Girl May Kill Chapter 23 Discussion

-Tyrael- said:
Hmm, I think they just ran away together. After all, who else would be taking the video footage of her at the end of the chapter?

Amaredues said:
A lot of people may disagree. This ending makes perfect sense. The MC was suffering from major depression ever since Ritsu died. He felt responsible for everything that occurred. If Mei didn't kill him, he probably would have killed himself.

Dragnoer said:


I agree. I hate it, but I can't think of any other ending for this series that makes sense. It could have been better executed. The mafia "letting her go" is a bit farfetched, but the end result was always going to be tragic.

Mei was a profoundly disturbed little girl from the start. Meeting Gohongi opened her emotional shell, but it also exposed her to further damage. In other circumstances she might have saved, but they both stayed in the mafia world. She formed a twisted lolita relationship with him, because that's the only kind she knew of between a young girl and a man. She did not know how to love a man as a father, because she never had a father figure she could trust. Her experience with men was being raped by or killing them. The first person she murdered was about to have sex with her. Some part of her might even associate murder and sex.

By the end Gohongi was also emotionally broken. His attempts to shield/save Mei made him incapable of emotional distancing himself from the mob war. By Ch. 19 Gohongi was effectively insane with guilt, all that was keeping him alive was "saving" Mei. When he discovered how Mei loved him, he decided that was part of her curse and running away would not be enough. He asked Mei to kill him because he equated Mei repressing all her memories, with her "escaping" from her curse. To Gohongi, inducing PTSD memory loss really seemed like a way to save Mei.

Combine both Gohongi and Mei mental states and their relationship could only end in one or both of their deaths. Instead of taking the easy road and killing Mei and/or Gohongi with the mafia. The author took the hard road and examined how their relationship would might end if they survived the mafia.

Side note. Did anyone else notice that the title is a pun? Girl Mei Kill. I am embarrassed to say it did notice it until Ch 23. when I saw the chapter title: a girl May kills = a girl. Mei. kills. The odd capitalization makes me think it was intentional.

suburbanflower said:
Okay everyone, yes the ending was indeed not intended, but I don't remember exactly what happened. There was some internal conflict going on between the author and the publisher and long story short, she had to end it.

This is also very obvious, if you re-read the manga, you will see there were a lot of potential future conflicts that were set up but just ignored.

For example, the whole Lovely Hometown against Dragon's Beard thing. After killing muramasa, Lovely Hometown were planning to get revenge on Dragon's Beard. Not only that, but they were aware of some internal conflict going on their opposing gang, and were planning to use Rai to make them "collapse".

Also, later on, when Gohongi joins Lovely Hometown and goes on his first meetup with them before they invade a warehouse where some of Dragon's Beard's heads were at, there is a scene where Rai kills someone who was in Dragon's Beard for unknown reasons. But soon after, Lovely Hometown invades the place and begins shooting. This is when Mei is shot and Gohongi takes her to the doctor. But while they leave, Rai escapes as well, leaving behind his Dragon's Beard members. He then says some vague dialogue about how people should look out for themselves indeed. Implying that he is planning on betraying his gang or something of sort.

Amaredues said:
A lot of people may disagree. This ending makes perfect sense. The MC was suffering from major depression ever since Ritsu died. He felt responsible for everything that occurred. If Mei didn't kill him, he probably would have killed himself.

TheNukedGamer said:
Before you criticize the ending you have to remember the one important thing about mei,she has her curse and only way the curse ends is with her death.but if the person know as mei is erased,than her curse is erased to.

The only way to erase a personality and hit the reset button on a human is by causing extream emotional trama,which the brain does a memory wipe basically to protect it self.

When mei killed aki,she gave herself that extream mental trama,and her brain did a memory wipe,therefore sonce the person know as mei(not the body but the personality) dosnt exist any more the curse that she bore dosnt either.

One last fact,this is a dark manga by nature,its set in a dark world,where 2 mafias go at it,dont expect a happy go lucky ending in a evil and dark setting.

If you look at how the story played out its a masterpiece in my opion.