Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru. - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[SilverSun]

It should've.. ended here.. Why is there more.. what could possiblely...

 

[Randomizer]

It hurts so much.

 

[Raydnt]

MUH HEART

 

[Darklight99]

@truepurple Yes? It's not like she lost her new memories.

 

[truepurple]

@Darklight99 But I'm not sure a person is just their memories.

 

[Darklight99]

@truepurple explain further

 

[truepurple]

@Darklight99 If I were to get your memories, would I be you? No. There is a process of metabolizing memories and combining them in unique structures that help makes us who we are. Someone might remember getting caught in a great rainstorm that quickly drenched them utterly and cursed their luck, another person might view it as great fun. There is a dialogue between memories that tie them together. You can't just plop a completely different dialogue on top and call it a day.

Let me ask you this, if you took two books and mixed them together so sentences are randomly from one book or the other, is it still the original book? But all the words and information of that original book is still there.

Or lets say you took a loving saintly person who's always cared about others deeply, and gave them the memories of a serial killer, would they be that person? No, they'd be a traumatized nice person (most likely IMO)

As near as I can tell this comic is using the wifes dialogue, and just has only the memories before she turned 8 (or was it 10?) So the little girl who existed before this could be thought of as dead, the being that awoke to their old memories replaced it.

Really though what I suspect is this is the typical asian concept of reincarnation, that someone is themselves even with no memories from that self. The buddhist view of reincarnation as buddhism has mixed in with chinese culture to a degree. So I'm sure from the authors perspective, the little girl was the dead wife both before and after remembering. My philosophy of self and ego doesn't see it that way.

 

[ScarecrowB]

@truepurple I think in the first part you are talking about the frontal lobe, more specifically the prefrontal cortex which has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior (which often leads to personality changes when damaged). So, you can have the same memories but act different just based on the chemistry of your brain.

But now, for the wife behavior (talking in-universe) I think the author is doing something like… take 35 something years worth of memories from the wife add them on top on 5 years worth of long term memories from the girl (assuming one starts to form long term memories at age 5 and she is 10) and you have someone who is 87.5% wife 12.5% previous girl. But then again if we are going to take brain activity/chemistry/development she most likely wouldn’t be able to handle the memories + experiences of a grown up with her underdeveloped brain. But hey, if we are going to takes this seriously we would have to take reincarnation seriously too.

 

[truepurple]

@ScarecrowB
I'm speaking more abstractly than that. But if you want to get into it, each brain cell can develop connections with other brain cells in a complex interweb. It's rather faulty thinking to think that each part of the brain has specific tasks that it does and only does that. Memories aren't storied in our brains in a linear fashion or even in a single place like a hard drive but formed in this web of connections that can take many different forms. This is why sentient AI is much harder than is conceived of. Some computers may be faster, but their structure is far far simpler than a organic brain.

But I still stand by what I said the authors of this comic are going for and see no bases for your assertations. I base it on having read many asian novels, comics and anime. They seem to see who we are as a unbroken line, memories may be isolated from us but do not change who we are. At least with reincarnation stuff. If you want to get into futuristic Ghost In The Machine stuff, that is completely different.

She is 100% the wife, just forgot that for while and now with some new memories, probably. I think that fails in lost potential where the story could explore what makes us who we are.

 

[Siquall]

Re-reading it, because it's great.

The first chapter is perfect.

 

[fulani]

glad it wasn’t what i expected, its very cute ;-; the first chapter alone was quite impactful to be a oneshot. idk how they’re going to develop this but i look forward to it

 

[Rongmario]

Page 18-19 combo jesus fuck

 

[Ketsujo]

There are like 2 or 3 other managas like this but man this one takes the cake, does it so well in even one chapter, and could just as well been a oneshot. The one with the guy as a game dev with a reincarnated mother one is decent though.

 

[Daphine]

This first chap is really heartwarming!

 

[waterflame]

@Ketsujo which is the game dev one?

 

[Ketsujo]

@waterflame Took a while for me to find because it's been so long since a new translated chapter. https://mangadex.org/title/30333/shougakusei-ga-mama-demo-ii-desu-ka

 

[waterflame]

@Ketsujo thank you

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

What the shit?

 

[villko05]

Nice loli. Turn my lights off and ready the tissues. This night is going to be a slimy one.

 

[Dragoin]

This is so cute and heattwarming that if it was a oneshot, I don't think I'd complain.