Dragon Head Chapter 89 Discussion *spoilers beware*

I feel like the whole thing with the pain guys and the conspiracy were useless. The last few pages were beautiful though.

What kinda bullshit was that...?  I think I just dropped its score from a 7 to a 6 for wasting my time with that worthless ending.



Obviously, most of the disaster was simply techtonic shifts that caused the huge earthquakes and the violent Mt. Fuji eruption, which also caused all the clouds, ash and what not.  The second volcano was most likely caused when the giant pit (Mt Fuji) destroyed itself with its explosion and the lava traveled underground to Tokyo and created a new pressure point exit.  Moving volcanos happen a lot, its how the entire Hawaiian islands were formed.  



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 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...

I felt a bit disappointed because i wasn't expecting this sudden ending... but thinking twice, remembering everything what the characters felt, fought for, life or death, survival, fear, craziness, zombi, ultimate fear, monster, darkness, and by the end watch the view of the end of the world with someone you want to be with, just feeling... happy... i realized that this is actually one the best ending i ever read.

AlexSadist-sama said:
WTF. That's it?



same here i was expecting the ''good ending'' but noooo~ everyone died >=(

I feel there was one of the bombs planted near the base of Mount Fuji (one of the 3 secretly hidden bombs) and when the magma began to rise it detonated the bomb and completely destroyed the entire mountain and made that huge crater. Crazy ish.



Anyways the the other volcano surfaced probably from the plate tectonics shifting and  then bursting upwards as the geothermic energy (plus the energy from the shifting plates) sprang upwards forming the upside down cone shape of the volcano, hokus pokus, new volcano.



From the start I new it was a volcano since a nuclear blast would have killed everyone (from radiation) and radios be used since anyone in the area would be dead from radiation (especially since it took them almost 2 weeks to get out of the tunnel). But even before they got out of the tunnel, the entire underground area was getting hot and once Teru returned from the air vents and there was that blast next to the train it looked like a lava jet. Oh and in the beginning scene where Teru sees an explosion from the trains window, it didn't really look like a nuke blast.



Pretty good story overall. I got into the mood and it made me think of my own living situations; and how grateful I should be. Ily Manga

The whole psycho kids and fucked up food that take away your fear and so on was dumb and pointless. Shouldn't have been in there and honestly? it was boring.



Scariest part through the manga was when they flew over Mount Fuji and descended down into it. That scared the shit out of me.



I was going to give this a 10 but that and the ending dropped it to an 8.



The ending just felt empty and incomplete. I get that its supposed to be an open ending but they could have at least showed the aftermath and Teru & Ako alive and surviving somewhere.



At least a small tiny shred of happiness would have been perfectly fine in the end since this manga took away ALL happiness lol

I'm rather disappointed with the ending.

I feel like there was a big build up that ultimately evolved into nothing :I



All that hope that's described at the end is sort of a laugh to; as it looks all of Japan is pretty much fucked forever~



Though I don't think reading this was a waste of time really/

"The slowest, most filler-filled manga I've ever encountered. The focus was so much on aimless wandering, insane people and monster metaphors that what mattered got ignored. And it ended at a random point, with NOTHING explained or resolved." - from my tags.



Dragon Head's ending has to rank as the worst ending ever. After countless filler chapters, involving running from random nutjobs, wandering around ruined areas and, at the end, some fear cult bullshit, it just ended. After drawing the story out for 40+ chapters more than needed, not even the reason for Japan turning into hell was revealed? Wonderful. What a complete waste of my not-so-precious time.



I don't know why a new volcano appeared (the translation referred to it as Mt. Fuji..), and I don't care. I don't think the mangaka did, either - he/she couldn't have been more vague.



If the story had started before the disaster, introducing the characters and showing how they acted before everything went to hell, it would've been more involving from the start. If flashbacks had been used effectively, rather than there being an endless amount of filler chapters and pointless/totally needless discussions about fear with monster metaphors, it would've showed the 'before and after' of the character's lives; making the new hellish world disturbing to see. If Teru and Aoki had become romantically involved, it would've added more danger; making readers fear for their relationship.



(Basically, I should've re-read Battle Royale instead!)



...If, if, if. The characters never became anything other than cardboard cutouts because of the mangaka not handling them right. And when that's put together with a mostly aimless story that never goes anywhere, which ended in the worst way possible (without a proper ending), you're left with an empty shell that, in truth, isn't worth reading.



I regret reading all 89 chapters because of the hope it'd improve. It never did. I dropped my score from 6/10 to 5/10.