Poor girl. The audience just wants her to be happy, but stuck with the artist she has, it will never happen.

Oh. So just... Legitimate domestic abuse, then. Fun. I genuinely don't understand the purpose of this series.

I'm starting to miss stuff like post #4257943, post #4257899 or post #4257868, when there still was a joke behind the image and the more depressing images were not as prominent.

salmon_samurai said:

Oh. So just... Legitimate domestic abuse, then. Fun. I genuinely don't understand the purpose of this series.

Maybe something similar to romance series where the artist gets the audience to root for the characters to get together, but it can't really happen without ending the series. In this case he presents us with a poor pitiable character for us to root for, emphasize with and/or sympathize for, but he can't ever take away her crap-sack world without ending her series' purpose.

Or, less optimistically the author had to deal with this kind of thing in their real life, and drawing it is their way of processing things.

Or, they just have a really really dark sense of humor. I mean the punchline of this one was the fact that we thought something bad (getting beaned by a baseball) had turned into something good (her getting her sight back), but it ended up just going like you thought it would initially. That's the pattern of a joke, it's just really dark.

Or it could be all of the above.

You know, thinking about it, it's not all that different from Kenny in South Park, is it?

salmon_samurai said:

Oh. So just... Legitimate domestic abuse, then. Fun. I genuinely don't understand the purpose of this series.

To make you suffer.

He probably noticed people got used to the light edginess so he ramped it up to make his readers upset again.

Shinjidude said:

Maybe something similar to romance series where the artist gets the audience to root for the characters to get together, but it can't really happen without ending the series. In this case he presents us with a poor pitiable character for us to root for, emphasize with and/or sympathize for, but he can't ever take away her crap-sack world without ending her series' purpose.

Or, less optimistically the author had to deal with this kind of thing in their real life, and drawing it is their way of processing things.

Or, they just have a really really dark sense of humor. I mean the punchline of this one was the fact that we thought something bad (getting beaned by a baseball) had turned into something good (her getting her sight back), but it ended up just going like you thought it would initially. That's the pattern of a joke, it's just really dark.

Or it could be all of the above.

You know, thinking about it, it's not all that different from Kenny in South Park, is it?

Ehhh... I think, tonally, Kenny from South Park is way more lighthearted. He has actual friends who care about him, a sister who looks up to him, and the 'dying every episode' thing stopped later on in the series. Even then, I'd argue his deaths are dark comedy done right - it never feels like Kenny's suffering is the punchline, it's the suddenness of his death or subversion of expectations when you think he'll die but he doesn't. The punchline here is... Misery. It's not fun or funny, it's "lmao, you hoped her life was going to get better but she's still going to be abused and miserable while also being disabled".

I'm more inclined to believe your second point in that this is some kind of coping mechanism, but I'm not a psychologist and I'm not going to pretend to be.

Personally, I think the author finds entertainment in the reactions to this series. Like trolling.

The nuns saw what happened and would have been eager to help.

nonamethanks said:

To make you suffer.

He probably noticed people got used to the light edginess so he ramped it up to make his readers upset again.

One thing is to shock the public with the light-hearted bullying he made at first, the kind of bullying that people could realistically feel related to even if they never had experienced bullying, but this has crossed the line to a point where I doubt people will care about it anymore.

You know, there's a twisted moe thing going on here too. He takes a character people are bound to find likable to start with, then starts putting her in more and more negative situations. It makes the audience want to engage and be able to step in and think "I could help her if I was there". That sort of provocation to make people want to engage and wish they could interact with the story is maybe the real draw here and motivation behind creating these. I think "trolling" is probably somewhat apt, in that he's provoking people to have an emotional reaction and want to act based on that reaction, but it also provides a reason for people to keep following the series.

There doesn't really need to be a reason the artist draws them, but I think part of the charm of this series, is not knowing and guessing the artist's intent. The moment we learn the real reason, it becomes less intriguing, because we then have a concrete reason behind it and the mystique and idea gathering we're doing disappears.

Another part is that the blind girl is someone most, if not all, can sympathise and wish the best for, bringing out our inner kindness. When she's put through increasing suffering or misfortune, it brings out even more of that emotion which is probably what the artist wants us to show, not to exploit it, but more because they want the series to intentionally have such a strong connection to us. Of course, this is just one of the ideas that we can gather from the series.

now that the blind girl is in coma, she can start catching pokemon

Yeah, I would NOT call even a 'bit' of brain damage "alright" by any means, especially since it is very much permanent.

Worse than I predicted.

Wonder if the artist is enjoying tormenting it's viewers as much as tormenting the character as well.

T34/38 said:

Worse than I predicted.

Wonder if the artist is enjoying tormenting it's viewers as much as tormenting the character as well.

It all part of his plan it like he knows it makes us sad so he continues doing it. He continue so people come back to see if she would be happy one day he a genius play with are heart strings he knows if he stops doing this people will just forget all about his art I think he continue doing it just at the last moment he final makes her happy satisfied us his viewers

I wonder, despite all the damage people have caused to her, why she doesn’t respond back with the same anger as people did to her?

salmon_samurai said:

Ehhh... I think, tonally, Kenny from South Park is way more lighthearted. He has actual friends who care about him, a sister who looks up to him, and the 'dying every episode' thing stopped later on in the series. Even then, I'd argue his deaths are dark comedy done right - it never feels like Kenny's suffering is the punchline, it's the suddenness of his death or subversion of expectations when you think he'll die but he doesn't. The punchline here is... Misery. It's not fun or funny, it's "lmao, you hoped her life was going to get better but she's still going to be abused and miserable while also being disabled".

I'm more inclined to believe your second point in that this is some kind of coping mechanism, but I'm not a psychologist and I'm not going to pretend to be.

Personally, I think the author finds entertainment in the reactions to this series. Like trolling.

As much as i don't abide for this, some day the artist will get the stone throw at him once people find him. He is been dodging it for so long, and as much as i said i don't abide that kind of behaviour because each and everyone has the rights to do whatever we want... we're also be mind that we can't control what other people does, so there will be that one who will just take it to much personal and just go ahead.

Sadly i seen this happen once or twice. SO ... if the artist will keep doing this, he will had to shield it once it happen.

Edit: and don't get me wrong. The guy can do whatever he wants, i'm only saying i seen a lot of people emotionaly invested in this type of things as well.

...Well on the bright side, at least he actually sent her daughter to the hospital. Surely her dad still cares for her, right?Right?

Runnerdown said:

...Well on the bright side, at least he actually sent her daughter to the hospital. Surely her dad still cares for her, right?Right?

He's just doing that so he won't be sued for child neglectment.

He's a foster parent. I wonder how the girl came to be under his care.