Ta ga Fumi ka - Vol. 3 Ch. 20

[Reikou]

Mangadex needs to implement author blocking asap.

 

[Otkbestgirl]

Hamita/10

Shit was ass i'm glad i read it

 

[Notme321]

From chapter one I knew something bad was gonna happen, but I'd be lying if i said that didnt catch me off guard

 

[Midnight_Nyx_777]

I just read this all in one sitting. Can someone just tell me what happened because I'm lost.

 

[Speedtail]

It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when. And he just Hamita'd all over us.

 

[Ally04]

Again, I feel blueballed by reading Hamita's work again

I seems like most of his works starts excelent, but the author dont know how to convey the ending and it finishes with a dread, dark sensation.

10/10 I am already expecting the next manga!

 

[Ally04]

Also, it seems like the mc wanted to kill himself since the start, but only after Yukari invited him to meet with her i.e. dying

 

[Ally04]

Also, thanks for the translation!

 

[DudeWhoReadsManga]

I swear to God someone should convince Hamita to watch the upcoming Superman movie because his writing is so fucking pretentious and edgy. You have a good premise and an engaging start, but you decide to shit on it halfway til the end? Who keeps this author cooking?

 

[LudvigV]

This ending didn’t make me feel anything.

 

[WilfredJ]

Absolute dogshit ending that resolves none of the characters or plot lines. the completely unforeseeable melodramatic twists were interesting I’ll admit. And the art is like tatsuki fujimoto

 

[Zhou]

Even for Hamita this is pretty fucked up. Where did the wholesome Hamita of the early days go to?

 

[horsewithnoname]

What a miserable collection of tragic fates. I am grateful the last upload is a sprint to the end, and that it ended early as it did. Wouldn't stick around longer otherwise. 20 chapters is the perfect length for this.

I get how people say "this isn't even that deep" but I think it doesn't have to, and others say "nothing is resolved" but then again it doesn't have to. Sometimes life is a meaningless four way head on collision and some walked away from it, and some don't. Some bystanders will stare in awe while some others will stare in disgust.

If a manga can be fluffily wholesome to the unrealistic extreme then this manga is its antithesis, and why not.

Thank you to Cu-Sith for translating to the end.

 

[noirstag]

...Hm. Right.

Anyway, thanks for the speedy and well done translations Cu-sith you are appreciated.

 

[Descendent]

Classic Hamita. But this one actually felt like a proper tragedy, rather than just a death coming out of nowhere as in other series he's known for.

Also liked Wakui's poetic-feeling monologues and writing/letters.

 

[Descendent]

I just read this all in one sitting. Can someone just tell me what happened because I'm lost.

• Wakui had been suffering from depression ever since fifth grade, after his parents died in a traffic accident (which he survived)
• Since middle school, relied on escaping into his self-written novels, wherein the protagonist's unhappiness had meaning by making the people around the protagonist happy
• In his second year of college, started writing letters to himself as "Yukari", without conscious awareness/memory of doing so, and replying to them
• Met three girls who were romantically interested in him, and started suspecting one of them was Yukari
• Two of the girls turned out to have their own mental health issues
• After Wakui (and bookworm girl) realized that Yukari wasn't real, he feels he "killed" Yukari, and shut himself in his apartment
• Bookworm girl starts pretending to be Yukari and writes letters to Wakui, hoping it'll help him
• After a month of letters, bookworm girl asks in a letter to meet (still pretending to be Yukari)
• Wakui realizes that the letters from "Yukari" in the past month were fake, because Yukari would never ask to meet (which bookworm girl also realizes too late)
• Wakui commits suicide, and finally feels "happy" in his last moments

It's basically a tragic story about depression and untreated mental health issues arising from trauma (Wakui and the two mentally-ill girls).

 

[PseudoAngel]

Yey,,, it's ended in agony pachi pachi pachi

You called it correctly on day 1

 

[Probably123]

Hamita just loves to max out the bad ending route

 

[justformangatoo]

Other than Psycho Senpai — your typical pregnant teen mom stereotype — there’s not much going on with her character. I doubt she’s going to change at all. I mean, she’s literally smiling while being hugged by the other male club members at the end, like nothing ever happened. It’s unsettling, really.

The ending was way too abrupt, even for Hamita. Just a suicide from Mc and that’s it. Though, let’s be real, none of their manga have ever had solid endings (at least the ones I’ve read). Still, this one felt especially hollow.

I really think Hiragishi and Amano deserved proper epilogues. Hiragishi’s story, especially, had the potential to go somewhere dark. She’s clearly still being used by her father — even though she’s mentally gone, she’s physically going through the motions, still covering up her scars. It’s like she’s stuck in this hell with no way out. I can’t stop wondering: what now? Does she find another "prey"? Someone to replace the father figure who broke her? Is that all she knows how to do now — obsess over someone, lose herself again?

Amano's path could’ve gone two ways. Maybe this trauma pushes her into becoming a well-known writer, turning her darkness into something people connect with. Or maybe it breaks her completely — the guilt of knowing her words played a role in someone’s death could crush her. She might stop reading, stop writing, stop everything. Just fall into a quiet kind of despair. Maybe now she finally understands why her mother always killed off the characters she loved.

And the Uncle… he seemed like the only grounded adult, but now? His nephew is dead. That doesn’t just go away. How do you even live with that? Does society look at him and see someone who failed? Will his bookstore survive, or will it be a constant reminder of what he’s lost? Of what he couldn’t prevent?

This manga had something. It really did. But it chose to look away at the end — like the characters were just left to rot quietly in their own tragedies, while the story tiptoed out the back door.

 

[justformangatoo]

Tldr of my previous comment;
Hamita just decide to Hamita all over the stories, got a good premise but lose it all at the middle.
Absolutely Hamita out of Hamita.
I give this manga a rating of Hamita/10.
At least their alien story got a bit of epilogue of the cycle repeating.