pluckaduck's manga / #Suicide(7)

ch 46. what the fuck is going on?? so we have mc who wants to abandon everything and feels no purpose in life. he meets an idol, who wants to commit a lovers' suicide for some reason. she is empty, like a fish who will drift along anywhere as per one's will. she is married to a weird novelist with whom she has an apathetic(?) relationship and he is connected to mc's mother (a character in his book is based off of her). and she has a mysterious past of her own. she's sleeping with mc's childhood friend/bully's father but she also has a weird relationship with the said friend/bully, who is strangely obsessed with mc. mc's teacher is a nutcase. she deeply longs for a purposeful life but is stuck in a tedious job and life. she takes care of mc for her own pleasure. so she's unhealthily obsessed and protective of him. mc's girl friend struggles with self-esteem and suffocating restrictions imposed by her family who wants to control her life. everyone is so miserable. ch 99. its so fucking complex. that friend/bully was actually in love with mc's mom but she used him. he forced himself to believe he was in love with mc bc of his hurt, thus becoming obsessed with "protecting" him. but no, he just didn't want to believe he killed mc's father bc of mc's mom. mc's mom was coerced by her own shitty mother to prostitute herself since she was 14 and that's what got her so twisted. she wanted to be saved or die with her lover but her first love, the novelist, was too cowardly and stricken with loss over the impossibility to take her virginity that he gave the cold shoulder. so ig that's why she tried to commit a lovers's suicide with her son, who was his replacement. the teacher was so obsessed with helping mc get away from the town bc she wanted it to be reciprocated; she wanted him to whisk her away. nagi is like the least unlikable so far.

each of the three mcs are relatable yet the problems and angst are also rather standard cliche. it's relatively fleshed out, but there is minimal chara development. the paneling and camera shots are great, and really invoked some emotions.