#nanbaka manga

[ihateuno]

“Don’t laugh”

“Hehehe”

[nexielovely]

" Now I live in darkness, bring me brightness

Show me proof you hear my sound." - Sweet Dream ALNST

[the-deal-breaker]

YAY FANARTS

Picked them all by myself sooo

Samon's the only with sparkles cuz I said so

[slpysun]

just a quick sketch of my lovely baby monkey boy that I forgot to post

[phantomwitch16]

So I just learned the Nanbaka ending. Safe to say that it was not what i expected and I wanna talk about it :,)

Warning to the many people who have not been able to make it past chapter 192 or only watched the anime, the majority of what i know is from TikTok's, the comments of the vids and what i've pulled together by myself and what i've seen on Pinterest. Plus, despite my like for the series, I don't know much, its been a few years since I've done anything with the series , there is a cut off point with the manga and even then i don't know if it was in any particular order.

When i first started the series, I felt like i had a good idea of where the series was going. Like as the series would progress, we learn the pasts and motivations of the main cast, like Uno, Rock, Nico and the others, while seeing Jyugo learn about the shackles and the man on the scar. Then at the end, some shenanigans results in our main cast of idiotic prisoners being released early or finishing off their sentences in around a year or two. but because they either grew attached to the prison or liked the perks of working there (annoying Hajime, anime and food), they decide to go back and become guards of building 13. With Jyugo possibly doing something like this each day.

But that didn't happen. Instead we get something a lot more different than what I originally imagined.

In the end of the series, we learn a lot about Jyugo's backstory, how he and the boys first me and more about the man who shackled him. As it turns out, Jyugo was never friends with Uno, Rock and Nico. They met him but they weren't friends, I think. Initally, I didn't think that he even met them before the start of the series until finding some of the fan translated pics of the manga on Pinterest (Search Nanmaka manga ending Jyugo and you should find something, just find one and keep on scrolling). All the memories that Jyugo had with them were fake ones that were inputted by the clone of the man with the scar/his biological grandfather, i.e. this guy, Hiiro, I think is his name. Hiiro with black hair, scar guy with white guy down here 👇

I'm not entirely clear on what they were planning initially but Hiiro was the one who inputted the memories and orchestrated him going to Namba and becoming friends with the three, who possibly have at least met them individually at tone point. From what I am aware, Jyugo was the clone of Mashiro Mutsuki's (Scar man), grandson who alongside his daughter's, Touko, Jyugo's mother. She died while she was pregnant with Jyugo and Mashiro kept her body so that she could be cloned and give birth to Jyugo.

There were bit and pieces of Jyugo's childhood, with him and Hiiro. And Jyugo was nothing like how he was during the series. He was serious, had no general emotions and all that and i think his clone body was falling apart or he was sort of shapeshifting. He only became somewhat normal and acts similar to how he does to the series when he put the shackles on.

But the shackles had another function and it was to repress his memories and powers. Specifically his memories with Hiiro, the scar man and what his friends did to him. Uno, Nico and Rock were brought in to teach Jyugo how to live in order to be released from prison and gain their freedom. And kill him some time before the series started. This was part of Hiiro’s plan but I’m not too sure about his reasoning. They did that, and when the shackles are gone we see the evidence of it on Jyugo's neck.

All this makes looking back on previous adventures quite differently. In short they were never his friends for a time but did grow close in the time afterwards and began to feel guilt for what they did to him. They eventually come to talk to Jyugo about it and apologise but at this point, it was too late. Jyugo remembers everything when the shackles break and is practically reverted to his previous state. And it leads to a bitter confrontation that leaves the three shaken. As seen below 👇

I'm not sure to what degree of involvement Nanba Prison and the staff there had. By all accounts, its seems that Hajime and the other guards were just as or even more in the dark than Jyugo. Upon finding him, Hajime treats him like he's always has.

The only moderately positive thing and relatively Jyugo related thing that the reverted Jyugo does is that he has a brief interaction with Hajime’s cat who he says goodbye to.

In the end, Jyugo disappeared from the prison with a splatter of blood left behind, leaving apparently with his grandfather. Then that's it. A very WTF kind of ending for a comedic series. It...honestly not what i expected. Beautiful art stuff, yes. WTF moments, yes. Hilarity, yes. A very bitter ending with barely any sweetness in it…neat.

[kurowataa]

musashi moment!!! 😸😸

[supercrystalcats]

I have realised that people dont really know where to read Nanbaka or how to read it so im just going to make a quick post to help people! Chapters 1-192: I personally use Mangapark! Since it includes the bonus chapters! Chapters 193-423: This is where it gets kinda confusing- I know theres a bunch of random people translating from this point but the quality for translations is completely random So! I recommend to get the text translations and read them at the same time as your looking at the japanese manga! Since the text translations has also been fully completed too! Heres how you can find both! Text Translations: This is fully completed text translations for chapters 193-423! Here is the Google Drive! Japanese Manga Panels: You can support the creator at their Fanbox if you want! But there is also the Nanbaka Blog where you can read it for completely free!

[sara-frog13]

This gorilla has small problems with biology

[sleepless-garden]

I NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT NANBAKA PLEASE DM IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT IM GOING TO LOSE IT !!

Also side note, Hitoshi has the best official art and lives knowing it

[sxnzi-nyja]

I just had a realization that we'll probably never see Kojiro from the Nanbaka manga animated and it makes me pretty sad cuz I would do anything for this shork

Like look at him, such precious

[lolis1n]

My favorite Jyugo panels

[ihateuno]

Look at his Halloween costume !

[nexielovely]

Happy 11th Anniversary Nanbaka! (Posted pretty late but whatever)

[the-deal-breaker]

PlayfulLand Samon

Look at him!! Look at my boy! He's like a fancy little gentleman, I totally didn't struggle with any of this at all.

Tell Leona to leave me alone now.

My fail if u wanna see

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Personally he kinda looked like Chuuya from BSD and I didn't realise untill I started colouring.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Nanbaka out of context:

@killersweetie

[veenoms]

Rock from the hit anime/manga nanbaka tries the grimace shake and DIES ??!!!! (real)(no clickbait)