Mii-chan to Yamada-san - Vol. 7 Ch. 37.5 - Until We Meet Again

[MangaDex]

 

[zalagires]

she is dead?
for tragedy manga this manga so bittersweet.

 

[tomatomandarine]

I don't know how to feel about this ending. It feels somewhat realistic, but definitely on the side of misery porn. Yamada going off the rails was always in the cards, but even so I did not expect to see her killed off like this.

 

[DanceyPants]

Miiko is dead. Yamada is dead. Everything was terrible and only one to see the light in it was Miiko.

 

[poba]

yamada dying like that is kinda funny unfortunately. don't know if i agree with that choice but i will think about this manga for a long time regardless

 

[mug3n]

I don't know how to feel about this ending. It feels somewhat realistic, but definitely on the side of misery porn. Yamada going off the rails was always in the cards, but even so I did not expect to see her killed off like this.

My take that's how the one owning the pov feels about the situation or at least used to feel. We still don't know if Yamada is the stand in for the author or their friend since they never clarified it.

 

[malu]

that was a ride, i knew about this manga because people all over the internet were very upset by the annonce of the animé adaptation and i know see why now.

I didn't expect the manga to be this harsh on mii chan, but i liked how the story tell you that if you are poorly raised while having learning disabilities, there is no way in hell you'll grow up as a perfect cute innocent angel, people will take avantage of you and mii chan had a bunch of trauma because of that ( even if she fail to realize that, because miichan is special)

dealing with people like that is hard, it requires training and also to realize that they can be selfish, glutton, ungratefull and violent just like average people

 

[Fluffyfish]

I wasn't expecting a good ending or anything but now I just feel empty.

Miichan's fate was about what I expected, but Yamada becoming miserable for a decade just to die later feels so bad. At least she told the world about Miichan I guess.

 

[BlackHoxton]

Ehhh. Gotta say the ending is a bit of a miss for me. It just feels like misery porn.

 

[FroggoFood]

I don’t know how I feel about the ending.. I’m currently doing a series on Mii Chan over on my YouTube channel.. and- idk if I have the heart to tackle this final chapter when I get to it.. I have a lot to think about.. my mind may change but for now I think it’s partially misery porn.. not entirely.. I think there is value in the story.. BUT I HATED THE ENDING. I didn’t expect rainbows but it just felt unsatisfying.. idk it could just be me

 

[ckcw23]

I don’t know how I feel about the ending.. I’m currently doing a series on Mii Chan over on my YouTube channel.. and- idk if I have the heart to tackle this final chapter when I get to it.. I have a lot to think about.. my mind may change but for now I think it’s partially misery porn.. not entirely.. I think there is value in the story.. BUT I HATED THE ENDING. I didn’t expect rainbows but it just felt unsatisfying.. idk it could just be me

Send me a link to your channel, will be an interesting watch.

 

[ckcw23]

@DanceyPants Thanks for finishing up the series! Really appreciate that someone translated the series.

 

[ckcw23]

Yeah, I felt that the ending was way too rushed, with too many loose ends honestly. Possible that the author’s main focus was on the two MC’s and anyone else was just secondary.

 

[Siete]

The ending feels like the mangaka sort of answering all the criticism about the ableism and how she was profiting from someone else's story (in Japan it was always suspected that Yamada was a thinly veiled fictionalized version of the mangaka) by punishing "herself".

 

[jaaaace]

There’s no good way to end this manga. If the mangaka “made things right” it would seem too self congratulatory. Yamada herself had an undiagnosed mental condition (Xylophagia and a broader ED).

Overall I think it’s as good as it gets. The mangaks’s feelings about diagnosis, safety nets, not victim blaming, self reflection etc etc all came through.

 

[spitfiremase]

I think, as bleak as it is, there's a lot to like about this. It non-judgmentally kind of presents these things to you (aside from the abuse, it frames that plainly bad) and lets you figure out how to feel about it yourself. It shows the raw hardship of unprepared people having to accommodate people like Mii-chan and her behavioral issues, while maintaining a profound empathy for Mii-chan and the abuse she faced by many of those same people.

She was used, abused, and killed and never knew why.

Yamada's stifling mom and Mii-chan's abusive family resulted in a precious friendship between two people who couldn't really understand each other. It spiraled into emotional codependency, and Yamada's attempt to assuage that codependency just pushed them back into the places that led them there in the first place, because Yamada didn't have a pattern of how to honestly fix it.

The cancellation of Mii-mii's adventures is the cancellation of Yamada's will to live, and she had been wreaking havoc on her body with disordered eating and the sleeplessness

It is a shame, and it is a wonder, and it kind of leaves you thinking about every fork in the road where a single different decision could've made a world of difference.

 

[mug3n]

I don’t know how I feel about the ending.. I’m currently doing a series on Mii Chan over on my YouTube channel.. and- idk if I have the heart to tackle this final chapter when I get to it.. I have a lot to think about.. my mind may change but for now I think it’s partially misery porn.. not entirely.. I think there is value in the story.. BUT I HATED THE ENDING. I didn’t expect rainbows but it just felt unsatisfying.. idk it could just be me

I made a comment about my feelings overall in the main thread of the manga. A lot of the bad stuff went through my head in the beginning because of the presentation. I don't know if the intent was cushioning the hideous stuff or justapoxing it to the overall whimsy tone to highlight the sheer insanity of the situation, it really didn't work for me.

Some people said ot felt exploitative or gross and that's what I felt in the beginning, I don't think that's the case anymore. We are used to these kinds of stories being gritty, but I think it's valid a story this dark to be this detached.

I've read some mangas with this kind of introspection on some very personal stuff and/or dark stuff and some of them tend to have this kind of easygoing style.

 

[yetanothergeek]

I think it was really good, just in a really relentlessly depressing way, I think it feels real in a way that is not pleasant to see. As a story it doesn't really have a point, but I figure that's the point, an examination on something that is really really sad in the most honest way the author could portray, all we can do is stare at it and try to make sense of it. I suppose life is like that sometimes, sometimes it really is just the sickness onto death.

 

[pearhi]

I personally feel like this manga came off as a bit vapid to me. Although, the translation may have played into that a little... Just from seeing the amount of "Mr. Yamada"s in the script, you can tell that no one proofread this.

Personally, if you like this sort of story, I would highly recommend "That's My Atypical Girl".

 

[Mitsu13]

Just like the person above said, I also now understand why people didn't like the anime announcement. Because, yes, I can see some people will be sympathetic, but some will also see that they can take advantage of people with disabilities.

It's so sad that Yamada and Mii-chan indirectly killed each other. Yamada by telling her to go back to her hometown and making her meet bad people, and Mii-chan by haunting Yamada so that she couldn't have any other thoughts beside drawing. I wonder if it would be better if they never met. I hope they captured the real killers.

I also wonder why the grandma could produce two children with disabilities, though. If only she stopped thinking about what other people would think and agree with the teacher.