So I got to chapter 115 of The Promised Neverland
(Guess who remembered that they had a Shonen Jump subscription that gives you access to a huge chunk of Viz's backlist and used it to binge twelve volumes of manga in two days?)
I'm been reading The Promised Neverland, because apparently what I want is survival horror with a high survival rate right now, and I HAVE JUST REALISED WHO THE SECOND WILLIAM MINERVA IS OH MY GOD EMMA IS GONNA FLIP HER SHIT AND ALSO FUCK'S SAKE NORMAN WHEN SHE FINDS OUT THAT YOU'VE BEEN KILLING THE PEOPLE YOU CAN'T RESCUE AND ALSO LETTING YOUR ?FRIEND? ?COWORKER? ?PARTNER IN CRIME? EAT DEMONS EMMA AND RAY ARE GOING TO KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU.
SERIOUSLY IF EVEN MR NEVER-CHANGES-HIS-MIND RAY HAS GOTTEN ON-BOARD THE "NO ONE LEFT BEHIND" TRAIN, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
... Also I'm very emotionally invested in this theme of Emma, Ray, Don, and Gilda trying to be the responsible adults and then being reminded that the younger kids are competent as well. I know it's to make sure that there's a narrative explanation for how the kids don't starve to death and/or what the younger kids were doing for a year while the older ones were doing the plot, but looooook the kids are okay!
(THE TIME SKIPS IN THIS MANGA OH MY GOD. ENTIRE MONTHS AND YEARS JUST GONE. AND SPEAKING OF, WHERE THE FUCK IS ADAM, I'M SURE HE SURVIVED AND WOULD BE VERY NOTICEABLE IN THE CROWD SCENES/DISTANCE SHOTS.)
... But seriously I don't know how Norman expects people who've spent their lives chained to benches and never taught how to speak or walk to respond to being offered freedom. Which has reminded me of the Gene Wiley case (Caution warning: descriptions of abuse and neglect in the link) and now I'm sad because somehow reality keeps managing to go "Nope, I've got that beat," at fiction.
I'm been reading The Promised Neverland, because apparently what I want is survival horror with a high survival rate right now, and I HAVE JUST REALISED WHO THE SECOND WILLIAM MINERVA IS OH MY GOD EMMA IS GONNA FLIP HER SHIT AND ALSO FUCK'S SAKE NORMAN WHEN SHE FINDS OUT THAT YOU'VE BEEN KILLING THE PEOPLE YOU CAN'T RESCUE AND ALSO LETTING YOUR ?FRIEND? ?COWORKER? ?PARTNER IN CRIME? EAT DEMONS EMMA AND RAY ARE GOING TO KICK THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU.
SERIOUSLY IF EVEN MR NEVER-CHANGES-HIS-MIND RAY HAS GOTTEN ON-BOARD THE "NO ONE LEFT BEHIND" TRAIN, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
... Also I'm very emotionally invested in this theme of Emma, Ray, Don, and Gilda trying to be the responsible adults and then being reminded that the younger kids are competent as well. I know it's to make sure that there's a narrative explanation for how the kids don't starve to death and/or what the younger kids were doing for a year while the older ones were doing the plot, but looooook the kids are okay!
(THE TIME SKIPS IN THIS MANGA OH MY GOD. ENTIRE MONTHS AND YEARS JUST GONE. AND SPEAKING OF, WHERE THE FUCK IS ADAM, I'M SURE HE SURVIVED AND WOULD BE VERY NOTICEABLE IN THE CROWD SCENES/DISTANCE SHOTS.)
... But seriously I don't know how Norman expects people who've spent their lives chained to benches and never taught how to speak or walk to respond to being offered freedom. Which has reminded me of the Gene Wiley case (Caution warning: descriptions of abuse and neglect in the link) and now I'm sad because somehow reality keeps managing to go "Nope, I've got that beat," at fiction.