Maria no Danzai - Ch. 35 - Marionette

[hsun]

Mother vs mother in future chapters?

 

[fflogschampion]

I understand the point you’re making. Okaya already being a super detective does set the stage for absurdity, and I get that the manga has embraced this over-the-top premise for a while. But even so, there’s a difference between being a genius detective and actually controlling the police force. It’s one thing to be incredibly smart and connect dots others might miss, but it’s another to wield that kind of institutional power—especially when we’re talking about a high schooler (or middle schooler) pulling the strings behind law enforcement. That just feels like a huge leap, even in a world where things have already been pushed to ridiculous extremes.

Sure, the story has embraced the absurd, but there’s still a point where it crosses into territory that’s harder to accept, even with suspended disbelief.

I don't disagree. But for him to get away with the shit he did it had to be something like that. The police, an influential politician, part of some high rank yakuza family or something at that level, anything less would be even less believable.

 

[Kendama]

Welp, comment 19 beat me to it, but yeah, now I can see a tiny bit of Juujika in this. Damn, till this chapter the author was keeping the suspension of disbelief within the realm of the acceptable. Now it's barely hanging by a thread.

I can still enjoy it because it hasn't reached "copping out from the latest cop-out" levels: for example, we knew Okaya had a twisted relationship with his mother, and we knew Maria knows her. So while over-the-top, it's still tied up and not "bringing along an electric hammer to an island raid" and "VR simulation that behaves like time travel" bullshit.

 

[IronMace1990]

Don't tell me that Okaya is also an evil little sh*t to his own parents? 😂

Their whole clan must be exterminated

 

[DaBlackMamba]

Aw man, I was hoping something like this wouldn't happen. This 100% means this manga is gonna get dragged on probably over 100 chapters just like Jujika because the main antagonist has an unreasonable amount of power despite being a high schooler.

 

[KnightSpark]

this is genuinely the fucking ultimate twist on twist on twist... on twist

This manga could open a pretzel stand with all of those twists.

 

[RealEffinNoob]

Motherfu-

Well that explains everything.

 

[redmokou]

Getting real close to Juujikanizing your work, mangaka-san.
Thread carefully.

The main villain is so similar to Kyou that I had to double take if he was also into human psychology and had a super cult or something. Better not make a timeskip when he's the only left and have him make some nation wide organization/cult.

 

[DeadlyShadow0]

Well adding now to the Blacklist of people who will die, and sadly the MC doesn't know her own husband was looking for evidence of the assassination of his son, now I can see how things will go... in a future development the husband will discover the truth of her wife but also discovering that indeed it was the police who concealed the info of the case, uniting the family to kill both the son's killer and the chief

 

[wizard_mouse]

ugh, the only reason revenge stories like this work, it's if they are self-contained, the problem of course is that a self-contained story tends to be shorter as there is not much room to run around, and short stories don't make that $$$$, so either the author, or the editor decides to add shit that will raise the stakes, but it will cause the story to lose focus.

For example, Pumpkin Night was a cool slasher revenge horror, but then they started to introduce reincarnation and other villains and it lost the point. Another recent one is Juujika no Rokunin, that also just keeps extending the story with no value.

I was already fearing this the moment they introduced the wimpy boy, but now it really looks like by that point, it was already too late.

 

[Altadeam]

Dang, didn't see that coming, the way it reveal, I thought that chief police like new character that will hindrance to Maria plan, but to related, like mom to Okaya. No wonder, their group got away with bullying

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

acab as usual

 

[Octorama]

super cliché twist used to drag the story on for another 50+ chapters, this is lame lol

 

[pink_rabbit]

Don't tell me that Okaya is also an evil little sh*t to his own parents? 😂

it wouldn't surprise me. there is actually a case of this where a girl basically made her parents do every little thing for her. highly check out

 

[Shaggyrand]

I enjoyed the dumb over the top revenge story, it was sleek and entertainingly violent, and paced well, but this just filler with nonsense ranting, making it duller and more bloated with each new chapter. Manga genius kids ruin everything.

 

[FlorianGran]

If this twist is mainly so the dad has a way to become more active in the plot then I can get over it, even if it is over the top.

 

[dcm1302]

oh goddammit

 

[Jampolo]

If this twist is mainly so the dad has a way to become more active in the plot then I can get over it, even if it is over the top.

I mean, some little shit attacks you in your home, desecrates the memory of your family, then it turns out he may or may not have had something to do with your son's death
There's no fucking way he's gonna just lie down and take it

 

[Lyn_Lyn]

I was afraid the story would drag when Maria told Deadweight he had a year to become a hacker.
Now Okaya's mother appears and oh surprise, top police bitch.
So either Maria is going to be found out and go into fugitive mode or we get a time skip waiting for Deadweight to become something useful.
Revenge stories should be done fast and to the point, otherwise it just becomes an unsatisfying literary edging.

 

[Kanami-chan]

chief inspector sexo