Continuing the manga dump from >A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.
We're in the middle of chapter 8 out of 16.
I Sold Off My Lifespan, For 10,000 Yen A Year
Justin Peterson
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Kayden Kelly
thanks user, enjoying the ride
Justin Gomez
Christopher Hall
Hunter Wood
Jose Morales
Joshua Wright
Landon Evans
dl link?
enjoying it so far
Jaxon King
Is the manga as good as the ln?
Ian Morris
Thomas Wood
This manga is based as fuck.
Cameron Collins
ln>manga
Christopher Powell
Cooper Edwards
Lincoln Taylor
>wanting to impress and attract Himeno
Pretty selfish desire considering he got how much, two months to live? Imagine her getting hopes up, that he'll save her from the hopeless situation she finds herself in.
Gavin Bennett
Isaac Hill
IM SO HORNY AND LONELY
Gavin Cooper
hahahahaa
Chase Lewis
Caleb Nguyen
haha imagine how cruel would that be
Adam Martin
Colton Murphy
Honestly, a story like this worked fine enough as a LN. This manga adaptation is serviceable, but I wouldn't consider this superior to the original.
Colton Cox
Daniel Miller
I read this a few weeks ago and still feel empty inside. What can I read to get rid of this feeling?
Dylan Perez
Levi Phillips
Aria
Carter Richardson
like a bottomless pit? or just apathetic about it all?
Noah Morgan
Christian Cooper
Carter Bennett
does this or the light novel have an official english release yet?
Grayson Mitchell
Gavin Bailey
Grayson Reed
Jace Rodriguez
Nolan Russell
Jeremiah Taylor
Chase Brooks
Light novel? I thought it was adapted from a real novel.
Jack Jackson
Isaiah Diaz
Aiden King
Juan Wood
Landon Perry
Sebastian Stewart
Lucas Smith
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Colton Wilson
Lincoln Rogers
Aaron Gutierrez
Sebastian Gomez
Christian Young
Camden Bailey
Henry Young
Damn this girl is so starved for emotional contact she'd settle for any trash that doesn't outright try to rape her.
Anthony Ramirez
Eli Johnson
Noah Gomez
Kevin Howard
My internet died again, let's take another 15 mins break.
Jeremiah Thomas
Well you picked a good spot I'd say
Owen Taylor
Thank you OP! I must go to sleep at this point.
Michael Cook
Oh shit, it was right at the last page of the chapter.
Elijah Stewart
Im gonna get going now, but will return for the rest. Take care.
Hunter Lee
Goodbye Anons.
Colton Butler
Thanks for the dump.
How much is left? Should I wait, or just go to bed and finish this in the morning?
Anthony Myers
Let's just say we'll need another thread after this one before wrapping up.
Michael Miller
>dragged into a 280k debt by my brother
Can this user storytime how this happened? I have a 65k debt but it's all my own doing...sort of.
Kayden Diaz
what six letters
i love u?
i luv yu?
fuck me?
nig, pls?
faggot?
miyagi?
himeno?
Robert Sullivan
Yes
Jace Cruz
himeno -> miyagi
David Evans
Aaron Wood
Chase Gutierrez
Ryder Clark
the boy is clearly interested but cant say anything out of fear of rejection
>haha nah I was joking
goddamn oblivious miyagi
Brody Butler
Brandon Lopez
Samuel Turner
Jaxon Hall
Daniel Campbell
Wyatt Roberts
Eli Peterson
Robert Bennett
>done in 5 minutes
This is me when I meet up with old friend to "catch up" and they ask what I've been up to. Probably way less than 5 minutes honestly.
Jonathan Miller
Cameron Brown
OP thanks for posting, this is giving me really hard feels and it's perfect right now.
Adam Howard
Cooper Evans
Ayden Harris
Justin Perez
Carson Cooper
Kusunoki cmon man
Sebastian James
Eli Collins
Josiah Hill
Robert Martinez
Daniel Harris
Samuel Harris
Aaron Stewart
Luke Richardson
>10,000 yen a year
That' fucking nothing. What a chump deal.
Josiah Wilson
Kevin Sanchez
Landon Jackson
Shit, Kusunoki, what the hell are you doing
Carter Gray
James Ortiz
If you're going to kill yourself, or if you're going to live a very unhappy life, literally what do you have to lose?
Matthew Cook
Thomas Howard
Ryder Hall
Is selling your life taxable income? Would you get busted by the IRS for not reporting and spending the rest of your shortened days in prison for tax evasion?
Eli James
Adrian Cooper
Alexander Green
kaboom
Jackson Hill
Luis Miller
>I am now going to kill myself as revenge for you never responding to my cries for help
>sent him 1 (one) letter that was completely ordinary and not at all a cry for help
Josiah Torres
Thanks OP for dumping this, I read it very recently but getting anons for discussion is hard without too much samefagging. The current chapter is very hard, but the rest is pretty great.
Easton Morris
Kayden Reed
Andrew Peterson
Alexander Bennett
Interesting that you're posting this as I feel myself sinking back into a low point. Godspeed OP.
Caleb Allen
Read this about a month and a half ago. Really deserves a movie adaptation.
Carson Morris
Benjamin Howard
>receive a letter after literal years without contact
>written in a highly uncharacteristic manner of speech for the person
>hey I'm having a baby before the age of 20, btw
Yes, everything seems fine.
Ryder Fisher
you faggot still have to eat
retard
Asher Ross
Josiah Campbell
Gabriel Morales
This is a company that can quantify your future into cash, AND put said future in print. They probably are acknowledged and ignored by their IRS.
Jason Reyes
She didn't tell him about the baby. Not then and not now.
Benjamin Green
Logan Nguyen
>hey im used goods btw
if it was me and I realized its a cry for help, Id pretend I wouldnt have
gtfoutta here whore
Leo Campbell
Carson Allen
Adam Lee
Carson James
Juan Fisher
Gavin Miller
Landon Rogers
Thomas Morris
Sebastian Martin
Jaxson Ross
Carter Kelly
Cooper Perez
Jason Hill
Ian Hill
When does this get good?
Brody Walker
James Williams
Isaac Lopez
Brandon Lopez
I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE
Chase Evans
Ryder Sanchez
Caleb Myers
Logan Bell
*perplexed emoji*
Cooper Thompson
Logan Anderson
Brody Ward
Jeremiah Diaz
Who would sell their lifespan for less than $10k? That's so stupid.
Hunter Nguyen
John Howard
Parker Turner
Less than $100. Yen is weaker than the dollar, and 10,000 yen is probably something like 95 bucks.
Andrew Rivera
Ryan Carter
"From now on, be by my side."
Xavier Phillips
Bentley Ortiz
David Ward
Whole thing is on Mangadex if you're impatient. Very touching, cried a bit.
Luis Walker
Now I'm reminded of the vending machine isekai and this story suddenly became a lot lighter to me.
Joseph Morales
Ethan Howard
This is a really amazing read and thank you user for letting me in on this little piece of heaven
I am truly joyful
Julian Perry
Jordan Ross
Jordan Hernandez
Lucas Lopez
I know, I was assuming 100 years max of life left.
Jace Lee
fuck you faggot I will suffer choking on this dripfeed instead
Zachary Harris
Well, of course. Literally everyone she interacts with dies.
Anthony Wood
Chase Jones
Cameron Lewis
Lincoln Rogers
Jordan Sanchez
Dylan Jenkins
Chase Edwards
Joseph Roberts
Josiah Thompson
Kevin Carter
Aiden Myers
How long does the manga run?
I want to have more things to appreciate, where should I start?
Hunter Kelly
Gabriel Sanders
Jose Gutierrez
Jaxon Cox
Levi Baker
user, can you please read? It's a very short one. We're already more than halfway there.
Parker King
You can start by appreciating everything you already have.
Then get rid of the things you weren't able to appreciate and appreciate the freed up space.
Sebastian Reyes
Cameron James
Ryan Bell
Carter Lee
I read everything, the remark is because I want it for as long as I can
I believe I do the first half, but the second is really smart, thank you for the advice
Asher Ward
Benjamin Wood
Julian Turner
Kayden Lewis
People on the last thread were saying that the art didn't fit, but I disagree. Having them bland and expressionless fits both of them to a tee considering what they've been through. I won't say it's great art, but it's definitely not shit. Yes, the paneling could be better as well.
Landon Ward
Jose Nguyen
Austin Foster
Noah Ramirez
Jace Myers
Hudson Price
Michael Hughes
Joseph Robinson
Please tell me the ending is happy
I want to believe
Benjamin Jones
NO
Joshua Jones
Aiden Lewis
Cooper Diaz
Luke Russell
Dominic Wilson
Fuck, I just noticed that all of the chapter starting pages were pictures of vending machines.
Connor Ross
Imagine selling your life and having to have a disgusting middle aged man just like you watch over your last days.
Logan Butler
I was so scared
I want her to sell her life too and for them to live happily for 3 months together
Dominic Torres
Wyatt Richardson
Daniel Russell
Caleb Turner
Xavier Lee
Oh, I remember reading this a while ago. Kinda touching.
It's an adaptation from a LN btw.
Parker Bailey
Mason Jackson
I hate this turn of events
Dominic Lee
Henry Perez
Christopher Lee
Michael Russell
Bump
Jayden Collins
Nathaniel Reyes
Jeremiah Moore
Remember user, these are Japs and their stories we are talking about. They probably dont even have word for genuine happiness.
Oliver Brooks
William Allen
It's getting a bit overly sweet and perfect, isn't it (aside from the part where he's only got a month or so to live)
Chase Russell
>boy better make my work more tedious and dangerous
bitch ass nigger when she met you the deal was done already
Jason Thompson
Brandon Gutierrez
At most he got something like ~$8000, that's nothing if you live in a first-world country. The premise fucks with me so badly.
Henry Hernandez
Bentley Hill
>3 am
>will not sleep
Am I gonna sleep well tonight?
Matthew Smith
Not them, but it's easy to see both the shortcomings of this manga and why it's overrated in aggregate review. It's an emotionally poignant story on the value of life, the connections we make, and missed opportunities/regrets. Realistically speaking these types of stories aren't uncommon or particularly original. They're just very strong on first exposure. They're uncommon in illustrated format however so when one of these stories gets adapted, they'll likely make strong impressions to relatively younger and unexposed audiences. Regarding the manga itself, it's simply been an illustration of the story and little beyond that from what's been dumped so far. It doesn't do anything with the medium to make it beyond just retelling of the story but with pictures. It's not badly done, but it doesn't feel like it's elevating it and doesn't try to make strong imagery. The suicidal thoughts confession by Himeno for example was simply the letter and an empty view of the place she intended for it. No drawing of her falling or even possibly her corpse on the ground next to a shocked Kusonoki.
I'm reminded of another manga I think got dumped a while back which was about a girl who could let the dead communicate with the living or some such ability. I can't remember it well, but it was also very emotionally targeted in similar ways. I felt a great impact when reading it, but now I can't remember a detail about the story besides the fact it got sappy at the end and a panel with people flying in the air as ghosts joyfully.
Anthony White
Samuel Kelly
Luke Thomas
Asher Cook
Joshua Bailey
Aaron Scott
Isaac White
Xavier Sanders
Robert Brooks
DO IT
Carson Myers
She was the glasses girl that gave him the estimate.
Anthony Turner
Blake Wilson
Jason Murphy
Xavier Adams
belly to belly suplex!
Elijah Ross
Blake Johnson
Joshua Ramirez
If his life is worth 30 yen
Can't he just find 30 yen and then buy his life back?
I mean, even if they won't sell it back at the same price, I mean a 1000% markup is 300 yen
Daniel Walker
Is your translation the same as the one on Mangadex? Or did you decide to re-translate because the one on Mangadex sucks?
Joshua Watson
Evan Morales
Luke White
Jaxon Morris
Connor Baker
IF I HIT THE BUTTON ENOUGH TIMES IT WILL COME FASTER
Elijah Howard
In hindsight I shouldn't have used an image. Sorry.
Daniel Jones
The workings of this paranormal black organization are simply devices for the author to get his story going apparently. Putting critical thought to it is only going to bring up more plot holes and Frodos than you know what to do with.
Evan Myers
Michael Ortiz
CUTE
A CUTE
C U T E
U
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Christian Gonzalez
Brody Russell
Landon Wright
I mean it's not like a huge plot hole or anything
The author could just say some shit like "they wouldn't sell it back" or whatever
Samuel Scott
Because it is a bad story.
Alexander Phillips
Andrew Watson
Angel Rodriguez
Ayden Wright
Dominic Bell
How much do you guys reckon you could sell your lifespan for?
Lincoln Stewart
Daniel Russell
Who says they're reselling the same amount? What if they pool together all the shitty cheap time that people sell them and refine it into more worthwhile years that rich people buy for millions? If you really need an answer for this kind of thing then just make one up yourself
Daniel Ward
Liam Taylor
probably less than this dude
Nolan Fisher
Christian Cook
Noah Stewart
Christopher Hernandez
I'm not quite sure at the number, but my life to me is worth a lot. I am 21 and I have achieved almost everything I wanted to at this point, I can say that I am content with my life ending at any point because I try to live every day to the fullest
What about you user? :>
Liam Davis
mine would prolly be about a half eaten freddo
Caleb Torres
Brody Sullivan
Brody Harris
Clearly not being a smarmy cock wasn't on the agenda.
Nolan Thomas
>one fucking year for 10000 yen
Is she retarded? Just get a part-time job lmao. That will get you as much money in a year as the rest of her sixty fucking years of life.
Austin Ortiz
Agreed on most of what you posted, the artist is definitely not using the medium to its fullest potential and it shows. Still won't complain to much, I feel the story is fine either way. Might want to try the novel out if it's translated.
Charles Turner
Henry Gonzalez
Sebastian Reyes
Owen Hughes
Justin Jenkins
If he impregnates ghost girl, will people see a floating fetus? Nothing? Can he hold her but not impregnate her?
Jonathan Cruz
It is, if the explanation itself is a plot hole. Why wouldn't they sell it back? It'd be an extremely trivial profit and an easy way to scam people regretting their decisions for far more money than they paid. If not then that would mean they have a use for their life that was actually worth more than what was paid. Saying they simply can't undo that process would also be another plot hole as we have no explanation to how they do it in the first place. This is all just speculation on a system that may entirely be unformed in the author's mind however. Its primary purpose is just to make the protagonists' situations a bit more tragic.
Colton James
It's a really dumb idea that makes no sense. Why would his lifespan be valued by how other people value it? It's not like they'll be living his life, they're just be using his lifespan. All lifespan should be interchangeable because a year of life-span doesn't dictate how that year is lived, we know this because the very act of selling his lifespan altered the next 3 months. Also selling and buying time is very dumb too. By selling time, Miyagi became an observer, but what does it mean to buy time? Can only observers buy time?
Ian Allen
What the fuck. A human life costs 200million yen according to Kaiji. considering Japan's life expectancy at 84 years that would be about 2.38 million yen per year, €18,828. This would mean she sold her life for 235 times less than it would cost.
Seriously, who is that much of a shithead?
Hudson Sanders
Ryder Hernandez
I didn't mean to, I thought maybe it will inspire others. I had depression from a young age and came to suicide, decided not to at the end and live whatever I have to whatever I can, death will come at whatever point anyway
Easton Hall
Ian Gonzalez
More than two useless posts in such little time, how about you read a little before making me read such drivel?
Jaxon Diaz
Robert Kelly
Cooper Brooks
honestly i'd probably have to pay money to get rid of this shitty existence
Isaiah Butler
>impregnate her?
Kos or some say Kosm, do you hear our prayers? The cosmos, of course!
Isaiah Hall
Angel Nguyen
Michael Lee
Charles Smith
Isn't this old?
They both die around the same time, the guy goes first I think.
Juan Allen
Carter Ward
Charles Ortiz
Are they going to find a dead body on the stairs of that spiral?
Jacob Cruz
I will earn at least 1.3 million yuropoor dollars in my remaining working life and around 256k when I retire if the life expectancy tables are correct.
Gavin Nguyen
David Barnes
David Moore
Michael Carter
Jose Baker
Lincoln Martin
>cutie high school girls all smiling and waving
Logan Long
Gabriel Wilson
Dylan Bailey
Get a gf.
Hunter Brooks
Charles Gray
Zachary Hall
I'm a sucker for romantic shit so this panel always pulls at my heartstrings
Grayson Ramirez
Human life is way, way more valuable than 10000 yen a year. We all sell our lives, it's called "employment". The very identity of currency is units of time itself. By all accounts, the organisation that buys lifespan is a loanshark ripping off desperate people who doesn't understand how much their lives are worth.
Basically, if you charge under minimum wage laws, most people would find the profit justified. Yes, you might have lost 20 years, but that 20 years would have been used to work on a job you hate and as such you were never going to miss it. All that would happen is that you end up dying younger and healthier. The "actual" amount of "LIFE" you would get to live would actually be the same before and after the sale.
Instead of dying at 80 sick and frail, you die at 50 but not having to work at a dead end job, using all the 50 years of your life doing what you love instead.
So the story really is about an organisation that tricks people into giving up something really valuable, for peanuts.
And I guess the author agrees, which is why the afterword story is about a guy who rejected the sale.
Jaxon Myers
I think the whole valuation system is a lie. We know that Miyagi lied about how much his life was worth and somehow gave him 300,000 yen or so, but that doesn't make sense. Where did she get the money from? Why is she involved in the process of paying him or valuation of his lifespan when she's only an observer?
I think your life-span is actually valued by how much you value it, and since the MC didn't value his life, he would get basically nothing for it.
Ian Hughes
Elijah Fisher
Chase Jenkins
>I think your life-span is actually valued by how much you value it, and since the MC didn't value his life, he would get basically nothing for it.
The afterword story basically claim the opposite.
Alexander Clark
,2 HOURS OF SLEEP TOMORROW IS A WORK DAY
Jaxon Anderson
Jacob Sullivan
I think it's a combination of nobody giving a shit about him and him not giving a shit about himself. I don't think this plot hole matters too much since it's just a plot device in an one off manga. If the mangaka takes too much time explaining how the entire thing works it wouldn't change the manga in a significant way, since it's more about the relationship between the two main characters anyway.
Jace Murphy
Joseph Sanders
Isaac Barnes
Nigger
Carter Rogers
Jace Miller
Can someone explain how this "invisible" thing works? I asked in the other thread, but it was already maxed out.
So by selling your "time", you're essentially adding extra years to your definite lifespan. It's just that nobody not involved in your life of work is unable to interact with you. But for some reason, you still age? Let's suppose you sell 100 years worth of time. Would you come out of the end being an extremely old and decrepit person? And you will still live out your remaining lifespan?
John Martinez
Alexander Perez
>10000 yen
>100 burgerbucks
What the fuck? At my current job I make that a day. And it's a shit job too.
Andrew Rodriguez
Josiah Rodriguez
you're really over thinking it at this point
Isaac Hill
The main character is actually a schizo
Angel Williams
Nothing the old guy says can be trusted, he's advertising an illegal business outside the law without any regulations. He has every reason to lie and obfuscate things. He's just trying to get people to sell their lives, probably so that he can get a finder's fee, and when people resist, he tries to sweeten the deal, and if they keep resisting he gives up and looks for a new rube to gyp out of his lifespan.
Jeremiah Ramirez
James Powell
Henry Scott
Evan Hall
Kevin Perez
>So by selling your "time", you're essentially adding extra years to your definite lifespan
I don't think that's how it works.
Jeremiah Wood
Christopher Kelly
There's no guarantee on your life at all, the girl is in debt because her mother sold her time doing observer shit then died during so the organization strong-armed her when she was ten years old into selling her time too.
Jonathan Carter
>Nothing the old guy says can be trusted, he's advertising an illegal business outside the law without any regulations. He has every reason to lie and obfuscate things. He's just trying to get people to sell their lives, probably so that he can get a finder's fee, and when people resist, he tries to sweeten the deal, and if they keep resisting he gives up and looks for a new rube to gyp out of his lifespan.
It also makes sense that a con-man ended up walking away from the deal. he can smell a con-job because he knows it from the inside. If he couldn't tell a good deal from a bad deal, he would not have survived in his career.
Andrew Rodriguez
Nolan Rivera
Asher Hernandez
Landon Barnes
It's hard to believe she's been working for 10 years, and she started at age 10 no less, and nobody held her hand. I mean, you could drive her out to the middle of nowhere, and you'd get 20 minutes all to yourself.
Jonathan Parker
Adrian Watson
These guys can read your future so they would let you sell time based off of how much you have left, not based on how much you want to.
Might as well ask what would happen if you sold off 1000 years of lifespan, would your family line up to the middle ages suddenly be erased leaving your great x100 grandma with a gorillian gold pieces?
Jaxon Clark
Kevin Harris
MC is portrayed as very smart, asks himself before hand what the difference is between selling your life vs time. When he goes to the place doesn't ask about it and it is is completely forgotten. Why even bring it up?
Nolan Gutierrez
Gabriel Gutierrez
Was she an observer at 10 years old? Did some lucky guy get a cute loli observer for a while?
Christian Stewart
Luke Ortiz
GET DOWN, HIMENO AND MIYAGI
Nicholas Jones
Landon Young
>$100 for a year of life
Damn she got ripped off.
Jackson Adams
I'm really sad for her, I want her to be happy and him too and preferably together
Dominic Rodriguez
The way I understand it, selling your time is like selling your Lifespan, except you're selling from now instead of the end. So suppose you sell at time T, your life ends at time E, and let 0
Carter Ross
Ian Diaz
You're mixing selling "time" working for the company with selling "lifespan" from your fated future.
Alexander Thompson
The whole story is suspect. The people who can buy your lifespan also know how you would have lived that life? With that kind of omniscience, imagine what you could do. You could trick a person with a valuable lifespan to sell it for nothing.
Kayden Evans
Nathaniel Adams
Ethan Young
Landon Perez
I just realized how brilliant this scam is. You buy life for dirt cheap, and even if one out of every hundred people is inspired by the shit value they get out of it, that one guy will end up sky rocketing his life value. Then they're forced to rebuy life in order to continue being happy.
Ian Gutierrez
But if were to be quite literally god, why would you?
Thomas Roberts
Luke Flores
Benjamin Adams
when do they fuck
Jaxson Sanchez
got impatient and read the thing on manga rock
the ending is literally gift of the magi but double suicide? I can't fathom why this is terribly interesting.
Wyatt Lewis
Jose King
I mean, it's only a scam if
1. they want to buy their life back
2. they try to buy their life back
if miyagi wasn't around, then who is to say that kusunoki would feel this way
Brayden Cox
Jaxon Allen
Tyler Ross
>But if were to be quite literally god, why would you?
A literal god wouldn't need to buy life. Any deity that need to buy life would also have an incentive to scam life out of people for cheap, because as far as we can tell the organisation is not policed by anything.
Lincoln Martin
>vending machine isekai
elaborate
Camden Gutierrez
lmao
Chase Perry
Gabriel Brooks
Zachary Anderson
Ayden Fisher
Literally the first thing that will pop up if you search for it.
Grayson Allen
So why did the grill become a life bodyguard?
Michael Ross
Let's say he buys life from people who rather day, and resells them to people who want to live or at least that's my headcanon god
John Nguyen
Dominic Baker
>For 10,000 Yen A Year
$ 89.75 a year.
Is the MC a retard?
Evan Smith
>I mean, it's only a scam if
>1. they want to buy their life back
>2. they try to buy their life back
It is a scam if the organisation know everyone's true value, but has incentive to pay as little as possible for it and no one could know if they lied.
I would imagine that the extra life is then sold to wealthy clients at a massive profit, on the other end.
Joseph Collins
thanks, thought it would've been a somewhat obscure thing because of how stupid it sounds
Nathaniel Davis
Daniel Phillips
Cooper Smith
Tyler Allen
This made no sense. There was no contact between the both of them in 10 years aside from a letter sent by her. And when he did reply, he didn't get another reply after that. Not to mention, isn't getting pregnant and ruining her life in high school her own fault? Why not ask him to support you now that you did meet up with him?
Noah Roberts
Her mother sold time to the company and used the cash to also buy lifespan from them, then died before she paid off the time she gave. Apparently that debt was passed down to her (the classic Japanese debt inheritance).
Cameron Campbell
Aaron Green
Jaxson Morgan
>Let's say he buys life from people who rather day, and resells them to people who want to live or at least that's my headcanon god
Yeah, but my point is that there is no reason why they wouldn't try to rip off the people who want to sell their life. The point being instead of paying people what their life is worth, they would just pay what the person is willing to sell for. And it is very easy to just trick desperate people by giving them a lower bound estimate as much as possible. There is nothing stopping them from undervaluing every victim's life to maximise profits, that's what unregulated scams are.
Sebastian Jones
I went out of my country at 16 to help my family get out of some debt and "build" a small business that would make my parents be able to retire at 50 since they both started working at age 8 and 12 (father / mother). While I was away for 5 years my brother was left in charge of our business as our father was with me and my mother worked all day long
Long story short, he used business connections to trick people into lending him money "for business" without even putting anything as warranty, these people were drug dealers laundering money and would have killed us if I didn't intervene and sell everything I had to settle 80% of it. apart from that, the business was bankrupt when i returned and he put all our properties on banks that he never paid to
I come from a poor country on the Caribbean so losing around 400k in total, 70k to go while being left with a credit that not even a bank would let you open a savings account is literally something you cannot recover from in a lifetime
Oliver Davis
Image limit reached, making a new thread.
Angel Reed
The greatest thing that ruins tragedy is being able to think of anything trivial that would prevent it from being a tragedy. Or the thing causing the tragedy being too unreal in the first place. It's definitely pulling down this story or its storytime at least. Look at how many Frodos people are bringing up.
Camden Nelson
Are we going to reach image limit or finish first?
Anthony White
Women logic, what did you expect ?
Noah Miller
>women are stupid for not begging men to raise their children that don't belong to them after being 10 years apart
?????????????????????????????????
Cooper Perez
>>Let's say he buys life from people who rather day, and resells them to people who want to live or at least that's my headcanon god
>Yeah, but my point is that there is no reason why they wouldn't try to rip off the people who want to sell their life. The point being instead of paying people what their life is worth, they would just pay what the person is willing to sell for. And it is very easy to just trick desperate people by giving them a lower bound estimate as much as possible. There is nothing stopping them from undervaluing every victim's life to maximise profits, that's what unregulated scams are.
I think I understand now what you mean but this story made me believe in human heart too much for right now to believe anyone will do that, I hope to be that blissful forever
Eli Foster
New thread
Jordan Clark
Are you triggered?
Luis Howard
Sorry, I'm not a cuck
I don't get mad when women don't ask me to raise chad's leftovers
Anthony Collins
She was never gonna ask him to support her kid, not in the original future or now. She just wanted to see if sending that old letter would let her see him again back then, and was heartbroken when he apparently forgot that letter's meaning.
Isaiah Peterson
>I think I understand now what you mean but this story made me believe in human heart too much for right now to believe anyone will do that, I hope to be that blissful forever
The point is that nearly everyone in this manga is a victim. The only person who is a knowing participant in the scam is that old man who selects desperate people to scam from. So you are not wrong in that almost everyone in the story is a good person. it's just that it doesn't change what the real villains are, even if the villains literally are off-panel making a killing out of targeting the desperate and mentally ill, and taking them to the cleaners.
Grayson Carter
>BASED CHAD
Ryan Barnes
Buyers market.
Michael Jenkins
lmao
Julian Stewart
What happened if you got her to open doors and shit? To observers, would it look like the door opened by itself? Would be interesting with a locked door.
Grayson Lewis
Damn, nigga.
Grayson Stewart
Oh I forgot about this thread...
Jason Moore
>Seriously, who is that much of a shithead?
Scam artists who target the desperate and mentally ill. There is a good reason they PICK who they offer their services to; they only want those who would give away their life for nothing. It's like with Madoka's Incubators, the deal is horrible and no sane person would accept it. So you target children and people who are in despair. They prey on the weak.
Jordan Hughes
God lord please spoiler that shit. This is blue board for god sake.
Kevin Phillips
If he'd been offered 30 yen instead of 300,000 yen, he probably wouldn't have gone through with it and killed himself like he's doing.
Isaac Cruz
Wait, so you can kill people even with though some people mentally break down after selling off their life? Then what's the point of an observer.
Angel Thompson
reported
Easton Cooper
>$3k is more than what an average salary man would make in 3 months
What the fuck is this?
Isaiah Hill
he at least was worth something to himeno for some time. Therefore, much less.
Caleb Butler
my fucking sides
>go to sell lifespan because fuck this gay earth
>have to pay instead
>am american so am expected to tip also
what a gyp.
Jayden Allen
>What the fuck is this?
A scam. It's like those "cash for gold" store.
The warning bells should be ringing when you notice that the organisation doesn't advertise; instead, they pick who they offer their services to. They only target people they could buy life for way below its true worth, that's why they can't let everyone in on the deal.
Henry Ramirez
Girls find your more attractive if you're already dating someone.
Colton King
I can't believe he led such a lonely life with how smooth he's being right now with miyagi and himeno, hard to believe he never scored a girlfriend or at least some pussy.
Oliver Adams
even if she's perceived as imaginary apparently
Lucas Adams
You try harder when you have nothing left to lose. Miyagi's also made him more comfortable around women.
Leo Evans
why does she seem like such a cunt in her internal dialogue when it seemed like she was warming up to him?
Jason Harris
I think I've seen a blog post about this, someone taking photos of vending machines. It's actually very interesting, despite that sense of permanece and invariance as they say, nobody notices but there has to be sometime who comes and refills the machine every few days. Without a human to take care of it, the machine would become useless quickly.
Jaxon Cooper
KonMari, is that you?
Cameron Clark
how?
Colton Powell
>Trained her in headpats
Nice
Jackson Gonzalez
Can't he see her beer mug get emptied by itself?
Bentley Miller
At least get her a pillow dude.
Ayden Jones
>expected to tip
kek, lost
Austin Ross
Man, this made that vending machine isekai super dark in hindsight.
Ethan Long
I've read this manga quite some time ago, from an user's recommendation. It's one of the best things I've read, have fun Yea Forums
Nathaniel Brown
There's something to be said for simplicity though. If the art does its job and the story is compelling, it doesn't need bells and whistles. Especially since Nips equate rough-spun and naturalistic with authentic emotion.
It doesn't matter how many times a story is told, only that it is told well.
Jason Jackson
The money is a device to show the MC is a worthless piece of shit. The things that would potentially make him worth more have him positively impacting other people's lives, which is considered a social good.
In utilitarian terms, time that was going to be spent at a soup kitchen or synthesizing a vaccine for HIV would be worth more than time spent masturbating or posting on Yea Forums. Hell, time getting YouTube famous would be worth more, because a YouTube video potentially brings entertainment or imparts knowledge to someone.
This is a really simple literary device and it's amazing how hard it is for people to grasp.
Parker Turner
>The money is a device to show the MC is a worthless piece of shit. The things that would potentially make him worth more have him positively impacting other people's lives, which is considered a social good.
>In utilitarian terms, time that was going to be spent at a soup kitchen or synthesizing a vaccine for HIV would be worth more than time spent masturbating or posting on Yea Forums. Hell, time getting YouTube famous would be worth more, because a YouTube video potentially brings entertainment or imparts knowledge to someone.
>This is a really simple literary device and it's amazing how hard it is for people to grasp.
The extra chapter completely invalidated this.
The point isn't how worthless someone is. But that he was STILL being conned because he wasn't actually worthless but only believed that he was. That the organisation was able to steal his life for cheap, because they offered to take his life just before he got any chance to make it better. They targeted him at his weakest, knowing he would have otherwise pulled through if he just held on a bit longer. And he only found out afterwards how much he was really worth and that it was too late.
Logan Baker
AW YISSSSS
Ayden Collins
Getting a gf doesn't really help if you cannot emotionally connect to a gf.
Angel James
Thanks