Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 183 - Karaoke Clerk ③

[MangaDex]

 

[Karikko]

That was a sad ending

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapters.

 

[windfang]

No.... that ending is just sad... why they still open that karaoke again?
because every victim are gone from memory"?

 

[Babymech2]

God dango, they killed Hatsune Miku

 

[fatto_catto]

If bodies disappeared, and then victims disappeared from memory, how did they even know what happened to them for the story to spread?

 

[Tds-PdV]

Ooof, and I thought for once we get a rare survivor story, someone who got entangled deeply and ended up living somewhat normally (it was until it wasn’t….)

There are only a couple of those survivor stories that I can remember so far, the baby from babysitter arc for one.

 

[SMAXZO]

Dango, Dango...I want to be a Dango..

 

[AxelFaiz]

She was saved...

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Dang(o)...

 

[Levankua]

Its all I can think of

 

[2hu_ism]

It was bittersweet ending as she grew up as "adult" and try her best to forgot her friend, her past.

until extra page come.

 

[BreadBunny]

MAN.....

 

[Pilarious]

try her best to forgot her friend, her past.

She didn't even try. It was part of phenomenon, that everybody forgets about people who were included to be dango. That's why Yume and Hama didn't remember any faces and were fired just after ending shift because boss thought there were no customers anyway.

 

[Pagemistress]

Man, I hate when the gray cheats like this. It's that hotel manager all over again.

 

[Sovyonok]

Damn, had my hopes up it was gonna end up like Ringo again.

 

[3141592653589]

The gray this time's a metaphor for growing up. You've got young people being preyed upon by a mysterious entity that tells them they don't need an individual ego and to join some nebulous gestalt entity that suppresses their individuality. When caught, they join the wall of creepy heads and are estranged from and eventually forgotten by their childhood friends.

Miku was already on the road to conforming by fulfilling societal expectations and moving away to attend college, so she got nabbed right away. Sae had an iconoclastic streak and didn't wanna grow up, so she ended up being spared until she got ground down by life enough that her internal sense of self became weak and she finally succumbed years later. Hama and Yume are fringe weirdos doing questionable jobs that aren't the sort of thing you discuss in polite society, so they're functionally immune.

So when you think about it, isn't growing up a lot like being decapitated by a ghost in a karaoke box?

 

[MilkDrinker]

Dango Daikazoku

Its all I can think of

Imagine getting your head ripped off to this

 

[fappingkills]

Honestly thought it was this song

 

[Vainfire]

The gray this time's a metaphor for growing up. You've got young people being preyed upon by a mysterious entity that tells them they don't need an individual ego and to join some nebulous gestalt entity that suppresses their individuality. When caught, they join the wall of creepy heads and are estranged from and eventually forgotten by their childhood friends.

Miku was already on the road to conforming by fulfilling societal expectations and moving away to attend college, so she got nabbed right away. Sae had an iconoclastic streak and didn't wanna grow up, so she ended up being spared until she got ground down by life enough that her internal sense of self became weak and she finally succumbed years later. Hama and Yume are fringe weirdos doing questionable jobs that aren't the sort of thing you discuss in polite society, so they're functionally immune.

So when you think about it, isn't growing up a lot like being decapitated by a ghost in a karaoke box?

This is an interpretation I can get behind. There's some fascinating intricacies here too, such as the usage of "Dango" as the main horror. Far as I can tell, the main connection is in the heads—the round string of them is similar to that of the dessert by the same name.

I'd also go one step further and say that this story is also partially about Yume and Hama themselves. They get closer to "graduating" from grey jobs as they solve their respective parental mysteries, and what happens next? Will they forget each other and join society? From the very premise this story is about the exploitation of workers, bosses preying on their financial insecurity to do inhumane things, treating them as victims or as disposable. What does it mean for Yume and Hama to escape that life? I imagine the author struggles over such things as well.