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

[capricieux]

Hmm usually the author will kinda explain why room 104 if safe. Did I miss something?

Thank you for the update!

 

[3141592653589]

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.

A chapter about Yume (because it'd never be Hama, let's be honest here) trying to rejoin civilized society and needing to get through a conventional interview for a respectable job would be pretty great.

"... and that's how I honed my leadership skills by burning down a shrine to melt the Prime Minister who had been replaced by a doppelganger made of snow. Now moving on to how my time spent casually dropping gloves on public roadways to prevent the eradication of humanity by gigantic disembodied hands in the sky helped to develop my ability to stay calm under pressure..."

 

[friendly]

Damn man. I have a fondness for bittersweet and melancholy horror, and this series really knocks it out of the park sometimes. There's something so cruel about how this time the 'event' just. Plucks people out of memory. LITERALLY those people no longer exist as 'individual humans' anymore; so there's no individual to remember anymore, either....

The way it leaves a hole in her whole teen years, where now she's never had any friends at all.

 

[7goat]

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

until extra page come.

Dangit, I thought page 17 was the end since it had the salary count, until I read your comment. I was really loving the bittersweet 'ending' too.

 

[beansbunko]

goddamn it she actually made it out intact just to get dango'd years later

 

[gundulgondrong]

author got us in the first hal.. 99% of the story