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| I forgot all about him. Damn, he really is forgettable. |
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| I had all kinds of crazy theories like Kenji (which made absolutely no sense if you think about it) but for it to be him is definitely a shock. Where the hell is the story going now? There's still 100 plus chapters left. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
adamantine said: I forgot all about him. Damn, he really is forgettable. I'll try to jog your memory. |
| Oh, wow. Friend is dead? How can the story possibly go on? Props to Urasawa for killing off the villain in the middle of the damn story. That's quite...different. And, as far as his identity is concerned, I didn't even realize it was Fukube until Maruo visited his home. Nice twist, and quite the forgettable character indeed. |
| So friend is actually dead....? Or maybe he will be rushed to the hospital and be saved but he is pretty old so.. |
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insan3soldiern said: I had all kinds of crazy theories like Kenji (which made absolutely no sense if you think about it) but for it to be him is definitely a shock. Where the hell is the story going now? There's still 100 plus chapters left. The hint was in that Fukube was the only one that didn't come to the 2000s show down I actually had those crazy theories too, I completely forgot about Fukube. I thought it might've been Kenji, but he somehow was using a puppet the whole time while communicating with him, instructing him off-panel. LOL, would be funny if it was Kenji |
| "Justice Never Dies!" - Kenji Endou, 20th century Boys |
| What? He was supposedly dead at the "2000 showdown", he jumped off the roof w/ the "fake friend" and "died" ... The proof, while subtle would be A) Why did he do that? It was stupid to just go through all of that if you were going to kill the real friend why not just shoot him from across the fence instead? Since he decided it wasn't worth trying to recover the "remote" by that point .... and B) They never confirmed his death. Then there were a string of other hints including things like while in the virtual world the person who was friend was the person telling the Sadikiyo that he would "kill him if he told anyone about this" |
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| What! Fukube is friend? And is he really dead now? There are still so many chapters left. I wonder what's going to happen now. |
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| Well, he was my favorite since 15-20 chap, since few chaps after second timeskip i was convinced that fukubei is friend. 1:0 for me |
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| Can it really be him? I wonder. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Ha! I fucking knew it. Ever since that suspicious death of fukube. I had that theory on the back of my mind. And with Sadakiyo not being the actual ''Friend'', I pretty much thought it wouldn't make any sense for anyone but him. Awesome series. I don't know how the 10 or so volumes gonna be about. |
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| Pawn. I call it. |
| I saw that coming. Once Urasawa reminded us of apartment number 606 and the events of that drunken reunion night, I automatically suspected Fukube to be under that mask. However, I've read too much Urasawa. This does not necessarily imply Fukube is "Friend." There's still more rabbit-hole jumping to come. Volume 12 was definitely the best of the series thus far. |
| rigt? Fukube? Is true or another liar? |
| Saw it coming. I mean, only since the last two chapters, but still saw it coming. And still can't sort of believe it edit: I JUST REALIZED HIS FULL NAME IS FUKUBE HATTORI AND HE WAS WEARING A HATTORI-KUN MASK ALL THE TIME |
artemis37Mar 6, 2017 1:39 PM
artemis37 said: Saw it coming. I mean, only since the last two chapters, but still saw it coming. And still can't sort of believe it edit: I JUST REALIZED HIS FULL NAME IS FUKUBE HATTORI AND HE WAS WEARING A HATTORI-KUN MASK ALL THE TIME I just saw his name in the database and what you said really makes sense. Still, I didn't see it coming. I wonder what is "the lie of 1970" is and what Donkey "saw". |
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| WHAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SHIT!!! |
| After chapter 131 it wasn't that surprising,but still,wow,it was really Fukubei. Need an explanation what happened 2000,when he supposedly fell from the building. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Finally, the reveal.. since the very first time we met Fukubei, he was my prime suspect.. the way he told his story to Kenji, the way he acted on the roof & my strongest lead to him being "Friend", when Marou tried to check on Fukubei body after his struggle & fall with fake "Friend" on the roof.. Kenji stopped Marou from checking the body... Which also made Kenji my second suspect of being a "Friend" too.. but that doesn't make sense at all.. other than that moment which can be took as Kenji really in a hurry to save the world or to hide major lead for "Friend" identity... I really like the thrilling part of revealing the mystery of "Friend" identity but the selective parts of remembering/forgetting important memories were eye-rolling (in annoying way)... I don't think Fukubei's death is the end of "Friend".. there must be more to it! i don't know how with 100+ chapters left.. but i have a hunch.. |
| I was 99% certain he's "friend" because of two flashbacks, if I remember correctly one was from SadaKiyo's POV and the other one was from Fukubei's POV, summarising: 1. SadaKiyo snuck into Kenji's secret base and said that that's where he met "Friend" reading The Prophecy Book by himself, and "Friend" invited him to read it together and keep it a secret from the others 2. Fukubei snuck into the secret base to read their Prophecy Book, while he was reading it SadaKiyo also tried to snuck in, so he invited him to read it together and keep it a secret from the others These two are one and the same event told from 2 points of view. It was so obvious it still left me with that 1% of uncertainty |
Onii-nyanOct 22, 2018 6:33 PM
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| His "death" was so suspicious it had to be him. fucking called it ayy |
| Brilliantly handled twist. You could put the pieces together from several chapters ago and it still adds up. Became a lot more obvious in recent chapters but considering we have around 120 chapters I'm super excited to see where the story is going to go. |
| wow that reveal was actually insane !!! i have to say i did kinda forget about fukubei's existence. i think one of the only scenes i remember him in is the one of him falling off the building on nye. i had to stop reading this manga a year ago to focus on school so after coming back a year later i've forgotten a lot of stuff unfortunately honestly had a lot of theories about the friend's identity. i personally thought it was keroyon because what happened to that guy lol; at some point i thought it might have even been kenji - i think i circled through kenji's whole group of friends and was ruling them out one by one. even thought it was maybe some outsider that we hadn't been introduced to even though that theory didn't make much sense i feel like fukubei isn't actually dead. i've been thinking that that could have been a duplicate (who had plastic surgery) even though that sounds kinda crazy lol but i really don't know what to expect next. i also firmly believe that kenji is not dead. after revealing that his friend group have all still been kicking around, i'm definitely thinking that kenji may have went into hiding - possibly out of shame? |
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| this is masterful story-telling. this whole time i was made to believe Fukubei was one of the original members, while also not directly coming out and saying he indeed was. subtle hints of a connection, throwing his name around, exposition, then boom- forgettable... until of course, his reveal. suspicions? sure, because he came out of nowhere with the reunion. but to blend it so flawlessly into established history and the repeated flashbacks to once again throw us off the scent. genius-level, at least to me anyway |
| that wasn't as intense as I was expecting. I might be overthinking but now I'm doubting if he's really friend or the one who's behind all of this I might be wrong tho. After all the revelation, I doubt Urasawa is still misleading us about Friend's dentity. |
DefeatingMeApr 29, 2022 8:55 AM
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adamantine said: I forgot all about him. Damn, he really is forgettable. Same. I only remembered him a couple of chapters ago because then it was really apparent who Friend was. |
| That was a very interesting revelation. Fukubei is a character that in relevance just come from 0 to 100 really quickly. He's supposedly Friend? But now he's going to die? There are some conclusions that need some thinking to come to them... And that's how it ends this volume. |
| Very well handled and constructed twist. I can't wait to see where it goes from here. |
"𝙇𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜... 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮... 𝙟𝙤𝙮... 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣... 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚. 𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧... 𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚." |
| Yeahhhh, I don't think Fukube is the real Friend. Too early for him to be revealed and die. Or at the very least, he's not dead, yet again. |
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