Mii-chan and Yamada-san - Ch. 6.1 - Dream

[MangaDex]

 

[eightrooks]

No, this particular thread doesn't end like you think...

...at least not yet.

 

[nicolas22g]

Damn girl you live like this ?
May Cutlet live long 🙏

 

[PlasmaLance07]

You guys think we gonna find out who kills her or it's gonna be just an open ending

 

[eightrooks]

You guys think we gonna find out who kills her or it's gonna be just an open ending

Good question! I could see the mangaka going with an open ending, tbh; you could argue the "point" of the story is Yamada coping with the realisation that life treats people like shit who, whatever their flaws/mistakes, absolutely don't deserve it. (And then wondering if she could have done any more to make things turn out differently.)

If she does go for an actual reveal I'm not sure it'll be anyone we've seen yet - there's a new character in 7 for a story which is

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partly slice-of-life, partly building Yamada and Mii's friendship

so seemingly nothing to do with the murder, and 8 is about

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Shigeo,

who's mostly just as pathetic as you'd expect, but not an obvious villain.

 

[Lampsforsale]

She got a hamster?

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oooh noo.

 

[LIXOUA]

hmmm this is not going to end well for this hamster

 

[ash32121]

man, I don't want to read this anymore.

that poor hamster, the only way this can end good is it's escaping the next day.

 

[ErikTheRed]

This is not gonna end well

 

[Goodbyefrankenstein]

Is the actual murder part based on the true story or is that just an embellished aspect?

Either way, this hamster is going to die because we know this Mii-chan dies (A. Was taken care of until Miichan dies so no caretaker or B. It dies before Miichan dies cuz...well...it's Miichan)

 

[eightrooks]

Is the actual murder part based on the true story or is that just an embellished aspect?

Either way, this hamster is going to die because we know this Mii-chan dies (A. Was taken care of until Miichan dies so no caretaker or B. It dies before Miichan dies cuz...well...it's Miichan)

I wouldn't say embellished, maybe - there isn't a "story" this is based on as such, just the fact the mangaka worked in hostess clubs and saw some pretty weird things while she was there, including the person who inspired Mii-chan. I didn't research this too deeply, so it's perfectly possible I might have missed stuff - I just saw a couple of articles in Japanese that I ran through MTL and some posts on the mangaka's Twitter account where she says "Please don't think this is all a true story, I'm not Yamada, lol". But to the best of my knowledge, no, the real Mii-chan was not murdered.

It's a fair question, though - the story overall may be fictional, but admittedly some parts of it feel pretty obviously drawn from life. The mangaka may not be a one-to-one for Yamada, but she's stated a couple of details are directly taken from her own experiences, and there's stuff in 7 and 8 that really seems like a case of "Oh, you definitely saw actual people behaving like this, didn't you?" But you'll see what I mean as and when I get there.

EDIT: Let's see if this works - this is the main interview I saw with her on Japanese MSN, if anyone wants to read it? If you run this through Translate on Chrome, it should be mostly pretty readable. https://www.msn.com/ja-jp/news/entertainment/親から虐待を受け-２回も鼻を陥没骨折-snsマンガ界注目の-みいちゃんと山田さん-作者が明かす-少年少女たちの-悲惨すぎる現実/ar-BB1irv04

It's from earlier this year, and it talks about the previous version of the manga as well (that's what that slightly funny-looking cover art is from).

 

[Aijou-san]

Is the actual murder part based on the true story or is that just an embellished aspect?

Either way, this hamster is going to die because we know this Mii-chan dies (A. Was taken care of until Miichan dies so no caretaker or B. It dies before Miichan dies cuz...well...it's Miichan)

The mangaka mentioned something about Mii-chan's model and her grave in a tweet, so make of that what you will.

 

[eightrooks]

The mangaka mentioned something about Mii-chan's model and her grave in a tweet, so make of that what you will.

Good catch. That sure does make it sound like the real person is no longer around. Damn.

When I added this to MD, when I said "the mangaka has stated it's fictional" or whatever, I was referencing that in September, she tweeted (MTL'd):

"Mii-chan and Yamada-san" is fiction. There is a real-life model, but please enjoy all of the manga I draw, including "Mii-yama", as fiction. The author is in no way Yamada. Lol

I don't follow her account, though, so I didn't see the one you linked.

FWIW, I'm not too hung up on how much is or is not real - it seems to me like she's got her reasons for fictionalising stuff and I'm not seeing anything so far to suggest there's any real downside to her doing so. If she wants to try and preserve the dignity of someone she knew and considers she was friends with (she uses "tomodachi"), that's her business.

(I just hope that my half-assed efforts at translating it aren't showing too much disrespect. <_< )

 

[MuerteDeArturo]

The mangaka mentioned something about Mii-chan's model and her grave in a tweet, so make of that what you will.

For those who don't know Japanese but are curious about the linked tweet, the mangaka was responding to another person's tweet that said something like this:

"This author talked on Twitter as if it were a story about someone they knew, so naturally, everyone thought it was something that happened in real life.
But then, when it was announced that it would be released on MagaPoke, she started saying things like, 'I don’t know where you got that information.'
And as soon as it became a serialized work, she deleted everything from Twitter. Honestly, it feels pretty annoying."

The mangaka addressed this by clarifying that while her friend served as a model for Mii-chan, this doesn’t mean the story is entirely based on real-life events. In fact, she intentionally embellished parts of the story to prevent readers from identifying actual people. She added that if she hadn’t done so, Mii-chan’s grave might have ended up like the "Beast’s Lair" (野獣邸), whatever that might be.

This seems to suggest that the person Mii-chan is based on has passed away. However, the circumstances of her death could be very different from what is depicted in the fictional story. I’m not entirely sure what the "Beast’s Lair" refers to, but it might imply the mangaka was concerned about fans identifying the real Mii-chan and disrespecting her grave.

The mangaka also explained that she deleted her earlier version of the story from Twitter and Kindle because she felt she was being exploited (though it’s unclear what she means by this). She mentioned wanting to finish the story on Twitter but ultimately decided against it because, as she put it, she would have become "useless" if she did. This likely means she was concerned that completing the story on Twitter would render her redundant or devalue her serialized manga, as readers might not feel the need to buy it if the story was already freely available online.

 

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The mangaka addressed this by clarifying that while her friend served as a model for Mii-chan, this doesn’t mean the story is entirely based on real-life events. In fact, she intentionally embellished parts of the story to prevent readers from identifying actual people. She added that if she hadn’t done so, Mii-chan’s grave might have ended up like the "Beast’s Lair" (野獣邸), whatever that might be.

This seems to suggest that the person Mii-chan is based on has passed away. However, the circumstances of her death could be very different from what is depicted in the fictional story. I’m not entirely sure what the "Beast’s Lair" refers to, but it might imply the mangaka was concerned about fans identifying the real Mii-chan and disrespecting her grave.
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I would guess that due to Mii-chan's love of stuffed animals that her grave would be piled high with them from readers.