Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover - Vol. 8 Ch. 71 - I'm sorry, Fuu-chan

[DrarRV]

You know what, i'm calling it. The mastermind is Rei's senile grandma, coz why not.

 

[arimareiji]

I don't blame anyone for being unable to let go of a cherished hypothesis*… but man, some of the rationalizations for why it has to be Fuu are wild. 😅

* - although in one case, I suspect it might be that someone's trying to reverse-jinx it the same way I sometimes try to reverse-jinx things (superstitiously refusing to say the thing I actually want to happen, because somehow that might magically keep it from happening) 🙃

I wonder why Uichi lies to Yotsuha in chapter 68... My guess is that if the mastermind knows that Yotsuha is aware of the truth, then they may use the watch to time-travel and "fix" this current future.

Uichi knows it's someone close to Yotsuha, and is trying not to let the future be changed. Who is it? My money is still on the brother. There's still more to him I feel like we are missing. I could see Fuu being in on it, but I doubt it.

Nicely intuited, methinks, though I suspect it could be something else (like for instance he suspects her brother—but doesn't want to say anything until he has proof—but doesn't want to risk him somehow finding out through Yotsuha).

My bet also remains on the brother being Clover… though personally, I'm sticking with "it's a family power that doesn't require the watch specifically (just something to act a subconscious focus for the power)". Like in the first Butterfly Effect movie, which I still say was part of the inspiration for this manga (along with Higurashi).

Spoiler: Butterfly Effect (2004) spoiler

Throughout the first Butterfly Effect movie, it seems very much like MC's past journals are what allows him to jump back in time (to the journal entry he's reading about).

Until near the end, when it's revealed that his dad used home movies as a focus… and the MC is also able to use one of them to jump back.

 

[aboborazi]

It was just when our goat Uichi stopped suffering that he started to show why he was the badass in childhood

 

[miranarbn]

Is the mastermind Yotsuha's father? If so that's kind of a meh plot twist in my opinion, but maybe it will be someone else or the plot twist will be well written that I wouldn't mind it being the father
I don't really suspect anyone else right now

 

[imsevlol]

yoo uichi is on to smth lock in m’boy

 

[Legithat]

We have time travel. We have a dead physicist who killed himself. Fuu seems to think the time travel properties can be solved by her father's contemporaries. We know that Yotsuha's mom turned on her extremely suddenly after the suicide of a particular person. While we don't get direct confirmation the suicides are related, it feels like it could be going that way. We know the brother explicitly tells her not to kill anyone.

We still don't know who Yotsuha's father is. We still don't know if the mom's car accident was really an accident. We still don't know why Rei accuses Yotsuha of being a murderer. We still don't get why he betrayed Uichi to bullies, or what the deal with the strange insult was. We still don't know what Uichi meant when he said it figured that Yotsuha doesn't remember Rei's name, or why he didn't tell Yotsuha something when pressed.

I want to keep in mind that no twist has come out of total left field in this story yet, far as I can tell. There's always a setup somewhere, though sometimes it goes really far back, and the connections aren't always clear. But so far we really haven't been shown enough to peg someone as the mastermind, because we haven't been able to solve the unfinished mysteries this chapter calls out so blatantly.

I think Mom did something to Fuu's dad to get him to kill himself. For lack of a better way of saying it, I think the idea he did it because he was over worked is false. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it doesn't right here.

I still think Fuu is innocent, I think Clover is someone else. Fuu-chan basically holds Yotsuha's heart in her hand and could really mess her up if she felt like it. I don't think she'd need someone like Rei to do her ill-will.

 

[leon43]

We have time travel. We have a dead physicist who killed himself. Fuu seems to think the time travel properties can be solved by her father's contemporaries. We know that Yotsuha's mom turned on her extremely suddenly after the suicide of a particular person. While we don't get direct confirmation the suicides are related, it feels like it could be going that way. We know the brother explicitly tells her not to kill anyone.

We still don't know who Yotsuha's father is. We still don't know if the mom's car accident was really an accident. We still don't know why Rei accuses Yotsuha of being a murderer. We still don't get why he betrayed Uichi to bullies, or what the deal with the strange insult was. We still don't know what Uichi meant when he said it figured that Yotsuha doesn't remember Rei's name, or why he didn't tell Yotsuha something when pressed.

I want to keep in mind that no twist has come out of total left field in this story yet, far as I can tell. There's always a setup somewhere, though sometimes it goes really far back, and the connections aren't always clear. But so far we really haven't been shown enough to peg someone as the mastermind, because we haven't been able to solve the unfinished mysteries this chapter calls out so blatantly.

I think Mom did something to Fuu's dad to get him to kill himself. For lack of a better way of saying it, I think the idea he did it because he was over worked is false. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it doesn't right here.

I still think Fuu is innocent, I think Clover is someone else. Fuu-chan basically holds Yotsuha's heart in her hand and could really mess her up if she felt like it. I don't think she'd need someone like Rei to do her ill-will.

I actually has some theory but I first need to know do we even get confirmation of the age gap between Yotsuha and her half-brother, Mitsuha?
My theory is that regarding the mother's death;

Spoiler

Mitsuha orchastrated it but he waited until he's of age to be able to be Yotsuha's legal guardian before making a move. That way, they don't need to be separated with Yotsuha being in an institution knowing how she was bullied before. Latest raw chapter just kinda strengthen my feeling about it...

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Still can't trust Fuu but what was her dad persuing? Was he silenced? Was Fuu goaded by Clover? (under assumption Fuu's also a red herring)

 

[WiseMansBlood]

bro, tf is up with the author... how much bad shit did author san see in his life that every single character in this story is suffering through so much traumatic shit! At least author still has enough hope and ambition to write this. Damn man.

 

[Este074]

Thank you for translation~~ love the series! Caught up to it in 3 hours now time to read chinese tls ahhahaha

 

[LupusVir]

What a chapter to catch up on.

 

[xTachibana]

What if Yotsuba's mom is the reason why Fuu-chan's dad killed himself? So her plan to make Uichi's life miserable could be basically a way to get back at Yotsuba?
It's either that or Yotsuba's mom or brother are the real mastermind and Fuu-chan is a red herring