Shadows House (Official Colored) - Ch. 226 - How We Feel About the Grandfather

[MangaDex]

 

[UncleKaos]

AAND Edward is back to be the asshole again. alright then.. let's see how this goes.

 

[KZO]

Edward might be an asshole, but he's so funny, let's hope he doesn't die and his group can settle on this village when everything is over.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[swimminginsand]

Is Falling in love with a shadow of yourself narcissism?

 

[Soneca]

Things are taking an interesting turn, I wonder if this is happening simultaneously with the riot at the mansion or a bit earlier.

Thank you very much for the scanlation.

 

[Claresilver47]

Is Falling in love with a shadow of yourself narcissism?

Considering Maryrose has memories of being a morph and how Rosemary is the ara ara~ older sister type... I think it's more like Rosemary considers Maryrose to be her adopted daughter

 

[DikaJuansan]

Is Falling in love with a shadow of yourself narcissism?

Selfcest?

 

[Mitsu13]

Every time I see Edward, it's always so funny because why is he the only one who became a lot older? Make other shadows become older too, please 😂

 

[dsfargeg]

Weirdly toothless for her to not be dead. Kind of undermines the stakes, doesn't it?

 

[SatchelBagman]

Weirdly toothless for her to not be dead. Kind of undermines the stakes, doesn't it?

There is a fairly narrow range of good anticlimax to be found in waiting this long to confirm a death from the sort of never-found-the-body arc resolution that set up her return. The implicit promise of not conclusively saying the character is finished is that there's more you plan to do with them later, and we've established the island is fairly closed-off.

 

[Doomroar]

Aight doomed yuri second round!

 

[KappaDvorak]

Weirdly toothless for her to not be dead. Kind of undermines the stakes, doesn't it?

For a manga that show dead bodies, no bodies or corpses mean a chance of still living

 

[AAA1]

Weirdly toothless for her to not be dead. Kind of undermines the stakes, doesn't it?

eh?? not really... killing people pointlessly usually an easier thing to do in writing because so many writer didn't really plan ahead. if the plot didn't fixed well enough in the future, writer usually introduce new character barely introduced but suddenly they are that important. it would feel very underwhelming than feeling excited because of the high stakes.

rosemary is that important of character. if you want a character to be killed, kill someone else. like the last newbie group's member maybe..

 

[Mada1011]

Ed being likable?! No way

 

[fennec]

So that confirms my thoughts last chapter that they're stuck on the island. But the fact their lives might be tied to Great Grandfather raises some concerns about the Shadows we care about if he dies.

Also this makes me wonder about Rosemary's life before the Manor. The fact she's so devoted to Maryrose and has no interest in returning to her old life... Very interesting.

 

[Yurisivel]

Maryrose being unable to leave the island gives us hints of maybe why the unification ritual is necessary.

 

[rotateurowl]

I am hoping for Edward and his crew to have a full redemption arc, even if he's still an ass.

I never doubted that she survived, and I do remember that the anime made it pretty obvious that Maryrose survived, I just assumed she peaced out from the island.

 

[Dudewheresmymecha1]

I never doubted that she survived, and I do remember that the anime made it pretty obvious that Maryrose survived, I just assumed she peaced out from the island.

Same here, I saw the anime first and maybe that makes a difference, but it seemed pretty obvious to me after a couple viewings that she probably survived, and that the real surprise would be how and when she came back and what she was doing in the mean time, not "if" she came back.

And if I had any doubts from that, then the manga cleared them up - the manga highlighted a couple of hints that Kate had set up a way out, which the anime didn't. And, I'm pretty sure that Anthony at one point more or less told Kate that he knew she'd helped Maryrose and Rosemary escape, complete with a diagram of how it worked - I can't hunt for it now to find the exact chapter, but the buildup to his was a long time coming, and telegraphed pretty clearly.

And I gotta admit, I didn't expect her back so soon, good to see her again.

The two comebacks I did NOT see coming were poor Rum and Shirley (it was a very pleasant surprise to see them back again!), and... well, no sense in spoiling the other one, I'll just say that I forgot all about two characters that were there almost from the very start, and about what happened to them through all the twists and turns and skullduggery the story has gone through, and that those two characters return not too long after this chapter.

I am hoping for Edward and his crew to have a full redemption arc, even if he's still an ass.

Same here, though Edward grew on me before I finished the first season of the anime... he seemed weirdly likeable, for an obvious anime villain, I sort of found myself cheering him on through the Manga to this day, even knowing that every scheme he comes up with is bound to fail, and every time, he gets that sort of deflated, defeated, back-to-the-drawing-board sort of thing going on, but never really gives up - he's sort of like a Wile E. Coyote to Kate's Roadrunner, no?

It's hard not to admire his ingenuity and persistence, in spite of over-complicating every plan, almost as if he's deliberately setting himself up for failure. And of everyone we've been introduced to in the story, Edward seems to be the one character to have gotten the most important thing right: NOBODY should be trusted in the Shadows House.

I like his two sidekicks too - I'm not sure if they'll go through a redemption arc or not - Eileen sometimes seemed a bit ambivalent about her relative freedom from the house, but I don't think I've ever seen either her or Gerald give any real hint of villainy otherwise, so a "redemption" arc would be almost too easy there. Honestly, Edward, Eileen, and Gerald actually seemed to mellow out quite a bit once they got away from Shadows house, and by the time we actually see them again in the village, they almost come across like they could have been the heroes of their own story, if things had only gone a little differently, or given more time away from the scheming and backstabbing in the house.

But, we really haven't seen anything about Edward's backstory before the Shadows House yet, he seems to show a few hints of hiding a tragic side every time he has some quiet time with his only friends, and something tells me he's another one of the many characters in this story that ends up being more complicated than they seemed to be when we first meet them.

After all, that seems to be the running theme for this series: you can't really trust who anyone seems to be when they are first introduced, I think just about ALL the characters in the story, even the background characters, reveal hidden depths later on, and few of the antagonists have turned out to genuinely be the villains we were set up to expect them to be! (Thinking back on it, the only unambiguously villainous characters we've met so far seem to be the Grandfather, Sophie, Ryan, Anthony, and - of all characters - little Maggie, the wall-flower, in one of the most shocking plot twists of the whole story!)


Anyway, that's my take: Rosemary and Maryrose always seemed destined to come back for the grande finale - it was practically written into her whole characterization and dialogue! - and Edward never seemed quite comfortable with being a villain, while his only friends (or "henchmen") actually seemed at worst to be harmless, in the greater scheme of the house....