Suicide Girl - Vol. 1 Ch. 2

[Critterer]

What's interesting to note, but may never be explored is that while phobias are responsible for a lot of the suicide attempts in this manga, the MC's attempts had nothing to do with a phobia, so what happens if the MC stumbles upon another person who actually does want to kill themselves?

 

[7goat]

The concept is nice but a bit flimsy. But damn, that reunion scene between that girl and her mom is super cute.

 

[TekirinKarin]

Damn man the trasnformation sequence kinda disturbing for me

did the mangaka has been playing Persona 3 or something?

 

[megamanzero2000]

@Merllemon nice avatar you got there

 

[Tamerlane]

Add the romance tag.


Also, 4 means "Death" in east asian countries.

Hence this guy

Long term goal I hope is to bring back her fiancee

 

[AnimuVsMango]

Imagine if she kicked off the stool and ended up just actually hanging herself.

 

[twinklecake]

I'm all for a manga about fighting monsters that cause suicides, but linking it to the actual, globally famous suicide crisis of your country really is distasteful.

 

[Morgan_911]

That's like she was treating suicide as a joke. That makes her cute.

 

[RalekTheOne]

Wow I wanted to make a joke about how extremely silly this is when she transformed but then I teared up a bit about how her mother was dealing with her daughter's death

 

[gundulgondrong]

THIS AUTHOR!!! MAN!!

 

[JohnJRenns]

this is so fucking silly but also unironically incredible

 

[JohnJRenns]

it's a little distasteful, but i don't think it's disrespectful, and the inner character conflict ("I've been afraid of death, all along") suggest to me the author does have some understanding of the topic. i honestly think unless you've been through stuff like this yourself, you couldn't find the courage to actually write something like this. the phobia thing comes across as a tongue and cheek way of representing these feelings from the perspective of someone who has thought about them before, rather than an outsider making fun of those feelings

edit: ok so i'm looking at the author's other works and suicide seems to be a common theme. i think they might just be very interested in the topic LOL

 

[RichieJ]

chapter summary: not today old friend

 

[Zl33PY]

the pace of this story is wilder than a steer with a hillbilly on his back

 

[KingDM23]

I'd totally watch an anime of this

 

[bunny]

insanely dumb series

 

[zerimas]

@twinklecake

I'm all for a manga about fighting monsters that cause suicides, but linking it to the actual, globally famous suicide crisis of your country really is distasteful.

I'm not super knowledgeable about the exact nature of the relationship between Japanese-culture and mental illness (I am just a mentally-ill weeabo), but I feel like you're evaluating this from a more "Western" perspective. Asian countries in general do not have a good track record with anything mental health related. Talking about it, treating it, et cetera. Japan lags behind the rest of the world in its treatment of depression (using tricyclics, and not SSRIs like everyone else) and there is a lot of stigma.

I tried applying for ESL teaching jobs in Korea (didn't get them, but whatever). Some of my drugs (amphetamines for ADHD) are just flat-out illegal in most parts of Asia. For the anti-depressants you can only get 60 days worth (which is barely even enough time for them to start working) before you have go see a psychiatrist . Also, if you lie on your visa application about not have a medical condition and then try and go get some anti-depressants you might end up in trouble with immigration. Also, if you disclose the mental illness to any of your co-workers (assuming you get into the country all if wrote down some kinda mental illness at all) you'll apparently face ostracization (or some I've been told that work in the area of sending white people to Korea).

I don't think Japan is quite as bad, (but it isn't great). The humorous approach used by the author is a way addressing a subject that people don't really really want to talk about or engage with.

TL;DR: mental health/illness is a thing that people don't want to talk about or even believe in North America. This situation is worse in places like Asia. The MC super cheery demeanor is a way of addressing what is unformattable topic. In conclusion, I don't think it is tasteless.

 

[Matthewkeen]

nice.

 

[Tristan__]

Some great stuff here