Chain No. 19: Doubt
Previous chapter:>>282853135
>>282878124This FUCKING guy
>>282878174it's so tiresome
I'm so glad that Tomie will kill this fucking faggot
>>282878258>"Where the FUCK is OP"
>>282878326Calm down Lady Macbeth!
Done. Place your bets! I'm calling OCD.Did you lock the door?See you tomorrow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zF2tsBJnpk
>>282878368Thanks, OP.
>>282878368>Did you lock the door?Nice try FBI
>>282878368Sounds like the beginning of paranoia/psychosis
>>282878124kek
>>282878194swift hands and silver tongue, nobody can stop him.
>>282878368well, now he got (another) excuse to dump her. thanks op.
another life ruined
>>282878124I don't even know what to say anymore>>282878181bruh>>282878326so she's finally losing it, great
>>282878124I laughed.
>>282878124Fucking hell man.
alright not to defend Yozo at all in any way, he is a horrible asshole, but everyone around him constantly enables his behaviour. he just gets away with everything and other people will do horrible shit themselves just to please him
>>282878293Why is he burying them?
>>282879248squirrel instincts
>>282879248he doesn't believe in recycling
>>282878124I don't like this character
>>282879248the earth deserves some of that morphine, too
>>282878194>>282878732if Yozo wasn't so self loathing and pathetic, he could've been the protagonist of a picaresque novel.
>>282879586i feel ito's yozo is already quite entertaining, he's more an idiot unable to commit to anything rather than a brooding depressed autist like the original.
>>282878368Thanks OP>Did you lock the door?Always
>>282878181Good lord, you'd think he already reached the bottom but no
>>282878252I can't believe I'm rooting for her for onceis this what it feels like to be a Tomiesimp?
>>282879248He feels guilty about how much he's consuming, so he hides the evidence
>>282878048>>282878060Sudden art decline is sudden
>>282878098Ah, they were just colour pages Silly me
>>282878154Can we please stop calling it medicine
>>282878174This fucking dude man
>>282878181>I was bound to this woman by the thread of fate from a previous life >this woman, and the sweet, sweet release of heroin
>>282878258A man who truly does not care about anything in his life
>>282878326Has she started using too or something
>>282878355Oh god please don't tell me she's pregnant
>>282878368Thanks OP It's on the chain. I usually don't bother with the actual lock
>>282879248This was normal and reasonable before the powerful and insidious Recycling Lobby took it away from you.
>>282878368It took long enough, but being with Yozo finally broke Yoshiko.
>>282878368>Done. Place your bets! I'm calling OCD.I don't believe thinking that food a friend of yours brought over being poisoned is OCD, she's going full blown schizo
>>282881683But the whole cleaning her hands and clothes obsessively is.
>>282881851maybe she's hallucinating dirt
>>282881851it's clearly some metaphor
>>282882238Who says real mental illnesses can't have narrative value as metaphors?
>>282878368I think her deal is that she's seeing everything as filthy and tainted now.
>>282878124KEK>>282878181Fucking hell>>282878368Thanks anon>Did you lock the door?Always, and I double check
>>282880065Ito decided to try morphine a little during the production of these chapters, you know to get slightly more into character
>>282879248Hiding the evidence so people/police don't know he has had it.
>>282878073She's too good for him! Rreeeee!
>>282878181is the booze and drugs thing supposed to be a metaphor for this manga? this is a dogshit story with objectively awful characters that doesn't elicit any emotion in me other than hatred and anger, yet i keep coming here everyday anyway. almost like an addict or something
>>282881683It actually is a type of OCD.OCD is mostly about intrusive thoughts, not needing everything to be clean and organized.
>>282878368>Did you lock the door?I don't have OCD or anything but I do check all the locks and doors in the house like, a dozen times a day.
>>282878368I live alone and have never bothered to lock the door. My suburb has been gentrified a lot over the past 10 years so my house is the most povvo looking on on the block. nobody gonna try and rob the place most likely to not have a big flatscreen to steal
>>282879248He's been getting them illegally without prescription. Throwing them in the trash, police might find out.
>>282878174Because she sells you the "medicine"?
>>282878368Reading this storytime is giving me cancerThanks OP
>>282878073>>282878124She's waaaaaaaay too good for him
>>282878181You (and your drugs) are my destiny.
>>282878207:(
>>282878340I have to wonder, is this just so the reader knows who she is or does actually not the know the name of the woman he was having sex with and freeloading from
>>282878368Normal men: I can fix herYozo: I can break her into fine dustThanks OP>Did you lock the door?I was asked to leave it unlocked
>>282878073She's too sweet.
>>282878124He FLED.
>>282878174Honestly, just fuck off man.
>>282878368Thanks OP.
>>282878368>Did you lock the door?coincidentally enough, yesterday was the first time in my entire life I ever let the door open. Granted, my apartment is in a building where only other family members live, but still, it was quite shocking to see the next morning that the door was wide open.
>>282881851There's also the sudden wondering if she closed the door or not.
>>282878242>if you became an addict
>>282878073Just fuck her like your husband did, she will give you all the drugs you want
>>282853266>>282853366>>282853374>>282853388>>282878174>>282878181i fucking hate this manga, what's the point? this retarded gigachad fucks women, takes drugs and fucks more women, complains about allegedly suffering. nothing else happens. YOU CAN'T SUFFER IF YOU HAVE SEXREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>282893921>what's the point?To remind us that Dazai may be temporary, but the struggle for the Sacred Northern Territories is eternal
>>282880127No. It's all the same shit.
>>282879248Ruri Rocks taught me that waste management in Japan before the occupation was primitive and destructive.
All that's left is the cops arriving to arrest the pharmacist for illegally selling morphine.
>>282893921>what's the point?To make you mad, this manga was made for you
Went to the museum the other day, and I saw a painting that looked exactly like the woman from The Window Next Door
>>282897722Looks like a Yozo piece
>>282899694She was looking at this thread without Mo anon
>>282900646Where's my nigga 'where's my nigga mo?' anon?
>>282902016Off with the "where the fuck is op" anon to reclaim the northern territories.
>>282902923I have bad news their map was upside down. They're currently en-route to the Falklands
where's my nigga mo?
Thoughts?
>>282903303Taken by the spiral
>>282903303some say she's still with edit anon
>>282903482>simpsons range>mcdonalds rangesthis should be part of the US
Where the FUCK is OP
>>282903745Fucking
>>282903745Opuzen
>>282903303In your blindspot.
Chain No. 20: Obsession
>>282878181THis fucking guy.
>>282905059WELP
Done. Another one bites the dust.Will it be fine?See you tomorrow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76n5mh-dwI
>>282905321Thanks.
>>282905059>"Yozo let me in, I'm opium. Don't you believe in opium?"
>>282905321>Will it be fine?Tomie will fix it
>>282904915What was the story called again The Town without Streets or something
>>282905321It's fine now.
>>282904998That's a pretty kimono
>>282905059Horror mangaka
>>282905162Don't incentivise her, Yozo
Thanks OP
>>282905185This man has a PhD in being human waste
>>282905059>One of us has to worry about your wife, and apparently it's not gonna be you
>>282905287>>282905305How does he do it? Just when you think he's hit his lowest point he finds another layer.
>>282905249You now remember how pure she was at first
>>282905321>Two days laterC'mon man
>>282905321Thanks OP If you mean Yozo's life, then I hope not If you mean mine, I don't think it ever will be If you mean the world, somehow, despite it all, I think so
>>282905185https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEyUeCyXl1Q
>>282905059
the things women will do for some broke junkie with rotten teeth
>>282905627You don't get it man, he's super deep and has an obscene air or something
>>282905321Ito's Yozo is genuinely the most abhorrent character I've ever had the misfortune of reading about. I've read about some truly vile sons of bitches like the dude from the Loan Shark manga but Yozo is a special kind of shitheel. Cowardly, self pitying and incredibly destructive to all around him, he has enough self awareness to know what he does since he stopped himself from ruining that one MILF's life but never again has the wherewithal to not fuck anyone else up. Yozo is the worst because he's the most "normal", he's the type of human parasite you can encounter in real life, he's arguably the scariest monster Ito has ever written.
>>282905550>When you nut and she keep suckin
>>282905652Ito barely changed anything. Yozo is just Dazai's autobiographical self-insert, that's why he feels realistic
I think Mishima should've gutted and decapitated Dazai instead
>>282905719And Ito does a great job of really making the motherfucker look terrible but in a way that's frighteningly down to Earth. Like he never does anything over the top just all these little acts of shittery that pile and pile up and cascade out to everyone around him
>>282905735He would've fucked that up too
>>282905185This fucking guy
>>282905059big jumpscare here
>>282905719>Ito barely changed anything.There's lots more people dying in his version, though I'll concede that the characterization of Yozo himself isn't much different even if the events surrounding him are
>>282905321she's now at peace. hell is for the living ones. thanks op.
>>282905321Yozo's diejobu is like a overworked salaryman's diejobu.
>>282905321>Will it be fine?its always DIE jeo bu.>>282878368>Did you lock the door?i did. but my dad kept unlocking it when i was sleeping.the living are worse than the dead.>What's your drug of choice?>>282827077mountain dew n redbullz.>Do you want to have kids someday?the rentz is too damn high.and i not gonna be a BLM non-breather "father".
>>282905621https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygx5sY0OCLs
>>282905652when are you guys going to realize, he isn't human.
>>282907082...say that again
>>282907082I'd argue he's Too Human
>>282907082No, that part doesn't happen until near the end of the book where Yozo gets bitten by a werewolf
>>282903303Molt
>>282905162>he lied as naturally as he breathed
>>282905652I don't know, I still think the undead shark with legs is scarier.
>>282908251That was comic
>>282905321Thanks OP.>Will it be fine?Nothing is fine.
>>282905059Kek
>>282905915>4chan
>>282908733>lady-killer>4channuh-uh
>>282908909It means a person who kills females
>>282905321>Another one bites the dust.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE>Will it be fine?Hey OP listen, I know this story is either tragic or comic but... It's gonna get way worse
>>282909900>It's gonna get way worse
>>282905185Really starting to resemble that painting now.
>>282909946that's one fucked up duck.
>>282905321Thanks anon Tragic chapter>Will it be fine?I hope so
>>282905126Doctors at the time were not very effective at mental illnesses, and not very kind to women. Lobotomy or sedatives, every time.
>>282905570That's how the book namedThought it sounds more like "Not Human since beginning", instead of current name
>>282911014I've heard there's a new translation of the book that's way different.
>>282905185>>282905203is it wrong that I think she's way hotter like this?
>>282905321Thanks OP>Will it be fine?I wish no for this guy
>>282904964I hate how self aware he is about being a shitty person but still tries nothing to change
>>282905321>Will it be fine?Never
>>282905287wait how fast is the process of having telegrams written and getting them delivered?
>>282893921>YOU CAN'T SUFFER IF YOU HAVE SEXOh anon, I feel so sorry for you
>>282911133it really hard to try to change t. someone who try to change
>>282905020Even when she's having a schizo breakdown, she's still thinking of Yozo first.
>>282902016>>282903066they're coming back after this retarded sex manga that isn't worth reading is finally over
>>282905020>the price of the medicine is nothing to sneeze atthat makes me think, did he ever pay the herb lady? I mean we saw him steal that stuff but I think that was more due to him wanting to take more daily doses than she would allow
>>282912111Oh, I actually like the manga.That's probably cause I binge read it a couple years ago, though. I think a daily format is not that suited for this specific title
>>282904879Oh no, there's a scar on the back of my head...
>>282904964>I guess I ruined my wife as a person...>Anyway, guess I'll go hang out at my drug dealer's from now on
how many more chapters until this idiot's story is over?
>>282912204Don't think so, he's just mooching off her
>>282905059kek
>>282905126He acts like he doesn't even give a shit while she's having a mental breakdownIt's amazing how low he can sink
>>282905321RIP>Will it be fine?Certainly notThanks OP
Yoshiko is the only one I feel for in this shitshow
>>282911133Maybe he's just me, and I hate this fact
>>282912877I feel sorry for her and the girl he kicked into the water.
>>282879302Yama is channeling all her disdain into her boobs
>>282893921For your sake, I hope you're underage. Stop putting pussy on a pedestal, even if it's so you can get mad at other people having it. It'll save your life.
>>282911133>I hate how self aware he is about being a shitty person but still tries nothing to changeStop calling us out!
>>282912355They're one more arc after next chapter the ending will be worth it
>>282912204>did he ever pay the herb lady?he paid her in kisses and sex
dear god how much longer can this possibly continue
>>282914505Every day until you like it
>>282905321Thanks OP. It was never fine>>282905550AAAAAAIIIIRRRRRRRRR
>>282905321Thank you for posting.
>>282912355Last chapter should be on monday.
>>282917259Good to know.
Also, there is another NLH manga adaption
>>282919779inb4 this gets added to the chain
>>282903303overdosing on morphin
>>282905203I agree with anon, she looks oddly pretty in that top left panel
>>282920540it's because her lips looks extra puffy with that more detailed shading
>>282905059Why is there a big window in toilet?
>It was like she was looking at walking garbage
>>282921833Ventilation?
>Both Yoshiko and Cessie died today What an awful day to read daily.
>>282911069If only there was a goth scene back then and there. She might have had some emotional support.
>>282911133If he successfully changed he'd still know he was a shitty person. There's no incentive and instant pushback from becoming less predictable.
>>282905111>>282905126EKO EKO AZARAK
>>282920355Recruit a team of antisocial men with attitude.
>>282923562kek
>>282923562God I wish Misa would show up to fuck yozo up.
>>282927174She would randomly decide to turn into a wolf and eat his depressed suicidal wife because she said something mean to Yozo's mistress ten years ago
>>282927174It would be a tossup whether she'd fuck him up, help him fuck someone else up, or tell a weird story and leave
Chain No. 21: No Longer Human
>>282929322ROLL CREDITS
>>282929353Surely that's not a good idea
>>282929387...Jfc but that tracks for him
>>282929371Maybe step away from the poison smoke
>>282929322dropped
>>282929387Thisfuckingguy
>>282929400>ran her into the ground with his addiction How is he this fucking bad
>>282929475And that's two in two chapters What a calamity he is
>>282929410>"For you, the day Yozo ruined your existence was the most important day of your life. But for Yozo, it was Tuesday."
>>282929517Just like all the others?
>>282929486>"Oh thank god, my 'medicine' is okay. Hiroko? Who's that?"
>>282929543lol
>>282929554Please just pistol whip him to death by the side of the road, please oh please oh please.>>282929575fuck.
>>282929605For fuck sake translators
I, for one, am glad Dazai killed himself
>>282929322Roll credits
>>282929663DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN
Done. It was me! It was me all along!Who are (you)?See you tomorrow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5NVUBjsZyk
I miss the snails
>>282929675Thanks, OP. Nonomy.
>>282929675Thanks OP That's a complicated question
>>282929675>Who are (you)?I'm the anon who responds to the "Where the FUCK is OP?" posts with place names starting with the letters O and P.
>>282929717you're my favorite anonkeep up with the good work
>>282929487Three
>>282929322I can't wait till this shit is over
>>282929612I'm not mad, I'm not a danger to society, said the dude with constant hallucinations of people he brought to suicide.
>Read Rasputin>Frog faced guy nicknamed Rasputin is the protagonist >Bit of an idealist wacko that moved some rubles around, but loyal to the people he bonded with>Meets people called shit like the Black Colonel, the Chechen butcher, the egg shitter enjoyoor>Everyone still seems pretty tame compared to this irredeemable piece of shit that is supposed to be an expy for one of the most well esteemed writers in modern Japanese literatureI get that on a literary level being so self deprecating and raw is more interesting than glazing yourself and what you stand for, but holy shit, I can't stand this level of wicked denseness, I wouldn't read the real book if I had the chance.
>>282929475The ladykiller strikes again!
>>282929554This man had the job of taking care of him but did nothing
Why does flatfish keep taking care of that bastard?
>>282929628That one ass
>>282929936For what it's worth, much of this adaptation didn't happen in the book: the only one who died was the girl in the double suicide, and even then the circumstances weren't anywhere near as wicked as portrayed in the manga. Yozo's still a piece of shit who could fix 90% of his problems by just not being a massive manwhore and blowing all his money on substance abuse, but fortunately it doesn't turn out quite so terribly.Having not read the manga version before, I'm hanging on to the hope that all these extra additions have been building up to something and not just added in for cheap shock value along the way.
>>282929675Thanks OP >Who are (you)?I'm the anon that say where Mo is currently
>>282929612The original gynophobic harem protagonist
>>282929322YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>282930110having read both the boo and the manga before, they pretty much were.
>>282929675Thanks OP. >Who are (you)?I am nobody of importance.
>>282930281If western fiction counts, then P G Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster comes to mind, unless any other characters predate him (first appeared in print around the 1910s/20s iirc)>wealthy young gentleman of leisure just wants to have a carefree bachelor's life>a variety of circumstances and MISUNDERSTANDINGS result in a similar variety of women wanting to marry him>he's unwilling to rebuff them for fear of upsetting them, and instead has to rely on his omnicompetent valet to come up with some elaborate plot to bail him out while sparing the girl's feelingsobviously there's much more to the series than just that, but it happened enough times for the connection to come to my mind while reading it
>>282921914How could everything go so wrong?
>>282929322Truly, he was... No Longer Human.
>>282929517>Hey Ladykillerit gets more literal every day
>>282930046There's literally no helping Yozo
>>282929475A two-piece this time
>>282930078Assface
>>282929675AW SUNUVABITCH
>>282930046and considering what the result of trying to help him in Itou's adaptation is, that's probably the only reason he is still alive
>>282929543>Yozo visits 4chan
>>282929400alright this answers my question if he ever payed her for that stuff>>282929410both of you guys are just fucking retarded
>>282929486no fucking way those survived the fire
Man, the last two chapters have been horrifying.
>>282929613can't wait for the next chapter of 'ceased utterly to be a human being'
>>282929675So what's his score so far? Tsukekichi, might have led some commies to their death, Tsuneko, his wife, Hiroko and her father?
>>282933427At least five died so far thanks to Yozo's faggotry. Six if you count the uggo kid
>>282929675poor yozo. thanks op.
>>282933427excuse me, did yozo ever pointed a gun at them? they were no less idiots than him, and paid for what were their choices, not yozo's.
>>282934010he kicked a women overdosing on sleeping pills into the sea
>>282934062that wasnt nice, sure, but she was gonna die anyway, and yozo didnt force those pills down her throat.
>>282929675Thanks anon>Who are (you)?I'm still trying to figure it out
>>282929387I'm not even surprised enough to be angry anymore.It's just exhausting.
>>282929487A calamity, you say?
>>282929613It's the literal meaning of the Japanese title.
>>282929605Note that "Disqualified as a Human Being" is what the Japanese title most accurately translates to.
>>282935070>>282935079>posted 48 seconds apart/a/ is a hivemind
>>282929675ENTER
>>282935124or so the germans would have us believe
>>282929628I wonder who those asses belong to
>>282929675This Black Paradox prequel is really weird.>Who are (you)?Me? I am Tomie.Thanks OP
>>282935882
>>282929475Hot physically
>>282930046He tried and he ran away
>>282930801Sounds like a fun read. Thanks anon.
>>282929675>Who are (you)?It's me, your pal anonymous. Remember me from all those threads? Remember all those questions I answered? Remember Sharkteeth Twintails?
>>282930066Is he not legally obliged to?
>>282938166>Remember Sharkteeth TwintailsEvery day of my damn life.She... haunts me.
>>282929675Thanks for posting. I'm glad to finally see Yozo punished for his bullshit.>Who are (You)?I'm the longer human.
>>282929499I wonder if it didn't work because they got too hot.
>>282929675>>282929663ENTER Author self-insert
I think Hiroko has a share of the blame for pretty much everything that happened after her introduction.If she hadn't given this asshole a bunch of free morphine, he'd probably have drunk himself to death shortly thereafter and Yoshiko would still be alive.
>>282938881what about if yoshiko didnt cheat like a whore just when yozo was finally starting to get things together?
>>282938992Wasn't she raped?
>>282939053nope. yozo somewhat forgives her on the ground she got fooled in believing she was doing no wrong by the editor guy, but who knows, this may be as well a cope of yozo himself. and neither yozo nor hiroki nor yoshiko ever treated the thing as rape, so i'm not sure where the whole rape excuse comes from.
>>282929517>throw myself into the riverjust jump off a tall building for fucks sake. It's not like you cared about traumatizing other people before.
>>282939137Hiroki absolutely treated this as rape, as much as a woman from the 60s or so could
>>282938992Oh yeah? Well what if SOCIETY hadn't been so DUMB, ever think of that?
>>282939277hiroki tells yozo to forgive her because, according to him, yozo is not a good man, so nothing wrong if she fools around with another man. what's to forgive if it was rape? and do you think hiroki would just watch a woman being raped? he's not a paragon of virtue but he prouds himself to have guts, unlike yozo.
>>282939343>what's to forgive if it was rape?as I said>as much as a woman from the 60s or so couldit didn't matter for such societies that rape victims are victims, they were still defiled by another guy.Yozo himself is completely paranoid, so of course he would assume she did it willingly>hirokiis absolute scum, plus he didn't know it wasn't consensual either. He just saw his editor fucking his friends wife.
>>282939425the way hiroki spells it implies cheating, not rape. plus there was no screams, no struggles, the two were drinking nearly in the park. in the book they were actually on the 2nd floor, if i remember right. where's the rape? what makes you say it was rape save your hots for yoshiko? also hiroki is portrayed as less scummy in the book, yet he didnt bother to stop the "rape" there neither.
>>282939310Oh yeah!? Wellllllllll SOCIETY is just an INDIVIDUAL and you're an individual so it's your fault!
>>282939499read>>282749366plus watch her expressions in the previous pages. That's not the face of a woman fucking her lover, thats a woman screaming because she is being violated>the way hirokithat guy that just walked in on them, the guy that is almost as much scum as Yozo? that guy that barely met his wife? That guy?>plus there was no screams, no struggleshow can you browse 4chan being blind?
>>282939554>>282749366 yeah, that's clearly the face and the conduct of a woman raped 5 mins ago, and not one of a child ashamed because they caught her with the hands in the jam.
>>282935070>MusicalWut
>>282935070>>282935079the point is that this could have been a title drop
>>282939277>a woman from the 60sIsn't it set in the 30s?
>>282929675>Who are (you)?im just ken-sama.>italian videogross.
>>282904915oh hey, just like that story
>>282929543i forgot, did he ever fucked the madam?
>>282929410>>282929400Why the fuck was she even keeping a bunch of fucking poisonous herbs around in the first place? Was it like foxglove and digitalis? If they had medicinal ingredients extract them already and be done with it? Don't just leave a bunch of fucking plants hanging in your house all the time, least of all poisonous ones.>>282929538This can't all be blamed on him this time, yes, he should've told her she was fucking retarded and moved them away to like a stony area or something, but she's the one who sat right outside the wooden house with huge fucking piles of dired plants and wanted to burn them.It is insidious though, I realize, having only read this far, that the reason she makes out with him and lets him not pay is because she's hurt with a bum leg and stuck taking care of a sick dad or grandpa, most dudes probably ignore her so when he gave her attention, she jumped at it the first thing.
>>282929475How did he even originally meet her? Was it because of her tuberculosis or something?
>>282929605>We truly are The Last of Us
>>282941009He was stumbling through the snow, coughing up japanese flags on the ground and going through alcohol withdrawal. then he passed out infront of her pharmacy and she saved him (worst decision of her life)
>>282940428That's what I wanna know, this is still before WW2 reached a fever pitch right? Do we have any novel fags with an exact idea of when this is taking place?
>>282941170I'm fairly certain it has to be before the war. Dazai died in 1948 and the book was published posthumously so early to mid 30's makes the most sense to me
>>282929675thanks anon
>>282941287propably one of Ito's more bizarre stories, and that's saying alot
slopy burd
>>282903303Where Tomie fears to look
>>282941287Ah, the second son of Fuchi and Soichi.A schizo transexual author.
>>282940634If I remember right, he was living with her and fucking her when he brought Yoshiko home one day to tell her they were getting married
>>282940634Like every time they met until he left her to get married.
>>282939554I guess we're doing this again.
>>282942847Yes please, I like these images
>>282940430That's spanish.
Reading this while switching meds is probably not the best idea.
>>282939554She has her arms around his back, assuming Yozo isn't just imagining that
