Ichinose-ke no Taizai Chapter 41 Discussion

Was expecting a twist but wasn't expecting THAT twist! At least not right at this moment. The dad is definitely up to something and Sota seems like he could be aware he's in the dream. Interesting imo because some terrible secret is about to come out as a result of this.

I see some people out there grumbling about the chapter and I wonder why? I'm excited to get back into the plot twist aspect of this and the central device is definitely the hospital awakening.

You may be surprised I'd say this, but I *know* that "it was a dream" is bad writing in any typical writing scenario where it is truly a left-field event.

But this manga uses dreams as a manifested story device. The entire thing revolves around reality vs. a forced, mysterious dream. Waking from dreams and falling back into them is the revolving mystery element itself, and they always lead to something intentional.

I don't think this manga is above criticism by any means. No manga is. But this is definitely not a case where that specific criticism is warranted, because "it was a dream" is an occurrence we *should* expect as possible in a manga where that is the exact point.

I'm aware of what people outside of MAL say, I follow this manga in other places too. Some people have good criticisms but to be fair, some criticisms are also trash.

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@eightdollarwater
the reason why dream here just doesn't work is because...it's not a manifest story device. even if it was it's only creating opposite effect. whatever we learn ends up being a dream means that piece of information is practically nullified. lets look back to the family part. what exactly was grandpa and grandma as a person? one is alzheimer, one is wishing to be with her husband. what was the beef between mother and father? father was cheating on her...alright you get my point, so that's everyone we know. oh wait nvm, tis was all a dream. and the next thing we know, so many things end up being different. even when things were developed, it was pretty much meaningless. and this happened like 4 times.

the whole nature of rendering and expecting it to be a dream only means the development doesn't mean jack shit. heck even now I would ask: "what was the point of the fake family arc?" was anything revealed? what did we get out of souta in that one? in my eyes, nothing. if the next thing we know got nothing to do with what was just developed, it's only proving my point. oh but unfortunately it already did every time there was a dream loop.

what I'm saying is that it's both predictable and unpredictable in a really really bad way.

@Nieznajomy43 I can honestly say "how can you be sure" to all things you said. who's to say the car accident wasn't a dream? do we know for sure why everyone was hospitalized on first place? this is what happens when every layer is Inception except there's no indication on where you are.

"Grandma killing Tsubasa in a dream (it was happening in the same time)" this makes zero sense. same time in where? real world? where do you see that? why kill tsubasa? what makes you so sure your interpretation is right? too many things to bite here sir.