Hello again anons, welcome back for volume 5 of Moto Hagio's A Savage God Reigns. Jeremy's life continues to get more interesting, with a new therapist, dalliances with boys at his dorm, and feelings for a young girl who plays the organ. What will be the consequences?The works of Hagio and her contemporaries ("the '49ers") represented an experimental new direction in girls' and women's manga in terms of both content and style. I hope some anons who might be unfamiliar with these mangaka and their works, or who might generally avoid girls' comics or older manga altogether, will consider reading along and trying something new. You might be surprised.For those who would like to catch up and join in, here are the previous threads:Vol. 1: >>268448441Vol. 2: >>268501695Vol. 3: >>268540638Vol. 4: >>268581029For the Japanese-speaking anons among us: tinyurl dot com slash 4wj859ppOnce more unto the breach.
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>>268616753HMM I WONDER
>>268615691It's surprising Ian never got to lick Jeremy's eyebrows with how unbelievably erect they seem to make him.
>>268615708>loud snorers>if I were living in a posh boarding school they would've given me a cozy room all for myself while everyone else would have to share theirs with at least 3 other monkeys
>>268615955>48thMan, he is busted
>>268615937This motherfucker
And that is volume 5. Partly brought to us by gao, and partly by carfish. Thanks to everyone who is following along.
>>268616362Do painkillers of heroin variety really work that fast?
>>268616519Amazing Greg there.
>>268615632>welcome to our dorm!>your room will be the cramped closet we filled with mothballs and dusty sweaters
>>268617795Was this all part of Greg's keikaku?
>>268615691ian ADHD moments
>>268615947I forget, why does Matt react so badly to the mask?
>>268618914Natasha said somewhere in a thought bubble that he probably saw her getting whipped by greg while wearing that mask.He was too young to remember, but it did leave an impression on him
>>268615808>while i'm listening to you play the organ it doesn't reek anymore nadia is unphased by this
>>268615855sandra is so stupid sometimes, my god.
>>268615925"Feel it"? Does Ian know what cars are for?
>>268615937>>268616036Greg was just out for blood this night.
>>268615846>It’s the color of my eyes, salmon pink.…What? Is the ESL translator high again?
>>268616824>Greg el forma Super Saiyan Gun
>>268616108Come the fuck on
>>268616121can we please acknowledge this talking dog
>>268617309>>268617319Artfully done, Jer.
>>268616239One of my favorite pages in the manga.
>>268616942Jeremy comes off like an absolute psycho to Ian here.
>>268616053>>268616065>>268616298Greg has the abuser game down to an art form. As soon as Jeremy finds solace in nurturing a connection with another person, he hones in on it and poisons Jeremy's feelings for them so that he associates them with horrible memories, further isolating him.
>>268617223Ian as Mary punching the shit out of Joseph is the funniest shit. Forget the drama, I want to see that play.
>>268616239everything is falling to pieces! brought to you by gao-subs
>>268616478greg's neck fetish strikes again
>>268616519one of the gregs of all time
>>268616712sandra feels like she's doing a jeremy impression here
>>268616824idk guys, i'm kinda starting to think this guy might be a lil crazy
>>268616019>>268616699The flowers were burning on the stove, but then there's a panel focusing on healthy ones for no reason. Is it her physical state? Something else? A coincidence?
>>268617704>MC is a rape magnetIt’s shoujo, alright.
>>268618104When taken orally, definitely not. These might as well be fantasy drugs.
>>268619720Never met a car fan, I see. Touching a beautifully made car feels really good.
>>268622318What I'm getting from this is that car fans are perverts.
>>268616958>i don't need drugs anymore, i'm a corpsea bold new anti-drug campaign slogan
>>268617309>>268617319I don't know whether to laugh or cry
>>268615632>here's your single room so you can continue more of the behaviour that got you moved, but now you can do it uninterrupted and in private
>>268620278sounds like Sandra is
>>268615937just Greg things
>>268617391where's the lie, Greg?
>>268615427Gotta hustle to catch up now.
>>268624602When I get up each morning to make the next thread there's always still discussion going on. I do wonder maybe doing one thread every 48 hours would give people a bit more time to read and discuss.
>>268624641Just part of the format of daily storytimes.If you get behind a volume, especially on a series like this where you might take breaks when reading, it can be hard to catch up on a standard schedule. But on the other hand, it saves you from having to wait 6 months to read the whole series.
>>268623561That is a pretty typical response, particularly in these kinds of schools. He may calm down eventually, or he might not, but in the meantime they've made it harder for him to cause problems for the other students. Fixing whatever's he's got going on isn't a priority, unfortunately.
>>268624641It's normal for people to try to keep discussion going until the next one, I think irregular or non-daily releases actually make it harder because people forget if there was supposed to be a chapter that day and don't show up to discuss or they get tired of the wait and drop off. Daily is generally preferable.
>>268624641The daily volume posts are easier to remember to check in for
>>268617808Thank you for posting.
>>268618653There's no way he planned it but he must have been very pleased at the opportunity.
>>268617170>>268617184That's quite an outfit.
>>268617808I'm going to miss gao subs and their wacky watermarking ways
>>268615427Sandra is the perfect annoying mother figure in that her hysterics throw off even the main villain. Greg can barely keep up with her when she gets going, so it never feels like she's irrationally tag-teaming Jeremy. Instead she's a loose cannon that will throw a self-pity party in any direction.
>>268617253Extremely shoujo reaction face.
>>268616712Sandra wanted Natasha to die so bad kek
>>268617752JESUS CHRIST
>>268617346Jeremy talking back to Sandra is how you know shit's getting to be too much for him.
>>268617346This felt extremely satisfying
>>268616362>Oh, this? It's laced with drugs.jpg
>>268617391>>268617446that jeremy boy ain't right
>>268617373The top-right corner is so sad. The family's happiness is on full display but so is the silent suffering of the child that happiness depends on.
>>268617446Hallelujah and the angel's trumpet as shorthand for the urge to kill is an... interesting idea. I wonder why she went with that though.
>>268617469:(
>>268616625>>268616636greg has a phd in guilt tripping
>>268631244I can recall a lot of incidents in the news where someone with mental health problems broke down and attacked a family member claiming that God sanctioned the act. I think in part it's the conflict between impulse and morality, the individual can't explain why the impulse is so potent and frequent when it doesn't match who they are, so attributing it to an outside force that communicates in vague signs open to their interpretation is welcomed. The stress of responsibility for those impulses is lifted and their message justified by a higher rank than the individual, overruling what they've stood by in the past and relieving them of making the choice. Also Greg and Nadia conveniently introduced church attendance so the imagery works its way in smoothly for readers.
>>268631244>>268632158It could also be a judgement thing. Or salvation from Greg's abuse from Jeremy's perspective.
>>268617477Ian is a caring guy, but unless Jeremy talks there’s absolutely no way for him to guess what’s going on.
>>268629065Sandra is one of those "Moto maybe hates women" moments.
>>268617525Really interesting visual going on here. Is it meant to be an allusion to Noah's Arc? I don't know shit about the bible.
>>268617639Greg flexing that he's a bad parent.
>>268617808Thanks, OP. This was quite a depressing volume, wasn't it? It feels like Jeremy's old self has crumbled completely and what's left is a shell who sees no way out but to kill. Surely this is the low point and things can only go uphill from here. :^)
Corrections. Sorry these are so late, I was too exhausted to stay up late reading yesterday.>>268615846"The color of my eyes" should be "the color that matches my eyes" (as in a complimentary way, not the same color).>>268617267"Because you left" should be "After you left."
>>268615517their uniforms are powder blue? what the fuck?
>>268616763With this and strangling Lilia, Greg seems to have a weird boner for telling his bedmates he's killed someone
>>268617600>>268617610Ian flings off his coat to show the DARE shirt underneath.
>>268617430Depressing-ass page
>>268615955So Greg is 48? I wonder if there's any age gap between him and Sandra or if they're around the same age.
>>268615543True love.
>>268637789Yeah, I wonder too. I'd guess she's late 30s or early 40s.
>>268617499he's losing it
>>268617752Maaaan.
>>268617752I have no idea how I felt sympathy for Ian first time I read this
>>268639159I mean, he doesn't know. It really sucks that he says these things, but he doesn't know.
>>268639519I don't give a fuck, that guy was groping and forcing himself on his younger brother
>>268616849>>268616853In a previous thread, I brought up reading this on Mangafox ages ago and that I didn't realize it was missing multiple chapters until later. One of these pages is exactly where it skipped ahead to, so the Sharon subplot was cut but not Jeremy wigging out that Greg killed her and searching for her body. I'm still bemused it took me so long to notice with how out of left field that is removed from context.
>>268639709it was just a kiss, bro
>>268617738Actually, I'm curious what the school is supposed to do in this situation. Savage instigated the assault, which is a crime, but Jeremy escalated it with a much more violent assault. Seems like a real legal mess.
>>268615691Ian and those goddamn eyebrows.His eyes are down there, dude.
>>268640773The general rule is that you can defend yourself proportionately to the amount of physical danger you are in. In this case Jeremy would be more in the wrong, because his response was disproportionately violent and he added another hit even when Savage was obviously incapacitated.
>>268624602Normally I'm able to plow through a volume of manga pretty fast, but with this one I gotta stop and take a break every 10 or so pages. It is a rough one.
>>268639709As far as he knows, it was just a kiss. Shit like that happens all the time in same-sex boarding schools, and he’s spent his whole life there.
>>268640773It's also complicated by the fact that only those two were witnesses, and they'd be more likely to take Savage's word about what happened over Jeremy's. Most schools would use this as a reason to hang Jeremy out to dry and fully expel him I think.
>>268632669i don't know about every women but Moto hagio sure as hell hated both her parents, she said that in itw, and it shows in her manga
>>268641483That's how I've heard it.
>>268641828Apparently oral does too if Pansy's anything to go by.
>>268629013Same.
>>268629429I think she was moping about the ring, though that would have been funny
>>268616683if he's such a drug maniac then how has pansy not been expelled yet
>>268647910
>>268615543Geggu was probably good buds with Epstein.
>>268615632He's got that Harry Potter real estate.
>>268647809Someone pays good money for him to be there.
