Tsumi to Batsu no Spica - Ch. 12 - Nameless Malice (1)

[Lenasien]

Did the guy from last chap able to kill someone in the end?

I bet he become detective or just crime journalist instead.

 

[XicoYe]

They got us again

 

[metal4orce]

Can't wait to see how Spica will tear this guy apart yippie

 

[kanamon]

NAURRR MY ROMANCE

 

[Septazia]

I mean, there's no mystery to how she's gonna get there - she's just going to handshake someone or something. It'd be interesting to see her go against someone who can mirror her power, though.

that's the most obvious thing and I find it boring "x guy has super powers" 5 seconds later "here comes out of nowhere someone that makes them completely moot", really? Is that the only way you can pose a challenge to them? that's predictable and it makes the world feel more alien because then it puts into question how rare these powers really are, to me it make sense that we would see a world like our if someone like that is once every billion people or something, but then if you start involving people who can develope counters in a matter of days and secret societies of people that are actually super famous it makes that initial premise of a world like our but with this special character feel hollow and fake.

 

[jump90008]

Okay Spica , we need your help now

 

[Felkin]

Well at this point 'subversion of expectations' is starting to feel like this author's entire MO. I guess we can start treating every ch as 'likely unreliable narration' at this point and see if we can figure out what's 'wrong' before the author reveals it. Though the twists have always been the same so far - the good guy was actually the bad guy. Still, that was neat!

I also like that we cut to a story like this straight from the last one without closure. It's sharp, but keeps the reader on their toes. We cant rely on anyone - not the characters, not the timelines, not even the arc structure haahhaha.

 

[RakshaJaeger]

Well damn

 

[Tash2]

I mean, there's no mystery to how she's gonna get there - she's just going to handshake someone or something. It'd be interesting to see her go against someone who can mirror her power, though.

There's another popular series in Japan called Golgo 13 about the world's greatest assassin. He's a real stoic dude who basically never trips up in his assassinations. Any time anything appears to challenge him, it turns out he was already aware of it and deals with it pretty swiftly. He's basically just invincible.

But the series has been running in Japan for 50 years despite the premise sounding incredibly boring on paper. It's because the series isn't about trying to challenge G13. It's about the people who hire him, the people he's trying to kill, the law enforcement agents struggling to pin anything on him, and the other random people who happen to wander into his story. So there are a lot of plotlines about people sitting down and telling him their story while hiring him, or detectives who realize he's up to something but can't figure out what, or a rich guy who unkowingly puts a hit on one of his own family members and has to try to protect him from G13 once he realizes what he's done. G13 himself is more of an untouchable force of nature that the story revolves around.

This series has been going for something similar so far. Spica is kind of a Spectre-style supernatural judge character who wanders into stories in progress and passes judgement on the people involved.

 

[Tcof]

Dang, almost wholesome

 

[rayto34]

There's another popular series in Japan called Golgo 13 about the world's greatest assassin. He's a real stoic dude who basically never trips up in his assassinations. Any time anything appears to challenge him, it turns out he was already aware of it and deals with it pretty swiftly. He's basically just invincible.

But the series has been running in Japan for 50 years despite the premise sounding incredibly boring on paper. It's because the series isn't about trying to challenge G13. It's about the people who hire him, the people he's trying to kill, the law enforcement agents struggling to pin anything on him, and the other random people who happen to wander into his story. So there are a lot of plotlines about people sitting down and telling him their story while hiring him, or detectives who realize he's up to something but can't figure out what, or a rich guy who unkowingly puts a hit on one of his own family members and has to try to protect him from G13 once he realizes what he's done. G13 himself is more of an untouchable force of nature that the story revolves around.

This series has been going for something similar so far. Spica is kind of a Spectre-style supernatural judge character who wanders into stories in progress and passes judgement on the people involved.

g13 souns like OPM but old and about assasin instead of superhero

 

[rayto34]

There's another popular series in Japan called Golgo 13 about the world's greatest assassin. He's a real stoic dude who basically never trips up in his assassinations. Any time anything appears to challenge him, it turns out he was already aware of it and deals with it pretty swiftly. He's basically just invincible.

But the series has been running in Japan for 50 years despite the premise sounding incredibly boring on paper. It's because the series isn't about trying to challenge G13. It's about the people who hire him, the people he's trying to kill, the law enforcement agents struggling to pin anything on him, and the other random people who happen to wander into his story. So there are a lot of plotlines about people sitting down and telling him their story while hiring him, or detectives who realize he's up to something but can't figure out what, or a rich guy who unkowingly puts a hit on one of his own family members and has to try to protect him from G13 once he realizes what he's done. G13 himself is more of an untouchable force of nature that the story revolves around.

This series has been going for something similar so far. Spica is kind of a Spectre-style supernatural judge character who wanders into stories in progress and passes judgement on the people involved.

btw what happen to the rich guy who unknowingly target his family?

 

[rayto34]

Well at this point 'subversion of expectations' is starting to feel like this author's entire MO. I guess we can start treating every ch as 'likely unreliable narration' at this point and see if we can figure out what's 'wrong' before the author reveals it. Though the twists have always been the same so far - the good guy was actually the bad guy. Still, that was neat!

I also like that we cut to a story like this straight from the last one without closure. It's sharp, but keeps the reader on their toes. We cant rely on anyone - not the characters, not the timelines, not even the arc structure haahhaha.

I think we can't rely on chapter as timeline, its not like spica is limited to stalking only 1 killer at a time. honestly the artist plot twist kinda crazy since it came out of nowhere(no foreshadowing nor relation at all, it just got revealed it was her all along)

 

[Lunkli]

"Hwuh〜? I can't kill another killer! I'll just give him therapy first, then it'll all be fine."

 

[Doomroar]

wait so the last arc just ended like that?

Well the kid was not a serial killer, strangely enough, since everyone else is a serial killer, and this is a manga about serial killers, so we had to move on onto serial killer number 893241958

Can't remain stuck on the one weirdo that doesn't goes around killing

 

[fflogschampion]

"Imma gonna kill a dude!"
"Nice. Want some advice? I killed 5 myself."
"W-What?"
Spica has joined the chat
"Hey guys, what you're talking about?"

 

[Darthvader69420]

This one’s pretty interesting cus we already know who the killer is. Now we need to know how everythings gonna play out.

 

[kitsushouten]

Appearances can be deceiving!!!

looks can be this evening..

 

[PrinnyRamza]

wait so the last arc just ended like that?

Had to look back to the last chapter. It says that story will somehow continue in "Nameless Malice" which is this story line.

Think that means her classmate will probably catch her in the middle of her bout with this killer.

 

[MiguelH224]

Before anyone gets confused, the flashback belonged to the taxi driver, not the passenger,

The burn marks on his hand at the end is the giveaway

Thr passenger clenching his fist after the flashback was a serious fakeout