I Sold Off My Lifespan, For 10,000 Yen A Year

I didnt want to go posting pictures again, but forgive me OP just this once I have to go all out

THIS NIGGEEEEEERRRRRAAAAAAAAAA

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the end, thanks for reading everyone

>so she can do what? Pine for a guy who is dead?
And be visible to people again.
And not be forced into watching losers in their dieing days.
Besides, if he didn't sell she would still have to mourn him, just 30 days later.

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the idea is that she would be forced to move on

obviously its a pretty idiotic idea, but i don't think anyone is this manga is particularly smart or reasonable(with the exception of the guy in chapter 16.5

but at the same time let's not pretend like it's unrealistic to want to die in a romantic way; i'd say its quite common that fools do dumb things driven by a desire to emulate the dramatic

The main character is an asshat, and I hate him because he's basically me.

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The epilogue guy was way smarter for not falling for the scam MC did. What a dumbass and dumb premise.

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The difference is that the epilogue guy had a girlfriend to live for.

Hmm, well since the rate of original debt seems fixed he couldve buyout himself here as well, no?
Gotta gamble the system man.

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If he did that Miyagi would become invisible for him

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Can't miyagi get 3 days to be with him
I'm sad now

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Maybe Miyagi is there?
I mean, if she's invisible on her days off, then she could just take a day off right then and there

crying like a bitch, thanks op
Man. That's a hell of a story dude. if it's a condolence he'll get what's coming to him eventually, i knew someone like that and they got it hard.

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Ineed, for three years. If they love each or so much no big deal. And after that they would be both free to spend whole live together.

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This page broke my heart.

But that's just too sad letting her watch from a glass cage unable to act, I'd rather just die instead

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uhh it was a daughter but aight i guess that kind of relationship is never out of the question for nippon and rednecks

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My heart hurts, I forgot of my condition while reading. I think it was worth of an extra calming pill

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Last in, first out.
He'd have to buyback his month with probably more than the amount he got from selling it before he can retrieve the lost 30 years (which defeats the purpose of buying Miyagi's freedom back).

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If this ain't her I'm gonna die

Well that's the thing. The protagonists isn't the type of person who thinks things through hence the childhood friend arc. He's a self-absorbed guy whose been living in delusions. Ironically the only time he stops being so deluded is when everyone believes he IS deluded for believing Miyagi exists. The other guy despite being in similar poverty is willing to face reality despite its hardships, something this protagonist only wished to escape from.

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oh heck

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I asked for that in the previous thread, hoping for it. But I wanted them to have the entire month..

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What if you sold off your health instead?

Thinking about how this organization works is making me want to read a story about a government agency trying to crackdown on it. Knowing anything about economics or value in general makes everything about its dealings egregious in sensibility.

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organs and blood, most likely

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My heart beats so hard and ackes so much

End of main story, dumping extra chapter next.

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if the answer isn't "fucking like rabbits" my immersion is destroyed

It's about finding happiness. In the end Miyagi and Kusunoki could only be happy with one another so three days with each other would be better than a lifetime apart.

Why not use the money to buy a little more time for the both of them?

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time to be depressed again

I'd like to think of it more as cells, like brain cells or tongue cells (for brainlets or people who can't taste or speak)

you probably can't buy back thing
only exchange them for things

Ah yes, emotional drama in manga. Summer festivals, fireworks and never a happy ending.

Ikr, just fuck already belongs here. But its not that kind of publication.

Extra chapter.

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>Thinking about how this organization works is making me want to read a story about a government agency trying to crackdown on it. Knowing anything about economics or value in general makes everything about its dealings egregious in sensibility.
It's not that strange in concept. Capitalism is all about making money by buying low and selling high. It's just that the organisation managed to stay undetected and have exclusive means of knowing what the product is worth. And the victim supplying the product has no idea that they are being tricked, or was too desperate to realise they are giving away their value at way below market price. The old man in the store really should be the one to be attacked by the angry mob, not the observers.

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Can someone explain to stupid me why she gave him the 300k?

Maybe they can't buy back at the value they sold them for but it's definitely possible to buy lifespan. Even if they couldn't buy back 30 years they could probably at least manage a week or a month. It'd be a pretty big bummer to the community to find this couple dead in 3 days.

I don't know what to feel after reading this

Ugh why the fuck does Yea Forums always do this shit. Just take the life selling company at face value its nothing more than a plot device that really doesnt need any explanation due to the story not being about it.

Same thing happened with Plastic Memories making the threads unreadbale until like epsiode 9

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>cute loli gf/imouto
no wonder this guy didn't make the deal

if I can sell my life for dosh
I'd sell all of it and give the money to my mom

Because they realized miyagi is real I bet interest went down and buying the lifespan is even easier than it was sold for

>Can someone explain to stupid me why she gave him the 300k?
She said it herself, she wanted to feel like a hero. But she realised afterwards that by doing so she ended up convincing him to sell his life, while if he was really told that his life is worth nearly nothing he would possibly have walked away. She gave the money to feel better about herself, not for his sake.

That's his girlfriend damn I wouldn't take the deal either

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While evaluating his life she kinda saw herself in the future that was awaiting him and decided to let him be at least a little bit happier in his last 3 months

>hey mom, here's 50 cents
>also I'm going to die in three days

This shit makes me think about my mortality and how lonely I am

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Shit at least those people actually read the story, unlike all the '10.000 yen is way too little lol' posters who did not only not read the story, but didn't even bother to read the replies to the OP to see if their exact comment hadn't been posted 5 times yet.

>Ugh why the fuck does Yea Forums always do this shit. Just take the life selling company at face value its nothing more than a plot device that really doesnt need any explanation due to the story not being about it.
Just because the story is about a bunch of victims, doesn't mean we should ignore the criminals who put them in that position.

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Thanks user, I understand the story better now and I hope you have a good night and maybe a wonderful life because you deserve

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So does selling your life just shave off the amount of years that you sell, or it just makes it that your life will be observed and in the hands of by someone for that amount of years?

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Knew it, librarian and all local flea markets and bazzars and run by the company pitchers. What a scum

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You fucking die user

Thanks another kind user, I hope your life is only uphill

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Thats easy as fuck who could get that wrong

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Chapter 3, Miyagi said anyone who sells their life and eventually is down to one year get observed up to their last 3 days.

Because sometimes thinking about the underlying mechanics of the premise is more interesting than the actual story being told.

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If you've been following the thread, a lot of people.

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What are they observed for though, she said she lied

For me, the setting must "make sense", within itself at least. If it doesnt work and then whole story is just cheap emotion bait void of thought and value.

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If he sucesfully conned people then it means he acheived goals though.
Eh, I guess he just says he ruined their lives though.

It did for me too. It just shows how empty the world feels to him without miyagi

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I don't think a successful con amounts to achieving a dream

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>What are they observed for though, she said she lied
Good point. I am sure the author just wanted an excuse for the MC to have a girl following him around, but there are many malicious reasons i can think of on why an observer is needed. For example, maybe there is a supernatural organisation that is actually trying to fight against the lifespan sales, and that the Observer is there to protect their scam from being discovered and shut down. Basically the Observer could be shielding the victim from being detected and rescued by the forces of good.

If your future is worth a lot of money shouldn't you just wait for it to come?

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The only lines she confirmed were lies were being terminated if they caused trouble + being more than 100 meters from their observer. They're still given an observer, just an impartial one.

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possibly, but generally not while the story is ongoing and being updated at regular 30 second intervals. you have no attention span so you're making shit up to stir shit and attention whore

Well that was answered fast

The whole life selling thing is actually just a massive fucking scam to enable these observers to record your data which is then sold to advertising companies.
It's like how facebook is free because they know the data is worth a ton, but even moreso.
These people who know they are about to die, and have just received a sizeable amount of money are looking for things to buy/do in their dieing days making them 10x more susceptible to advertising than a regular person.

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If people liked 3 Days of Happiness I think you guys would enjoy Koi suru Kiseichuu by the same author. Its a bit similar in premise to the film Upstream Color by Shane Carruth.

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Long-term reward vs. immediate investment, for possibly an even bigger future in less time? Hard to say which would be nicer at that point.

Depends on how badly you need money now
Depends on how much you personally value your remaining time

you're thinking about this from: how much money will I make at the end
When you should be thinking about the journey
If you have to spend your entire life slaving away to make a certain amount of money, without having done anything to make your life worth living outside of that money, what is that money honestly worth to you?

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Bro they know everything that will happen to you and eveything that has happened to you. I dont think they need any more than that for advertising purposes

Thank you for explaining Captain Obvious.

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I agree with this post 100%

Is it less or more depressing than this

Because I already read it you knob.

End of dump. That took longer than I thought, thank you for sticking around!

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only 2 chapters listed on manga dex or else I'd read it tonight.

I guess the author beat me to it

Read below, I believe you didn't quite understand what I meant

I wonder what's so important they'd defend with so many guards

This was a nice read. Thanks for the dump.

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>tfw no loli gf
Was this afterword in the novel? I don't remember reading it in the slightest. Maybe it wasn't translated at the time possibly though.

Thanks dump-user.
Though I think following through this dump just when the day is getting started isn't the best thing to do.

I'd say as depressing. Good read though.
The manga adaptation is still ongoing I think but the novel is fully translated.

Thanks for making me want to kill myself even more my man

TY

There's a lot wrong with this manga, but it's done a lot to shape my outlook on life. I used to think that my own personal happiness meant nothing as long as I achieved a long term goal I had. But after reading this the first time around, I started thinking that if I could have had what he had, I'd gladly do what he did.

Thanks OP, it was a good manga. Really wish people would focus less on the irrelevant details and more on the miracle that is Miyagi but that's Yea Forums for you

tfw no miyagi
tfw no loli gf

Thanks OP good read buy it made me realize more that my life is really going bad and if I were to put it in money terms not worth a lot

Thank you for dumping all of this for us, it was a truly wonderful ride

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I picked this up more than a year ago through a OPT and it still fucks me up inside just as much as it did when I first read it. Have a good one dumpanon

Cheers OP, got me to play the ol' Pillows albums again.

thanks for dumping, gonna cry myself to sleep now

Thanks OP, I've been putting away this manga for a while now because I don't really like sad endings and my friend told my it was, and it is, but a bit happy too.

>Thanks OP good read buy it made me realize more that my life is really going bad and if I were to put it in money terms not worth a lot
It's still worth more than you think. Even a minimum wage job pay better than the lifespan exchange offered. The organisation just tracks down people who undervalue themselves and rips them off.

I really would think the manga would have a stronger message if the money on offer is more reasonable. As it stand there is no doubt the organisation is just robbing people blind and are outright villains, even if they don't show their faces and only use victims to do their dirty work for them in public.

>i will never sleep again

That's not what capitalism is about at all. Capitalism is the accruement of resources(otherwise known as capital) which is then used to bolster itself and provide value to the ones who helped accrue the resources/capital in the first place. It's synonymous with the idea of the stock market and investments and the driving point behind the American dream of making it big from very little. It is not simply about buying low and selling high, but about driving production and increasing overall value. Otherwise it would be a zero-sum game and overall wealth would remain the same and stagnate. It's the reason why nearly every adult in the US owns a car and is in practically zero danger of starvation.

This organization is simply pilfering extreme value from a market with victims that have no knowledge of the values in the market. It's not a reputable way to do business and is representative of the idea of scamming in general which any society would heavily frown upon. It's the reason governments illegalize organ selling. While there is legitimate worth to such a market, the potential consequences and threats of people squandering their organs away for values they'll regret is incredibly high. There is no way a government would not do the same for the concept of lifespan itself.

I'll be honest when I first read this I had no clue if the story was just fucking with me or if the cost of living in Japan was so low that the amount he got made sense.

>similar premise to Upstream Color
Well I'm fucking sold.

>Frodos have no reading comprehension
The ability to earn money is worthless in context of the evaluation we're given. There're other issues to raise about the scenario but the hypothetical worthless life is pretty easy to understand. It's a person who, though possibly capable of earning money through simple work or so much as selling their organs manually, is unable to do anything for themselves or for other people.
The easiest way to understand it is to think in terms of what gives an individual unique value, what makes them worth more than any other similarly bodied person in society. Why these things are valued to the organization is up in the air, but their metric is perfectly consistent in the story. A person can be of zero value by the definitions outlined because they are completely replaceable, not so much as holding merit as "my jobless cousin who babysits at gatherings" or "the pretty girl that makes your day better when you see her at the coffee shop".

>Frodos
2013 called, they want you back.

Remember, he is originaly totaly worthless, it was 30yen for 30years, 1 per.

>Why these things are valued to the organization is up in the air, but their metric is perfectly consistent in the story. A person can be of zero value by the definitions outlined because they are completely replaceable, not so much as holding merit as "my jobless cousin who babysits at gatherings" or "the pretty girl that makes your day better when you see her at the coffee shop".
Except there is no incentive for the organisation to be honest about the value of a person's life. They target those they could trick out of less than their life is worth.

There is no sign anywhere that the organisation is fair, or honest, or gave a damn about anyone's wellbeing. There is simply no attempt to show that the organisation had any morals whatsoever. So there is no grounds to believe that they have any real to be fair or truthful in their dealings.

Can we just delete the thread now

I mean, no
gotta let it archive naturally

Enjoy my dude. It's a good read.

Honestly, this was not a good story, BUT it was a good page-turner. Characters act so weirdly and a lot of the subplots get thrown out real fast (though I suspect this is the manga's adaptation issue rather than the OG novel) and the atmosphere just turns out too wish-fulfilling towards the end (mostly due to Miyagi gradually coming out of her shell). I cannot say that the actual story of Kusunoki and Miyagi is in any way well-written on its own, but I suppose that is the whole point to drive across that theme on meaningfulness and value. I very much enjoyed thinking about this story than I did actually reading it, hence why I couldn't stop until reaching the end.
It's certainly worth a re-read, but I cannot say I would recommend this to just anyone to read. Maybe if they're desperate enough with their own personal lives to really connect with the mood, but this manga should have never been the top read of Mangadex at all. At all.

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That just brings up the question of why they're willing to pay more money specifically to end such lives however. They seem able to transfer lifespan in some fashion, but there is no feasible way it will also be the exact same as the person they took it from. Then there's also the valuations regarding time and health. While health is extremely vague and we never see such a deal in the story, time is literally working at the organization so you can literally say it's equal to their overall wages for working at the organization. In that case it's a perfect working value equivalence.

It seems like a macabre rich person's way of ending what should otherwise be priceless people's lives while giving himself immortality. If they could actually inherit the feats from those lifespans, then there'd be some super person who would have literally done a whole century's worth of advancements in a dozen fields. The only person in history that would even come close is Da Vinchi thinking about it. If this organization is in fact selling it, then it is pure fleecing. The fact they value it the way they do is not justification as there are clearly other methods of valuation.

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.

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.

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.

The mutual suicide was retarded. The entire point of the manga was that you can find meaning and joy despite a seemingly hopeless future so Miyagi committing suicide too because she couldn't believe she could have a happy future without the MC goes directly against the author's point.

Shut up Peko Peko.

I respect your opinion but I disagree. Primarily because I don't know (1) what weird character actions do you refer to? and (2) what subplots get thrown out?

The most detracting point from the majority of tragedies is the idiocy and failings of the protagonists. This has been true from time immemorial all the way back to Romeo & Juliet as well as further.

>The fact they value it the way they do is not justification as there are clearly other methods of valuation.
Never-mind that there is no 2nd opinion, and that the organisation has no reason to offer fair value for the life taken. The valuation is more likely to be "as low as they can get to considering the victim's self esteem".

If they can see a person's future, then they could target that person at the lowest point in his life, when he would sell his life at the cheapest, and offer him a deal. Even if they know full well that man would be happy and successful later on, as long as they only show up at the lowest point they get to maximise their profitability. it's like playing the stock market when you actually know the entire 100 years of future stock movements in advance.

Yeah, this was the most frustrating part. The MC kept questioning if his observer ended up being instead a fat, middle-aged male, and even though that thought was enlightened, the simple fact is that Miyagi was too fucking damn good for this guy. And now the story is saying that she is far too good that he doesn't deserve her and sells his remaining life for her happiness, if that even fucking makes sense beyond his own crap excuse. And then she sells her life too because she couldn't do without her.
Goddamn, I want to like this story, but I just can't. It went too retarded towards its own themes.

Anyone have any depressing-core recs like this manga that have a happy ending? Yeah yeah, fuck off to /wsr/ whatever

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So because he drew a sleeping Miyagi, his talent for art exploded, which made his remaining life worth a shit load of money?

>Goddamn, I want to like this story, but I just can't. It went too retarded towards its own themes.
it makes sense in meta, in that both of them are mentally ill people who make bad decisions. That is why they were both tricked into selling their lives for cheap, and in the end neither learned anything and continue to sell their lives for cheap. Yes, they saw some happiness in each other, but they never valued their own lives and as such screwed each other over for it. Both are too selfish and waned to be the hero, and both ended up being the victim a second time.

That's the other major plothole. Being able to predict people's future could be said to be infinite times more valuable then the lives themselves. You wouldn't even need to bother with this business as you could make literally effortless money from the stock market. The only reason you'd be in the business is to take life specifically. Being able to do it for any person is literally just omniscience for all existence regarding humans. You'd be an existence close to God just with that knowledge. Which I would suppose is the author in this case. I guess he is synonymous with the organization. He's ultimately the one screwing these two characters over. It's a weird meta-conclusion now that I think about it.

It wasn't suicide because for one, they didn't willfully take they're lives. That is, they didn't take any immediate action A such that A necessarily brought upon their death. You might say:

>Well it more or less is suicide because of selling the rest of your life for X amount of yen brought them closer to death.

But then can we say the same about other similar actions (smoking, extreme sport, risk-taking behaviors, etc.) that don't necessarily cause their death but bring them closer to it which just seems wrong. We don't say a chain smoker committed suicide because of smoking. That seems far too broad of a usage of the term.

Why does the MC make Himeno SEETHE so much? Not his fault she became a teen mom.

>I guess he is synonymous with the organization. He's ultimately the one screwing these two characters over. It's a weird meta-conclusion now that I think about it.
The author could have tried harder to not make the Organisation look bad. The plot would have worked equally well if the life exchange was done fairly and justly. I wish the story could be about two people screwing themselves over, but it is just about evil forces targeting the weak and the vulnerable and getting away with it.

The weird character actions as I see it was namely Himeno's desparation call, Kusunoki's ecision to sell his remaining days and praying for Miyagi to end up with a better person, and Miyagi opening too far from her initial job stance to the point of selling her life for Kusunoki. I understand that these actions reinforce how these characters are selfish fools to the core, but a lot of those actions do not make a lot of sense and even complicates the story towards a direction (and ending) it should not have taken. Maybe I'm just being too pessimistic, but I really think this story introduced too much good to Kusunoki that makes it hard to gravitate that pressure of death as it should be. He made friends pretty easily, he bonded with his observer much more closely than they should have, and everything goes too smoothly for him even as he is left with only 3 days. It just feels like a more complex and sophisticated story is buried amongst this subpar mix of life's objective and subjective value, which is why I say it's at least a good page-turner, yet it is what it is.
As for the abandoned subplot, it's mainly the Himeno story since she was set up to be someone important in Kusunoki's final days, but there is also the other college acquaintance who Kusunoki did not connected with BECAUSE of his promise to Himeno. This short story throws in way too many characters and way too many concepts than it should have.

She felt betrayed when he didn't respond to her letter in the way she wanted. Her character is not well written. She slept with someone else even though she was still obsessed with MC and then started to despise him after he didn't respond the way she wanted (it also seemed like she only wrote him because she had gotten pregnant and divorced or whatever and was going through a shit period in her life). Plus the bit about her committing suicide so she splatted right in front of him shows that she became straight up insane at some point.

It is not about the time-delay. It is about the certainty of ending it earlier than it should have. One would say willfully walking off an edge is suicide, but there's a time delay between stepping off and hitting the ground. The cause of death is the impact, the willful action that causes its near-certainty is walking off the ledge. The action of walking off that ledge is considering the primary act while the whole event is considered the suicide as a whole. This is why smoking and poor eating habits are considered less of a concern, while they're certainly poor for overall health, there's no easy guarantee it will be the reason for one's death all things considered.

In this manga's case, there's an absolute certainty stated in their dealings. They will die after those 3 days because of the deals they made. And that is why it is considered suicide. The reason for death is not suicide, the driving action to cause that reason with certainty is.

Watashi no messiah-sama.

Your trying to seem smart but it's not working. She literally sold her lifespan. That not like smoking where you might die sooner rather than later. Or extreme apoets where you might die. It's pulling a trigger to a gun with a delayed reaction, pr downing a bottle of lethal posion with a 100% of killing you, but it kills you in a couple hours instead.
Both those things are suicide by any defintion of the word. According to you jumping off a bulding isn't suicide because it merely brought you closer to death rather than actually killed you that instant. What would you consider suicide anyway?

Like the guy who sold his kidney to get an iPhone.

He has organ failure and is dying now.

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if your life is very valuable, but you sell most of it, doesn't that retroactively make your life less valuable because you are no longer able to spread happiness?

None of it is outside the realm of possibilty for a woman with issues since childhood.

So she's "super rich" after having found value in her life? Instead of using all that money to spend, why not split it equally and buy more life for them both to spend? Maybe extend the 3 days to say, a week or a month, or however her new worth can afford.

If there is one gimmick that this story could have done without, it's the future foresight parts. Epilogue bookstore guy says that the value of a person's lifespan is based on remaining potential and that the value is never fixed based on the past, and yet Miyagi just fucking tells Kusunoki how his 30 years would have turned out to make him glad of his purchase. This is so confusing as to what the author wants to convey, and honestly the foresight aspect is too much for him to handle writing to the point that moments where Miyagi seemed omniscient about Kusunoki's future seems wasted in vain. Throw away the unpolished foresight stuff and the story might be much better in a deeper perspective.

>mister
okay what relation is this girl to the scruffy dude?

On the topic of this suicide discussion, assisted suicide is also considered murder in many cases. In this case, the organization would be guilty of a lot of it.

Is this old man the devil in disguise? He's literally the final villain.

Thanks user.

i spedread, so mc died, but the girl just has to work another 3 years and she's free right?

Why didn't MC just paint for 30 days and use that to incrementally buy years of his life back? Wouldn't that have resulted in a happy ending for everyone? He could buy Miyagi's debt out easily as well.

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My example wasn't very clear. Suicide is an intentional act with the goal to die. In selling your lifespan the primary goal is to gain money NOT their deaths. At best their deaths are a side-effect, a secondary effect. In this sense it is not strictly suicide.

>gives you $100 for being woke
prolly not

>Koi suru Kiseichuu
>i'm going to kill myself because I can't be happy without the parasite. Also I'm not going to try to infect myself with more of the parasite because I don't feel like it. But hey, me killing myself will prove the love between us was real and not caused by the parasite!
Yeah no, fuck this author. I liked 3 Days when I first read it, but after reading that and now that I'm not crying about 3 Days and actually thinking about it and Kiseichuu objectively, he keeps writing and going for "bittersweet" endings. That fact kinda infuriates me.

At first I thought that Miyagi looking like a pretty woman instead of a fat, middle-aged man in Kusunogi's first impression is part of a "devil's charisma" in pushing Kusunogi to madness over the girlfriend he could have got within his 30 years. Being invisible to others while also sound omniscient really drives that "angel-or-devil" perception

But nope, turns out she is exactly as she looks, is pretty much his matching female opposite by pure chance alone, and that she becomes so nice to him that they cannot live or die happy without being with each other. I can understand that other readers may think this wish-fulfillment serves a purpose and theme on its own, but to me it still is just wish-fulfillment.

>Is this old man the devil in disguise? He's literally the final villain.
The author clearly was trying to make the old man more neutral, but failing badly. Yes, the old man agreed that selling life for money is a bad idea, but the conman would never have considered it if the old man never brought it up. So the old man is recommending something that he KNOW is bad, for what purpose? If he knows that the conman shouldn't sell his life for case, then to even making the offer is malicious and evil. And that the only reason he would have done it is because he could have personally benefited from the sale in some way. So he made a bad offer, and the conman escaped. i don't see how it makes the old man a good person at all. Yet i can tell the author tried to make the old man seemed nice for no reason.

To be fair we still dont know how the organization is exacting on their taken lifespans. They could be murdering them at the end for all we know anyway, either way.

That money was the culmination of his legacy after that month, LONG after he'd be dead. Plus, it seems you can't expect to sell a day and expect to buy it back at all, much less with an insane interest rate.

Flip the perspective around and Miyagi spent a good decade only able to connect to one person that she watched die, dealing with shitty subjects before meeting the protagonist that's arguably much more a dream than she is, being someone that'll throw everything away to make her smile and being a talented artist that needed her to find himself again.
I do agree with you that there's an element of wish fulfillment here but without it there's not much of a story left. The two are only really saved by their acceptance of circumstances anyways, rather than actually being given an ideal ending.

No she sold her life too. They both die in three days

It could be something even more egregious like skinwalking fae creatures taking over their bodies at the end of the deal. I'm reminded of a short story I think I saw from /tg/ many years ago. It is about a man who goes to a theme park every day. The reason why is to sell his memories of it to fae creatures. He explains his condition to the park as being an amnesiac, but in reality his memories are simply being enjoyed by others. He has increasingly better memories as the park grows more attached to him including a girl who shows interest in him despite him never remembering her, but in the end he always sells it as its worth in to fae creatures is worth things beyond normal imagination. It's always his first day at a theme park in any case.

Couldn't they have just bought more time with their extra money?

I sympathize with Pekora more than Kusunoki because she had to struggle to get less than minimal wage and survives off the generosity of others despite being an angel. Immortality mixed with hunger is just terrible, and she had to earn her own living and received no blessings, even outright gets screwed over much worse by everyday life. Kusunoki had more savings from his account than the 300k yen he sold his life for. You never really see him having a problem with hunger or debts anymore despite that being the whole point of why he made the deal in th first place. I would have preferred to see that desperate, natural side of his human condition rather than his romantic aspects.

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>Couldn't they have just bought more time with their extra money?
The two protagonists were basically beyond saving. Both view their own lives as worth so little that they would throw it away to help the other, but the result is that neither are saved. They couldn't save each other, because they couldn't save themselves.

And the only reason they were given the deal to sell their lives, is because they were weak people who could be tricked by evil men. So the entire story is about a slow motion train wreck of two people self destructing while dark forces profit.

Working a job, you're selling your time for money. An hour of my life is only worth ten bucks? I'm never getting that back again. Christ.

When I was younger, for some reason I convinced myself that I was most certainly going to die by age x. I basically self hypnotized myself into believing this and used it as an excuse and a justification for many of my actions, inactions, and over all behavior. Then the fated day came and went and I didn't drop dead. No misfortune struck and I was completely fine. I suddenly realized how silly I was being. I think this story is about this kind of mentality, and the lesson is to ignore these kinds of thoughts. They are after all, all in your head. It doesnt matter if the life span store exists or not, if its a scam or not. You just need to seize the day, user.

>reading comprehension

The parasite only infects those with severe depression bordering on suicidal. That means she already had suicidal tendencies before she had the virus. Once she was infected the parasite acted like a crutch for her and she became dependent on it. So losing it in such quick way would clearly bring bout negative consequences to girl. If you look at it from a biological perspective, the girl's bio-psychological state was in shock now that the key agent in her survival was gone.

Another problem about this manga is that it concentrated all the shitty people in the earlier parts and all the decent people in the good uplifting parts. It's supposed to coincide with the message that your early memories and friends are nothing to be hopeful about, but it's really hamfisted in the execution as there could easily have been a story about mending that relationship with Himeno and salvaging a relationship from a meaningless promise despite all the failures in both of their lives. Naruse is also another example, we're immediately told by Miyagi that he was actually a dipshit in his feelings about Kunosoki when in reality, the fact Kusonoki quit was still his failing ultimately and not Naruse's fault. That he has blase feelings about it is less of a matter then having given it up in the first place.

The author clearly put his feelings into the story, so it is emotionally meaningful. But the author's interpretation of things clearly doesn't add up, so even though his arguments are genuine, it ends up having way too many holes and falls apart in examination. The author isn't trying to deceive anyone, but the morals he is trying to preach just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Yeah I know she already was severely depressed, but the fact that she had the will to see him again, but NOT to reinfect herself to live and maybe not hurt him, just really made my head scratch. It had been weeks, she had the will to live for WEEKS just to see him again, but can't be assed to try to live? But she's too scared of being happy, so off she goes.

Also, this reminds me of what a minor manga author said; that writing a proper happy ending is actually really hard, and the sad ending is easy. And that it is the responsibility of the author to write a happy ending that makes sense and do justice for the characters, or the author had failed being the "creator" of these creatures he gave life to.

In this case, there was clearly multiple paths that lead to happy endings, but the sad ending was planned and executed. It was a tragedy from the beginning, about stupid and sad people who don't want to live. And it ended with two stupid and sad people who STILL don't want to live. No one learned anything.

Not him, but self-imposed tragedy will always seem illogical. Because in pretty much is. The vast majority of those that commit self-destruction are due to either finding some larger meaning to the act and/or mental issues. People do commit suicide and the ones who failed almost 100% regret it and are glad they lived.

I mean the whole story's a suicide metaphor and how someone reacts when they've reached that point i.e. resign themselves, wrap up affairs and die like Kusunoki or manage to pull themselves up like the guy in the epilogue.

The entire point of course is that all life is valuable and it's possible to find happiness, even if you die tomorrow so live the best and most valuable life that you can. I honestly can't quite see how people say this is depressing. It punches you in the gut but the overall message is, in a kind of dark way, a positive one. It even has the epilogue chapter to explain everything for people who still didn't get it.

In that sense the parasite is a lot like SSRIs. A lot of people stop taking them (I think the percentage is around 30%) despite them needing it and helping them. In that sense, her actions are within the scope of plausibility. Perhaps her depressive tendencies were so rooted in her biology that despite her waning feelings of love for the protagonist, she just couldn't overcome that biological wall with pure will. And for that I think the novel does well to remind us that it is not always mind over matter. Surely we can't will an autistic kid to not be autistic or someone with down's to stop having down's. Likewise, if depression was rooted in our biology, how can we will ourselves differently?

>The entire point of course is that all life is valuable and it's possible to find happiness, even if you die tomorrow so live the best and most valuable life that you can.
Yes, but that isn't the message the main ending has. Both the main characters literally gave up their own lives for each other, so neither value their own life at all. Suicide and try to justify it by helping someone else on the way is still suicide. The message doesn't work when they were suicidal to the end.

I didn't read the manga, but 10k yen or $89.75 / lifespan year is a bad trade.
Even if you sell 30 years, you'll only get $2,692.
Just work.

I'd also recommend How to Make an Invisible Man. Bonus points for not having a downer ending.

A lot of people already know that moral. The point of a story telling an moral is telling it in an engaging way that both clearly conveys it and makes you believe in it.

In this case, it fails due to both main characters seemingly managing to accomplish a meaningful life, but only very briefly at the expense of their entire lives while enjoying an extremely fleeting moment in comparison. They're living incredibly short-sightedly and have sold off not just hope for the future, but the future itself.

If you work, you die!

>Looking up threads on melodramatic story to begin with
They were always terrible.

This one just wasn't for me. The characters and world in general bothered me way too much.
My suspension of disbelief can only go so far. The latter half, outside of "artist ex machina", was enjoyable, but the first halt was really frustrating to read.

>In that sense the parasite is a lot like SSRIs. A lot of people stop taking them (I think the percentage is around 30%) despite them needing it and helping them. In that sense, her actions are within the scope of plausibility.
See, this is where my experience comes in. I've taken SSRIs to improve my long-term depression, (I've stopped taking them and the depression is so rooted to me I can't imagine much when it comes to my future) but she had a chance of being happy, and I just can't view it in a good light. Maybe its just my mindset, even though I've been in a bad place for most of my life, making a plan for suicide has never fully worked out because of how irrational it seemed to me and my fear of death.
of course if there was a way to totally erase me and make it as if i didn't exist, you know i'd be smashing that button like mad

thank you. made my night.

That is just normal way of dealing with stress and felling bad. I liked the story overall, and the first thing I did is to try to dissect it. Because by ridiculing it, you put yourself above it.
I personally think it really because you don't want to be in that situation. So you find flaws and hopefully learn how to avoid it.

>That is just normal way of dealing with stress and felling bad. I liked the story overall, and the first thing I did is to try to dissect it. Because by ridiculing it, you put yourself above it.
>I personally think it really because you don't want to be in that situation. So you find flaws and hopefully learn how to avoid it.
It's not about flaws, but that the author could have at least made the organisation blameless. If two people decided to kill themselves, so be it. But a line is crossed when an organisation profited by their deaths. It is no longer suicide by that point. The money paid just isn't fair value by ANY measure, and then the extra chapter proved it. Taking the deal is for suckers.

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>I Sold Off My Lifespan, For 0.023BTC A Year

Then they would be observed by two invisible old men

>but she had a chance of being happy
But see most people (not all) have a chance to be happy or put themselves in a position to be happy but people being people don't always make the most rational decision. I agree, it was shortsighted and poor of her to do it but nonetheless even if I don't agree with her action that in itself doesn't make it a bad/poorly written story.

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>manga

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Thank you dumpanon, you made me spend the night reading a nice story instead of wasting it playing gachashit.

Reading stories like these always makes me depressed because I know I'll never experience those kind of relationships. "No Longer Human" far better captures the relationships that are in store for me, if any.

Hope they fucked like rabbits for 3 days straight.

Thank you user, this was fantastic.

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Damn that was a wild ride

Thanks OP for a fantastic read. Yea Forums needs more storytimes other than the weekly Jump dumps

There's no harm in playing gachashit, so long as you remain f2p or spend peanuts.

Thank you OP.

The story begs the question though, why would they buy lifespan for? I'd like to think they'd sell it to rich people who are afraid of dying for a profitable margin.
Which reminds me of the plot of one of the stories in Bakuman.

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If there's an afterlife in that setting I hope they're there loving and taking care of each other.

>She felt betrayed when he didn't respond to her letter in the way she wanted.
By "the way she wanted" you mean "not at all". He just got the letter, read it and tossed it aside. She was telling him that her life fucking sucked and she wanted to be with him but he was so self-absorbed that he couldn't even consider it and just blew her off.

You're trying to take a perfectly decent plot point and twist it into something that doesn't make sense because you don't like the story. Of course she was "insane"... she was fucking suicidally depressed and angry and wanted to take her anger out Kusunoki by doing to him what he did to her: give him a bit of hope and then snatch it away.

>The two protagonists were basically beyond saving. Both view their own lives as worth so little that they would throw it away to help the other, but the result is that neither are saved. They couldn't save each other, because they couldn't save themselves.

They absolutely did save each other. Miyagi was the catalyst for Kusonoki to find his passion for art again, and Kusonoki treated her as the normal human being and gave her the attention she has craved for ages. Them selling off the rest of their days to be with each other over anything else is simply love.

>Yes, but that isn't the message the main ending has. Both the main characters literally gave up their own lives for each other, so neither value their own life at all. Suicide and try to justify it by helping someone else on the way is still suicide. The message doesn't work when they were suicidal to the end.

They didn't commit suicide. Suicide is strictly killing yourself and ending your life. What they're doing is paying for more time to be with each other, with the price being their life. You're intentionally misconstruing the ending by calling them suicidal when they're not. If they didn't have to give up their lives to stay with each other, they sure as ever would have picked the cheaper option.

And to add to this, they valued each other's lives and happiness more than their own and were willing to show it with their actions. That is the ultimate form of love.

You keep going "they killed themselves, that undermines everything" when it doesn't. You talk about "short-sighted" but you're missing the entire point. Short-sighted would have been him using his last month to paint because it wouldn't have actually made him happy even if it made him remembered. He bought Miyagi's freedom but in the end that didn't make him happy either because the only thing that made him happy was Miyagi and the only thing that made Miyagi happy was Kusunoki. For them, three days with each other was more valuable than all the immortality or decades apart would have been. You can't place a price on your life or your happiness.

Like I don't understand what's so hard to get. It's about finding happiness and value in life. With each other they found it no matter how short it might be. Anything else and they never would have had it. It's not fucking difficult. I honestly can't tell if you're being willfully obtuse in order to nitpick a story you don't really like or what.

>By "the way she wanted" you mean "not at all". He just got the letter, read it and tossed it aside. She was telling him that her life fucking sucked and she wanted to be with him but he was so self-absorbed that he couldn't even consider it and just blew her off.
Where did you get this from? She sent him a letter where she mentioned nothing bad that was happening to her. It was at best a suspect letter since it was out of the blue and they hadn't been in constant communication before. She didn't tell him any of the shit she was going through. HE REPLIED TO HER LETTER. His reply was the same generic ass type of letter she wrote. She never replied back to him again. That was the end of their exchange.

How is someone supposed to determine that your life has fallen to pieces and you are desperately seeking help from that?

Thanks OP, I loved this shiet to bits. Really nice story

You are officially my nigger

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Could "mister" be the translation of "oji-san" which also translates to uncle? I don't see why this girl would hang out with such a guy otherwise. The other explanation being he is Humbert Humbert.

So what did her mom trade her time for that left her daughter with such a debt? And why did the daughter have 300k instead of using it to pay that debt?

Reading this thread make me question whether you fags are a bunch of genuinely autistic asshole that fret over every inconsistent detail, a bunch of kids too cool and edgy for this kind of retrospective story on life or just a bunch of jaded oldfag (wannabe or not) asshole that look for all this flawed detail so you fucks don't have to reflect on you life. I mean jesus this whole story is written on 2ch for fuck sake.

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It's not that I don't appreciate the overall message, but criticisms are criticisms and analysis of work is critical to further understanding if there is more to understand. If you're talking stories that try to make you reflect on your life, value it more, and cry even, I've read more than just this one and in comparison this one has some notable flaws. There's also other stories that have weird deal systems, but do a better job of clarifying the rules to the reader. I also think a problem was the first thread introduced it as the highest rating manga on mangadex. If the OP didn't mention that at all, I'd think there'd be a lot less critical analysis overall. There'd still be a fuckton of people nitpicking the organization though. Arbitrary plot drivers will always feel arbitrary and questionable. It's the classic mistake of having a more interesting topic in your story that's not actually the subject of the story similar to how a thread is made with an image that completely derails its intended topic.

After you read more than one story made to make you cry, you start seeing it in advance and tragic/bittersweet works become a lot less effective overall. Similar to how one gets desensitized to the horror genre actually. You know what the work intends and how it's trying to do it so it loses all its weight very easily. If it's originally an amateur story just written out on 2ch that doesn't free it from criticism. Neither does it free the multitudes of quests that used to go on our /tg/ board and now /quest/.

There's also the flawed assumption I see around that readers will have the regrets espoused. Some people do in fact actually have well-fulfilled successful lives despite being on here as well as long-lasting connections from childhood. Some people actually get remarkable amounts of fulfillment from this place.

10k yen? Seriously now?

Yeah it resonates a lot with me too, luckily enough I found a person that special to me, and she makes it seem like the rest is not important. I had to wait a lot though, I'm 28 now.

LOVE IS THE BEST THING WE DO AS HUMAN BEINGS

Yeah OP really botched the first thread with the clickbaitee premise. I agree that criticism are criticism, but this amount of nitpicking on this kind of low key story just a little bit unsettling for me like having a bunch of narutard in szs thread. Maybe OP first thread have something to do with it and the fact that i already read the story first in the 2ch post TL before reading the manga make some anons misunderstanding a little bit infuriating to read.

If you got some more similar manga/LN mind sharing the name in this dying thread.

never seen this manga before but the title has got to be the most retarded shit i have ever heard.
even if you were to make 100 yen per day you would come out with 36,500 yen per annum.
some /biz/ tier ROI if you ask me.

It makes sense in itself if you consider that you can't buy your own life back. You have to do stuff with that life and that's what gives it value. When you sell your time for yourself, you're working a mind numbing job. When you sell your lifespan, you're pissing away your days for yourself. But when you give of yourself to others, your life becomes richer.

For fuck's sake, Kusunoki and Miyagi say "we're rich" after giving everything of themselves in exchange for each others' happiness. That's what love is. That's what gratitude is. That's what being a worthwhile human being is.

That's why the con man correctly rates his past life as worthless; not only had he not given of himself to anyone (except the loli), he took from people. He stole their livelihoods. This is also why he doesn't take the deal when gramps says the future is where his worth comes from; mortgaging that now means less time to be a good dude to the loli later.

Thanks for the dump, it was a hell of a ride.

10k Yen is like 100 usd
Is jap iq really this low?

Cute read. Still feel like I'm a useless human being, but it's cute at least. Getting some money and choosing when you'd like to die, along with having someone to spend your last days with sounds like such a win-win scenario.

Doujins of three days of nonstop sex when?

I was reminded of it from the first thread and mentioned it then, but had extremely little to go on besides vague recollection. I finally found out its name after searching through a list of manga with the tag supernatural.

Majime no Jikan. Also really sappy near the end, but it's main focus is the events after death.

Wait, Majime na Jikan. May as well also post the link.
mangadex.org/title/7699/majime-na-jikan

>waah why are people analyzing muh feelz manga

Would you rather Miyagi or Misaki?

I agree with everything you said except for one small detail. He bought Miyagi's freedom not to make himself happy, but in hopes of making her happy. Her happiness was more important to him than his own happiness.

That's also why he left himself 3 days. That allows her to still see him before he dies even if he can't see her. Just the way she visited her childhood friend after becoming an observer. He is aware that he's hurting her in the short term by depriving her of that month he still had left with her. Nonetheless, in the end he would still have to spend the last 3 days without her and would die alone. Rather than have her spend one more month with him and make things even harder on her when he dies, he decided to buy back as much of her time as he could in hopes that she would lead a happy life once she regains her freedom. Of course, he ignored the fact that her life was miserable until she met him. She also has no education, no family, or friends to turn to once she's free. He was the only thing, and only person to bring her true happiness in her entire life. It's no wonder that she would rather spend her, and his, last 3 days together than live without him for decades.

I know people call this a bitter sweet ending, but all things considered it's a happy ending. If he never made the deal he would have never met her and continued living a life that would only get miserable. Same went for her. Instead they found each other, found true love and happiness, and were able to take it with themselves to the grave even if prematurely.

Thanks, I look forward to reading this.

misaki, while well meaning overall, was fucked in the head and selfish with her actions. miyagi had a hard life but coped the best she could and she acted out of kindness and with regard for the MC from the very beginning.

i'd say miyagi.

For me, I think this is a very happy ending. I understand why people are saying it's tragic because of three days and how the company is targeting vulnerable people, and that's not wrong, but I think they're seeing it in a way that's too literal.

For MC, being with someone who quells the loneliness in him and makes him feel important, something he craved his whole life to the point of building up some estranged childhood friend. For Miyagi, this is her taking control in a life that she had no control over. From her birth, she was abused, and from six, forced into the situation of not living life, just being a passenger. For her, being able to sacrifice the rest of her time in order to be with MC is the only real choice she's ever made. The ending summarizes it perfectly, the three days they'll spend is worth much more than any time they would have spent otherwise, and that is there happy ever after, their good end. They accepted death, they did not despair.

There's more themes in this to go over, but it's late and the thread is dying.

what an asshat

>The ending summarizes it perfectly, the three days they'll spend is worth much more than any time they would have spent otherwise, and that is there happy ever after, their good end. They accepted death, they did not despair.
You mean "accepted being conned out of the life they could have had"?
Because even the author admitted that making the exchange was a mistake. And that to even making the offer at all is malicious. The organisation is in the same position as Madoka Incubators, and I can't just brush them off as somehow doing something good killing those two. Remember that neither of them needed to die, they are getting killed. You can't assume this is something natural or inevitable, they were conned out of their lives and being murdered in 3 days, and you want me to believe it is a happy thing?

Uh... what? I'd sell anybody out for $3M.

And if the organization didn't exist then what would happen? How his life would play out was explicitly shown. She would have likely been abused and abandoned by her mother. The organization was a plot device for them being able to meet each other and spending their last days together.

If it makes it easier for you, think of them as two terminally ill people that find each other by being admitted to the same hospital right before dying. Let's say the guy shot his liver through alcohol, and then donates a kidney so the girl can get a surgery she needs. In turn she rejects the surgery and decides to spend the money with him before they both die.

Miyagi's suicide sort of makes sense. It's like Brooks's suicide in Shawshank. By the time Miyagi is free from her contract, she'll be 50. She'll have no friends and no future. There's nobody out in the real world for her. She doesn't know anybody and her mental state is fractured having witnessed so many deaths. She chose to end her life on a high point.

>If it makes it easier for you, think of them as two terminally ill people that find each other by being admitted to the same hospital right before dying.
No, they are two ill people who were targeted by a greedy organisation who knows they are not in a position to defend themselves, and profited off of them. And the organisation continues to do so after killing the protagonists, likely making the same excuse you do that they are just cleaning out worthless trash and making money hand over fist on the side.

>The mutual suicide was retarded. The entire point of the manga was that you can find meaning and joy despite a seemingly hopeless future
Nah, the point of the story was to be wish fulfillment for depressed otaku. It was just a shitty NHK knockoff.

She earns money for selling her time... it's like a job. She spent some of her money to give to the guy, which meant she would have to work longer. Learn to read.

Does anyone remember the manga with 2 kids and a dead kid that drowned?

>That's also why he left himself 3 days

He can't sell more than that.

Friday the 13th?

It says nowhere that he can't sell everything. They just stop attaching observers to people with less than 3 days left.

No, it's a manga with a boy and a girl and I think the boy's brother drowned and both kids repressed the memories or some shit. It had a sad ending. Shorter than this series.

Just finish it, its have a different overall theme but a great read none the less thanks.

You forgot the page where people pop up and says "Surprise! You're not going to die in 3 days. We just wanted to put the idea of a limit on your lifespan in your head so you can appreciate the sanctity of human life and how much happiness and love you can bring to the world! Although if you went raping and killing and spent the money/time frivolously, we would actually come to kill you!

As someone who fell for the f2p gacha memes, never play them. Too much time wasted on .pngs.

>lifespan is worth zero
Damn, that's some robot shit right there.

Bless you, user. I really wanted to discuss this with others.

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Miyagi a cute but damn were both of these two out of their minds.

>i spedread
Read it again holy shit.

>I didn't read the manga
Thanks for the input. Now read it and come back. It's only 16+ chapters.

>Upstream Color

Just look it up and find out it from the guy who make the movie primer. Download it right now

Don't know. Both are pretty fucked up, but I'm leaning towards Miyagi. I can't imagine a life where all of my human interactions led to their deaths in such little time. That sounds pretty fucked up.

The manga name is Swweeet user.

Thing is that even though they died it was still worth for both of them. Kusunoki lost his only connections with the world while Miyagi could never get them until she's 50. Finding each other is quite charming, very cute coincidence and I'm happy for them. Hope they have some good fucks in those 3 days too.

>she explicitly asks you not to do that
>you do that anyway
Fuck, nigger, what are you doing.

Likely the girl with no relatives he picked somewhere during his conmanry, and let her live with him. Tale of Genji is the staple of positive Japanese romantic models for some 1000 years now, it's alright.

Is ever love story just "wish fulfillment" to you?

Double suicide is the stable of Japanese romance, too.

He's a conman, not a robot. He's wise.

See >We don't take those last three days.

>Thing is that even though they died it was still worth for both of them.
That's like tricking a man into giving up a priceless artefact for 50 dollars because "he is happy enough to get 50".

It doesn't matter if they end up happy or not, they were tricked by evil men and the evil men got away with it. And the same evil men will continue to trick other innocent ill people because the story said it is okay.

The story didn't say it's okay, it's simply a setting for a story. You can have a book set in a concentration camp without assuming concentration camps are fine.

Absolutely correct, no use wasting your future to make the present slightly less shit.

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>Be American
>Sell health for $50,000
>Have to pay $500,000 for healthcare

isnt that like 100 bucks

>€79 per year

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Thanks for dump

is this a manga adaptation of 3 days of happiness?
why does the manga adaptation have a longer name than the fucking novel?

This is a sweet ending and all, but why did they not just buy more lifespan? Seems like a pretty big oversight, especially considering how they have more money now than they can possibly spend in 3 days anyway.

Considering how happy they are, they'll probably can buy at most a minute.

post it user

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So what do they do with all that lifespan they have collected? Use it for themselves so they can live forever? Then where does the money come from?

I guess it's all magic so not gonna explain shit, but the setting is interesting and I'd like to see more of how it works.

They are Devil, they aren't supposed to have a purpose.

sad

They sell it to rich people with deficient lifespan. Though if you buy a shitty lifespan, I wonder does someone who buys take on the shittiness of that extra lifespan? Like I'd I bought the guys lifespan because I find out I'm fated to die tomorrow, am I going to to be unable to be happy or make others happy no matter how hard I try? Hmmmmmm

Kusunoki, more like KUSOnoki!

The saddest thing here is that Japanese culture is completely unable to comprehend a happiness that's above these three days of happiness. What's for them a good end is, for the western observer, a manifestation of spiritual poverty.

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Thank you OP

So cheap.

Obviously it's not ok, but they did achieve temporary happiness regardless of the terrible means. Again, without the existence of the organization, Kusunoki would have lived a terrible life and who knows what would have happened with Miyagi and her shit mother. They were cornered by supernatural bullshit, might as well get the best out of it for their remaining days.

Bravo, user. You finally deciphered the code.

Why are you so fucking daft? The organization is nothing more than a plot device, but you're entirely focused on it as if it were the main point of the story.

Are you a teenager? That's the only way I can see someone reacting the way you are.

But it's not worth zero. He has his loli and brought genuine happiness to her, so his value is more than that.

Because both their lifetimes became valuable. At most, they would be able to buy a few days each. They would just die a few days later.