Maria no Danzai - Ch. 35 - Marionette

[thycondrius]

yeah... I can barely wait for FMC to kill the asshole.

 

[QueenSekhmet]

Lmao at everyone bitching at Okaya's mom being the corrupt Police-Chief and everyone misusing the word "cliche". It's not at all cliche: it was a great unexpected twist that he has a parent in the Police-Force protecting him. Honestly, I was expecting him to have some serious blackmail on the mocking pencil-neck Police-Superior like he did with that Teacher-Coach that bullied the Jock when he was a kid - now that's predictably cliche.

It changes the story's formula a bit and makes it interesting again. It was kinda getting boring for three arcs: pick off a clique member, punish him/her in a way related to his/her sins, confusing but getting closer figuring it out aftermath for the villians. Now the story has progressed further enough that the formula has to change a bit because the villian-cast can now be a legitimate antagonistic force given they've acquired enough evidence to have prime suspects/suspicions.

I have a feeling that shit is gonna get exponentially intense with Fat-Boy. Like, Maria is gonna finally seriously slip up given the more laser-focused scrutiny getting on her when she kills Fat-Boy. Like, Fat-Boy dies but he gets the last laugh because somehow he confirms she's the killer with his death - so Okaya and Maria have an intense battle where they are trying to kill each other without it getting public (Okaya sorta doing it like so because he finds the whole situation entertaining af). I still think Fat-Boy will be really different, like somehow a deal is attempted or struck with Maria to get to Okaya in exchange for his own life being spared. Maybe Fat-Boy might even be the first to escape his death-punishment somehow; like on his dying deathbed he reveals Maria is the killer to Okaya before he dies.

i'll be surprised if fat boy doesn't end up betraying the ringleader simply because he doesn't care enough to actually risk his neck for him. out of all the bullies,he is easily the tamest simply because he is fine just being a spectator so i think that will give maria an edge in getting to the ringleader when fat boy sells him out,if not just let's him and maria fight it out because he can't be bothered to actually help.

 

[ceoamaterasu]

Almost levels of L existing in Death Note but I am not gonna lie, having the police being like that (hiding stuff for sake of saving face, making people impossible to prosecute because connection or politician related) is adult fear levels.

 

[Bachenaugen]

The author is giving the dad his own white whale to hunt. Acceptable twist.

 

[Rayla89]

The woman has Makima eyes

 

[Sanosaur]

I enjoyed this manga better when it was a committed mother getting revenge on piece of shit teens, but now it looks like she's gonna end up fighting some foreign Mafia that happens to know Okaya through his dad's first cousin's son/ nephew who happen to be husbando's brother on his father side. Story seems to quickly start leaning on that how to fight manhua, that had a similar shark jumping.

 

[AnacondaHL]

Mom, I want Makima!

We have Makima at home

 

[someonewhodraws]

Maria collab with Reiji soon?

 

[Outflanks10]

MORE BLOOD AND BONES FOR THE GOD OF REVENGE!


Thanks for the translations Stressed Out Scans

 

[theshet]

That is a solid excusable reason for the kids having such power. Cannot wait to see the downfall tho

 

[Kingkeal]

Such a cliche "twist" that the villain has an in with the police and it's their parent

how else would they get away with the inciting incident if not for connections. I wouldn't call this a twist but I would question as to why this was even held back so long when it's something most people probably assumed anyway.

 

[Kingkeal]

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.

I wouldn't go that far. Juujika's whole cult twist was WAY more absurd than just having a cop mother covering up for him. That shit was so goofy in Juujika I still can't believe it.

 

[Kuroageha]

I already made the comparison with this and Death Note just weeks ago, turns that author really is taking it close to a a T.

 

[kunyka]

Okaya's mom is a cutie. Looks more like an older sister, but her eyes clearly demonstrate their relation. On other hand, yes, Okaya is a piece of garbage and he deserves to be punished for forcing MC's son to commit a suicide - but it is understandable that if Okaya is a MC's target, then there should be obstacle - in a form of his mother.
A bullied one's mother vs a bully's mother is a good idea.

 

[kunyka]

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

Nothing similar to JnR, except for school bullying going too far.
Kyou, a JnR's main antagonist, is a sadist serial killer with a cute face, who had grown up from a femboy manipulating bully into a psychopath leader of people with same views and goals. He even killed his own parents.
Okaya is just a school sugar boy bully. He does not have a sect of thousands people doing what he wants, he didn't even want to kill a MC's son at first place (yes, Okaya is a piece of shit, but he said "Oh no, it (a truck) was faster").

 

[wizard_mouse]

acab as usual

Yup, you either get criminal incompetence or straight up criminal activity from cops in these stories

 

[darkeden112]

So that's why that bastard got a lot of confidence doing whatever he wants. The mother also needed to be punished severely for enabling the behaviour of her child. Mating press correction seems to be a good punishment.

 

[TempestFox]

I wondered if she would appear at some point, but damn, this was a surprise. I remember her being mentioned back in Ch 13 via a text exchange with Nozomu.

Going off what she said in this chapter and this text, im guessing that he's also somehow blackmailing his mother because like What kind of mother would use san for their own child

 

[blaqhawq]

Of-fucking-course the goddamned police are in his hamds.

 

[rentenzen]

Going off what she said in this chapter and this text, im guessing that he's also somehow blackmailing his mother because like What kind of mother would use san for their own child

Seishuu Handa's mother from Barakamon calls her son with the -san honorific, if I recall.