The Climber - Vol. 8 Ch. 76 - Memento Mori

[MangaDex]

 

[APlusPeace]

Ok i can see a skull on the last page but why its there?

 

[Notal]

@APlusPeace It's probably a reference to a painting "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein. The same skull can be seen from a certain perspective there. The chapter's title also seems to suggest that.

Here it is.

Spoiler

 

[APlusPeace]

I knew about this painting. But still dont get the reason behind the reference. Does that mean something, like close death and etc? Maybe author just saying that skull is cool, isn't it? But thanks for helping)

 

[zerimaR]

@APlusPeace well with Niimi having died and this being a recollection of the events that occurred, I think it is meant to be seen as a death flag.

 

[kaitoti]

oh I see events jumped then retold backwards

 

[Nasdaq]

he deserved to die lol

 

[utekimemory]

I didn’t expect Holbein’s skull to appear in any Manga, ever.
This Manga is such masterpiece.

 

[DrLigma]

Memento mori: "Monks and Bible scholars popularized the phrase under the belief that being conscious of your own impending doom would make you behave like a better person." "Hans Holbein painted death as it appeared in life: obscured yet omnipresent. Just as death can ambush us on the moments we least expect it, Only once we become informed of its presence do we begin to adjust our vision and reevaluate what we had previously seen"

 

[tantei_metal]

the death bed apology, doesn't really make up for him being a jerk, but at least he got to say sorry i guess

 

[Grimmycoffee]

Haha, it probably looks cool back then but for me now, it just looks like someone stretch a skull image in a powerpoint.

 

[its_scamer_]

Great Chapter

 

[88man]

Haha, it probably looks cool back then but for me now, it just looks like someone stretch a skull image in a powerpoint.

lmao, that's the point.