Zashiki Onna Chapter 11 Discussion

^ i started to get more creeped out towards the end and my heart was skipping. i was definitely expecting a stronger finish than that. i was skeptical to read this, but i started to really enjoy it. and then such disappointment... it had a lot of potential it didn't take advantage of.

I've curious to know what happened to the protagonist

Well, that left every question unanswered. Really not a good read...

Well, the ending was alright, but.. meh..

I honestly was waiting for quite the reveal at the end to see who or what she really was, but I think it was just she was a ghost and once they know you can see them, they'll follow you around forever? It was weird.



I wanted some more answers from this. The poor guy didn't deserve it at all.

It's possible that Sachiko left Hiroshi alone after the fire. It's possible that he heard the nurses talking about seeing the ghost of the old woman who'd died that morning, and his stressed state, coupled with any medicine they gave him, may have made him hallucinate Sachiko was stalking him in the hospital. Note how in chapter 9 he says that he's "somehow tied to the bed", but is perfectly able to move and get up after it. Hiroshi convinces himself that Sachiko is there, calls his friend babbling about it, then hallucinates seeing Sanae with no face in the hallways and that the hospital is empty. It could be that he was actually being chased by medical personnel, which he thought were Sachiko, and that injection was merely to subdue him.



Chapter 10 (where this all goes down) is called "Paralysis", which I initially assumed meant he was actually in bed hallucinating all this, but he couldn't have called his friend like that. Therefore, it probably has to do with him feeling helpless against Sachiko, who may or may not have been there at all.



It's also possible for Sachiko, if she were a supernatural entity, to make Hiroshi hallucinate all the events in the hospital that night.



Considering Yamamoto's reappearance in chapter 11, it could be that Sachiko had found herself a new target in Hiroshi, and when he went insane she was either bored of him or achieved her goal. Then when Yamamoto, "the one who got away", came back asking questions, she appeared in front of him again. In the end, both Hiroshi and Yamamoto became as obsessed with her as she was with them.



ETA: and in this panel, I think Yamamoto is the one answering the door (note the short, dark hair; Yamamoto is the one narrating):







followed by another panel showing Hiroshi doing the same on one of the next pages (the narration is done by a few girls walking to school, one of which is Rumi):







So it's possible that Sachiko was trying all the apartments in the complex?

Lots of unanswered questions. Still curious what the phone call Sachiko made in 10 was about. Also the nurses talking about the old lady in 9.



So currently 2 theories. Either Sachiko is human and that hospital scene was a hallucination seeing how her mouth is much different from her first appearance.



Or she isn't human which is more likely the case. And just wants to harass people because evil?

It was an okay manga. The stalker woman was pretty creepy with her persistence and obsessive actions. I’m fine with ambiguous endings, but I feel like there was too much ambiguity. Like someone said, how the characters who were involved reacted to the main character’s death seemed out of character. Also, I wanted to know a bit more on Yamamoto’s situation with the woman. Oh well, it was a fun read overall.