Final Chapter: Light and Dark
Previous chapter:>>283147842
Done. This it Ito both at his most christian, and at his most cosmic horror-y.How did you like the manga, anon?See you tomorrow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_j0b9ohQB0
>>283174270GO-YO!
>>283174377She could at least take off her stupid heels.
>>283174764Thanks OP, I needed an ending with a sort of positive note after the drag of no longer human.
>>283174709kino
>>283174824Better dead.
>>283174764I understood jack shit.
>>283174936Dude literally turned into a space demonic entity and she was an angel chosen by OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
>tfw these fags don't realise she was a sucubus...
>>283174936There are forces beyond your cognition battling for your destiny, RIGHT NOW!!
>>283174164Is that Jesus
>>283174319I'm no theologian, but I'd imagine that there are worse ways for a Christian to go than mantling their messiah
where's my nigga mo?
>>283174377Hot
>>283174458This defeats the purpose of crucifixion
>>283174481Ito's getting old
>>283175436Do you think nips know how crucifixion works?
>>283174555SHINE
>>283174764Thanks. Yeah, I did.
>>283174764Thanks OP I liked it, but it wasn't his best. Some pretty cool concepts though, and I'm glad Ito did something like this in these twilight years of his career
>>283174824Christianity is all about suffering
>>283175364Taken by the spiral
>>283175480abso-fucking-lutely
>>283174764I think it's interesting that this is way more pro-Christian than practically any manga I can think of.
>>283175033>>283175068I see... kinda reminds me of a /tg/ cyoa.
>>283175727Jojo?
>>283151754>>283149677Which is dumb af really. They should be doing things to curb scams, hacking, MLM, and that kind of shit.I'll never get why Abe got blamed and took the flack in that stupid case. The guys mother didn't get any when she kept giving them money hand over fist, and put her family in a bad way.>God says you need to feel bad about WW2 and give us lots of money>lol fuck off gookIt's really that simple. Somehow Abe got blamed though even though politicians take money from all kinds of groups
>>283174469>>283174458>ancestors become believers>they die and suffer along with the gaijin priest>decide to worship the random priest instead of the religion he espousedHow disgraceful and shameful.
>>283175727>>283176338Jojo?>The manga where an entire arc is some weird American trying to steal Jesus body, implying he just became a mummy like some pharohNah.
>>283174764>How did you like the manga, anon?It was pretty dumb, not gonna lie
>>283174289>such exposed skin!>a western prostituteThis dude would have a heart attack if he could see what his (Great*X)-granddaughters would get up to; being filmed while man frotts her buttcheeks until he cums.
>>283174725Is it really that hard to get your characters to behave?
>>283177496>like some pharohRead what you speak about first
>>283177576Or the live eels...
>>283174764>How did you like the manga, anon?Not his best work I think, out of his serials. It's a pretty serious attempt at a plot that just wasn't that interesting overall to me. Only a few opportunities for his Ito-ness to shine. Seems like it's mostly has merit for people trying to powerscale Ito works.
>>283177554>It was pretty dumbThat's most Ito manga
>>283177698Except this was just generic phoned in dumb, not Ito dumb
>>283174615How did Kyoko get turned around?
>>283177856Sensor power
>>283174764>>283177656Speaking of which, Dark Miguel (forma de divinidad negro) vs Remina, who would win?
>>283177599Yeah, if you start writing without an actual solid plan it's pretty easy to end up letting the characters drive the narrative.
>>283174695>>283174709No.. the Shining Force...
>>283174530The hideous true face of the Demiurge.>>283174764Probably one of my favorite ones by him.>>283175727It feels more like Gnosticism than Christianity, although parts of Gnosticism are derived from Christianity.>>283175364Where Tomie fears to look.
>>283177605I know the guy called funny Valentine is looking for a corpse called "the Saint" with stigmatas in his hands and feet that's obviously meant to be Jesus, I know enough.>>283177626I'm scared to ask......I still remember the "bathroom" porn where Japanese women were like....embedded in toilets and urinals. That was a really weird picture that stuck with me.
>>283178380Even more mazdeistic than gnostic imo.
>>283175364Modesto
>>283178380Feels like this one page, plus the last 2 or 3 really are the whole point of the manga.
>>283177365Wait till you hear about Jesus
>>283177626Ah, good old Eel Soup>>283178671>I'm scared to ask......Probably exactly what you imagine. I feel bad for both the girl and the eels.
>>283178710I never heard of mazdeistic. What is it.
>>283174683>the light is the cancer of the darknesskino
>>283179527https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdaismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
>>283180124These were interesting reads.
>>283174764Thanks OP, it was pretty good. I think this one benefits from being very accessible, in the sense that it's one of his serialized works that is long enough to have some depth, but short enough to read the whole thing in a casual afternoon.
>>283174764Thanks anon>How did you like the manga, anon?Really cool, I was intrigued
>>283174764Thanks OP>How did you like the manga, anon?There were no boobs
>>283174063Countdown
>>283174289>you're a western prostituterude
>>283175364Fighting the Darkness in space.
>>283174319Damn those christians and their dark sorceries
>>283174458All this considered, better than waiting to die on a cross, assuming there is no supernatural volcano fuckery messing with their afterlives
>>283176338Jojo is pro-mormons in particular
>>283174530oh
>>283174555holy shiyt
>>283174582I wonder how evil and dark beings like Tomie, Uzumaki, Remina and the pretty boy in black would react to this blast of divine light.
>>283174764I liked it
>>283174683>Tomie is the virus of humanity>Byakuya is the virus of the Dark Godkino
>>283174683Remina and Tomie have the same mole in that same place, interesting
>>283174764 in one of the earliest stories in this storytime, there was a story of Death taking the form of a schoolgirl and promulgating a theory that causes people to kill each themselves. At one point in the story, she says someone told it to her.In my headcanon, the dark god told it to her to incite Death to wreak havoc and darkness on the entire world.
>>283178671>I know enough.You clearly don't if you think the holy corpse is just 'like some pharaoh' Read more manga then come back
>>283184302I've read plenty of manga. Japanese people got fucking malded at Ass's creed shadows, do they need to play more Western games? Face it, I love anime and manga, but Japan doesn't respect other religions. Just because sometimes int eh right geographic conditions or through ascetism stuff like Sokushinbutsu, sometimes people end up in a mummy like state doesn't make it literally a mummy.>the holy corpseThat's the problem, Jesus left for heaven 40 days after the resurrection,implying anything else is about as nice as saying Hirohito was complicit in war crimes.
>>283179352What?>>283179391Eels wriggling in the manko or something? Oh gross.>>283184302>>283177605> Although the Steel Ball Run is organized by the eccentric promoter Steven Steel, United States President Funny Valentine has engineered the race to serve as a front for collecting the scattered pieces of a 1900-year-old corpse known as the Holy Corpse (heavily implied to be the body of Jesus Christ). Valentine intends to reassemble the Corpse and gain limitless power through it on behalf of his nation, having already obtained the Corpse's heart.>After Johnny and Gyro encounter another piece of the Holy Corpse, it is absorbed into Johnny's body and he develops the evolving Stand, Tusk, allowing him to fend off one of Valentine's subordinates. Later, they meet the spiteful and ambitious racer Diego Brando who obtains one of the Corpse's two eyes, while Gyro gains the other. Johnny and Gyro continue the race, encountering other racers, gaining and losing Corpse parts, and enhancing their Spin techniques along the way. Eventually, Valentine succeeds in taking Johnny and Gyro's corpse parts, seizing Diego's eye soon afterward with the aid of his dimension-traversing Stand, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (often shortened as "D4C").>The Holy Corpse separates from Lucy, only to be stolen by an unknown antagonist. Pursuing the thief into the final stage of the Steel Ball Run, Johnny is shocked to find that it is an alternate instance of Diego Brando taken from a parallel dimension by Valentine, wielding a time-stopping Stand known as The World. Johnny attempts to engage the alternate Diego, who defeats him with his own attack and easily takes first place in the race. The alternate Diego brings the Corpse to Trinity Church, only to run into Lucy, who annihilates him by forcing him to merge with the severed head of the original Diego.Lol, how the fuck is this not disrespectful? Is reading all this in 2 or 3 days supposed to make me like it?
>>283185321>I will no go on a quest around Japan to grab this magical corpse, and gather all the body parts>Btw, I will never say it outright, but I will make it clear this is either emperor Jimmu or emperor Tenmu's corpse that these guys are going around grabbing and trying to assemble as a magical powerup.Japan would be furious.
>>283174695Kino, the light will win.
>>283174764Thanks OP>How did you like the manga, anon?Pretty good. I like a happy ending.
>>283177948>Eels wriggling in the mankoWell that was one of the holes
>>283174725That's very interesting how characters can drastically change a story. I love reading author notes and comments >>283174764Not bad
>>283178380>although parts of Gnosticism are derived from ChristianityIsn't Gnosticism almost all derived from early Christianity?
>>283174683>>283174695>I sensed that the darkness would not win over this lightI love hopeful, inspirational endings like this
>>283185869Same.
>>283178710>>283180124I still think this fits Gnosticism too well with the Akashic Records since Gnosticism is all about knowledge, the dark god being the creator of the universe like the demiurge, and a hidden, supreme God from whom the light comes from. Plus, I think Ito is more likely to be familiar with Gnosticism than Mazdaism since a good number of Japanese authors love Gnosticism for some reason.
>>283174063LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>283174164ENTER NOT!JESUS
>>283186500no
>>283174764It was a bit of a mess, so it doesnt surprise me that Ito himself admits he should have planned it better. Thanks op.
>>283185349conservative nutjobs would be furious, most people don't care about emperors that old.
>just ends with MC waking up in the middle of the cultists who just drained and mummified the other people and having an epiphanyThis is the most nothing Ito ending yet
>>283188861I thought about the ending for a while, and I had the same conclusion: the ending is really weird, haha. It ended with him in the middle of the cultists with that crazy yandere still there.
>>283174189Byakuya? Our hero.
>>283174257ENTER
>>283174289What a dick.
>>283174425>spend entire story wondering what the fuck is up with her>THE POWER OF GOD CHOSE YOU TO BE A LIGHT OF HOPEWhat the fuck was Ito smoking when he made this.
>>283174481Who let this crazy solipsist in here?
>>283174530Hello Satan.
>>283174683>>283174695>the light of God will triumph over the DarknessI kneel.
>>283174764Thanks OP.>How did you like the manga, anon?Unironically my favorite Ito story.
>>283175364In the place Oshikiri is too short to reach.
>>283183538Vaporized in an instant. It's literally the concentrated light of God.
>>283189685Death by snu snu
>>283189685>>283191448They've kind of gone brain dead so they can't do anything
>>283185869BUH-BUH-BUH-BASED
>>283188861>>283189685What do you expect him to do with them? For all intents and purposes, they're already dead and all the other non-Doctor people are DEFINITELY dead.
>>283185046>>283185321>>283185349All using the same spacing
>>283191757>that last look of quiet, for-now composed defeat Still might be Ito's best story
>>283177856Her hair is just in her face.
>>283174658What happened to the corpses of everyone else?
>>283193026We only have three more to go. The odds of it not being the best are slim to say the least
>>283175033>space demonic entityHe's way more than just a demonic entity. He is the dark god creator of the universe.
>>283185587Fuck, meant for >>283185321
>>283193026He knows he'll be back.
>>283174764Thank you for posting.
>>283193026No, that was Rasputin the Patriot.
Where is OP?
>>283199261Eaten by the Jet Black God.
>>283199261Licked to death by his sister.
>>283177948Just in terms of size, Hellstar Remina isn't even an ant to the dark god. And since the dark god is the creator of the universe, he operates on a completely different scale than Remina. Remina isn't even in the same league.
>>283199261trying out a frilly dress.
>>283199261Looking for the missing FUCK
Keepsake (originally published in 2019)
>>283200892Hell of an opener
Now some of the Venus in the Blind Spot extras.
>>283200880>Ishikawa tomb Dig it up. We need to finish the Getter daily properly this time
>>283200903I understand everything, but I miss his old colouring around the Uzumaki days
>>283201021>>283201030>"Manjuro's looking at us"How can you tell?
>>283200927I'm not sure when exactly this takes place but there's something about Ito that just looks like modern-day to me
>>283201076Well....
>>283200946>it Come on man
Done. At least the cute maid won(?).Are you fertile?Next up, Ito's latest serialization: The Liminal Zone. See you tomorrow!www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqil_7gIu2I
>>283200987Sensor was too Christian for him after No Longer Human so he needed more sex again
>>283201157>No glasses hagSad
>>283201021He's glossing over the fact that the baby was nurtured for those nine months
>>283201030He looks like a member of the Addams FamilyOr one of the Hikizuri Siblings, I suppose
>>283201217Thanks OP>Are you fertile?Not as much as Yoki
>>283201066Wet hair is nice too
>>283201076WHATI thought she was laughing about being pregnant herself now
>>283201090Hell of a face
>>283201095What a lovely woman How could he say no?
>>283201317Tails gets trolled energy
>>283201105For fuck's sake man
>>283201116That's it? That was abrupt even by Ito standards
>>283201157RIP, RIP, RIP, well done I guess
>>283201217Thanks OP I have no real way of knowing
>>283201105infinite wives
>>283200892many such cases
>>283201095Triple H traced this
>>283201095>declare the child as mine>y-yes dear, of course>kill your wife>y-yes dear, of course>fuck my corpse>y-yes dear, of courseI guess the moral of the story is that horrible things happen when you're a total pushover in front of women.
>>283201826A moral also found in a slightly different form in No Longer Human
>>283201076She's still war- >>283201095 Nevermind.
>>283200968This guy is giving me Yozo vibes.
>>283201859>>283201983Yozo was somewhat pushier but he was equally feckless and pathetic, yeah.
>>283201651I thought about Guts, myself.
>>283201317
>>283201217>At least the cute maid won(?).Until he gets another mistress I guess, hope her ghost adopted son protects her
>>283201217Thanks OP
>>283200927>I barely have enough milk for Shinnosuke!Is that how it works? What's the purpose of two breasts, if you can't feed two kids?
>>283201651wasn't he the son of a long dead race of monsters or am I misremembering?
>>283201066He's just like Guts.
>>283201217Thanks OP. >Are you fertile?There's not a person on this website that would have had an opportunity to find that out.
>>283203339Yeah he's a youkai technically.>>283202202Many such cases indeed.
>>283200892oooohhhh another one born from the dead?
>>283201217Thanks.
>>283200927>not willing to raise another woman's babyShe needs to take some responsibility and be the mom who stepped up.
>>283200946>nursing a baby with waterI'm sure there aren't any parents reading this, and I'm sure even if there are they already know not to do this.But seriously, do not do this.
>>283201043Comedy mangaka.
>>283204320>buy baby formulaYeah we live in modern times, same reason I won’t try smearing my wounds with crocodile dung like an Egyptian.
>>283201217>latest serializationBros... I'm not ready for it to be over...
>>283201217Thanks anon>Next up, Ito's latest serialization: The Liminal Zone. See you tomorrow!I'm not ready
>>283201209Would
>>283205630I'm always saying this
>>283203339Yes.
>>283201217>muh liminal spaceOh boy, time for the manga equivalent of paint drying!
>>283201076oh man
his best short story so far
>>283200892Grave baby strikes again!
>>283201030A boy named Charlie Brown
>>283200903>It really does happen>It's been nine monthsI don't think it does bro
>>283201983I thought the same since the first page he showed up
>>283201076Bro...
>>283201196This might make an interesting phone background
>>283201209Damn, Yoshiko looks like THAT?
>>283207923That one was really great
>>283201105what emotion is this expression supposed to convey?
>>283209088>yfw you just heard your dad nutted inside your mom's corpse
>>283207406liminal spaces didn't invent the word liminal
>>283207923For me it's Army of One.
>>283209477Cutest Ito boyAnd he's a neet just like me, I can fix him
>>283205623Her and Tadashi should hook up
>>283209521how could you fix him if you can't even fix yourself?
>>283209521I'm basically him irl.Hi...!
>>283209521The guy from Amigara fault is also pretty cute.In fact, I thought he was female at first, and even thought he was a lesbian when the sex scene came.
>>283207923It was so funny
>>283207923I love that one. The dead eyes in the bottom left panel still get to me.
What did we learn these past 9 months?
>>283205873Still funny how he looked like a fraud and then started beating the ghost for real
>>283175436You are aware that they usually killed the convicts with spears as soon as the crosses were raised in Japan? Unlike in Rome, it wasn't about killing people slowly, but to display the bodies.
>>283211471Mimi stories were full of cool characters and monsters
>>283211471Most of the stories (the ones that aren't cataclysmic or affect an area the size of a city) would be solved if the protagonist called a shinto monk.
>>283200880/fit/bros his territory is back
>>283209088uncle fester
>>283200892>How do babies work?>>283200946"On purpose..."
>>283201001Harusada did this btw
>>283201116A question.I am the only idiot that have thought that page is part of the story, the final page? Something, like Ito reviewing his own story and be confused by it.>>283201142SPIRALLLLLLOOOOOOOMMMMMIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG(However, Ito is a painter too, right?)>>283204678Inspired to the Twilight Zone?No, because I imagine Ito introducing some old Twilight Zone episode, holding a fat cat or Jean-Pierre Puppet or the head of a mannequin.
>>283174642>>283174683I hope you guys realize this vindicates the the villagers who were worshiping Miguel
If there was a contest for the most beautiful hair, who would win? Tomie or Byakuya.
>>283215267You know EXACTLY who wins
>283215267>15 234012Tomie's hair can also shine.
Thats it?
>>283209629He will provide the drive i need to fix myself>>283209787I don't believe you, pics or it doesn't happen>>283210294>Amigara faultThis is the drr drr one right? i dont remember it have a sex scene
>>283215384>shonen battle of nowhere
>>283215909I dont rly wanna post my face on 4chin and anything but that would be too lewd so... SorryYou're gonna have to get fish-hooked with someone a little bit more daring.
>>283209614In front of Kaori's bloated, farting demicorpse
>>283211394Everything is evil.
>>283212116And that blows
>>283212800I still miss Ooku
>>283174508>You! Kagero Aido from Indigo Shadow!>It is entirely necessary for me to announce your presence with your full name and organization!
>>283200987>>283201001how the fuck did post-nut clarity not work on this guy? and why the fuck would you trust any woman who has links to get poison? wtf
>>283216323it's oooover, anon. the mikado will never let a bunch of manipulating girls rule the nation again.
New Eko Eko Azarak chapter, by the way.
>>283216894
>>283217101>>283217101>>283217101Eko Eko Azarak...Eko Eko Zamerak...
>>283217169Neat.
>>283215698What did you expect?
>>283216285Sounds about right.
>>283211394the northern territories should be returned and you should start doing meth.
>>283211394Don't talk to women with Tomie pfps
>>283220987>women with Tomie pfpsIf only...
>>283222240The same logic still applies regardless of if they're women or """"women""""
Where the FUCK is OP
>>283216261I still get sad when I think about what happened to her. I can’t imagine what I’d be feeling if she was actually a good girlfriend and not a complete cunt the whole way through the story.
>>283211394Sometimes the weird guy of the school marries (and impregnates) the star of old Cannibal movies.Necromancer is the true king of these lands.Something about Northen TerritoriesMishima was right to hate DazaiDon't scream in mirrorsCoffee resolves everythingBut...TOMIE IS THE ONLY /A/ WAIFU. WE LOVE TOMIE
Next chapter will be in a new thread. I'll post some miscellanea in this one later.
Ito's commentary on the Tomie story: Painter
I meant to post the newest collection, Moan, which is all stories I've already posted, but now are in high quality scans and updated translations. It's way too long to fit the thread, though, so I'll just keep it as a bonus storytime for when we reach the end of Ito, in a week or so.
>>283222489Općina Gvozd
>>283211394Knowing when to end stories is difficult.
>>283220987I have one of those on my friend list... She added me but never said anything... Should I be worried
>>283223658Get off my board
>>283211394BELIEVE IN LOVE!
>>283223327Good to know, OP.
>>283200957>>283200968Long face is pretty reasonable.
>>283215934>shounen battle of nowhere
whoa!!!
>>283227820What he saw is beyond our imagination.
>>283177576Was she supposed to be Mary Magdalene? Is that why Ito included the line about her being a prostitute?>He's an analogue to Jesus, so her being an analogue to Mary Magdalene makes sense, right?
>>283174764Thanks for posting it for everyone to read! You rock!>How did you like the manga, anon?It was okay, about what I'd expect from Ito at this point in his life. I'm not disappointed in the content, at all.
Will we ever get a lesbian Tomie story?I think that'd be cool.
>>283215069No it doesn't. God still chose Miguel and Byakuya to fight the Darkness, Miguel even says so himself. That would be like worshipping Noah because God chose him to survive the flood, or worshipping Peter because Jesus chose him to found the Church
>>283230575Miguel isn't just a human chosen by God. He, along with Kyoko, is the light of God itself. Others here have already noted that Miguel is a Jesus analogue. Kyoko is probably Sophia/the maiden of light or something.
>>283201826A valuable lesson many men unfortunately still need to learn.
>>283174530Get this man some Clearasil
>>283174764Thanks for the dump. It's always interesting to see interpretations of Christian thought from non-Western people.
>>283201747kek
>>283211394That the universe's true nature is evil.
