Sankarea Chapter 56.1 Extra Discussion

Kyon_Smith said:
Wat... 56.1 must be the next chapter after rea said "Thanks for the meal" right?

Kyon_Smith said:
Wat... 56.1 must be the next chapter after rea said "Thanks for the meal" right?

Rydias said:
Oh wow a translator eh ?
He's dead but he leave one son and one daughter ;_;

allenallenallen said:


Not "a" translator, it's "the" translator. Now bow down to me!

Oh, and if anything, he left 1 grandson and 1 granddaughter. The quote is"grandmother" not "mother".

Rydias said:


What is this?! A mastermind?! xD.
Okie, okie. So mind telling me the ending ?

allenallenallen said:
Again, I'm "the" translator of Ch. 56.1, not just "a" translator. The Ch. 56.1 you see everywhere on the internet is mine. lol

And as I wrote on the last page, the author wants the readers to come to their own conclusions.

Facts:
- Rea can't have children and it's obvious that many decades have passed.
- It's most likely that the two children shown are grandchildren of the main heroines and Chihiro.
- The fact that Rea only said grandmother instead of both grandmother and grandfather means that Chihiro is probably dead.

Possible grandmother who married Chihiro in order of highest chance:
1. Ranko
2. Mero (incest route because why not)
3. Darin

Granddaughter (Rai):
- Has Mero's hairstyle
- Has the same hair ribbon like Rea's (Rea's ribbon is shown on the last page of this chapter)

Grandson (Tama):
- Has Ranko's personality
- Has Chihiro's love for zombies
- Has a similar flower hair pin like Rea's

My conclusion:
And since these children are GRANDCHILDREN, it's possible that the children of Ranko, Chihiro, Mero, and Darin ended up marrying each other. Which would turn into something like this:

Chihiro + Ranko = CR (Son or daughter of Chihiro and Ranko)
Mero + ??? = M? (Son or daughter of Chihiro and Ranko)

CR + M? = Rai and Tama

This would then explain Tama's personality and love for zombies.
This would also explain Rai's hairstyle.

Take what you want from this conclusion of mine but do remember that the author wants you to decide so I might not be even close.

archeotech said:
There's nothing to say Chihiro is dead, although I guess he could be, but bear in mind he had a mechanical heart which is maybe from the research with the cyborg owls. I think it had implied the poison had transformed his actual body in a permanent way as it was a year later when he said he had been turned into a monster. Like his grandfather he probably had to eat some the leaves from time to time to maintain his body.

SalvadorDali22 said:
This extra chapter messed me up big time..

I mean, the ending was stupid enough, with Chihiro having his heart eaten and still being alive. And after that, the two don't get to see each other for a whole year for some reason and even then all she has to say to him is "thanks for the meal LOL".. It's like their relationship ended after she got her memories erased and never picked up again, despite the absurd lengths Chihiro went to restore them.

And now this extra chapter suggests she decided to simply abandon her regular girl life, all her earthly hopes and desires, just leave Chihiro to Wanko or whoever and proceed to dwell in the woods all by herself for all eternity. She just fully accepted she doesn't have any active part in the world of the living anymore and must let everyone live out their lives without her, while she remains unchanging and ageless, occasionally smiling upon them from afar like a dead person in heaven would do. She basically turned into a ghost and that's how she presents herself to the children of her old friends.
This is so unbelievably sad, I'm an emotional mess right now.. this is not how I expect a silly romcom to end, goddamit.....

AkiyamaSairei said:
I just finished the manga today, August 26th, 2016.

I started the manga just as I finished watching the anime, back when it was airing.

All I have to say is that this ending saddens me a lot.

Most of all, the ending seems so forced.

1. Her father was crazy for her, idolized her, even took photos of her naked when it was her birthday. EVERY YEAR. Then he fights Chihiro and understand things better. He needs to save her daughter now, so he travels all around the world, desperately seeking any possible help for her beloved daughter. Until this, we're alright.

BUT then he shows up from nothing saying that the only thing he could do is go to ZOMA, and that Jogoro told him everything about zombies. Okay!
(But he seriously didn't find any other person in the world capable of saving Rea, nor anyone that already had developed zombification even further?)

And then Jogoro dies.

2. In the Sanka School, he recalls that there "is still a way", and that Chihiro is the only one capable of saving Rea at that point. Okay!
(Typical shonen manga outcome: main character is the only one that can saves the world).

3. Ranko lost all the posibilities of becoming anything like a main character, since she just held her ground outside, and didn't think of anything else.
Same goes for Darin.
(Also, back at the lab, she said that Rea had some living tissues - that she was not entirely dead. This should have been used to develop a cure for Rea.)

Until now, we have the following scenary:

Chihiro and Rea inside the church, along with Babu.
Rea's father is wounded and lying on the ground there, with them, too.
Ranko and Darin are outside, being loyal to Chihiro's promise, which is respectable.

HOW WOULD I HAVE WRITTEN THE STORY FROM THAT POINT?

Rea is attacking Babu. Chihiro tries to stop Rea, but cannot since she is super strong.
Don is not mortally wounded, and counsels Chihiro.
"You can save my daughter. Even if she doesn't remember you now, you're still somewhere in her thoughts, deep inside in her mind. You can save it and I know you will."

Chihiro stands up, he's all messed up but charges on Rea. He holds both of her hands within his, lacing their fingers.
He yells all kind of stuff, what they've been through since they met. Because of Babu.
He reminds Rea of his family, also wounded but worried about her.

She starts to remember something.
He finally yells: I love you!
Now, she is finally back.

Fordwarding...

Darin starts to do some research on his condition.
She comes up with the following argument:
-Chihiro is half-zombie because all of the poison he had gotten because of Rea's biting.
-Rea was also a half-zombie because she drank the poison before accidentally end up dying. After bleeding out, she stands up already as a zombie.
-This means that if Chihiro dies, he will also come back as a zombie proving that he's also already poisoned, as Rea was at the moment of her "death".

Back in ZOMA's lab, Darin acknowledged that Rea was not like any other zombie they had seen ever before, and had still some living tissues and living cells within her, since the zombification process was not done after decease, but before.
(Also, the poison made by Chihiro was even better than his grandfather's.)

Rea did not entirely die, when she bled out.

FROM THAT POINT, they should have focused on finding a way of turning her over to a living human being. Which was really a possibility. Maybe with a cure? Maybe getting her new organs, blood transfusion... whatever.

The de-zombification process would have been amazing story to read, chapter by chapter...

Until she is finally alive again.

From there, she would confess to Chihiro after thanking him for everything he'd done just for saving her.

And they would have been able to be together, oficially as boyfriend as girlfriend, with the promise of finishing their studies together the following year.

Dan would break up with Aria after finding her true feelings of hatred towards his daughter, and would have Rea live with him again. Rea's relationship with her father would have greatly improved after all that had happened, of course. Chihiro would be greatly welcomed and respected by him, and Rea would be very happy for that.

"I used to like zombies...", would Chihiro think.
"But after all that we've been through..." Rea's smiling face would be in the background along this dialog bubble.
"I think I started to like the living." Chihiro would smile.
"Although Babu and jiji are now gone... It was because of you that we got to save Rea from a terrible fate."
"Thank you, Babu." Babu's image in a tree, looking happy.
"Thank you, jiji (grandfather)." We would see the city from above.
"This is really... life."



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Any thoughts by private message. Sorry for any mistakes in spelling and grammar, as english is not my mother language. And thank you for reading this far.

allenallenallen said:
Again, I'm "the" translator of Ch. 56.1, not just "a" translator. The Ch. 56.1 you see everywhere on the internet is mine. lol

And as I wrote on the last page, the author wants the readers to come to their own conclusions.

Facts:
- Rea can't have children and it's obvious that many decades have passed.
- It's most likely that the two children shown are grandchildren of the main heroines and Chihiro.
- The fact that Rea only said grandmother instead of both grandmother and grandfather means that Chihiro is probably dead.

Possible grandmother who married Chihiro in order of highest chance:
1. Ranko
2. Mero (incest route because why not)
3. Darin

Granddaughter (Rai):
- Has Mero's hairstyle
- Has the same hair ribbon like Rea's (Rea's ribbon is shown on the last page of this chapter)

Grandson (Tama):
- Has Ranko's personality
- Has Chihiro's love for zombies
- Has a similar flower hair pin like Rea's

My conclusion:
And since these children are GRANDCHILDREN, it's possible that the children of Ranko, Chihiro, Mero, and Darin ended up marrying each other. Which would turn into something like this:

Chihiro + Ranko = CR (Son or daughter of Chihiro and Ranko)
Mero + ??? = M? (Son or daughter of Chihiro and Ranko)

CR + M? = Rai and Tama

This would then explain Tama's personality and love for zombies.
This would also explain Rai's hairstyle.

Take what you want from this conclusion of mine but do remember that the author wants you to decide so I might not be even close.

archeotech said:
I decided to give an ending which might be possible.

The grandmother is mero and Rea doesn't really know who the grandfather is so who cares.
Remember both Mero and Chihiro were traumatised by their mother turning into a zombie so were both weird and Mero had friends that were obsessed with zombies. Most characters in this series were into zombies so wouldn't be strange that the grandkids were as well. Also Mero enjoyed setting up that test of courage earlier in the story and spooking people which is kind of what she did again to the kids.

Chihiro would've aged much slower so is most likely alive still. As he put it he'd also turned into a monster.
Also Rea was content cause she literally and figuratively had Chihiro's heart so they would always be together. Chihiro had essentially rejected Wanko before so possible they never got together.

I'm also disappointed myself with this ending but hope people like my interpretation. :)

Edit: Actually thinking on it this interpretation makes most sense.
When Rea thought that Chihiro was dead she couldn't bear living so to me the fact that she's living happily means that Chihiro must be alive somewhere and she would've mentioned him to the kids if he was their grandfather. We also have to wonder if Chihiro could even have kids due to his half zombie state cause it's possible the grandfather adopted Chihiro's mother as it was said in ch40 that Chihiro wasn't related to his grandfather. Also his grandfather never had any other kids even with his second wife whom he spent several years with so this could be a side effect.

The kids obsession with zombies could also be because of Chihiro who's probably still obsessed with them. If Mero was in her 60s then Chihiro might only seem to be in his 40s due to the effect of the zombie poison and very hard to kill seeing as he survived having his heart ripped out.

Think that wraps it up and makes most plausible senario. :)

Lex1979 said:
Well, if I have to make my own ending...Chhiro is still alive and lives in the woods with Rea. Or at least he lived with her until his death. After what he's done for her sake, risking even is own life, I simply can't imagine him letting her go. Still, I absolutely hate open endings, if I have to make my own conclusion for a story why bother readning it in the first place.