallow and cheap way for the author to crudely invoke negative emotions without actually building a message around it.

Basically it makes the author seemed unskilled and desperately trying to compensate for the lack of depth in the series by jamming in some corny, gaudy shock ending and trying to pass it off as some profound comment (that doesn’t exist).

I sort of get what the author might be trying to do, which is to use the death scene as way to give perspective on her life and its influence, but the way it was done was so gaudy that it just weakened the overall narrative when considered in context and with the tone.

Death scene? Are we reading the same story? Because she's alive and healthy here. But yes, the author is absolutely the worst at endings.

 

[AbyssDreams]

Death scene? Are we reading the same story? Because she's alive and healthy here. But yes, the author is absolutely the worst at endings.

I'm unsure if you've read call of the night before but I liked this ending better then call of the night since kotoyama sucks ass with his endings

 

[zHIST]

The ending give me chills for some reason. Though, I really love this manga. Hamita was really skilled at creating a mess of emotions which feels somewhat ordered in this manga, somehow.

I didn't realize this was Hamita. How... tame...

 

[xTachibana]

Death scene? Are we reading the same story? Because she's alive and healthy here. But yes, the author is absolutely the worst at endings.

The person at the end is their daughter? It's definitely a kid
"There once was someone who was very cheerful and cute"
This is past tense, which implies that Fran is dead?

It's either that or this is a flashback to them as kids and the whole past tense thing is literally just the book they're reading.

 

[dogmeister238]

Death scene? Are we reading the same story? Because she's alive and healthy here. But yes, the author is absolutely the worst at endings.

The last panel pans to a portrait of the mom. Before that, the dad reminisces about her both verbally through reading the story to his daughter and mentally through flashbacks to the moment before the flash forward.

During which the author parallels the daughter’s appearance and behavior to the mother, making it seem as though he’s having this recollection because he’s reminded of her.

People don’t have recollections of alive mothers through their daughters; you don’t need to be reminded of the image of your wife and the mother of your child if she’s still constantly in your life.

And even if you do, it’s not going to be to this exact moment right before a time skip that is for some reason being immortalized in a portrait that the author felt the need to pan to in the last panel.

All while the mom is entirely absent and referred to (metaphorically) in past tense.

Look, is it explicitly stated? No. But put yourself in the author’s shoes and assume they’re writing that she died; no author is going to present death by blatantly stating the wife died halfway through the chapter.

They’re going to use subtextual ways to show that she died (they’re going to imply her death), so that they can romanticize her passing and utilize it as a moment of introspective reflection of the character and “her beauty”.

And if you look at the subtext, it’s about as obvious as you can get. All the subtextual clues with the flashbacks, flash forwards, and the portrait are textbook tropes for implied death. Like this is the premier formula for saying someone died without saying someone died lol.

 

[dogmeister238]

The person at the end is their daughter? It's definitely a kid
"There once was someone who was very cheerful and cute"
This is past tense, which implies that Fran is dead?

It's either that or this is a flashback to them as kids and the whole past tense thing is literally just the book they're reading.

It’s definitely their kid. The book is signed “Yuuyi” at the back, most likely the kid’s name and named after the dad. Also, I doubt it’s just the book, because it’s a blatant metaphor. It’s an overused trope, the one where the author closes on reading a fairy tale meant to be a cheesy metaphor.