So, who was the old man?

So, who was the old man?
I think that he was a Japanese salary man, regular guy, with a ventriloquism hobby, until his daughter died. He went nuts, and started acting out her life, so she could experience school. The principal knew him, which is why he lets him do it.

Self bump.

What old man? I only see a high school girl.

Didn t know that manga.speed read like the first 10 chapters then the last 5.your theory makes sens but is kinda gloomy in tone with the cheerfull manga.

Read the others, it's good.

what old man?

Another shameless self bump.

Midori no Hibi guy is such an underrated genius.

Who was the old man?

He was their friend.

A bunraku actor who had a daughter that died at a young age. He plays the life she could have had, and wants to make happy all the people she would have made happy.

what are you talking about? there's only a cute girl in that image.

the point is it never mattered who he was, stop ruining things.

How else would I start a thread for this manga?

this page hit me so hard

I think you're right about everything but the latter half.

I think the daughter committed suicide because of something that happened at school so he acts as a support for other girls because he doesn't want it to happen to anybody else.

What about Sakura? His woman is too young to be a highschooler's mom.
Highschool boyfriend who died, and, influenced by Sumire, became a puppeteer, too? She was clearly less devoted than the old man.

But he started as a 10-year-old.
A 10-year-old committing suicide?

I don't think there needs to be a grimdark explanation.

I mean if you had the means to be a Japanese high school girl forever, wouldn't you do it?

The girls even acknowledge in the series that the 10-year old Sumire stories might just be bullshit. Remember they are just stories Sumire is telling them

SUMIRE CHAN IS A YOUNG GIRL.. A GIRL !

I don't see any old man there, just a highschool girl

Maybe.
But Sumire isn't a liar.
Also, I assume he went with his daughter's personality. Would someone as cheerful as Sumire really commit suicide?

And again.

Do you think Sumire ever had sex?

She's too much of a good girl to have sex in high school

Don't lie, anons.
You'd put your small, hard, fleshy, dick in her hard, wooden, crevice.
Do you think the old man would put water down there to look like it's wet?

I would.

Do you think there'll someday be an 18 Sai?

Damnit OP, you made me reread the manga from start to finish again.

Good times.

.....what old man?

I remember the comedy being pretty good, should re-read it again sometime. Does it have better scans though?

I wish.
>tfw no anime

The one in the mirrow, user.

>The most the series got was a live-action adaptation

It's bullshit.

Do you think his wife left him after he went nuts?
What does he do after going home? Roleplay as her father, eat dinner together, then sleep?

Anyone else thinks the old man is not related to Sumire by blood?
I like to imagine he was a truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel and accidentally ran over Sumire. He spent some time in jail, maybe in solitary confinement and developed the ventriloquism thing as a means of coping with what he did.

There should've been one where they went to Sumire's house and were greeted by the old man.

the alpha guy with the young female puppeteer was fucking hilarious.

Now, he definitely had sex. He said he was backed up.

Fuck that page hit me so hard.

You do you.

>ywn get a wooden dick in your butt

Old man? Salary man? Did I miss something here?

Her father, he must mean.

He probably spoils his cute daughter.

>that ending
>cheerful

Why is Sup Forums so fast, right now? I'm running out of things to say to self bump.

See! It's been a half hour, and it's already back on page 8!
I won't let it die until I sleep, though.

>tfw my threads are always failures
I should know when to give up.

>Would someone as cheerful as Sumire really commit suicide?

Yes.

Worse things happen to 10-year old.
And yes i can even see a 10 year old comitting suicide.

Sumire was raped and murdered by an old man. The old man's conscience couldn't bear the guilt anymore. It's why he's living her life for her.

what did the author say he was?

He said he had it figured out, but wouldn't tell us.

The author said it would ruin the point to just flat out tell people and he's going to keep it a secret to his grave

Never said. He said he'd take the secret to his grave.

I think that's the funniest way to do it because it becomes even more akward that way.

Fuck him

but everybody that want to know already read the manga...

His point is that it doesn't matter who the old man is, he's their friend.
But still, the author missed out on so many potential feels.

What a hack

real hack

HE'S IN YOUR HEART

jesus fuck that was good but a little depressing

Yeah.

the point was their relationship and not the old man identity?

Maybe he was a guy who wanted a daughter.

Maybe.

>muh kokoro
Why did you post this REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The loop never ends

what was his next manga?

Yeah, did not expect this kind of emotion from what had been mostly a lighthearted comedy up to that point. That page is devastating.

Do you think she has a dedicated forum?

I can't believe that a comedy manga can portrait such a bitterweets cene.

All the good times were justt to butter us up for that.

Like, something started by people who remember her, to talk about her?

What will happen when he dies?

Has anyone ever subbed the live-action Sumire 16 show?

He's a ghost, he never dies.

That sounds like a Japanese legend.
"These once was a puppeteer so masterful, and a puppet so beautiful, that, were it not for the old man standing behind the puppet, it would be hard to tell that it was one. One day, a powerful noble saw the puppet in a crowd, and demanded for it to be brought to him as a concubine. When he learned that it was just a puppet, he was so furious, that he had the old man executed. He stayed in character the whole time.
Even now, it is said that the ghost of the old man continues to control the beautiful puppet, and since he's unseen, it is always mistaken for a beautiful girl. Who knows, you could've walked by it yesterday, as it travels Japan."

I don't think so, but I'd watch it.

6/10

it's cute that these are the characters from a previous version of this series, Sumire 17-sai

Is there anywhere to read his new thing?

He's just an old man trying to live out his dream as a Japanese high school girl doing high school girl stuff.

I wonder why he stopped the thing where, after helping them, they flash-forward to where they were in the future, and think about how Sumire made them who they are today.

Thanks for making me discover this manga. It's pretty good.

No prob, Bob, would you mid bumping while I sleep?

I'll try.

>Imasugu Kurikku!
and then its 2nd cour
>Roboken Hachi no Ie

I wonder if the stories of Sumire in elementary school stories were true. They were cute.

I think so.

What's with all the attempted kidnaps by gangs of rapists in this manga? Does this sort of stuff happen every day in Japan?

No

yes

Maybe.

Who knows?

Can you repeat the question?

only if you hang out with delinquents

>speed read like the first 10 chapters then the last 5
I hate you.

Same.
If you can't bother actually reading a manga, why read a little bit?
Was it not good enough for him?

I, for one, thought it was good enough.

I think the old man and Sakamoto san are from the same planet, they just want to share some joy and then move to the next school.