Melancholia - Vol. 2 Ch. 26 - Zoo Hypothesis

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Digesting time!!

1. Satomi saw apocalypse. Her cat Moire started talking and said to judge her deed. But she didn't want to die yet, so he used the star wand / soul compression to give her more time. In reality, she has been in coma for 10 years since the car accident.
2. Takeru a.k.a. Chess Prince defeated the A.I. Deep Purple, had a relationship with Witch of the Forest and got into fights with his classmate Kanbara.
3. Rank 86 hitman brought 3 girls to Mario Hole to discard them. Before jumping to death by herself, the black-haired girl (Satomi's sister) hired Mr. 86 to kill her mother, so Satomi could be saved from prostitution life.
4. Maid girl Martha got trapped in a hotel room (Voynich hotel) with the corpse of an author, and was forced to write the novel "Night Vigilia".
5. A guy (No. 31) joined vampire's experiment to produce stable blood source for them, in exchange for his debtors got taken care of.
6. Two girls (Hana & Mizuki) tried to track down the source of things falling from sky.
7. The love-obsessed girl Maeno Nao wanted to confessed to the celebrity Hayakawa-senpai, but she was afflicted with weird disease preventing her from perceiving love (later called Melancholia syndrome).
8. High school girl Yaotsu rescued two cat aliens crash-landing behind the mountain and was gifted with a time spinner (one-time use). During closing ceremony, her bullied classmate Yorita told her to stay away while he going full Rambo in the gym. Realizing she could not help him, Yaotsu decided to gave up on turning time back.
9. Two girls extracted their love interests' organs, later it became a trend in their school.
10. Three boys (Miyagi, Kanbara and unnamed one) went hunting Tsuchinoko on mountain and found an old shrine. Kanbara wished to become a girl so he wouldn't get into fight with Chess Prince like before. Later Miyagi and Kanbara tried to find the shrine again to no avail, then they started going out.
11. Ten years ago, the unnamed boy saw Satomi's car accident and got inspired to become hero. After praying at the old shrine, he got super strength and decided to make his hero debut. Meanwhile, some mobs kidnapped Hayakawa for ransom, but she gave them false phone number to drag time out. The cop Nakano messed up when tracing kidnappers' location and quit his job, not realizing the supposed kidnapped girl entering the house. On Hayakawa's side, super hero boy saved her but got minor injure and passed out from fatigue. Hayakawa's manager came later, revealed to be Mr. 86 while she was rank 24. Before departing, she gave the boy his hero name "Kid Nap".
12. The school shooting (chapter 8) caused Kasumi to become shut-in, even in online game "Freakval". Her childhood friend came to drag her out of the room.
13. Ex-cop Nakano went hiking with a sick girl. On the mountain, he saw another girl wanting to suicide so he tried to convince her not to. Two weeks later, sick girl died, causing Nakano to become terrorist to ensure humanity's doom.
14. Two mermaids drank forbidden medicine to grow legs. Isaki lost her legs but switched to voice actress career, while Rabuka lost her voice and stayed to take care of Isaki.
15. Cat aliens crash-landed in Edo period. They gave young Oui some manga mags which caused the eromanga boom.
16. Yukishiro Yukihiro (who drew illustration for "Night Vigilia") lost his arm in terrorist attack (by Nakano). Scientists gave him an artificial arm, equipped with the A.I. Deep Purple. Two middle school fangirls visited him, but he found himself unable to draw again.
17. Three girls (Ako, Shino, Himari) lined up for "Night Vigilia" movie first screening (with ex-mermaid Isaki voiced one character), where they met two fangirls from previous chapter. The blizzard attacked and killed many people. Himari was revealed to have Melancholia syndrome.
18. Hiroki came back home and found his sister, who supposed to be dead. They talked about each other's last wish. Two days later she disappeared again and Hiroki started to rebuild his Rube Goldberg machine.
19. Featuring the poison frog girl and virgin piss grandpa's family with their dog Becky.
19.5. Niche mangaka (Dowman himself) got offered a seat on the space ship by a young lady. When they were at the construction dock, her assistant Asami caught ex-cop-turned-terrorist Nakano trying to sabotage the ship and decided to throw him into Mario Hole. Dowman vouched for Nakano's life by giving up his seat.
20. Senri bribed Tsuchinoko with boiled eggs so he would hide from human, therefore she could spend more time with her crush Hiroki. Later she saw Hiroki with his sister and misunderstood the situation (not really misunderstood though). She wished for Tsuchinoko a.k.a. Half-Ouroboros to re-roll the world.
21. Two guys went strolling and found a dead couple on the street (looks like Chess Prince and Witch of the Forest). When they came home, the young vampire boy Hiroki (not the same one) showed his blood source / lover Kouji rumors about 4 utopias: underwater world, "Freakval" MMORPG, Blefuscu island (Voynich hotel) and a shelter in Tokyo. They went to see the shelter, which used to be space ship's dock and met Asami, who informed them that the shelter was totally deserted (everyone was homo).
22. Kid Nap failed to push back the comet, so cat aliens used time spinner to rewind back 8 months. They went back to headquarter for reporting, before returned to Earth again (with the prototype star wand).

23. Satomi in coma got tricked by Tuxboros to wish for apocalypse, with various stuffs like comet, heat wave, blizzard... happened in real life. When Kid Nap failed, cat aliens rewound time and formed the "perfect cycle" he wishing for.

24. Tsuchinoko complained to himself about this seemingly unbreakable loop. Then he overheard Hiroki's rambling about Rube Goldberg machine (he joined the hunt even though not believing in Tsuchinoko, because nothing would happen if he just lazed around). Got inspired by that, plus Senri wasn't around to give him eggs anymore, Tsuchinoko started to appear before humans again and granted their wishes. The suicidal girl (chapter 13) got super strength, while Nakano wished for sick girl to be cured. Since she was alive, Nakano wouldn't become terrorist, Yukihiro with his arm intact kept working on "Night Vigilia" with Deep Purple as his assistant, and the story progressed to near final volume.

25. The girl who got super strength became new hero Nasty Girl and joined Kid Nap to push back the comet. The comet was housing an eldritch entity who pierced Kid Nap's chest with tentacle. Mr. 86 visited Satomi in hospital with latest volume of her favorite "Night Vigilia" which had only one more book to finish (oh wait, she had read it when she was 11, did that make the rating all-ages?). He also told her how he fell in love with Satomi's sister and wanted her to be the same. That prompted Satomi to stop the eldritch entity, gave Nasty Girl and "revived" Kid Nap a chance to push the comet back to space. The cycle was broken, two parts of Ouroboros merged again and went to rest.

26. Kid Nap turned out to be fine because Hayakawa had extracted his heart in their first meeting.
During that time, some broken pieces of the comet hit cat aliens' ship. Crash-landing had killed one of them and wrecked their ship. The survived one gave his friend's manuscript Melancholia to Dowman -- that made this manga came to be -- before returning to the ship for one last time spin. He chased away the original Moire and put himself in Satomi's accident so he could protect her soul -----> bring us back to chapter 1. It probably means Satomi will finally wake up from coma.

And that's it. The whole story comes in full circle like Ouroboros. But Martha's making spin-off, can we expect Kid Nap's love triangle spin-off too???
Also, press F for cat aliens.
 
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Only three chapters I can't make connection with anything whatsoever: vampire's blood source, Mizuki tornado and Becky's anus. Did they have some meaning that I missed?
 
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You can read it again and it makes a lot of sense the second time. Neat
 
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Dowman really is one of, if not my single favorite mangaka. No one else quite like him.
 
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That was cool, but it seems like I'd have to read this in one sitting to figure out what the flying fuck is going on.
 
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@Kathartes The chapter with Becky and the family is just there to establish that Melancholia takes place in the same universe as Nickelodeon and otherwise I don't think it connects to the rest much. I believe the vampire's blood source was connected to the gay couple later on (the light haired one coughs out those weird balls) and that chapter itself connects to everything else via the underground shelter. I'm not sure how much connection it has to everything else beyond that but I'm sure it's there.

Edit: actually you already made that connecting so never mind me. Then yeah I got nothing else, I think it's just a dead end.
 
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Thank you Douman, thank you B-minus Scans! See you around... space cowboy.
 
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And as always I am end up wondering how this one connects timewise to the other Mangas in the Douman Multiverse kek.
Seriously though once again a great read as most of his works
 
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@Kathartes The gay vampire couple thing was just to loop back to the other doctor gay vampire who made the drugs to cough up blood balls in chapter 5, confirming what he said "there are probably tons of vampires swimming in the sunlight right now" in this chapter.
 
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this manga and its twist and this 1st chapter actually last chapter is just the best... great manga...
also... @Kathartes thanks for the summary...
 

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