Tonari no Jii-san - Ch. 30

[MangaDex]

 

[Tsul4413]

Wow, girl really drank the kool-aid. Not destroying happiness is one thing, the thing literally a parasite that eaten by monster is another thing.

 

[zeeb24]

huh, not sure how to feel about this. I don't really understand how she suddenly changed her mind and thinks living a happy lie (where random people get killed and eaten every so often) is better. Is it just because that shitty teacher who is obviously just a massive coward told her to not make a mess for everyone else?
It just seems really contradictory to how her character was established until now.
This better not turn into one of those typical japanese "conform and don't make things difficult" kind of morals, because I fucking hate those with a passion.

 

[stilgar]

Oh, she's an idiot

 

[Guyincognitus]

God this is fucking annoying. Besides the fact people, including her sister, are being murdered, on a meta level turning the protagonist into passive do nothing just grinds progressing the story to a fucking halt. And for what? So she can do a turn around later and be right back where she started? Actually, why is she the main character to begin with. She hasn't accomplished anything herself and now she's pulling this garbage. Fucking hell.

 

[Babymech2]

I wonder if it will end up with everybody in Japan being turned into parasites for the new 'Tunnel Man' and the main character deciding that this is better than them giving up on their dreams...

I guess I called it for now, but I'm sure something will happen to snap her out of it

 

[Lunkli]

He actually has a point about the possibility of her being affected by the parasite somehow.

But also, in the first place has the way she looked at this really changed at all? From the beginning, has she ever actually cared about the people that were dying? Because thinking back, I can only remember her being against all of this because she thought that something was wrong. She's never had any grand ideas about saving people's lives like Mr. Baseball has. This whole time, she's just been afraid of the monster.

And looking at her behavior throughout the story, does she ever really mention her sister who died at the beginning? Honestly, I had almost forgotten she had one, myself. She's never really cared about the people dying to this thing, but merely the fact that it existed at all. So once someone justified the "monster's" existence and she accepted that, there wasn't really anything left for her to care about. Because she's never really cared about the people who died, has she? She talks about her sister so rarely that you could almost forget she ever had one, even.

That's how I'm reading this right now, at least.

 

[T-sama]

She's in full denial, I feel it makes sense, this is basically a fight, flight and freeze situation, think about it, she's literally just a dumb teenager dealing with an absurd situation, without no fucking clue of why and how everything is happening

I assume the dude went through similar situation before he decided to fight against it, though probably not as bad

It's possible she's also unsure of her own sanity, after all put yourself in her position, she's basically in the real world and then some absurd seemingly impossible thing happens, nobody else sees it nor would believe her, what is more likely, that the monster is real or that both of them are just going crazy?

I imagine next chapter or so will explain why she gave up, I don't think she's being affected by a parasite but it did just change hosts, it could have muted or something

 

[starfish]

woman moment

 

[solamente]

Ok so this would be a really innovative ending (if it is one). She uncovers the conspiracy, teams up with a buddy, pushes the envelope a couple times, then decides the conspiracy isn't worth doing anything about - and not because of futility/resignation!

Instead she's doing what most of us would probably do: cope and seek social stability. It's not that she can't do anything, it's just that the right thing to do happens to be nothing.

 

[EchoGirl]

shame they can't recruit the equivalent of 4chan/8chan or whatever to help but i'd half expect the parasite to get into bigger cities to the point where more 'important' ppl are affected

 

[danbellucci]

Why didn't that guy say " Your sister literally got eaten by a giant fat monster and you're saying it's ok? Is that how little you love your sister?"
He should have SLAPPED some sense into her.

 

[MsW0lf]

Hmmm. Obviously that conversation on the beach was perceived differently by us than it was by her. We saw it as her finding the strength to confront the conspiracy. She saw it as finding the strength to ignore it.

So we have some options as to how this develops. If what Kurumi said is true then perhaps the parasitism has jumped out from the town and so the scientist no longer needs to stay in it to get her er… “supplies”. If that is the case the company is barking up the wrong tree searching the town and the world could very well be doomed. Dark ending.

If the scientist still needs to hoe down on some parasitic pastry people in the town there is still that plot point that needs to be followed and the series won’t end until it’s resolved Mikura could still resign herself to this fate, the company fruitlessly search the town in vain. Kurumi gets caught doing an terrorism after being driven to desperate measures. But life in the town continues. Ambiguous ending.

Or: Mikura is gonna see something so truly horrible and heart breaking that it drives her out of her stupor. Like her friend who gave her the strength to continue being parisitised and chowed down by the scientist, or worse. Tonarii no-Jiisan 3: Now It’s Personal!

 

[NickieTheFool]

 

[Tsul4413]

She's in full denial, I feel it makes sense, this is basically a fight, flight and freeze situation, think about it, she's literally just a dumb teenager dealing with an absurd situation, without no fucking clue of why and how everything is happening

I assume the dude went through similar situation before he decided to fight against it, though probably not as bad

It's possible she's also unsure of her own sanity, after all put yourself in her position, she's basically in the real world and then some absurd seemingly impossible thing happens, nobody else sees it nor would believe her, what is more likely, that the monster is real or that both of them are just going crazy?

I imagine next chapter or so will explain why she gave up, I don't think she's being affected by a parasite but it did just change hosts, it could have muted or something

I mean, she literally meet scientists that surveying about this no? Clearly it's real.

 

[Kushikime]

Ummm what?

 

[zeroto7dan]

I think she is just emotionally drain, with no result in her attempts and no one to relied on because the dude is gone she became exhausted, her friend suggest an easy path and she took it. its easier to close your eyes and ears to a problem beyond your reach.

 

[3141592653589]

I get this twist with Mikura: she was already pretty much at the end of her rope after Kurumi disappeared, and then her friend got parasitized, she discovered a teacher that could also see the truth only to get shut down hard, encountered the priest at the shrine who seemed to know more than he let on who also shot her down, and then she confided in her friend who resembles but is legally distinct from Kanata who got her hopes up only to immediately descend into sophist bullshit. It's been a pretty brutal few chapters for the poor girl, mentally speaking, and she essentially had three people in a row independently tell her that everything's fine and she should just ignore it.

Now we've got this development, where she's initially happy to see Kurumi again, except he immediately hits her with "I'm back from the big city (where you've never even been) and I'm here to tell you that the problem is bigger than we ever thought possible and the entire world is in danger."

Is it any surprise that she ended up completely stunlocked?

 

[EchoGirl]

Oh, she's an idiot

I wouldn't necessarily be like "This is better if everyone's happy" (Even tho they're being sacrified as opposed to just living under an illusion) but realistically i don't think two teens can do anything even if this is a manga, since horror ones don't always have a happy ending versus some strong 'protag power'/her secretly awakening to some supernatural power to 'fight back' versus influential enough to let ppl know the truth

Tho there was one panel in a chapter where they supposedly talked to some mangaka? over the phone who also 'left', idk who it was or if they just 'faked it' for appearances but only her and maybe a small handful of ppl we don't know about other than the baseball guy idk why there'd be a need to pretend/keep up the pretense for it (if not some kinda 'plant'/system to where there'd be ppl giving like letters or 'messages' to keep in touch if someone had a family before leaving versus an adult living alone)

 

[T-sama]

I mean, she literally meet scientists that surveying about this no? Clearly it's real.

Or she's hallucinating, some mental illness can make you imagine people too, hell I'm pretty sure there's a famous mathematician who's schizophrenic or something and he hallucinated multiple people, there's even a movie about him

Of course it's harder to go that direction cause she met more people like her, she knows it's real but she's entirely in denial about the situation so instead of telling herself it's not real she went for the next best option, everything is fine and everyone is happy with it

Denial is one hell of a drug, it can make people rationalize the most absurd stuff, unfortunately / fortunately for her I feel things will go downhill and force her to face reality