Shuumatsu, Kimi to - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[MangaDex]

 

[dollanon]

cant wait for the next chapter 😭😭💔 this is so good so far ahhh

 

[EchoGirl]

oof i'm surprised they're able to function in a 'normal' job but other than a full government lockdown/camps and such /shelters, i'd also expect everyone to suddenly wear full body armor/bite proof stuff or so , if not those 'power ranger' like suits/mascot stuff and such, it would be inconvenient but a trend in that kinda fashion i can imagine happening in a post zombie world

Guess he's gonna 'turn' at some point and other boy is gonna let himself be bitten

 

[mangacrabapples]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY POOOR BOYY

 

[kamishiro]

poor them (

but ... i mean there were always this risk when he was still going to work ... :T
That part never made sense to me , author was really pushing it with ~ i want normalcy so i'm still going to work even though it's so risky ~
We all knew it was planned for Tomoya to get bitten (
still sucks though

 

[TrappedInAnOilPainting]

speaking as an american, reading shuumatsu kimi to hits especially hard because it feels more realistic to me. post-2020 zombie media is different in a radical way because now we know how resistant people are to any threat of normalcy, how willingly people will risk themselves and others for the sake of the status quo. Of course the severity of this depends on the culture, but even in community-over-individual culture like japan there were people refusing to abide basic safety measures during the height of covid. and it was ESPECIALLY bad in the united states.

in early 2021 two elderly aunts of mine (in great health for their age, very sharp, living on their own with no issues) went on a road trip early 2021, caught covid, and died in the hospital days later. in 2022 my grandma caught covid in her retirement home (where no one, not even the staff, were masking in that facility whenever i visited, despite having signs up telling everyone to mask for the safety of the residents) and she rapidly declined mentally and physically, she went from being so healthy we thought she had years left to her dying in her sleep 3 months later. we had to beg her to wear masks and get vaccinated because she didnt trust doctors.

i was an essential employee and worked with the general public the entirety of the lockdown period, and onwards to today. i've been saying since 2020 that if a zombie apocalypse ever happens, even if it's a slow developing one, especially if it's a slow developing one, the usa is very likely fucked. how things are progressing in shuumatsu kimi to seems to be VERY heavily inspired by how many parts of the world handled the covid pandemic and it rings so fucking true to me, it's terrifying and one of the reasons i really like this manga. Okay damn sorry for the essay i was just talking about this on bluesky last night, i have THOUGHTS on this bro

dont get me wrong though i was still hoping for some kind of a happy ending but maybe they'll get to be zombies together 😭

 

[MJJean]

Yeah a lot of the zombie outbreak to me feels inspired by the Coronavirus pandemic. Especially with how life seemed to grind on while it feels like the world was crumbling. Chiharu worrying about the cost of treatment, Shuuhei's pupil having to reorganize his life, Tomoya mentioning that even if they quit work living totally isolated is impossible. There's a sort of defeatist attitude to a crumbling world that feels way too... Familiar. And it's unpacking a lot of how that felt. Even if the zombie virus is not directly meant to be parallel to the pandemic, it's impossible for anyone who lived through it to not put a lot of their experiences into a perspective on any sort of story like this.

In the C5 author's note Ruu1mm's explanation for the story is "This is my one chance to write this." Though an equally valid translation is "I could only write this at this moment." In 2023 looking back.