#ashley goeth no yukue

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Let’s Talk About “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” and “The Promised Neverland”

Today, I stumbled again on Shirai Kaiu earlier work: “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” Anyway, before we talk further, you can read the translation here:

Pt 1: https://imgur.com/a/PXKkMfd Pt 2: https://imgur.com/a/Pb6RP5V

(credit to @/ShamsTahsim on twitter who has provided the links)

This is a one-shot works by Shirai that tells a story from the POV of a boy named Haru Inoue. Haru had just gone through a heart transplant surgery due to an accident. But there’s something strange, he keeps dreaming of a memory that he’s unfamiliar with. The memory of another person named Ashley Goeth. One day, he sees a girl that keeps appearing in his memory the hospital he’s at, behaving wildly and screaming that “they” (the hospital workers) are going to kill her soul.

Now, long story short, here’s the twist: There’s never an actual heart-transplant occurred. The hospital Haru is in is actually a place called “Terminal 609,″ some kind of a prison for minors. Except, none of them are going to jail. Instead these “bad kids” would have their memory replaced by an artificial one (in this case, the criminal Ashley Goeth’s memory is replaced with an artificial person named “Haru Inoue”) in order to “reshape” their whole personality.

Here’s a the exact idea that Shirai had used:

Our protagonist, Haru, managed to find a close truth behind it all. Although he thinks that those fake doctors really did a transplant to him using organs of the “bad kids” that they had killed.

Now, where’s the connection to “The Promised Neverland”?

Well, for one, the idea of replaced memory is similar to the reward part of the TPN storyline. Which ended with our protagonist, Emma, suffering from memory loss.

Now, secondly, I think we can see it in this particular panel:

This panel is intriguing to me because of the exact word that Shirai used: “Paradise.”

I've always think that "The Promised Neverland" is a poetic title. Neverland. A place of happiness. A "paradise." Yet, referring to the Neverland of Peter Pan story, there's a cost to all of it. And in this "Neverland" that Shirai creates, it seems like the cost is faux happiness. An artificial paradise.

It feels to me that in both works (Ashley Goeth no Yukue & The Promised Neverland), Shirai is saying to us:

"There's a whole another world beyond what you know, would you choose venture further or are you satisfied with the happiness given?"

The concept of both works are dark and tragic. Yet, in my opinion, it still feels like there's an optimistic tone to it: The protagonists in both works are both give the chance to explore the truth. The difference is “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” ends on a tragic note, with the Haru’s failing to see the truth until the end and his memory being wiped again. While “The Promised Neverland” ends on a more optimistic note, with Emma succeeded to discover the whole truth and eventually bringing everyone out of the “Neverland.” 

Well, personally, the idea of there’s hidden truth beyond what we can see is an intriguing one. Shirai Kaiu is an awesome writer, I think. 

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Omgds Kaiu Shirai is a fricking genius (Ashley Goeth no yukue edition!!)

Can we like, talk more about this?? I know is just a one-shot an all but OMGDS Kaiu Shirai has such good plot twists that make my mind just...!! I totally have a crush on Posuka Demizu's art style but Kaiu Shirai's ideas and the way they develop the story and omgds their art is also fricking good?? But ahhh I really don't want to make any spoilers if you haven't read it but believe me, it's a fricking good story and I wished there was more!!!

(also it's just me or does he look a bit like Leslie?? Ahh either way both of them are cute💖💖😂)

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Omgds this is awesome.

Let’s Talk About “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” and “The Promised Neverland”

Today, I stumbled again on Shirai Kaiu earlier work: “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” Anyway, before we talk further, you can read the translation here:

Pt 1: https://imgur.com/a/PXKkMfd Pt 2: https://imgur.com/a/Pb6RP5V

(credit to @/ShamsTahsim on twitter who has provided the links)

This is a one-shot works by Shirai that tells a story from the POV of a boy named Haru Inoue. Haru had just gone through a heart transplant surgery due to an accident. But there’s something strange, he keeps dreaming of a memory that he’s unfamiliar with. The memory of another person named Ashley Goeth. One day, he sees a girl that keeps appearing in his memory the hospital he’s at, behaving wildly and screaming that “they” (the hospital workers) are going to kill her soul.

Now, long story short, here’s the twist: There’s never an actual heart-transplant occurred. The hospital Haru is in is actually a place called “Terminal 609,″ some kind of a prison for minors. Except, none of them are going to jail. Instead these “bad kids” would have their memory replaced by an artificial one (in this case, the criminal Ashley Goeth’s memory is replaced with an artificial person named “Haru Inoue”) in order to “reshape” their whole personality.

Here’s a the exact idea that Shirai had used:

Our protagonist, Haru, managed to find a close truth behind it all. Although he thinks that those fake doctors really did a transplant to him using organs of the “bad kids” that they had killed.

Now, where’s the connection to “The Promised Neverland”?

Well, for one, the idea of replaced memory is similar to the reward part of the TPN storyline. Which ended with our protagonist, Emma, suffering from memory loss.

Now, secondly, I think we can see it in this particular panel:

This panel is intriguing to me because of the exact word that Shirai used: “Paradise.”

I’ve always think that “The Promised Neverland” is a poetic title. Neverland. A place of happiness. A “paradise.” Yet, referring to the Neverland of Peter Pan story, there’s a cost to all of it. And in this “Neverland” that Shirai creates, it seems like the cost is faux happiness. An artificial paradise.

It feels to me that in both works (Ashley Goeth no Yukue & The Promised Neverland), Shirai is saying to us:

“There’s a whole another world beyond what you know, would you choose venture further or are you satisfied with the happiness given?”

The concept of both works are dark and tragic. Yet, in my opinion, it still feels like there’s an optimistic tone to it: The protagonists in both works are both give the chance to explore the truth. The difference is “Ashley Goeth no Yukue” ends on a tragic note, with the Haru’s failing to see the truth until the end and his memory being wiped again. While “The Promised Neverland” ends on a more optimistic note, with Emma succeeded to discover the whole truth and eventually bringing everyone out of the “Neverland.” 

Well, personally, the idea of there’s hidden truth beyond what we can see is an intriguing one. Shirai Kaiu is an awesome writer, I think.