What was that... Like... Im in shock... This manga got me trippin... The more i've read this, i think i might need more brain cells to keep up with this. Like the last few chapters got me (°0°) wtf... I THINK I FOUND ANOTHER ONE OF THE BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL MANGAS THATS UNDERRATED. Like i'm so good at this! Anyways, this has the best plot, from the introduction of trepanation and homoculus got me feeling good cus you know what i always want, mangas that gives me knowledge. And this has a check on the list! So many wisdoms and best quotes out here that makes me phantom about humans. We are much more complex than the world around us and if you get to study different kind of thing around yourself, and being able to use your senses at full potential is just fascinating and something to be studied about. Aside from this incredible art and best plot wist, i just want to comment about the doctor, i mean we all love a good trans representation so i just kinda want to tell that... Hehe shes so pretty and i love how she be able to express herself more! Its just you know she kinda has a fault at what happened to the mc because that is illegal. I kind of want teh ending at that, but at the same time, no. Cus i really wish them happiness you know? But sht thats reality. Maybe im caught up by all that fantasy and sht and mangas like this hits you with that. But i think that's his karma. The tought of abandoning the only person that can see you for you and the baby is just pathetic don't you think? You wanted to try being the top and when you see that you can't feel anything you just keep escaping and escaping and looking down. Keep demanding of wanting to look at you when clearly you can't even look at them first. Sorry a little rant here. The storytelling is so good, like i just emersed myself into the story. I could clearly see what the guys coming from and how hes entire life has been explained through. The characters in the story are explained deeply using homculus so having visual representation and learning is what explains it better. Their are some nasty shit in their that i don't reallyy want to specify like 'eating myself' and 'seeing myself' and age gap is crawling into my skin. Other than that just the crazy plot twist like, the doctor being trans, them crying after therapy, explaining sand, suicide, and nanako and him being ugly and pregnant?! Areone of the best moments that left me shocked. Seriously the best. I think i can't explain this to my friend if i reccomend it but not really reccomend for all cus the gore and psychological shit but 9/10 from mixflava: Wow that ending...
My guess is that after Nakoshi used the trepanation method on Nanako and went out, he started seeing all of those "Homunculi" as himself and is able to become friends with people easily and know their problems because he realized his own problems. The thing is that he left Nanako to bleed to death and during the 1 year time he dissappeared, he went on a search for a volunteer who would also try to "see him" like he tried with Nanako and use trepanation on them. That's why a year later when he was eating in his car, Manabu Ito showed up looking like a real girl which I thought at first was Nanako and he almost used trepanation on him. I think Nakoshi has been killing people with trepanation in that 1 year time skip and that Ito decided to find him to stop what started only as an experiment and ended up with a Nakoshi who seemed insane or maybe he was also kind of an enlightened psychopath who just wants someone to accept him. But the police came and I guess it's the end for Mr. Nakoshi.
That's how I interpret the last few chapters of this volume and I think it ties up the story pretty well. It's kind of a sad ending though I'm not gonna lie I still feel pretty bad for Nakoshi and what he had gone through. I'll definitely recommend this manga to anyone who is interested of a psychological dark drama. I don't know what to say more but I'd like to see what others opinion on this ending. The beginning started of great and then got slightly slower near the middle and got a good ending. I'll give this an 9/10 overall.
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