Qualia the Purple - Vol. 3 Ch. 18

[MangaDex]

 

[exxp]

To the dear friend of me, who sees human as robots, Gaku-chan.

...
What do I make out of this?

 

[G-P]

@exxp
Not sure. I've been rereading this with two bottles of dry red in one sitting a few days after I mentioned it of fufufu and the way I see it it's because of the way Gaku-chan has been handling and using other humans as tools to achieve her goal of saving Yukari. Kinda sad if you think about it. For Yukari every existence is precious, even if she sees no difference between humans and robots. She treats them all kindly and with care. Look at her bike in the early chapters. She replaced and renewed parts of the bike as she grew up. Nobody does that. Gaku used every possible ressource and human, even versions of herself as mere instruments. Man, she killed one herself with a point blank shot to the head in her introspections because she was too pessimistic and rambling about fate.

 

[Oeconomist]

There's a coherence problem in the conclusion.

Spoiler

If Yukari could see Gaku in the hospital room after recovery, then Yukari should have seen Gaku — who was everywhere and certainly with Yukari — all during her earlier life in that time-line.

None-the-less, and despite every other argument that I would have with the science and philosophy of this story, I really appreciated the work. I hope to get a licensed hard-copy someday.

 

[Oeconomist]

@exxp—

I read the portion between commas as parenthetical, so that Yukari is applying it to herself. If read as ambiguous, then it would suggest that Yukari regarded Gaku as still a person dehumanizing others, but Gaku had got past that.

 

[Sarsak]

Did Yukari travel back with Gaku and both know and accept her fate? The letter seems to be hinting at that, but I'm not too sure.

The last page has me hopeful that she did end up changing her destiny somehow but..

 

[Xaelath]

So in the end..
She accept herself that she'll die murdered regardless?
I mean look at the letters.
She said something about not meeting each again and Gaku must not discouraged by it.
The letters also held by Tenjou because if it was given to Gaku she would redo the thing again trying to save her.

Why...
Why cant we have an happy ending?

 

[Pachka84]

I will remember one thing from this manga: And I have actually always known this thing, because I have observed the world in which I was the person who created the person who wrote this manga before killing himself and where I became a universal entitiy that wrote the law about how artsy stories that take themselves waaaaaay too seriously always prove to be subpar writing that in the end serves no other purpose than to depict girls with light hair as special and all-knowing and girls with dark hair as victims of reality.
That is why I have made the person who wrote this story kill themselves in all worlds.
Because in the end, when a person tells you they see everyone as robots and they also repair severely wounded people as if they were robots they pretty much ARE fucking robots and there is no "she sees them as robots" about it.
It would be nice if artsy manga that take themselves waaaay too seriously and really should have had publishers who had the wisdom to publish them as light novels instead of manga could stick to the basic premise of the story instead of abusing philosophy to create all kinds of arbitrary reasoning.
And now I'll go read a story that actually deserves a rating of 9.

 

[Sarsak]

@Xaelath
I think she's saying: in case I do end up dying, this letter is for you.
And she says she's giving the letter to Tenjou to give to Gaku if and when she dies.
Seeing as how this letter isn't illustrated or anything, I think it's safe to say that Yukari hasn't died yet.

And I think the last page might hint at a happy ending, with grown up Yukari and Gaku

 

[MapleTreeWithAGun]

Well that was a ride and a half.

 

[marcyvq]

;__;

 

[Rukja]

to the end i wished we could at least one time see how she sees the world.

but since we as the reader follow gaku, we also only follow her point of few
and since she cant imagen how yukari sees the world, so we also cant

 

[tantei_metal]

Found this manga by looking for some good yuri to heal the soul. Started off okay, and I considered dropping it just to read it later. Then it got weird. Then it got weird again. Then it got weird again again. And this processed continued until I just read it all in one go. I enjoyed it alot, especially when Manabu started to just go crazier and crazier as she went deeper, really gave me a steins gate vibe.

 

[tattr]

Shout out to @Pachka84 who complained that this manga wasn't worth their time around 17 chapters ago but read it till the end complaining all the way through. What a champ.

 

[DragonTiger]

Eh

 

[PixelKind]

If I had a nickel for every time I got catfished by a series and then given a surprise lesson on quantum physics in that series... I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its wierd that it happened twice.

 

[Need2Bookmark]

@PixelKind

Nice reference. That being said, may I know the name of the other one?

 

[Need2Bookmark]

@tattr

@Pachka84 's commitment is almost commendable. Almost. I think it would have been healthier to just drop it and go read something they actually enjoy

 

[TsumomoiHedeka]

Some of the lines in that latter confused me harder than the rest of the story
either way that was an ok read
Maybe if the trip was told through conversations in between all the alter egos instead of monologue boxes It wouldn't feel as odd
Still a pretty interesting concept, the though it being able to live and experience a billion lives and still be unable to alter fate is kinda soul crushing if you can't be humble about it

 

[kamentierr]

Since we as the reader sees everything from Gaku's POV, the way i see it the letter implies that Yukari's dead (yet again) and Gaku's currently reading the letter.

I also think that the whole chapter is about Gaku finally accepted whatever might have happened in the future. Instead of desperately trying to save Yukari, she tries to get along with everyone and enjoy what little time they got left together.

It's pretty sad... Especially with the letter basically Yukari encouraging Gaku to move on despite of her death.