Sankarea - Vol. 11 Ch. 56.5 - Extra: Sankarea If

[MangaDex]

 

[Kegaten]

So what?
Did Chihiro married with Mero or something?

 

[sketches]

@Kegaten I read this a while back and had to read a few chapters and synopsis to get a refresher. This extra chapter is not considered canon by the author. There's a lot of ways this chapter can be unpacked. Since she is living by herself, she probably doesn't have any offspring or husband at this time. I'm assuming that Chihiro is dead at this point of time, and being a partial zombie, he should have lived for quite some time. So these children are many years down the line. Due to the boy's interest for zombies, he is probably the great-great grandchild of Chihiro while their appearance resembles Ranko. So that's just confusing. If the effects of time was quicker than expected, than the grandmother would have been Ranko and the grandfather would have been Chihiro (hence why she said to say hi to their grandmother for her). But there are holes in this thought process and considering this isn't canon, we can just enjoy this chapter and not think too hard about it.

Let's look back instead at the last chapter of the series, where Chihiro and Rea meet. Because Chihiro is becoming like that of a zombie and Rea is a zombie and they are obviously crazy about each other, we can assume they end up living together for the remainder of their lives, especially with the end line of the manga of something like "together until we rot away". If I link this to this chapter in question, I would think that the boy's great grandparents, one being Ranko and the other someone we don't know, knew of Rea and Chihiro living together and visited them often enough. Chihiro's love for zombies and Rea being a zombie would have rubbed some interest off on one or both of the people. Chihiro eventually passes away and Rea decides to live in seclusion, most likely due to grief, like she was doing before. So the future generations don't get to know about Chihiro and Rea with Rea becoming a myth/legend/folklore, but the love of zombies still gets passed down Ranko's descendants. At least that's how I see it.

 

[Kegaten]

The problem is, I don't think Ranko is in the picture at all. As I recall, Ranko gave up on Chihiro (being her lover, even though she will still love him) and those kids greatly resembles Mero and Chihiro.

This greatly confuses me but it's possible since Chihiro and Mero are siblings that their descendants could resemble each other.

 

[Tcof]

The kid is Mero's grand kid that why it look like she and her brother. Also because it draw by the same author.
I think Chihiro must be still alive. He must live even longer normal people and Rea know these kid grandma. Remember the grandpa live so damn long and don't even dead because of old age. And she just mention the grandma but not Chihiro ? She and he still live together. He just not show up in this scene

 

[CyBerK]

“Was it better for her to die, or was it better for her to live on for eternity?” Back in 10th grade this gave me an existential crisis, crying myself to sleep for a whole month.

 

[Siquall]

Note : this chapter has absolutely no relation with the main story.
The author said this chapter is a parallel world (if), he just wrote this as a bonus.

Source : Me, i have the french books.

 

[Starbright]

Yeah this extra seems pointless nothing useful can really be pulled from this only thing useful is sankarea is still alive and slowly becoming one with the earth

 

[Foreus]

stupid and boring

 

[Admmi]

Really author if you are going to make an extra at least make it Canon