Vivarium de Choushoku wo - Ch. 29 - The Story Of Your Life Part 2

[MangaDex]

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Oh... That is a final line...

 

[Luke_chase]

What’s a dowman sayman story without suicide

 

[zanonyn]

Thanks for the translation, but oof what a last page, last few pages even. Dowman hitting us with it all now, whole world coming into focus. Though it's interesting things are advancing so fast despite it being so small an area. I wonder if the whole "surpass their civilization" bit will end up playing an part in offering hope to the future, and was still have to see what her role in this is.

Also boo to a world without cats! Sorry but tsuchineko doesn't cut it .

 

[Vmpslushie]

That's kind of heavy to drop on us in the last panel.

 

[nameless0ne]

Yeah... Typical Dowman. Shit happens and you either deal with it or it deals with you.

 

[spectralSpices]

Oh.

 

[greatninja3]

basically their world is just some pocket dimension they made as a sort of science experiment and real earth is kinda fked

 

[metal4orce]

Damn. Wonder how the vivarium became relevant again for them to travel into it.

 

[parkourse]

Well, that's certainly a punchline.

 

[stavekoff]

dowman strikes again

 

[arenuphis]

Suicide due to being ostracized by her peers is not how I expected Futaha to go out, even tho I knew her dying somehow was probably coming up soon
I'm honestly a little impressed at how well this semi out of left field death actually went anyway
It's an interesting way to depict the time leading up to someone taking their own life, since it can easily come as a completly surprise to some people around them.
Yet when you stop to look back in that context, you can see the signs. Due to the neurodivergence that got her labeled as a "genius", she struggled with many everyday things, while wildly overperforming in others, leading to her struggling immensely at making friends on equal footing as she grew up. Her only real friends were 2 mice, a robot, and three hyperfocused adults, the prior 3 likely not being able to truly understand her issues due to not being human, and most of them moving out of her life or into space after their lab department kinda died, leaving her lonelier than ever.

Hopefully they'll still spend some time next chapter dealing with it, so it's not just this one line tho.

 

[Sonaldo]

Oh cool we get to see how each of them started

-read last line



The Douman Sayman experience

 

[unrodmell]

Apart from the final line, the one that hit me the most was the cat one, that makes sense now, why they didn't know what a cat was was so strange to me, so now with this mind blowing revelation it makes sense, it makes me incredible sad to, but, this is a douman manga, what did I expect

 

[HighPriest]

That's our Dowman!

wacky slide whistle

 

[PresR]

I'm doing a reread, but I felt like this was the best chapter to comment on. So this is a world without guns, but there's a gun in a safe, in chapter 9. I don't remember the mice bringing it up, so where did it come from? Perhaps we were told, but I don't remember.

 

[3141592653589]

I'm doing a reread, but I felt like this was the best chapter to comment on. So this is a world without guns, but there's a gun in a safe, in chapter 9. I don't remember the mice bringing it up, so where did it come from? Perhaps we were told, but I don't remember.

There's nothing else that's really been brought up about the gun and the safe, but I figure it's foreshadowing either the Vivarium independently inventing guns (it'd be a little weird with it being a sort of time-compressed society to create a technological singularity if nobody ever had the bright idea to throw things around with controlled explosions) or Obitto introducing guns to the Vivarium after he went to hide in it.

My guess is it's the latter reason: Obitto's been foreshadowed as sort of a dick, he's the first one to enter the Vivarium for reasons yet-unknown, he didn't want anyone else going into the Vivarium, and he's still around and keeping a low profile since we saw that sickly guy who is almost certainly him staying at Kikurin's inn during the slumber party chapter. Also would not be the first time that the guy the protagonists are searching for turns out to be a villain in a Dowman story.

Also, the mice getting so upset after seeing the gun in that chapter really hits different now, I gotta say.

 

[PresR]

There's nothing else that's really been brought up about the gun and the safe, but I figure it's foreshadowing either the Vivarium independently inventing guns (it'd be a little weird with it being a sort of time-compressed society to create a technological singularity if nobody ever had the bright idea to throw things around with controlled explosions) or Obitto introducing guns to the Vivarium after he went to hide in it.

My guess is it's the latter reason: Obitto's been foreshadowed as sort of a dick, he's the first one to enter the Vivarium for reasons yet-unknown, he didn't want anyone else going into the Vivarium, and he's still around and keeping a low profile since we saw that sickly guy who is almost certainly him staying at Kikurin's inn during the slumber party chapter. Also would not be the first time that the guy the protagonists are searching for turns out to be a villain in a Dowman story.

Also, the mice getting so upset after seeing the gun in that chapter really hits different now, I gotta say.

That sounds about right. It had been a while since I read, and I hadn't reached the point where Obitto was mentioned (or just missed it), so he slipped my mind. I agree that it makes little sense for the Vivarium to have just now invented guns. Unless invading it from the outside caused some rifts or something, which is possible. But generally, I'd say Obitto is the prime suspect. But I guess the question is why? Just to screw around with the project? Is he upset that fringe science is now too fringe, and is lashing out? Hopefully the reasoning is interesting.