Tomodachi Game - Vol. 24 Ch. 113 - Threads of Karma

[wodniobojca188]

Nah, I still hate her.

 

[wodniobojca188]

Been a while since I was this underwhelmed by something that pretends to be a dramatic reveal lmao
It's not even that it feels like an asspull, it just feels like "Yeah I mean... I kind of figured that was the case"

Yeah, I mean they kind of already revealed it in previous chapters... multiple times.

 

[wodniobojca188]

Nah, it crossed over the stupidity event horizon since quite a while now. At this point, I just skim through the chapters to find out how it ends.
Liar Game, another manga with a similar premise, also got pretty, well, tired by the end of its run, for a lack of a better word, though this seems far worse. Maybe it's a problem with the genre?

I'm the same. I read it very fast without paying attention to detail. I just want to get to the finish line since it's the last arc (?), and I followed the series for years.

This chapter was especially unreadable for me since it was mainly Kokorogi speaking, aka the edgiest psycho bitch who has zero redeeming features and is very underwhelming as an antagonist because how sus she was since the very first chapter of the manga. During reading first arc of the story I was like: " I hope she won't be revealed as traitor, since she is the most obvious pick".

 

[Eddard_Blackhart12]

Probably Shiho's dad

SO WHO'S THE BOSS

 

[Kuraiaku]

Nah, it crossed over the stupidity event horizon since quite a while now. At this point, I just skim through the chapters to find out how it ends.
Liar Game, another manga with a similar premise, also got pretty, well, tired by the end of its run, for a lack of a better word, though this seems far worse. Maybe it's a problem with the genre?

At least liar game ended shortly and not overcoming its stay though. Well this kind of genre needs a ton of thinking and planning so it's kind if understandable the author buckled under the pressure or time crunch.

 

[duaangka22]

Lol, Shiho really simps Yuichi, even Yuichi did so many terrible things, she is still supporting him xD. Anyways, it seems my ride ends here, gotta wait for next release for the continuation...

 

[Average_manga_enjoyer]

What the hell did this last game turn into? It had so much potential with some crazy twists and characters, but now, everything's just gone. With like, no explanation at all. Why even include this arc in the first place if everything was gonna end up like this?

I mean, it looks like the other participants of this 'final game' are simply paid actors or something whose whole purpose was to make these four friends talk and make some "big reveals" (though they where kind of obvious at this point). Some of these characters were so underdeveloped that it just made me lose interest pretty quickly. Maybe we'll get an explanation later, but I highly doubt that.

Also, I think it's no secret that the boss of the tomodachi game is Katagiri Yuka (Yuuichi's foster mother). It was implied multiple times that she's still alive. And from the looks of it, the whole purpose of this game is either her revenge or she wants to test Yuuichi. Because when he was younger, he would choose money over friends, and she always taught him that friends were more important. So now, she wants to know if he changed (or she wants to teach him a lesson); that's why she asked Kokorogi to lure him into the game. Makes sence. The message of this manga is to never doubt your friends and that friedship is key or something like that.

But if the only purpose of the whole tomodachi game was just to test Yuuichi, bruh, that's low key a little lame ngl.

 

[sutululu]

I support the girl's dad in beating that stupid whore wife.

 

[Lambdadeltum]

Looks like it is going to end sooner than I expected.

 

[Kageryushin]

I hope the pace picks up again soon. I can see the author enjoying to take their time uncovering what they built up towards (except there never was a whole lot of buildup, most of it just seems like recently made up asspulls to me; see Usogui or more famously Ansatsu Kyoushitsu for a master class in how to subtly spread clues for later twists) and I probably should care about these revelations but I really don't, at least not the way they are presented here.
Come on author, blow my mind. You managed to do so in the past, why would you come and present the big framework that lead to everything in the most boring way possible?

I think this was perfectly well foreshadowed. Excellently, in fact. It's clearly not an asspull and was planned from the beginning. It's the entire basis for this story, of course it was conceived of in advance. Like caitsith above, I figured that was the case since quite awhile ago. And I don't necessarily think that's disappointing, that I wasn't entirely caught off-guard by this. The fact that it was discernable makes it a well-structured and fair whodunit.

It's just, I don't really have much if any good will towards Yutori, her stupid mother, their pasts and circumstances, or their worthless harlot feelings. In fact, I want Yutori to suffer more for the transgression of being such an obnoxious roadblock, even though it's clear as day that, rather than a genuine obstacle, all she's ever acted as was an ignorant stepping stone.

The morality and ethics of the situation don't really play into it for me. Rationally speaking, Yutori is the more "human" of the two, given we've been getting less and less insight into Yuuichi's inner monologue as the series has gone on, and he's just been portrayed worse and worse. For all we know, this whole series isn't a coincidence at all, and Yuuichi wasn't just minding his own business before the story started, either, but intentionally brought together and befriended the children of his foster mother's friends because of some sort of overarching design (perhaps a series-spanning keikaku or some deranged way of inheriting his mother's bonds or both).

But of course, Taizen begged Yuuichi to forgive Yuka with his dying breath, it seems, so Yuuichi presumably had some justification. We just don't know how valid it's intended to be. However clever he might be, though, Yuuichi's actions can be attributed to the corruption of Taizen. The writer(s) can still go "oh, he was a horrible evil demon bastard child from the beginning, even Taizen was afraid" ala Johan Liebert and make it more ambiguous, but it'd be kind of lame, and the mangaka is usually better about writing his characters with humanity than that. By the same token, the parents themselves might be far more corrupt and sinful people than we've been shown, perhaps even bringing this outcome upon themselves in some way.

With all that in mind, I still find it a well-composed narrative even if I don't really feel bad for Yutori and in fact hope salt gets thrown in her wounds. They've laid the hatesink role on her pretty thick, so I don't think you're necessarily meant to feel more for her than an understanding of her motives and perhaps the scantest amount of pity. After all, even characters who got crushed like bugs like that shriveled old perv Kamishiro or that dumb deluded lunatic Kyouguchi had some humanizing elements to their backstories.

I do think I'll be a little disappointed if Yutori gets off relatively decently while Yuuichi ends up sacrificing himself or his happiness by the end of the series, though, since that's how stories like this are usually structured.

 

[creepypasta786]

hell naw what in the bullshittery is this?? so many asspulls in a single chapter.

 

[makkii-sen]

All the adults just decided they'd give 1mil yen a month just to proof that they're a loyal friend to yuuichi's mom? Was there really no other way to go about it.

 

[distress]

Oh was yutori the girl in shinjis case then?