Sugar Girl - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[icehazard23]

what

 

[EnFiveFour]

Wow. I didn't expect this. I love Yamashita-sensei's work.
Thank you for the translation!

 

[Hicleric]

(I have no words or thoughts regarding what I just read)

 

[EchoGirl]

Thanks, kept reading 'senpu' as senpai lol

surprised to see the sci-fi tag but with the 'cuts' imagined on his face i would've expected a psych one

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or maybe a tragedy tag? Did he die at the end?

 

[ThisWaSMyName]

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or maybe a tragedy tag? Did he die at the end?

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I'd assume so, he didn't come to work the next day and nobody picked up the phone at his place

 

[temaccgdx]

Nice to see more Tomoko Yamashita's stuff (I wonder if someday we'll also see her older works or the extra volume for Sankaku Mado, wink wink)

So I guess that girl was quite a dominating type and the guy was a sub huh (and victim of domestic violence?). Some philosophizing about relationships and then she "ate" him

 

[colorlesseatstomboys]

I excepted romance. Add the gore tag ffs.

 

[jrocker]

So she is an alien who eats people so she can remember liking them. She was in love with 2 people, the girl and the boy. The girl shut her down and felt threatened while the boy was too nice as prey and got devoured. Did I get that right?

 

[Papyrus1910]

I love it when antagonists spout philosophical bullshit to justify the atrocities they're about to commit. I love pseudointellectuals so much, you have no idea.

 

[bakasennin]

Leave it to Queen Yamashita to give us those WTF-ness ❤️ Toxic people are gonna toxic.

 

[useless]

Thanks for this~~~

 

[FiddlePop]

I'm too dumb for this, someone sprinkle some magical explanation dust

 

[feha]

Whoever published this messed up bigtime in the chronological order of the panels.

 

[temaccgdx]

Whoever published this messed up bigtime in the chronological order of the panels.

Or just decided to do some non-linear storytelling, why not?

 

[feha]

Or just decided to do some non-linear storytelling, why not?

non-linear would still be chronological/causal (just that time speeds up and/or own throughout the story), be that if it were polynomic, exponential, sinusoidal, or otherwise.
To jump back and forth in time (non-chronological/non-causal) you would need the storytelling to be - while still using your preferred geometry-terminology - uuuh... multi-valued (no, that would be more about the functions that describe the shape)? discontinuous (no, from their own perceived time they are continuous...)? Concave (in terms of concave polygons)? That seems most apt, let's go with concave!

As for why not, the most general answer would be that non-chronological storytelling is near-universally bad (the exceptions being: if it is still chronological to the character you follow (and thus also to the reader), but not to others, because doctor who is a time-traveler. or if the story is multiple mostly isolated stories so jumping around does not harm the flow too much, because doctor who/stargate is episodic and going non chronologically could even be fun for teasing future episodes).