Welp. This isn't going to end well.

Time to prep the Spec Ops. quotes again.

None of this would have happened if you'd just stopped. But on you marched, and for what?

A set up for the coup de grace... ready the box of tissues!

PTSD portrayal pretty good. It’s funny to see the loopy veteran girl still knows her stuff out on the sea despite her appearance of insanity. It’s almost like there are two sides to the girl: one side is cheerful and charming (so that she wouldn’t scare citizens away), the other side is chillingly realistic and in depression from her experiences.

Pretty freaky to see artist portray school girls playing with grenades given by garrisoned troops as a suicidal, scorched earth tactic. Damned depressing such things happened in WWII with Japanese forces out on the islands.

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Who are they fighting, the russians, the americans, or is it a totally fictitious war all together?

Who are they fighting, the russians, the americans, or is it a totally fictitious war all together?

No exact dates were given. Although the combat doctrine offered in this latest chapter is between WWI and WWII, the manga didn’t specifically state which side the MC is on; however, the issuance of grenades to the populace of the island(s) did occur with Japanese forces in tail-end of WWII fighting American navy and marines.

AFAIK, the manga is depicting a fictitious war in that setting of pre-computer assisted warfare, but story elements did come from history. I think it’s best for the manga to remain vague about which side she’s on and when.

oh no

War never changes

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Who are they fighting, the russians, the americans, or is it a totally fictitious war all together?

i think its pretty clear she is Japanese and the enemies are the Americans, at least thats what i've gotten given what the story presents vs what i know of history.

So what just happened? She jumped ship to evacuate residents of the island or was she massacring them too? The ship was sunk too, right?

So what just happened? She jumped ship to evacuate residents of the island or was she massacring them too? The ship was sunk too, right?

Yeah she jumped the ship to evacuate them, but to protect them she had to kill one of the other girls (their enemy since they're all girls in the war) but I guess the island girls got traumatized because they saw her killing another girl, one similar to them. I thought the ship sunk at first but the page after that makes it seem like it didn't sink, but I don't know

EDIT: After reading it again I guess there was a rescue ship to help them, so the ship did sink but they're still alive

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So did Minami die or was just left on the island?

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Well that was confusing

I'm assuming that's her spirit still on the island, she never took her bugle with her. Though I'm not sure who is saying they got left behind. Not gonna lie, not saying the art style is bad, but it's really hard to differentiate characters when everyone is in uniform and it's all done in sketch style. Was it the spirit of one of the girls she killed telling her she was left behind?

edit: Oh, I see. O-ne is one of the crew members on the ship. The captain is telling her Minami is gone, then Minami's spirit plays her bugle on the island. Unless her supernatural bird powers actually did fish her out of the water and scavenged her bugle from the wreck, but that would pretty much undermine the point of the story.

Welp. I did say to prep the Spec Ops quotes, didn't I?

The island should have died long ago. We were ordered to abandon these people. Instead, we chose damnation

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W2f

Can it be more depressing

So did Minami die or was just left on the island?

I think she died after she was left on the island, which is why O-nae said "She was raised by nature, so I'm sure she's returned to it by now."

This looks like it should be good but it's too tough to follow. Either way I'm still left strangely depressed after I finish reading, whether I understand what happened or not. At least they nail that.

Very poetic. A really impressively beautiful translation.

Tragic but beautiful. Personally I didn't have any trouble following the story, which just made it that much more painful.

And I coudn't follow most of it, which just made it that much more painful in more ways than one

i love the art a lot