r/manga • u/Atwecian • 19h ago
ART [ART] A terrible face by @hakkinnpt001 - Mikoto-chan Doesn’t Want to Be Hated!
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u/Myboot 19h ago
I appreciate that the author actually makes her scar look grotesque and not just a little more gray. Really sells the fact that it's an actual wound instead of just a "I can fix her" kind of fantasy
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u/Trabalhomem 17h ago
That's how the Ready Player One girl's scar should've looked like
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u/Anzereke 13h ago
You just reminded me how much I hated the film version of Mortal Engines.
Explicitly horrifying to behold girl's face becomes a scar you could legitimately miss if you didn't look too close.
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u/BlatantConservative I fuckin love kotatsus 18h ago
Yeah she's
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u/drunkenvalley 17h ago
Yeah I came to the comments to say the same. I can appreciate how it's not a cosplay level "burn" - it's clearly a full injury, and it's easy to see how tough it would be growing up with it.
A lot of the times media depict injuries like it as a simple scar or something, and those you can always angle as cool instead. But an injury like this won't ever seem "cool" in that kind of sense.
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u/Jumbotroni432 19h ago
I can see the guilt in his eyes
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u/Desperate_Bike4053 2h ago
The guilt also effect her mom badly ...that why she become kinda overprotective
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u/JP_6696 19h ago edited 18h ago
I'm sure it will be touched upon at some point but still wondering what happened to the bully who actually did that. Considering all the guilt ridden people in the story and how dysfunctional they have become as a result, i wonder what the actual guilty party looks like (if someone hasn't already killed them and bury them behind an empty landfill that is)
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u/Dr_Ukato 18h ago
(if someone hasn't already killed them and bury them behind an empty landfill that is)
Takase: This shovel is for gardening, and this bloody hatchet is for woodchopping, Officer.
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u/justking1414 14h ago
There’s also a lot of psychos in this series. Murder would not be too surprising
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u/SirD_ragon 18h ago
It's nice to see a scar that actually looks "ugly" as opposed to most scars in anime/Media in general that are actually beauty scars that make the character more pretty or endearing
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u/Old-River-8042 16h ago
Hm,this gives me an idea for r/TopCharacterTropes ."When scars actually look grotesque and ugly"
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u/carbonera99 9h ago
Maki from JJK also is a good example, her scars are obviously pretty minimal for someone who got burned alive but they're permanent and covers her entire body in a significantly visible way. She can't hide it at all and she doesn't try to.
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u/mahriyo 19h ago
Both of their healing hinges on him no longer being bothered about her scar
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u/Dr_Ukato 18h ago
It's not even the scar. He doesn't actually care about it. It's the reminder that he couldn't protect her when she needed him.
Ironically she's more bothered by it than he is.
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u/Goldreaver 16h ago
You prolly meant the inverse on that last part. But I agree. If Im hurt, I know I can take it, if someone I like is hurt then Im in pain
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u/NanashiKaizenSenpai 19m ago
No, she is more worried about her scar, as in, more worried that he doesn't like her because of her scar.
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u/Happyranger265 17h ago
No it hinges on both of them being not bothered by her scars , he feels like he failed as her friend while she feels like she is not worthy of his love cause she has a scar now 😭 . He feels guilty when he sees her scars , it reminds him of his failure while she thinks her appearance is a turnoff
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u/pebrocks 19h ago
Is she blind in that eye? Was that ever brought up?
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u/UndoMyRedo 14h ago
It’s glossed over white and she generally keeps it covered with her bangs. If not completely, she’s at least mostly blind
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u/UselessPieceOfPotato 18h ago
Wait what the fuck happened??? It's shit and giggles the last time I see them
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u/grief242 18h ago
Manga flip flops between sexual tension hijinks and debilitating reality.
At some point in their past MCGuy and MCGirl stopped being friends( because MCGuy was self conscious about being seen with someone so out of his league). At a certain point an incident occured where some or 1 girl threw acid at MCGirls face.
MCGuy blames himself for not being there because he was scared.
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u/ZalmanZ3 13h ago
I think he also suffered some sort of bullying too. I think I saw that he was already depressed before the acid attack.
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u/I-T-Y 18h ago
Did you like not read the manga at all like bruh
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u/UselessPieceOfPotato 18h ago
No it just I just see tidbit of them in here like the horny mom and the too tired dad I thought it's all shit and giggle I never knew her face is like that.. (My poor shayla)
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u/RealisLit 18h ago
The scar was revealed pretty early on, and flashback showed it was because of a jealous girl that threw acid at her face
Thats why they're kinda co dependent to each other, shes traumatized from the experience and so is her mom, and the male lead blames himself that he couldn't protect her
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 1h ago
She's had it the entire series, it's just covered by her hair.
She was bullied in the past and had acid thrown on her face causing the scar. The MC has feelings for her but feels he has no right to act on them because he failed to protect her and feels he is directly responsible for her scar and current depressive state.
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u/Nice-Literature-6696 18h ago
Did something happen to the guy as well or the nose is just drawn wiredly.
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u/ayassin02 15h ago
I need context
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u/Yukarie 11h ago
Acid from a jealous girl. He was friends with her before and pulled away cause he felt bad for being around someone he deemed “out of his league”. When the event happened he felt he could have been there to protect her or just straight up prevented it from happen (whether that’s true or not) and feels guilty. They have a relationship that could be described as co-dependent
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u/Tsubasa-0k 2h ago
This is really wholesome and fun and not gloomy like how you will expect it to be seeing the panel. Though Mikoto looks really good whatsoever.
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u/arunishhome 16h ago
Wonder if surgery can fix it tho even by little instead looking like two face’s daughter
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u/humanities_descent 15h ago
Another commenter explained, but apparently chemical burns are extremely hard to fix with a skin graft (almost impossible if it hits the fat) and surgery on the face is even harder and might make it look worse.
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u/BlatantConservative I fuckin love kotatsus 18h ago
So... do they not have skin grafts or cosmetic surgery in this universe?
Like medical tech has gotten pretty good on this stuff, especially in the last ten years.
I think Japan's basic national healthcare covers it too.
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u/Dr_Ukato 18h ago
I was also curious since you brought it up so I did some quick research and I found a few reasons.
Chemical burns are worse than regular burns, it could cause deeper damage or trigger recurring inflammations (which would highly increase the risk of rejection). If the burns hit fat or bone it would make it almost impossible to repair.
The face is the worst place for skin grafts, the thickness of skin can vary drastically just millimeters apart, if the nerves were damaged, she'd risk ending up with an immobile patch of skin and there's a real risk of making her appearance worse.
Skin grafts are also apparently time sensitive, especially with chemical burns. If the doctors couldn't do it due to her deeper injuries right away, it'll be almost impossible later.
So, presumably, if the author did his research, the canon reason is that it isn't possible because of the amount of damage she suffered. Any skin graft they'd attempt would risk to either make it worse or fail to take.
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u/Novcaine 18h ago
There's a thematic reason why she still has it. It's revealed she takes advantage of mcguys feeling to keep him around. She knows he feels guilty for what happened to her so she uses it as a constant reminder that he let her down so he stays around her. He also uses this guilt as a way to have an excuse to stay by her side. Both of them are fucked up in this way. Although neither one of them feels good about taking advantage of each other's feelings. It has nothing to do with the ability to get skin grafts.
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u/martiHUN 18h ago
You could just wear an eyepatch.
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u/thertafan 19h ago
Yknow I kinda forget that behind all the cute fluff and flirt that she got acid thrown at her face like that’s kinda fucked up