Maria no Danzai - Ch. 33 - King's Gambit

[thycondrius]

Yeah...he's fucked

 

[Koiish]

Can't wait for the spin-off "I Tried to Take Revenge on my Bullies and Ended up Living With my Best Friend's Mother"

 

[redkitty102]

I get Okaya coming to the conclusion that it’s Nagare’s mother since he was already suspecting his parents. The reason he can’t tell exactly who it is is because she’s went to lengths to change her physical appearance. However, I’m sure he’s going to involve either her ex-husband and use him as a bait to get her out of hiding or confront her at school to pressure her to make a mistake. But like it’s been stated, Maria is a lot like Okaya, she’ll know not to underestimate him.

 

[vannn]

Can't wait for the spin-off "I Tried to Take Revenge on my Bullies and Ended up Living With my Best Friend's Mother"

Set it in another world and I’m sold.

 

[Crisisninjax]

I knew this kid was gonna be her downfall from the moment he attacked the drug dealer. He's too eager to "help" no way he does what he's told and stays put. He's a wildcard and a weakness.

 

[Valentfred]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[CulR]

Does she mean similar to Okaya in how she just moves everyone around like pawns (it should bullied that just got killed and how he was used by Okaya as a pawn)

 

[Geeked4GalaxyGas]

I hate the way the writer does the most ass pull jumps in logic with the bully guy to make him seem smart. It's more likely for him to think that the "mastermind" is a friend or something but "hereditary"? Author got lazy fr. Still love the plot though

 

[Shaggyrand]

Feels like a huge leap to suspect Maria just from the conversation.

Massive and based on nothing but the author needs it to happen. The whole "choice of words is hereditary" might be the single most fuckwitted line I have read in a couple years.
This isn't a chess game. This is Simon Says but led by a brain dead mangaka.
Shame. I was enjoy this up to the tediously generic genius child trope.

 

[retrocognition]

Why'd the author have to hit me right in the heart 😭

 

[Rafalga]

Feels like a huge leap to suspect Maria just from the conversation.

Whole thing is an asspull to begin with. Okaya is just a step short of becoming Sherlock fucking Holmes. Remember, in order to write smart characters, you need to be at least equally smart for them to appear genuine. This is not the case here. Okaya knows things because he just does (aka story needs to happen)

 

[EchoGirl]

Interesting intricate dress, wonder if this artist will ever get to do some fantasy series or just some 'fancy' outfits for other stories

LOL online friends sure are interesting, i'm sure there are some possibilities but i imagine it'd be risky for a minor to ask that of someone esp if they're a runaway but that's a diff story

Although for a more 'normal' series i can imagine a bully-victim support group might make for its own interesting series XD

Yeah, this felt like an asspull to get the plot moving forward. I know Okaya is supposed to be the genius mastermind behind everything but this felt like bullshit

hopefully that means it'll just be a quicker direct confrontation since that's probably what maria wants in the end versus like slipping poison to him somehow lol.

 

[Jampolo]

Set it in another world and I’m sold.

An alt universe where everyone's reincarnated but Okaya's friends actually turn into nice people without his horrible influence to turn them into pieces of shit

 

[Schernobyl]

Once again evil villain makes wild jumps of logic based on vague information. Okaya still doesn't have enough information or the author needs him to pick up on better word clues.

 

[McAlastair]

That reminds me. I wonder if the ex-husband knows whos actually behind his son's death

Not at the moment. At best, he has a hunch, but lacks solid evidence. Besides, even if he gets a confession, that alone won't be enough. Setting aside Japan's infamous 99% conviction rate, bullying has been neglected as a topic unless it gets catastrophically bad.

 

[gundulgondrong]

being bullied aint that bad huh

 

[sichka]

Unlimited SEEEEEEEE
clusion

 

[Matikkkii]

That's not kings gambit, that's fucking London, what the fuck.

 

[Gravitypull]

Bruh how tf did he come to the conclusion that it was nagare's mom. This is some next level plot armor for the antagonist

 

[KairakuSensei]

Whole thing is an asspull to begin with. Okaya is just a step short of becoming Sherlock fucking Holmes. Remember, in order to write smart characters, you need to be at least equally smart for them to appear genuine. This is not the case here. Okaya knows things because he just does (aka story needs to happen)

You don’t necessarily need to be as smart as a ‘smart’ character to write one, but you do need to do a better job of setting up a trail of evidence. What’s happening here is that because maria’s kills up to this point were set up to be basically perfect, okaya had to reach his conclusion from practically no evidence.

A better author would have made it so that maria missed small details that pointed in her direction. Hell, even if they had been retroactively inserted into scenes that weren’t on camera, it would still have been better than this. But nah, we get insane leaps of logic that only make sense if you’re trying to work backward from an already known conclusion.