Dragon Head Chapter 89 Discussion *spoilers beware*

The best chapters and volumes were the first three or so, when it was about the psychological fear of dying in a unknown and incomprehensible natural disaster. Then the plot didn't really moved that much, the discussions about fear and will to live weren't very good, the action scenes felt a bit too much for the characters to survive all of them, and the finale felt incomplete, especially with the political aspect thrown in the last volumen. Pretty great beginning, just ok development, at least the atmosphere and the main lead character were good from beginning to end.

Beatnik said:
Scynt_Skunk said:
But all that crap about nukes and stuff at the end was just confusion for confusion's sake...



And what was the military saying about electromagnetic waves?  It's like the author decided to change his mind on what happened in the last volume or something...



The military nuke stuff was just further exploring the idea that humans create things to fear all the time.  The manga didn't really get sidetracked by it enough for it to become a problem for me though.  It was just providing some worldwide context to the Japanese disaster, I was glad for it really.  Plus we got some nice zombie v soldier action.



The entire last couple chapters were just plain ridiculous and just added in a bunch of loose ends that weren't tied up at the finish.



Really, I'm really pissed I wasted about a week and a half of my like on this manga now...



Eh?  What loose ends?  Either the kids die or they somehow survive.  What other loose ends are there in that scenario?  I'd rather just leave them there under that concrete cover happy to be together in the face of death and misery, than the author wrapping everything with a nice fake bow.



The ending, and those last panels, was actually pretty good, I thought.  At the end of the day, humans will not give up hope and cave in to fear.  They'll rebuild and plough on as always, just...with a gigantic volcano where Tokyo used to be.



I totally agree. I felt the ending had little to no loose ends and can be interpreted as either a bright and hopeful future or a bleak and bitter sweet end to Ako and Teru's journey.  



I forgot most posts in this topic are opinions of complete weaboos, that want a moe happily ever after ending where everything is perfect wrapped up without any sense of mystery and the guy gets the girl... /rant.

Ending so open it hardly even an ending.



First 3 volumes were great, then it went downhill.

Overall, liked this series although I felt there were a few pacing problems here and there. Fear definitely played a prominent theme throughout the majority of the story from the very beginning towards the end imo.



The finale imo was somewhat disappointing but didn't ruin the series overall so I'm fine with it. 7/10.

I don't see why there are so many hates with the ending. To be fair, it was kinda unexpected, but not abrupt or absurd. My point is, Dragon Head might take place in an ongoing-apocalypse (or I like to call it "Ultra Disaster"), but I guess some people mistook it to be a horror-survival manga. There were elements of a horror-survival here and there, but it was *not* Dragon Head's main theme, the main theme was about people's fear and how they dealt with it when the world fell apart, and to that it did a good job until the very end.



What exactly was the cause of all those chaos? Nobody knows for certain and it should stay that way. The disaster in Dragon Head was too huge and bizzare for anyone, even the best scientists in the world, to figure out in a glance, and hence any attempt allowing a group of young kids to miraculously identified the real cause would just feel forced. And I'm glad that all we got for the ending were wildest guesses, because it was cool. "Finding an explanation" was the very first thing that pop up in everyone's head, but as the journey go along, actually it was to explore human fear that was the main purpose of Dragon Head. I guess some people was into Dragon Head 'til the end just because pure curiosity, and the fact that no clear explanation was pulled off made them pissed, but to me, it was so realistic, so on-point and somewhat satisfied. It was a long, brutal and tiresome journey, so at the end, just to be with your love one and watch the world around you burst into chunk of flame was such a relief (It kinda remind me of "Fight Club" ending).



Again, if you somewhat hate the ending, it may just because you totally mistook the manga and what exactly the author were trying to portrait. What about Japan after that? What about our world? What was the cause? They were not told in the end because (I guess) they were never the real intention (exact opposite of how careful fear was discussed and defined), so if it still does not click for you, just use your imagination and pick your favorable scenario. For me, I prefer some questions to be left unanswered like this, because it was just something true about life.



I didn't find the characters in Dragon Head all that amazing but the manga captured the atmosphere of a ruined world so brilliantly, I kinda change the way I see our human world a bit.

I expected an open ending. Leaving things ambiguous regarding the disaster might've been for the better tbh. I don't think any explanation could've lived up to the imagination of most readers.



Not to mention that this was a character driven story about how humans deal with fear in the first place. It can be overwhelming to the point where we lose our mind or it can be benefitial if we manage to get stronger. In the end we gotta live with it and move on.

Just finished this :/



Very abrupt ending. I would have expcted at least 1-2 more volumes.



Didn't like the final at all. The underground shelter with the drugged food and all the crazy people, except for one fat dude who claimed to be a "researcher" - what was that?! Why had they all their heads sewn like they got brain surgery? That entire part felt so pointless.



And really, giving Nimura a bad end? For the entire manga, I was hoping he'd end up with Seto-chan properly. Going from rapist to protector to actual lover. I don't blame his reaction to when the hero appeared at the school building. Suddenly Seto was all over the kid's dick. Nimura got thrown away, all alone.



And then we see several pages of something happening, the end.



This manga felt like it was building towards something bigger, but it fell completely flat. I hope the author was forced to stop writing, because if this was his actual planned script, he sucks.

Everything was great up until he met with those crazy bald guys.