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YKK Revisited
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YKK Revisited

3 Name: Anonymous : 2020-05-23 03:52
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Was it really your first manga? How do you beat that sort of introduction to the medium? Literally some of the best it has to offer. Wow!

I definitely agree, it's not just a comic or something to just consume. YKK is an experience all together. The setting itself is really the star. I think if I were to pick one thing overall is how well it shows the passage of time. There's a panel where alpha and makki are in the cafe and makki is asleep and all of a sudden she begins to remember her as a child in the same sleeping position then takahiro as well and she laments how fast it has been.

Speaking of time, the magical thing about it all is that no concrete numbers are ever mentioned yet you know time has passed through the clues, some overt like takahiro's growth spurt and some not so like when you realize that the grandpa is just not mentioned anymore.

I don't find the ending hopeful to be honest. What future does the little girl have? At least alpha isn't alone, that gives me some solace. I only recently found out that the original ending was supposed to be much darker, the enitre manga too. It was more about how alpha was going to be little by little left alone until she commited suicide, the last pages being her shooting herself and then just one final black panel right after. It may have been dark but that would've cemented this manga as legendary IMO out of sheer cruelty for the character alpha and the reader alike. Guy might've been unironically killed lol.

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