Sankarea Chapter 56.1 Extra Discussion

RaidenHUN said:
I think they were just some random kids, cos Rea would have just died and Chihiro would not left her for anyone else.
Not to mention she said grandmother, if Furuya would be related to the she would have said father/grandfather not grandma

rekster said:
well i would like to add my hypothesis too,

what i think happened is that Rea and chihiro lived together in the forest and chihiro died of old age OR he also became a zombie (i would personally become a zombie) and lives together forever until they decay.

the children are the grand children of the heroins after they grew up and married different into different families.

well that's just my conclusion so feel free to believe it or make up your own conclusion.

PS i spent a lot of time outraged at the ending and finally came to this one since i can stand a story without an ending, man you don't know the hell i went through, almost stopped reading manga because of the ending.

End said:
Alright I'm confuse here. This is the ending of manga. Okay Rea can't give birth since she is a zombie. Who is the mother of Tama and Rai-nee ? Anyone can give at least a good answer ?

On the wiki and many group discussion, Unfortunately, they give these three answer.

-Mero Furuya
-Ranko saoji
-Darin Arnschent kurumiya

lol wtf, which one did actually chihiro married ?

exist_archived said:


I have a feeling that the grandparents Rea was referring to was her own parents (Danichiro Sanka & Aria Sanka). Both Danichiro and Aria probably had 2 children called Rai and Tama. The reason for my logic is both Danichiro seemed like he is a changed man, and has finally noticed his second wife, Aria (Chapter 56). Also, Rai can be seen wearing a ribbon that look like it belonged to the maids working in the Sanka family which was probably Aria's ribbon. The hair pin on Tama would most probably be given by Rea so as to celebrate the birth of the child by her own parents. (The reason for Tama obsession for zombies was probably because of Chihiro's influence when both Rea and Chihiro visited them) OR (Tama found out that Rea is a zombie. Remember in one of the Chapters (I think it was Chapter 50 something...) Chihiro had a obsession with zombies after he found out that his mother became a zombie? It was probably the same for Tama's case where Tama found out that Rea was actually a zombie.

I highly doubt that Chihiro left Rea as both of them seemed to be deeply in love with each other. Furthermore, I doubt that Chihiro would have chose Darin or Wanko as there was no progress in their relationship (He was away with Danichiro to get an artificial heart transplanted in him).

Hence, I believe that Chihiro and Rea are still together. The purpose of the Special Chapter was probably to conclude the relationship between Rea's own parents as they have been bickering the whole series and no proper conclusion was given to them in Chapter 55. So the Author probably wanted to make a Special Chapter with Danichiro and Aria children playing around to tell the readers that both the couple Danichiro & Aria and Rea & Chihiro had a happy ending.

I seriously do not think the author wanted to create more confusion. But these are just my thoughts...

Kex777 said:
Honestly though... this manga was really goin good and then the last four or five chapters just sucked. I don't need a perfect ending. But my god.

However, I do need one that makes sense. Nothing about this makes sense.

1.) When has someone who is immortal ever been happy with that shit. She sure as hell didn't get to experience a normal girls life for more than, lets be honest like maybe two weeks. NOBODY WHO IS IMMORTAL IS EVER ACTUALLY HAPPY. Like in all honesty. That last "bonus" chapter just made me dislike the "conclusion" more and I feel pretty generous even putting conclusion in parenthesis. If Rea proved she was happy with the so called "normal girls life" then fine, but I'm sure we all know that even though she got to experience SOME thing it really wasn't much.. other than experience normal girl drama... except for the whole her being a zombie thing.

2.) Chirihos love for zombies still never got him his zombie girlfriend? what was the god damn point of this manga then? I mean really. I thought that's what was happening, and the entire point of this. They LITERALLY talked about it multiple times and it couldn't happen. Ridiculous.

3.) Saying, "Thanks for the meal" doesn't fit a nice ending nor do I care if it is a nice ending.. as long as it makes sense, but that doesn't make any sense. That heavy moment and that's what she said? Jesus just kill her now she shouldn't even be alive anyway After all they've been through how did that not piss him off to some extent? And where was the love?

4.) Seriously? where was the love?! how can they go through all that shit and not be head over heels for someone who did all that for them or loved them enough to do all that for them. What a joke.

5.) Honestly the whole author wants you to decide yourself crap? Oh yeah that always goes over real well when you throw in two more random characters that nobody is sure who's they are for sure.


I had real high hopes for this after seeing the anime, but now I almost wish I had just stuck with the anime, and maybe others feel the same. There's prolly more I could go on about but they just haven't crossed my mind yet.

Anyway, it could have been good, but wasn't and now I need something far more relaxing... anyone got anything? :P

End said:


here is my opinion for all of your numbered list;

1. It is quite true as you said, most of immortal cant be happy. idk if this trend but most of manga with immortal concept wont be a happy story. it start good like maybe this one will try to happy path but sadly i already noticed half way this just the cycle of drama. She just experienced the immortal and maybe a few thing to be excited about like strength and etc etc but as for happiness you can pretty much knows it is hardly there. What actually looks to me is the author running out of idea how to end it properly, as such this chapter must be the black sheep for the sake of 'end'. The story need to end, and the author choose this path. Its just too bad.

2. rather i think it does is implying more points of why zombie and human can never be together. e.g. rotten skins, different lust, immortality and solid fact the one side is already a corpse. Well to be honest , when Rea die, i already knows where this is going anyways. idk what the romance is about anymore, maybe a love that pass a boundary of time.

3. well too bad because being zombie is about living with corpse body. they cant just kill her as it will ruined even the manga itself. but not much said, the manga is already ruined in many aspect.. and it is hopeless ..

4. they love each others, it just after all the trouble and hardship, they come to term that they just cant be together no matter how much love is inside. in the end, it just become a memory to treasure , sigh

5. I hope it turned better but sadly it wasn't. Move on ya mate

I got a couple but i atm only 2 come into mind, try nukoduke as well machida-kun no sekai , both is really great in calming vibe yet enjoyable

Kex777 said:


True. You made plenty of good points. I've since calmed down and even forgotten about this manga TBH. I was just super heated after reading it while staying up late to read it one nigh XD I've also come to terms with it and the ending has grown on me to some extent. It just wasn't what felt right, especially with that bonus kind of chapter. It's fine though. No author is perfect and they did their best.

Thanks for the recommendations! I'll be sure to check them out!

Juarez said:
Oh boy.. I wish I didn't read this extra chapter

The anime has been sit on my harddisk for years, I forgot what stop me from watching this in the past
(Maybe the gore part of Rea turn me away). But I'm glad I give this a chance, coz the story is really good after they start living together. Well long story short, the cliffhanger at the end of the anime (when Darin appeared), made me read the manga.

but man.. the ending was sucks. I read all the chapter in one sitting but almost stopped when Rea lost her memory, that's just too sad. with a hope that the memories will come back later I continue.. But sadly again, until the very last chapter that's not coming back. And then, the special chapter hurt me more mentally T.T

as for my impression, I think and agree with this theory:
Rea and Chihiro continue their relationship but can't live normally at that town anymore, not after the tragedy at that school and what their friends saw in the last few chapters. Maybe they move somewhere, and Chihiro eventually die, thus Rea living alone. Those kids might be mero's grandchilds, but the one who tell them the story would be Ranko (I just can't imagine mero tell them such story, Ranko called Rea monster before after all)

It would be much, much and much better if the author ends it like these:
1. give special chapter which show every main characters life, just few flash forwards are okay, and ended with Chihiro and Rea scene chatting peacefully somewhere. that would be ideal, OR
2. the 56.1 is fine, but add extra scene/panel where Chihiro appeared behind Rea, said: "aah.. you scare them, poor kids" or something like that(yes, he's still living). Honestly, the lone Rea is just really, really sad.

Well, I had feeling that this story will have sad ending, ever since I started watch the anime. But even if it ends with Rea disappear/die still much better than this.

Okay that's all, sorry for my long rant in this very old topic.
now I will need some time to heal my poor heart.. -.-

bakamel said:
NOW LET ME TELL THE REAL END DUDE

1. Chihiro stay with Rea until the world ends. So Chihiro is imposible to have childs with other girls, even if Rea is immortal zombie and impossible to gave birth.
2. Rei is the granddaughter of Meru with Mr. X
3. Tama is the grandson of Ranko with Mr. Y

Case closed thank you

arief- said:

Chihiro and Rea Immortal?

archeotech said:
I decided to give an ending which might be possible.

The grandmother is mero and Rea doesn't really know who the grandfather is so who cares.
Remember both Mero and Chihiro were traumatised by their mother turning into a zombie so were both weird and Mero had friends that were obsessed with zombies. Most characters in this series were into zombies so wouldn't be strange that the grandkids were as well. Also Mero enjoyed setting up that test of courage earlier in the story and spooking people which is kind of what she did again to the kids.

Chihiro would've aged much slower so is most likely alive still. As he put it he'd also turned into a monster.
Also Rea was content cause she literally and figuratively had Chihiro's heart so they would always be together. Chihiro had essentially rejected Wanko before so possible they never got together.

I'm also disappointed myself with this ending but hope people like my interpretation. :)

Edit: Actually thinking on it this interpretation makes most sense.
When Rea thought that Chihiro was dead she couldn't bear living so to me the fact that she's living happily means that Chihiro must be alive somewhere and she would've mentioned him to the kids if he was their grandfather. We also have to wonder if Chihiro could even have kids due to his half zombie state cause it's possible the grandfather adopted Chihiro's mother as it was said in ch40 that Chihiro wasn't related to his grandfather. Also his grandfather never had any other kids even with his second wife whom he spent several years with so this could be a side effect.

The kids obsession with zombies could also be because of Chihiro who's probably still obsessed with them. If Mero was in her 60s then Chihiro might only seem to be in his 40s due to the effect of the zombie poison and very hard to kill seeing as he survived having his heart ripped out.

Think that wraps it up and makes most plausible senario. :)

kkeuroi said:


Thank you, you just saved me from a trauma and a broken heart over a special chapter. I also think that the grandmother of the children at the end is Mero's and the grandfather is her guy friend that is obsessed with zombies, which explains Tama's behavior, love for zombies, Rai-nee's hair color and style is a mix of the two.

ArbiterVildred said:
Welp , I read the special chapter ... Thats a big mistake of my life , now I always want to find information about ss2 anime because I hope they gonna renew :( ( I know it won't happen but got damn that ending hurt my heart )

End said:
Alright I'm pretty much confused here. This is the ending of manga. Okay firstly Rea can't give birth since she is a zombie. Who is the mother of Tama and Rai-nee ? Anyone can give at least a proper answer ?

On the wiki and many group discussion, Unfortunately, they give these three answer.

-Mero Furuya
-Ranko saoji
-Darin Arnschent kurumiya

lol wtf, which one did actually chihiro married ?

c0mpleX911 said:
This is my inference of the chapter . Chihiro lived out his life with Rea.Ranko had a kid with someone else . This kid then had Rai and Tama(Since Ranko also became a Zombie fan, that could be how it came to Tama). Grandmother refers to Ranko. As for Chihiro, he is either dead or perhaps he could still be living with Rea (He says that even he has become a monster, so with a situation similar to Gramps, it is quite possible). How I see it, Chihiro and Rea still live together in that Tunnel and might have planned to die together just like the Gramps and his frozen wife. This is based on the last line of chapter 56 that says "From now on, always together until I decay"