Just to clarify, who's the third murder victim besides Aoya and Rina?

Toriko defines her father's death as a murder

I quite liked this series, kind of hope it gets an anime adaptation at some point, though it's unlikely.

own i shouldn't be surprised but damn that ending was so sad as much as it was good Ç-Ç those last pages with natsuki looking depressivly at tokiko hurt my heart

If I had to take my best guess on who the last person was on that chart of deaths we used to have for each chapter,I would say Tokikos' biological mother.

Alas,be it alive or dead,they'll all have to move on.

Now to see how many "lies" one can tell in order to save others.

Wow, I just realized the blood splatters on the pages showing the characters mark the location of the injury that caused their death

Woww.. i gotta admit i was more amazed and immersed in this story than i expected to be. I actually have read Liar Satsuki before this one up to the latest chapter and was reading this cuz the author seems like a genius, but i rly didn't expect such a different-toned story to be just as great hehe

Btw, wasn't that mom-kid duo who saw Natsuki die the same duo that Satsuki helped by drowning the kid at a fountain?? XD

But dam, i rly love how unrelatable the mc here was as a "normal" human being (not like i'm one to label people as normal haha), usually mc's are made the opposite, but i still got to like her and sided with her pretty much all the time. I'm a bit sad the great yuri potential wasn't rly followed up, but that was still a nice friendship uwu

Gotta say, now i'm really looking forward to Liar Satsuki's newest update X3

Also, i have to admit the author killing Miyuki, then Natsuki, then the bird in front of Tokiko, hm.. that was a bit too mean tbh haha, i legit felt mad at the author for bullying Tokiko XD

Also, before Tokiko died, i really did expect her to kill herself, since i saw her glance sadly at natsuki's body, but the way she talked to koga sounded like she was gonna move on lol, so i was like "huhh, i thought she was gonna step in front of the train, not into it to travel away lol". In the end, she did kill herself, and i felt happy kinda, cuz she got both her dad's and her own wish of being happy, cuz author-san killed her LI TwT but it would've been a great plot twist ending tbh, walking into the train and not in front. I would've liked it less, though, so i'm glad she killed herself, as twisted that makes me sound uwu

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That was amazing. I worried that I'd have a difficult time staying engaged but Tokiko, and reactions to her, was an absolute treat.

The biggest downside for me was I wanted a bit more breathing room in the story for us to see more sides of Tokiko's personality. It would have been nice to see her alone, or her devious or talented sides with Natsuki, beyond short flashbacks and the extra. Nowhere in the story did the teen Tokiko behave like she did in the extra fight against Satsuki. Tokiko was a psychopath who stuck to simple logic, sure, but she had a wide range of emotion. I love characters with uncommon but otherwise reasonable minds!

I feel a bit mixed that I was wanting to see more deaths by the end, I guess that's also easier than reading the emptiness and confusion left behind. The resolution was a very rationally satisfying explanation but the curse was unsatisfying intuitively. Or maybe tragic, if that makes more sense. I don't exactly pity Tokiko, but her cosmic situation was too cut-and-dry negative. Her lack of desire saved people, and her learning to desire would have been even more disastrous. Oh well. Her happy reaction to being empty fit with the narrative perfectly.

It was fun trying to see how the other people would die. But other than the “bestfriends”’s relationship, everything else was sorta predictable. Was honestly worried in some moments that it wasn’t being as predictable as I was thinking, but the author delivered. Other than that, an okay read on philosophy I guess? It’s unique, but it wasn’t a masterpiece.

Thanks so much for the tl, pretty cool read!

The mods do need to mark this as Complete though

Thanks so much for the tl, pretty cool read!

The mods do need to mark this as Complete though

Facts. Idk why they haven’t done so yet lol. It’s been more than a year since it was completed

Edit: nice, it’s fixed now

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Well, that was dumb. The explanation for the curse doesn't really make sense (Why did it hit Natsuki and not Ai? Why would suicide trigger it? Why is it hitting people she's met once and not classmates?), and as a study of murderers it falls apart pretty badly by the end (No one acts like Aoya, and Tokiko is an iffy take on psychopathy)

Most interesting as a look into the author's growth; it has similar themes to Satsuki, but goes about much of the execution in almost the exact opposite way:

• Walk's pacing is absolute shit past the first volume -> Satsuki is super episodic
• Walk spends much of it's time pretending that a serial killer is somehow a viable explanation for what we saw -> Liar Satsuki Can See Death
• Tokiko is alien and unpleasant -> Satsuki is still kinda alien, but fun and has a more socially-acceptable moral code
• Walk has too many characters, bogging the whole thing down -> Satstuki's supporting cast just sort of disappears when they're not involved in a story

I kinda love how you just completely missed the point, didn’t understand the (admittedly convoluted) philosophy and went straight to hate bashing it.

Cool, you like Liar better, but it’s a different story built around conflicting moral codes. As well as the morality of life, does everyone deserve to live? Is killing acceptable?
Walk is an exploration of the meaning of life and death. What constitutes living? What does it mean to be alive? Tokiko isn’t supposed to be “acceptable”, she’s meant to invoke discomfort, to be “alien” “different” “unnatural”. An “uncanny valley between life and death”.

The pacing is also entirely different for a reason, Liar is action, and a fairly traditional hero protagonist against a “evil” antagonist (and then very evil). Whereas Walk is more inducing the same feelings of dread, paranoia and suspicion the characters feel.
-edited to break up the wall of text and make it easier to read (thanks mobile XP)

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