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Woo finally an update...other than searching the author's name online i wonder how tedious it would've been before a few decades ago if ppl tried to search for a copy of the physical manga lol
Dang, ten year time skip...I wonder how many ppl remember what they were doing ten years ago, i f they weren't too involved in tragedies, i can imagine some ppl hearing about the N cult or vaguely acquainted ppl with it but not getting involved unless "knowing about N" is a bad thing but not like the newspaper writers got targeted versus the head editor? being like "no, let's not mess with this group/a higher up said we /can't/ write about them"
maybe it'll get a live action drama, they usually make posts like that
Dang, ten year time skip...I wonder how many ppl remember what they were doing ten years ago, i f they weren't too involved in tragedies, i can imagine some ppl hearing about the N cult or vaguely acquainted ppl with it but not getting involved unless "knowing about N" is a bad thing but not like the newspaper writers got targeted versus the head editor? being like "no, let's not mess with this group/a higher up said we /can't/ write about them"
maybe it'll get a live action drama, they usually make posts like that
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Okay. I actually re-read everything. But I'm not sure I understand everything.
So this is basically my guess but I think what we saw in previous chapters was what people 'assumed' happen and we'll later get chapters that will show what actually happened. But again, that's just my guess.
So far I understand the guy being interviewed here is the same kid from the very first chapter. Chapter A. He mentioned in his narration how he grew up and noticed how nothing had happened to him ever since his friends disappeared.
So the significant people we know are:
1. First Guy, who's friends disappeared, who grew up without anything happen to him, who is contacted again by the reporter in the first chapter
2. The little girl who lived with 'God' who then possibly did the elementary school massacre, possibly the girl with the goldfish aquarium, might have mentioned something about wanting to remember
3. The fat NEET guy, who visited the shrine, who later is apparently killed/suicide
4. The Dream Guy, who dreamed about hanging up people, whose mother eventually got killed in a 'traffic accident', who turned off the bathwater
5. The Mom, a surviving parent of one of the massacre victims, who turned out to be abusive, who later killed Dream Guy's mom with her car
6. The mystery family in the Black Minivan, who appeared in the first chapter and possibly in the hospital one
7. The Teacher, whose wife is also a teacher, whose encounter in the hospital made his child named Makoto
8. The girls who went karaoke and found the old video by Takkun
9. The Ostracized Kid, who might have grew up to be Yuki Fukushima, the religious scholar, colleague to the writer/reporter, and also might be the founder of N that is being prisoned
10. The student girl who liked streams, who saw the college student closing the gap, possibly the one who liked to wave to the Factory Worker
11. The college student who streamed and then getting trolled by N about the gap
12. The Factory Worker who started waving at the student after buying bread and coffee at the convenience store
13. The guy who FaceTimed with the aquarium girl
Did I miss anyone?
So this is basically my guess but I think what we saw in previous chapters was what people 'assumed' happen and we'll later get chapters that will show what actually happened. But again, that's just my guess.
So far I understand the guy being interviewed here is the same kid from the very first chapter. Chapter A. He mentioned in his narration how he grew up and noticed how nothing had happened to him ever since his friends disappeared.
So the significant people we know are:
1. First Guy, who's friends disappeared, who grew up without anything happen to him, who is contacted again by the reporter in the first chapter
2. The little girl who lived with 'God' who then possibly did the elementary school massacre, possibly the girl with the goldfish aquarium, might have mentioned something about wanting to remember
3. The fat NEET guy, who visited the shrine, who later is apparently killed/suicide
4. The Dream Guy, who dreamed about hanging up people, whose mother eventually got killed in a 'traffic accident', who turned off the bathwater
5. The Mom, a surviving parent of one of the massacre victims, who turned out to be abusive, who later killed Dream Guy's mom with her car
6. The mystery family in the Black Minivan, who appeared in the first chapter and possibly in the hospital one
7. The Teacher, whose wife is also a teacher, whose encounter in the hospital made his child named Makoto
8. The girls who went karaoke and found the old video by Takkun
9. The Ostracized Kid, who might have grew up to be Yuki Fukushima, the religious scholar, colleague to the writer/reporter, and also might be the founder of N that is being prisoned
10. The student girl who liked streams, who saw the college student closing the gap, possibly the one who liked to wave to the Factory Worker
11. The college student who streamed and then getting trolled by N about the gap
12. The Factory Worker who started waving at the student after buying bread and coffee at the convenience store
13. The guy who FaceTimed with the aquarium girl
Did I miss anyone?
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The real revelation this chapter, at least to me, is this line:
I also find it interesting that the little girl survived her classroom massacre. This means we might catch up with her soon, learn a bit more about who or what "God" really is. I think that early bit of worldbuilding is really the flaw in the Persian rug here, since the story has pivoted gradually away from a "true" ghost story into something more like urban mythmaking that explores the uncertainty in the space of the supernatural. "God" was an undeniably supernatural force, maybe introduced early on by an author who was not yet sure where the story would end up. How this contradiction is resolved will set the tone for the story's ending.
The idea that N wasn't on the chalkboard until Mr. Yuki Fukushima added it, creates some drama. After all, didn't we ourselves see it drawn on the chalkboard? So perhaps we are not seeing a faithful recounting of events from a gods-eye-view, but rather skewed in-universe reports made by in-universe reporters?
I also find it interesting that the little girl survived her classroom massacre. This means we might catch up with her soon, learn a bit more about who or what "God" really is. I think that early bit of worldbuilding is really the flaw in the Persian rug here, since the story has pivoted gradually away from a "true" ghost story into something more like urban mythmaking that explores the uncertainty in the space of the supernatural. "God" was an undeniably supernatural force, maybe introduced early on by an author who was not yet sure where the story would end up. How this contradiction is resolved will set the tone for the story's ending.
Thank God it's become easier to access. I don't have money and I live in a region where I could only find Naruto. I wanted physical copies but copies of this type of manga are almost nonexistent and they're very expensive, like bibliomania.
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yeah this kinda niche indie manga would prolly have to be ordered online, other than the 'top ten' that'd be sold i imagine horror wise there'd prolly be junji ito or maybe a 'combo' of genres that's like action with a splash of horror
I think the real revelation to me is the original guy saying N isn't real.
We are not necessarily seeing things completely from Fukushima's N propaganda but usually from first-person POVs being recalled from memory like how the first chapter was from the guy's POV while the parents' day was from the girl's POV. Memory is fallible and could have easily been influenced/rewritten by Fukushima's and mass media's proliferation of the existence of N.
After the 10-year time skip, the guy from the first story realized that the N thing wasn't actually true especially since nothing else has happened to him after that besides the abusive mom approaching him. I get the feeling that the chapter about the punks using the N name to do some banditry is cluing us into the fact that maybe a lot of the N shit in the news are just people either using it as an excuse, a cop out explanation for events (especially for the Japanese police which might use it to save face/not investigate for a motive further), or using the name for their own ends. And therefore, most if not all of the story might not be supernatural in nature at all.
Maybe God was just the girl's stepdad, an unsteady heavily-inked up Yakuza which inspired unease and just happened to snap and massacre the school at the wrong time? Maybe the girl who watched the streams just fell into an anxious depressive spiral without her favorite streamer to help her feel less alone while studying so hard? Maybe the creepy family is part of their own completely different isolated cult who just exacted vengeance on the punk kids from the first story, left the innocent kid alone, and built their own shrine as a warning? Maybe the Makoto baby thing was just a hallucination brought upon a lack of sleep and the stress of worrying about your beloved wife and child during childbirth?
And maybe all of these things were normal events whose memories were just corrupted by the memetic 'N' cult thanks to Fukushima spreading fake news and the media's penchant for sensationalized journalism?
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