Mmkay.
It was different - I’ll give it that. The ending felt axe-rushed and contrived, but it was tolerable, and really I’m not sure that it would’ve made more sense if it had had more time anyway.
I am a bit behind on this series. I hadn’t realized it was ending, so I don’t have any excuse to put off catching up on it any more. It has been such a weird ride so far, it makes sense that the ending is a bit weird as well.
What’s the ‘rustle’ supposed to be? Are they implying that the girl is a different alien and that it’ll all start again? Are they actually Haru and, now, Noah? If not, where are they? Still just watching? Why did the technologically way more advanced aliens seemingly dumb themselves down to humans? If they were going to do that, why did they need to eridicate the humans at all?
Kinda disappointing ending. Very rushed, very superficial. Makes sense if it was indeed axed, but still.
I might be totally off, but I took the whole thing to be a clumsy allegory.
I have no idea what the rustle was.
I don’t know if the two at the end are literally the same or just two people repeating what the originals did, but I sort of presume the latter, and I think the point was just to illustrate that history repeats itself.
I think part of the point too was that the aliens were only technologically more advanced. Sociologically, they’re at least as primitive as the humans they thought themselves so superior to, as illustrated, for instance, by their essentially reflexive determination to wipe out the humans.
Think of it as a commentary on colonialism - the more advanced newcomers think nothing of wiping out the natives, believing themselves to be inherently superior to them, and thereby proving that they’re not in fact superior - they’re just brutes with better weapons.
Again though, I could be totally off. It appears that the author took a bunch of ideas they wanted to explore along the way and squooshed them all down into a single chapter, so a bunch of details got lost along the way.
I have no idea what the rustle was.
I feel like that was quite key to the whole bit, but who knows.
Think of it as a commentary on colonialism - the more advanced newcomers think nothing of wiping out the natives, believing themselves to be inherently superior to them, and thereby proving that they’re not in fact superior - they’re just brutes with better weapons.
While I’m not sure that is indeed what it was going for and feels like giving it more credit than it should have, I do like this interpretation.
Isn’t the “rustle” an SFX for the girl removing her shirt, like in the first images of the first chapter, where Haru is revealing she’s an alien?
It may very well be
Decided to buckle up and finish this. The last chapters aren’t as bad as the first ones. Too bad it’s unresolved; guess axe-kun went down too fast.
Yeah, it really feels like this last chapter in particular was just a bunch of things the author intended to cover somewhere along the way all strung together - the end.
Ah well - I’m not particularly disappointed. It was always more strange than it was good, so a strange axe-rushed ending is what I expected anyway.
I just wish I knew what the rustle was…
