Chi no Wadachi Chapter 153 Discussion

What did you think of this chapter?

DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this chapter. If you want to discuss future events, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to read/download this chapter or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Manga Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.

Nov 21, 2023 11:19 AM

#51

everything-bagel

Offline

Apr 2020

I've been reading this manga since pretty close to when it began. I really have loved reading it and it's a bittersweet feeling to have it be over. Over 4 years of reading!

I think I like the way it ended, although reading this has been such an emotional load spread out over a long period of time and I'm excited to read it front to back over a shorter period sometime soon. Feel like that will help me sort out what I really think of the story as a whole. The first time around though, I've definitely enjoyed the ride. The Fukiishi arc was one of my favorite parts of the manga, I think it's sweet we got some closure with her. Feeling glad Seiichi is at peace. Loved the color panels at the end and the final illustration of Seiko's blurry face.

Nov 21, 2023 8:03 PM

#52

Aylr

Offline

Jun 2016

247

I've genuinely been done with anime and manga for a while now. I might watch an episode or two every two or three months, but this was the only manga that I kept reading, and god, I'm disappointed. Maybe I just misread the whole thing, but I was expecting some sort of twist or something more interesting about the backstory of Seiko. Still, I'm glad it's over. I can move on with my life.

Nov 23, 2023 6:39 PM

#53

UncleWinkleDink

Offline

Feb 2023

I read this manga front to back in one sitting, wow. I'm sad it's over. Such a whirlpool of emotions, such a variety of subjects. Abuse, generational trauma, sexuality, identity, depression, the meaning of love and it's many forms. Not to sound pretentious or anything but damn this was just so good.

Dec 3, 2023 10:27 PM

#54

asoyboy

Offline

May 2019

can't believe how lazy and drawn out this manga got towards the end. finally glad it's over

Dec 4, 2023 11:49 AM

#55

MisterMista

Offline

Mar 2012

Referring to the entire first 100 chapters as a 'prologue' gave a really bad impression as to how the rest of the manga was going to go down, but I don't hate the ending. I suspect that reading the entire manga in an evening would be good catharsis for someone who has their own baggage regarding their mother. When you've been traumatised so early on by someone who's supposed to be your protector, a life where you don't think about them for a bit really is the best that you can hope for.

JJL > GW > SBR > SDC > SO > DiU > BT > PB

Dec 16, 2023 10:25 PM

#56

Co1d

Offline

Feb 2022

. Sad to see such a great manga get so incredibly boring and drag on for so long. This ending and the last 30 chapters made it become a 6-7/10

Dec 16, 2023 10:25 PM

#57

Co1d

Offline

Feb 2022

Reply to Miskatonic81

I'm glad it's ending, there's really no point to the manga with the mother dead.

I think the timeskip was the worst part of the manga for sure.

@Miskatonic81 last 30 chapters were the worst part of the manga

Dec 16, 2023 10:26 PM

#58

Co1d

Offline

Feb 2022

Reply to HozayfaHB

I'm kind of disappointed with this chapter
As a final one, it should have more dialogues (optional)
But I don't feel like Sei had his happy ending like Oshimi-sensei stories other protagonists
Overall, great story (probably my fav of all Oshimi's) with a bittersweet ending.

@HozayfaHB Personally i was disappointed with the last 30 chapters of this manga

Dec 18, 2023 12:44 PM

#59

HozayfaHB

Offline

Sep 2019

690

Reply to Co1d

@HozayfaHB Personally i was disappointed with the last 30 chapters of this manga

@Co1d
I can agree to a certain point, but the final one was really a tough pill to swallow

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/HozayfaHB&sclick=1

Dec 25, 2023 6:42 AM

#60

plutomutt

Offline

Mar 2010

146

I called my mom. I told her I loved her, and I was thankful that she birthed me.

Jan 5, 9:44 AM

#61

Zoushu

Offline

Sep 2015

669

I think it's fitting as an ending. This was quite a good manga but I wouldn't do a rearead, the story is very drawn out, and the final dozen chapters are too depressing. Felt heavy in the stomach a bit there, I almost started crying at the last chapter and I'm not even sure what for lol. My favorite part was Seiko's backstory, for the nostalgia and melancholy.

can dis sig fit

Jan 10, 4:02 AM

#62

joeykeys

Offline

Nov 2019

Magnificent manga. The story and artwork were top-notch. The ending was very sad. He looked after his mother until her demise. Their opening up to each other and being honest about their feelings was profound and tragic at the same time. He managed to move on from his trauma but it still affected him in a strong way living alone for the rest of his life.

Jan 21, 5:34 AM

#63

slorgansmorgan

Offline

May 2021

bro i just wanted my boy to be happy. i just wanted him to get with fukishi and just live happily ever after

Jan 24, 4:01 PM

#64

cloud8100

Offline

Feb 2010

439

Honestly a better ending for Seiichi than I thought we'd get. It was bittersweet, but to reach a point where he's content and at peace with himself and the world feels good. This manga was a roller-coaster of emotions.

Feb 4, 8:20 PM

#65

landofthekwt

Offline

Mar 2015

12628

He is finally at peace

Feb 15, 5:32 AM

#66

Mandelbrot19

Offline

Apr 2016

129

Used to read this years ago but somehow lost track of the manga and reading manga in general. Years later on a random as all-nighter, I decide to listen to nostalgic music that reminds me of a time I used to read manga alot and write names of said mangas/animes. I found this in the reading section and got flooded with the unusually story behind it, I finally started reading again and I couldn't stop, it was quite captivating but overall, that was bittersweet towards the end. Despite her mum causing such a heavy life lasting trauma, I actually felt really bad for her towards the end and I'm glad he took care of her. In the end, he found peace I'd like to think, reading books and just enjoying life and such, he even started to forget her face, kind of showing that he'd moved on at that point. Bittersweet yet a nice ending, it feels similar to something I am in real life right now so this is quite strange, I'll miss this manga and the time I first found it.

Mar 2, 4:52 PM

#67

Kap92

Offline

Feb 2018

3235

And just like that Seii got old, managed to live through his scars and grew old. It's good that he wasn't able to remember Seiko's face, live in peace mr Seii.

Mar 4, 5:19 AM

#68

SrRoses

Offline

Jul 2022

uff peero que buen manga.

Mar 16, 2:51 AM

#69

Lincompoop

Offline

May 2013

633

It has been a cathartic ride and probably one of the most if not the most heart-wrenching mangas I've read. At least MC is finally at peace with himself and past ghosts.

Mar 20, 8:38 PM

#70

rodmanii

Offline

Nov 2018

it was an interesting read, and a quick one also, this author works often have little dialog with lots of panels showing the character expressions, and i have to highlight the great attention to such expressions and their variety, i still remember seiko's face of disgust when she found seichi's underwear, seichi's strugling face while trying to speak, seichi's aunt wide smile and her face of rage when confronting seiko, truly the expressions are the peak of the art in this manga, backgrounds were fine but nothing special.

When it comes to the plot, if there was a message, what was it?

that even if a troubled past shaped our life there arent wounds that time cant heal? that with time, those awful experiences we once went through will become so distant than they will no longer hold any influence over our life? that holding on to resentment just make us unable to live happy fullfilling lifes? besides the message that it may have i dont get the reasons behind seiko actions, like, we are shown she was treated like an unwanted child and had a hard time making friends, that she felt distant from her close ones, but i felt it was a little lackluster, sure, she didnt have a nice childhood or teenager years but she still managed to make a couple of friends and even a longterm boyfriend before having seichi, then why was she so dissastfied with her life? and how this dissatisfaction turned into an attempted murder against her own son? and the fact that when she realizes seichi actually didnt die she just gets annoyed and backtracks her plans of murder suicide, it felt so silly, so nonsensical, like it was something she did without any real commitment and all of this in order for what? she could always have left, and in fact, she does during the trial, why wait so much to do something? one may say it was because of social expectations but then again, was seiko the kind of women that will oblige to such social expectations? the constant criticism she got from others never got her to be any less overprotective of seichi and obviously didnt prevent her from trying to kill his little child, and when she does leave she does nothing but work dead end jobs to sustain herself, no big dream, no big change in her life, just a small room and a cat, why was all that for? she made so many people miserable for nothing but mediocrity, but wait, maybe thats the point, that life is trail, and that at the end of such trail all of our actions are irrelevant whatever evil, like seiko, or good, like ichiro, we did during our life, time will make sure its all forgotten to the point no one even remembers our face, but wait, no, i refuse, i refuse such notion, life is indeed a trail, but how and with whom do we traverse is up to us, no matter what, or who happened to us in the previous portions of such trail it always up to us to decide how we go on this trail, happines is there, right in front of you, SEIZE IT, or maybe not, but i much prefer the latter interpretation, anyway, i liked it, i give it an 8 out of 10

Mar 20, 10:31 PM

#71

prtk_is_free

Offline

Aug 2015

What a waste of my time. Absolute dogshit.

Chapter 16 was the peak. I was on the edge of my seat until the mom got arrested too.

Should've dropped it there cus the rest was plain boring.

prtk_is_freeMar 20, 10:37 PM

Apr 2, 9:20 PM

#72

Shidoteki

Offline

Aug 2012

472

KanaeKazama said:
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?

What a waste of time and potential. Jesus Christ.

We still don´t know who really pushed the cousing or anything. The mom got away, he lived a fu**ng sad life... he didn´t resolve nothing, no development, NOTHING.

I agree, kind of a waste of time with no conclusion at all

Apr 19, 11:15 AM

#73

Rhaelynne

Offline

Aug 2018

16452

The second half of the manga was so drawn out. I get it, but the manga could have been less than a hundred chapters long. I like the last chapter, but the second half or last quarter of the whole manga was so unnecessary. Meh, whatever.

Apr 20, 12:57 PM

#74

KanYeeT

Offline

Aug 2018

215

I think the irony in her story is that she thought she would be something big or there was something exceptional waiting for her and she kept blaming people around her for holding her back. Her family, her friends , her husband, her son. Everyone. She needed to get rid of them. Once she ruined her son's life and disowned him, what happened to her? Nothing, she lived even a more mediocre life but this time alone with a cat. No relationships, no connections , absolutely nothing of value. She's just a lonely cat lady who pisses herself.
I know people wanted her to be punished in jail but I feel like her punishment here was more meaningful to her character. Her daily life was probably worse than that of seichi since she saw how utterly unimportant she's.

See All Discussions

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 23 Discussion Stark700 - Feb 27, 2018	10	by MidnightTv13 »» Apr 25, 8:47 PM
Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 146 Discussion Adnash - Jun 1, 2023	22	by KanYeeT »» Apr 20, 2:34 PM
Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 152 Discussion CQLLIST - Aug 27, 2023	20	by Kap92 »» Mar 2, 4:51 PM
Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 151 Discussion Adnash - Aug 12, 2023	19	by Kap92 »» Mar 2, 4:51 PM
Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 150 Discussion GurschachX - Jul 30, 2023	21	by Kap92 »» Mar 2, 4:51 PM

Chi no Wadachi Chapter 153 Discussion

More topics from this board

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 23 Discussion

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 146 Discussion

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 152 Discussion

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 151 Discussion

Poll: » Chi no Wadachi Chapter 150 Discussion

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters