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| - Starts with a flashback of Kimura with his wife and their two kids (Amahiko and Arie). His wife begins talking about dreams of becoming a butterly and seeing all, and how she can hear God who is saying that the end coming and how the end is not the end, but eternity. Kimura freaks out saying that if that’s true, that means he will continue to suffer for all eternity and starts choking his wife, denying the existence of God. - They are both swarmed by glowing butterflies and his wife tells him not to be afraid and that it all depends on him. - It cuts to Kimura lying dead on the ground by the hospital building, covered with butterflies. He apparently had leapt from his hospital room window and committed suicide during that chapter where Arie had awakened from her coma. - Then cuts to the police talking. Older police man talks about the recent deaths and then mentions how a woman committed suicide near the tunnel (Miss Sasaki, most likely) and how it’s similar to when a woman cut her throat 10 years ago at the same area (Arie's mother/Mr. Kimura's ex-wife) - Hayato covers his ears as the older officer tells him this and begins talking about how it must be the monster and the monster is on the move. Butterflies close in around him and he begins screaming. - Cuts to Maki in the street. She catches a butterfly and crushes it between her fingers. She stares up at a swarm of butterflies in the sky with almost a hostile sort of look. - Comes home and apparently she lives with Kouta now. Kouta is staring out the window, completely unresponsive. Maki embraces him and tells him he can never leave this room for the rest of his life. - Finally comes back to one of the scenes the manga opened with, and we discover the identity of the man talking was Makoto who is talking to Arie. He tells her how beautiful she is and how he wants to keep her beauty eternal. He asks her to tell him the rest of the story, but it cuts to a wider shot of the room where Makoto and Arie aren’t sitting there, but instead there is a pool of blood where Makoto was and a doll where Arie presumably was. Floating above the center of the table are two glowing butterflies. - Fades to black and cuts to the time of the first scene that the manga opened with. If you re-read, it's actually a direct continuation of where that scene ends. At first read, it looks like Kid-Amahiko who is at the hospital after what was probably another one of his failed suicide attempts. He’s on the roof of the hospital in a wheelchair and begins crying after the nurse leaves him there. - He’s approached by the old man from the beginning of that manga, who was talking to adult-Amahiko, and presents him with the tin box, telling him to be strong of will, and that he gets to choose what direction his life takes. He reveals to him that his name is also Amahiko and then vanishes into a butterfly fluttering away. Lots of unsolved mysteries with even more being introduced this chapter. Last we saw Kohta, he was wondering through the tunnels and seemingly dreaming about some reality that jumped him back to the time Maki first came over and they slept together, and how they were going to buy flowers for Arie at the hospital. And yet, here he is in this chapter at Maki's, in some weird mindless state. And Maki seems to have a few loose screws after all that has happened. Last we saw of Amahiko was his encounter with Arie where the raping and punching and butterfly teleportation happened. And we don't get to see his adult self in this last chapter. Also, is there like some weird Amahiko reincarnation cycle going on or something? I found his character interesting, but i'm so confused... And then there was Miss Sasaki, who was last seen sitting on the steps by the tunnel, before getting covered by butterflies. This chapter alludes to the fact that she may have committed suicide. I guess that's the most straightforward resolution to one of the characters, at least...Well, there was also Mr. Kimura committing suicide. As for Arie...No idea what she is or who she is or if she is even alive after the whole thing with Amahiko. And there is Takahama (the boy that was bullied). Who apparently stabbed a kid or something and then vanished in the interrogation room. (I think?) Not sure what that was about... I get that you can look into the butterflies and Arie and the monster in the tunnel and what those may represent, but then there are other things like what I mentioned that just feel like they ultimately didn't go anywhere. I dunno. I enjoyed this a lot more on my second read, but mannnnnnnnn i'm lost. |
TheGenkiGuyApr 25, 2018 8:16 AM
| This was very confusing to read. I got the gist of it and some symbolisms used but there are just scenes I can't make out to well. I might try rereading again anda again |
| I need to re-read this manga for sure, did not quite get what has happened at the end, and what was real too |
| “Life is a constant process of dying.” |
| Well, I can't say I understood much of anything and nothing about what I read is making me want to read more about it. There's probably layers of deeper meanings to this but I just don't care. |
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