That implication flew completely over my dead. So it turns the pregnant sixteen-year-old had sex with another teenager instead of an adult... who himself conceived a child with an adult woman at the age of 12.
Well, the first part was already implied when that strange girl tells Ruby that Goro's/Ai's killer was with a middle-schooler at the time of the incident. But the second part... yeah, that's an icky revelation. I'm assuming this is going to be important plot point, and not just a case of Writers Cannot Do Math.
Possibilities are that either Mystery Dad's own father was the one who fathered Himekawa, making him Aqua's uncle, and the DNA test fumbled (long shot, but I heard it as a conjecture), or that Himekawa's mom raped Mystery Dad when he was a preteen and fathered Himekawa by him. No wonder her husband ended up pulling a murder suicide, sheesh. And Akane, girl, what did we say about OD'ing on death flags?
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.![]()
Enfant Terrible is a thing, so that could be a direction they'd take with this revelation.
That being said, it seems more likely that this would be used to give Mystery Dad some sort of Freudian Excuse (if he is the mastermind behind Goro and Ai's deaths) rather than to prove that he's pure evil who can manipulate and take advantage of adult women at the age of 11.
This is the same character who was all of fifteen when he likely manipulated a grown man into a targeted Murder-Suicide. Doing nefarious things at a young age seems well within his capabilities.
Although him (probably consensually) fathering another child at fifteen is suggestive of Promiscuity After Rape. Especially when you remember Melt's flashback to also losing his virginity at the age of twelve, describing his ~14 partner as having "taken advantage of" him.
Today I learned that, while the digital release in Japan is a week behind the print, the English release is simultaneous with the latter. This kind of makes English readers "ahead" of Japanese ones, who seem to more often make posts (especially ones including panels) after the Jump+ release.
The anime starts in 2023 with a 90-minute premier.
Pretty obvious that they're gonna try to get most of the prologue in there.
I seriously think Akane dying here would be a bad writing decision. What, Aqua needs more to be angry and vengeful over?
I like this series, but I can't say the Myth Arc has been well-executed. 11 volumes in, we got like three beats advancing the primary mystery as it became absurdly tangential. Then it was abruptly answered by a secondary character almost the instant she tried. Now it looks set to send Aqua practically back to square one anyway.
Bit of a sudden turnaround, but I'm not complaining. Just about the best direction their characters could have taken, I feel. Aqua's back on the revenge train without needing to add an Akane fridging to it, she gets dumped for her own good but is heartbroken that she couldn't save him from his self-destructive spiral. In a way, each of them was looking to spare the other that burden. Too bad it didn't pan out and now both twins are on the path to ruin.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
