Thirty-Six - #21
#21: "delayed brain"
You can read the chapter on our various sites using the links below.
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Check out below the credit page for group comments, which may contain spoilers for the chapter.
Here goes.
The song featured in the chapter title, "delayed brain" by Number Girl, is linked above.
You can additionally find it here on Spotify.
In this chapter, we resume where the last chapter left off, with Ikoma and his grandmother encountering his father, Masaki. Looks like he's here to stay.
Elsewhere, Anzu talks Azuma into doing their winter break homework together at her place.
Hope you enjoy!
Magazine Comment from Soshi Nishiuma:
"The Boys"... final season...
Words of Wisdom:
" we really need to bring back petitions for killing people (from the 90s) but like not for everyone but maybe everyone you know un related note #ForTheFu2040"
ー SPOEKLREIORK
"It's an Ikoma chapter! And everything sucks!!! Misaki is an abusive piece of garbage who forces his own pleasures and ideals onto others regardless of what they want, with him now forcing his way back into Ikoma's life. And all the poor boy can do is tank it and apologize like it's his fault, which reminds me so much of what happened when his grandma first adopted him. Combining that with some of the most incredible and dread-inducing artwork this series has had thus far, and you really get to understand just how horrible everything's getting. It's so wrong seeing Ikoma looking so scared and exhausted... I feel like I'm the one who should be saying "sorry".
There's this game franchise I follow called Yakuza, or Like a Dragon, and it too had an important dialogue scene over kalbi. There, it was between two sworn brothers of a yakuza clan right before one of them was to be re-incarcerated, a peaceful moment of reminiscence and preparation for the future between what is essentially found family. But here, it's between a father and his son right after one of them barged in from God-knows where, a tense moment of past traumas and dread for the future between people who should be thick as blood. They say that kalbi is one of the few meats that gets better as it's charred black... and with the usage of scorch marks to represent breaks in Ikoma's "normal" life, I'm scared he's not from that cut of meat.
Writing this wisdom on June 21st, so Happy Father's Day, everyone. Everyone except Masaki, that is."
ー jmilewski