
I’m 100% that the Monster we see throughout the manga is supposed to be Sumida‘s depression and hopelessness. Pretty sure it’s even there before he kills his Dad? Which would show that he was always depressed considering his family situation. Later on, when his friends give him hope and encouragement to start a better life and turn himself in, he still proceeds to kill himself in the following night. That scene where he admitted that he still had things to do and presumably didn’t necessarily want to die, and then goes to consult the monster, which then tells him that „it was already decided“ is just too sad. Even if people give you hope, depression will always make you feel as if you don’t deserve redemption and happiness.
The violent portrayal of sexuality, the rape, shouzo(?) being forced to lose his virginity and that homeless guy, who turned out to be a pervert, really stood out to me. In a way, I think this is the authors way of critiquing that kids and teenagers are often forced to grow up quickly, but I feel like there’s something else I haven’t grasped yet? Maybe how japans society is dismissive of things like sexual assault and stuff?
I wonder what’s going on the authors mind that she’s been able to write such a despicable character like Satou for over 10 years and not get tired of it. The „I don’t think I’m enough so I’m leaving“ troupe is very common, BUT FREAKIN 14 VOLUMES IN?? The drama is SO forced and it’s probably gonna end with Satou having little to no character development anyways. He’s probably gonna go back to bullying Yoshida right away after he forgives him easily
This could've ended at a nice place chapters ago. Author's defo trynna squeeze this series dry by pulling some nonexistent drama.
Wtf are you talking about? I know this arc hasn't even been one of the best in their relationship and tbh, it pisses me off too. But reducing Sato to just a "despicable" character is almost reducing the entire manga into just roles, and ofc most of the time they are in that kind of troup bc I remind you this is a COMEDY manga, and I don't know where you get that it's forced, like for several chapters we look at the perspective of how Sato sees things and thinks, I'm not trying to defend him entirely but we're not even finishing seeing the whole picture for you to say that Sato will not have a character development, of course until then there had only been slight problems but it's also important that the author wants to focus more on going deeper into the plot of the characters and above all how Sato handles the situation. They are high school students, they will make mistakes or make bad decisions but that is what makes them human, seeing how this situation will be resolved contributes more to this