Death Pie Chapter 3

Hey, it's Sonickrazy here. Figured it'd be better to move the Death Pie posts over to this side so as not to clutter up the FKMTkrazy blog. But yeah, Death Pie 3 is now up, and in it, we get a shockingly large amount of backstory...!

Thanks as always to our friends at HappyScans for teaming up with us to do this! http://happyscans.blogspot.com/2012/07/death-pie-chapter-3.html

Kazu and I were both surprised to see so much of Tobioka's backstory explained at the start of this chapter; based on the first 2 chapters, it seemed like pure Mahjong and nothing else. But there's all sorts of other stuff that goes on, making this a very worthy pick-up and a shockingly good manga all-in-all. If you're only here because of Tetsuya, I suggest you read Death Pie, posthaste.

Also, it seems Tobioka and his female opponent in this chapter have quite a bit of history... I'd hazard a guess that the woman is Ruriko (Takikawa's little sister in the flashback), and part of the reason Tobioka is here is to get revenge on her for killing Takikawa. But it also seems like she challenged him somewhat, as per the Yakuza Boss's request. Her use of her nail paint to mark the tiles ("Ganpai" for those familiar with Ten and the like) is also a very nice touch; she's pretty much the only female Mahjong player in manga outside of Saki, and she puts her feminine traits to very good use. God, it's only been 3 chapters, and already I feel totally hooked on this manga and finding out what Tobioka's past was like... not to mention that there's a story arc already. Amazing.