Survival

Looks like this arc will be a Lord of the Flies parallel.

He still got screwed over, but no waterfall... i wanted to see him survive some watery falls, oh well.

I don't get these two comments.

You'll learn when you're older.

Future village chief, check.

Future wife, check.

Future stepdad who's overly protective of his daughter, and who murdered those who even vaguely threatened to take his position from him,check.

 

If it's Satoru, he wouldn't have understood the circumstances until a knife was pointed towards him.

After Satsuki and Saturo get married, Satsuki will say "Wow, Satoru, you're so experienced!"

Satoru: "Thanks. I had plenty of experience with a crazy and sick woman right before she died."

I don't get these two comments.

After Satsuki and Satoru get married, Satsuki will say "Wow, Satoru, you're so experienced!"

Satoru: "Thanks. I had plenty of experience with a crazy and sick woman right before she died."

Future village chief, check.

Future wife, check.

Future stepdad who's overly protective of his daughter, and who murdered those who even vaguely threatened to take his position from him,check.

If it's Satoru, he wouldn't have understood the circumstances until a knife was pointed towards him.

I mean, the temperature was going up for the longest time, and this was like the first rain MC had seen in a LONG time. I'd honestly say the forest was still pretty dry, even given the rainstorm.

That doesn't makes the fire any less convenient, with the timing.

And you know what would also have some good timing? if this river leads to a waterfall, i feel like this manga could do with some good waterfalls, it will add to the aesthetics.

At that point it was pretty much cemented that he will be forgiven if he helps with the extremely convenient fire that is taking place in the very wet forest.

I mean, the temperature was going up for the longest time, and this was like the first rain MC had seen in a LONG time. I'd honestly say the forest was still pretty dry, even given the rainstorm.

Food for the fish...

The kid's pretty spry for someone with a cracked sternum.

 

BTW, thanks very much to the translators. You've put in a lot of work so the rest of us lazy bastards don't have to learn Japanese.

I know right? just brought back from drowning and there he is cutting down trees.

How I imagine the grandpa saying to the priest when I read his stupid line:

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Hey! You're a bad man. Apologize to the boy for attempted murder in cold blood, right now mister--I mean it. Don't make call your daughter.

As if he's scolding a child for eating cookies before dinner, undermining the gravity of what he did. The sheer cheesiness pops up every now and then, showing the old age of this series.

At that point it was pretty much cemented that he will be forgiven if he helps with the extremely convenient fire that is taking place in the very wet forest.

How I imagine the grandpa saying to the priest when I read his stupid line:

Karma is a bitch.

The kid's pretty spry for someone with a cracked sternum.

BTW, thanks very much to the translators. You've put in a lot of work so the rest of us lazy bastards don't have to learn Japanese.

die damn kid... you never learn... now i don't care of satoru anymore..

at long last, sweet release.

He was a flying fire type all along, fissure and earthquake did nothing to him, but the moment you hit him with torrent there he goes and dies.

The end.

at long last, sweet release.

The end.

Ch 94 thoughts:

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> Builds a shelter to live in the outskirts of the village, refuses to leave when optimal, forced to leave in the midst of what seems to be a heavy rainfall/flood.
> ....forgets about the entire purpose of his journey in the first place, his raison d'être: to find his family.

>Refuses to believe when someone tries to warn him of people who want him murdered...
> "See, there's no one!" Says no one wants to kill him...not like the villagers leaders haven't shown signs of being pissed at him influencing the villagers or anything, or that they haven't shunned him out of the village, saying all kinds of shit about him to his face... Nope, No siree. None of that happened to make a person weary enough of any spite to warrant his murder.

Seriously though. How thick-headed can someone be? After all the times people have tried to kill him in the past, whether it's being shot at by multiple people on separate occasions, or exiled to a wasteland of certain death...you'd think he had smartened up by now to see when people hate him enough to try to have him offed, especially in this dog-eat-dog world. Speaking of dogs, a part of me wishes one of the dogs from the previous arc had taken one of his legs or something, seeing as how he doesn't use them or his brain, to leave the village to find his family.

my thought exactly...

Ch 94 thoughts:

Whatever floats your boat, man. I find that it doesn't add to anyone's enjoyment to meta into the plot like this. You're basically describing the fact that there's conflict and hardship in this story, but that applies to almost any story. It's like watching Titanic and calling Rose responsible for sinking the ship.

What if she had been in 5 consecutive shipwrecks? With them all travelling through antarctica.

I think that Satoru's surviving because of his mental fortitude, while everyone else are giving up. Think about the woman on the island, the old geezer and the drunk. You'd think that people would try harder, that the fight-or-flight response would kick in. But experiments shows that when faced with inescapable dangers, animals would sometimes freeze without fighting or escaping. Humans 'freeze' as well, mentally, like these villagers but our Satoru has a clear goal ahead of him, and follows through. That's a good lesson to learn from this series. Find a goal, and don't give up.

Regarding the last chapter, what fools they are. "He's running away! Now we DEFINITELY have to kill him! To keep him away!"

Whatever floats your boat, man. I find that it doesn't add to anyone's enjoyment to meta into the plot like this. You're basically describing the fact that there's conflict and hardship in this story, but that applies to almost any story. It's like watching Titanic and calling Rose responsible for sinking the ship.

so, when will he start searching for his family?...

This is a standard correlation-is-not-causation example. Saying he is/brings calamity is meaningless because everything is going to shit generally - he's just lucky and smart enough to survive. If that's what you actually meant, then... well, yes.

Yes.

But you can also look at it this way, we are following an action tragedy story from the hands of a sadistic author who is world renown for having one of longest ongoing manga stories which main character is an assassin for hire, he thrives on writing about grim, so if you want to make a big deal out of nothing with all of this, what i mean is that in this story it is imperative for Satoru to experience destruction whenever he goes because it is a part of the story the author wants to depict, and that's where the "he's just lucky" part enters, his luck is just relevant because everyone else isn't, thus just interacting with him is bound to bring them even more misery.

With all that said, the only ones that may come badly out of this may be just the bad guys of turn, however that will just confirm his prediction, because while Saturo may help the village, for him he will be a calamity for he will lose the power he managed to amass, and that's direct cause case, because that's how this story is written (did you forgot this was a work of fiction down the line somewhere?).

this kid never learned his lesson... how many times did he met people that are dangerous and such?... he should already be in aware and alert of other peoples by now...

This is a recurring theme in the manga, about how the MC is young and naive to the world.

A perfect example of a not-so-naive Satoru would be the baseball guy.

And out of all those examples the only survivor is Baseball Guy, because even the city he visited ended being destroyed... for the major Satoru was a calamity (But there's another example of someone surviving meeting Satoru, the scientist and his assistant.)

 

I am not trying to make this into a supernatural manga neither, but lets face it, he has a history with him.

This is a standard correlation-is-not-causation example. Saying he is/brings calamity is meaningless because everything is going to shit generally - he's just lucky and smart enough to survive. If that's what you actually meant, then... well, yes.