"Children handling things by themselves, poorly" the series.

They're children, how else do you expect to handle such a heavy topic that no child should ever have to deal with?

Damn, pre-school got intense

While they look young, remember that they're in 6th grade, making them 11-12. The art style makes them look younger than that and they act a lot younger but you have to remember that these are still just children at the end of the day.

Since this messed up series seems to be ending soon

Is it ending, though? Where did you read that it was?

I cant enjoy this after i learned what the dad did cuz every chapter afterwards all i can think is how bad i want him dead already
If the father/Dad is still around and very close by...He needs to die quickly or get neutered/Castrated like some commentators said.

No death penalty. That's the easy way out. Life in prison. Let him rot in a cell for the rest of his day.

Bit over the top at the end there.
I'm still hoping Bear-kun shows up to solve the diddler dad problem

My interpretation is that the bear represents the father, symbolically. In fact, when you go back to the first chapter, Riko tells Mary she can't go in the forest because of the bears but, in Mary's mind, the bear is Winnie-the-Pooh, while Riko tells her that bears are actually dangerous and scary. This could represent how children by default are supposed to find comfort in their parents. A father is not supposed to be dangerous so a child won't feel any danger from them. But Colin/Momo's father is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Mary would think every father is safe and loving and caring but Colin/Momo's father is anything but.

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Mood!

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I wonder if there's gonna be a timeskip now or a time jump or time travel again.

Hey, I recognise this one!

When she said her head game was gonna send you to heaven, she really meant it.

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They are consummating their marriage

I wish little kids weren't stupid. Then this would have been solved already lol

story is interesting to me because a happy ending seems unlikely given the tone of manga so far, but I also don't see how Collin's situation could possibly get any worse. So narratively, i can't look away, because I genuinely have no idea where this is headed.

Plus, it's already started with so much shock value that there really isn't anything else that could happen that would invoke that much emotion in me. I mean, you have a child, burying their dead baby, that they conceived by copulating with their biological father. Now where, in the ever loving fuck, do you go from there?

Seems clear to me that things aren't going to get worse for Colin, but for Mary. And that it won't be of the sort where Mary like suffers from Colin's dad though. Not sure what kind of suffering Mary's gonna be put through since there are like five different plausible routes at this point

As ShadowEdge put it:

Colin truly believes that her dad loves her. And maybe he does, in his own sick and twisted way. We don't know. Maybe he believes that is the "right" way to love. And maybe now she too thinks that's the right way to love, she loves Mary the same way that daddy loves her.

And that's where I believe is the point the story is trying to get. It's not uncommon for abused children to become abusive adults. And where is the point where someone stops being a victim?

What if the direction the series goes in is Colin falling in love with Mary and then abusing her bc that was how her father showed his own affection towards her?

That would be absolutely fuuucked

Now I'm worried Riko will tell everyone and separate these 2.

But wouldn't that literally be a good thing? One girl is being abused by her father and needs to be removed from that household.

This is a very interesting story. Some were saying that the characters being children was unnecessary, but I believe that the plot only works because they are children. Because they are heavily influenced by their parents.

I think that the point is that both Mary and Colin are similar, yet different. Both have abusive parents. Mary's mother neglect her, and Colin's father sexually abuse her. And yet they think they are loved.

However, Mary is starting to realize that her mother don't really love her. Meanwhile, Colin truly believe that her dad loves her. And maybe he does, in his own sick and twisted way. We don't know. Maybe he believes that is the "right" way to love. And maybe now she too thinks that's the right way to love, she loves Mary the same way that daddy loves her.

And that's where I believe is the point the story is trying to get. It's not uncommon for abused children to become abusive adults. And where is the point where someone stops being a victim?

Now what I think is the plot twist: Dad is in jail or maybe already dead. And Colin is returning to an empty home, thinking that dad will come back. She was supposed to be in her grandma's care, but she ran away.

You make a rather compelling case, actually

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A lot of the time people assume a story is good just because it tackles heavy themes. Well, this story is tackling some of the heaviest themes imaginable, and I genuinely think it's doing a great job at it.

Well, tackling heavy themes is hard, many stories crashed and burned and fell to oblivion attempting that (because badly written plus heavy themes equal people thoroughly want to throw the memories out of their heads both consciously and subconsciously), but those managed to pull it off will have a bigger impact, so when people remember "stories with heavy themes" they could only recall the good ones, so over time some people got it backward. But I agree, this series is doing good so far.

You know for sure this shit definitely ain't getting an anime lmao.

I call this genre "Car Crash In Slow Motion"

Nah, that's Kitanai Kimi and Jigoku de Aishite

(I know this is obviously not how this will go down, but I need to say it somewhere) the story would end right now if she called the cops. I know Colin says her friend snitched before and nothing happened BUT now there's real proof that he abused her, i.e the buried baby. That's why daddy was so insisting on Colin flushing the bebe. Mary should follow her to see where she lives, call the cops, tell about the abuse and the buried baby, and boom case solved they get married and live happily ever after :)

I feel like it's not a baby but rather a miscarried foetus. No other reason she'd be calling it "it" (assuming that's an accurate translation) and the father was saying to cut it up and flush it down.

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How much do you wanna bet this theory is cope coming from people who want it to be a twist heterosexual relationship?

@GrimEater Suletta canonically does. According to the short story, she'd watch anime and movies inside of Aeriel, growing up

^ As you wish, I deleted them.
The only thing I give out is that 45 is a tragedy. After that, I wrote nothing at all. No plot given, no character to show up, but I mentioned even I myself cannot account how many characters in that chapter. I have no clue about 46, and as a High Queen I will never post anything about the manga 's plot, it is a trust that Show to his fans, don't copy and post it somewhere else. (Copy all you want if you become a patron). After all, there is no telling what the plot of 46 is about. I am just preparing the worst.

You didn't have to delete it. The spoiler tags with a warning would have been suffice. Just some small edits, really.

It is 45, not 46 final, so why on earth does 45 end this way? I actually wept and I cannot recall when was the last time I did that for a manga or anime, ie. Grave of the flyer fires. I do not plan to write any comment, the only comment I will put down is, gather your tissue paper and be ready.
If this were 46, I won't even know what to do. 45, as melancholy as it is, still has one chapter (46) coming, maybe we have a happy ending ,but Show has been digging this hole all along and we do not know.. Loli or Josei or Yuri, Show has never written a tragedy, I hope that 46 will have a happy ending, just like every single manga he drew. The bigger the hole, the harder it is to write a complex ending.
Well, next month will come and go quickly.
Thank GOD this so called "show down" ended quickly. We will just left 1 more chapter., maybe a Show comedy interlude?
This is very upsetting. If this ends up as a tragedy, something got to in exchange in the plot. Ichika is very very brave,
Sensei please give us a happy ending, no matter how screwed up the plot becomes. Lets hope this is just a super-super cliff hanger. I am not even sure I have the mental state to finish 46 when it comes out.

Bro, for the love of god please don't spoil shit. Put == signs around your post if you are going to spoil shit. Literally 99% of us have not even read it nor do we even know what you are talking about.

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Spoilers

Lemme guess, you worked for a Japanese company and this let's you read the RAWS of manga before everyone else?

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He is still credited as the executive producer and original creator of the series.

But don't fret. If this doesn't happen, Ookouchi will also be receiving a strongly worded letter. In Minecraft of course.

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If we don't get this ending, Tomino, I will send you a very strongly worded letter. In Minecraft of course.

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@Swag Wagon One could say that Miorine is an acute angle, eh? (Suletta is an obtuse angle)

Kishi remains the GOAT

(This post contains spoilers for chapters 6-11)

Yuni has no obligation to have sex with Fuuko as a way to pay back the travel expense. Fuuko booked a room with two single beds, not a double. Yuni seemed to be doing fine while having sex with Fuuko. Fuuko did not ask for sex directly

You even said it yourself. Yuni had sex with Fuuko all on her own will. Fuko never pressured Yuni and even paid for a room with two single beds. It was Yuni out of frustration for Nanase who instigated it with Fuuko and had sex with her behind Nanase's back. So tell me how was she not cheating on Nanase?

Yuni is dumb, She can easily explain that in order to go support nanase for the match, she did a compensate dating. In that case, it is not quite cheating and it is now in the grey area as prostitution.

You could have called Yuni ambiguous when she initially agreed to the compensated dating but after she instigated the sex with Fuuko, there was no mistaking it. Yuni absolutely and mercilessly cheated on Nanase and there is no forgiving her for that act. There is no saving Yuni. She is done. She has made her bed and now she has to lie in it with nobody else to blame but herself

I don't even see how it's suposs to make it not cheating. She had sex with another girl than the one she is going out with, it's cheating, money or not. I don't understand the logic.

I agree with this smart fellow

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@Zormau the tone in the first 11 episodes is a totally different show from the prologue. Far more Utena and less Gundam. The 12th episode has completely reverted the tone right back to the prologue though

@The Real Haman Karn because I am Kira. But hear this, I am not only Kira but I am also god of the new world

@Valanz Parody of this

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