Fool Night - Tome 04

フールナイト [Fool Night] #4

by Kasumi Yasuda

Dans un futur lointain, la Terre se retrouve privée de lumière naturelle et d’oxygène. Son seul espoir réside dans la transfloraison, un procédé qui permet aux humains de devenir des végétaux nommés sanctiflores. Après sa confrontation avec la sanctiflore Ivy, Toshiro enquête sur les origines du petit garçon avant qu’il ne soit transfloré. Trouvera-t-il les raisons qui l’ont poussé à devenir un tueur en série ?

Genres: Manga, Horror, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comics, Mystery, Drama

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2022

Reviews

[Ricarda]

People being turned into plants for oxygen and sometimes into furniture is so crazy but it would totally happen in our world if it were possible.

[Frédéric]

The plot thickens. The team investigates the Precarious Town and discovers evidence that may enable them to move forward. And so they go through the looking glass, to see a sinister, sordid town that devours its own children...

A much quieter volume than the last, but no less horrific. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, with some images with shocking undertones.

[Emilie]

So I red the volume 1 to 4th and I really liked it. Maybe I have a things for weird horrific creature with a touch of flowers and plants.
Drawings are good, and I liked the characters.
I feels like there is still something missing for it to be a 5 stars but I will def buy all the other volumes ❤

[Eressea]

20250308 2nd read
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20250111 1st read
好看是好看
但情節好沉重Orz

雖然人物造形和劇情都跟阿基拉相去甚遠
但還是越看越覺得有阿基拉味
大概是背景城市和各種器物畫法很像大友克洋吧~

[Rio]

yasuda has crushed me in each installment (in a good way) but THIS was the heaviest one so far
TW for child sa :(

This book does a really good job of delving into classism, how invisible poverty is when you're surrounded in abundance, and the moralities of "the greater good"

Something I noticed after reading the book is on the first page we see Akira standing on a city street tearing up at the beauty of it, to a normal person like me I didn't think much of it because I am privileged enough to ignore what I deem as "normal" so mundane I wouldn't care at all. I understand that feeling to have nothing and to see or do something that is "normal" for the first time, it's a childlike wonder before becoming a depressing chore. It becomes normal, you don't appreciate it, there is no reason to that's just how it is I am entitled to it.
Though, I doubt Akira has experienced poverty as her aunt and assumably her family holds powerful positions. Additionally Akira mainly wears suits and has a private full-time body guard.

the one silly scene in this whole manga >pg 32. While playing The Game of Life, Akira precures a card that forces her to pay 500k for property on the moon and everyone loses it

(note why did the translators whitewash Mei's name to Meg help??)
Mei and her dad get caught in a anti-transfloration protest and they end up in jail. They are told to either pay a bail (they can't afford) or move to Paupertown-which they they do. When they arrive Mei's dad (MD) gets realizes they can't buy their way back to the city but instead have to buy a "clean slate" credit account to return. The account costs 3 million yen or 20 thousand US dollars (girl...) To earn a living Mei and MD work at a hospital for 500 yen/$3.34 USD a day pruning transfloration patients. Mei realizes that it would take them 30-35 years to earn their way back to the city.
OKAY a lot to unpack first of all I feel like historically protests whether peaceful, violent, or obstructive always end in tear gas and riot police which is...telling, because it's real. Second, reading about Mei a girl my age going through all this it breaks my heart and just shows how fortunate I am (counting my blessings <3) Mei basically got a 30 year prison sentence at 15 and reasonably crashes out because her whole future was smothered in a instant. This drives her to prostitution at FIFTEEN.

On pg. 172 we see a disheveled Mei, wrinkled money in her hand, and semen around her mouth (////3 literally had to close the book). Mei screams at her dad to give her life back and blames their situation on him (not much he could've done tbh). MD promises to get transflorated/literally kill himself slowly to pay for Mei's future (which kinda parallels the real life immigrant parent structure) but has to sneak into the city and assures her that he will return in 5 days. Mei is obviously excited, but after waiting for sixteen days a patient taunts her plight and Mei rips the man apart in rage/frustration (Mei did NOT deserve that wth) She gets fired and is left with no income, guardian, or companion. (OH my god I realize Mei's life mirrors Ivy's and at the end of vol. 4 we see she is found by unknown scouts?? I bet that she's gonna be collected as a lab rat for Kudai LIKE Ivy and turned into another killing machine I feel so bad for them naurrr my sheilahs )

[Estibaliz]

4.25

The story is progressing in what it feels like a bit of a more conventional and convoluted way, but this manga is still one of the best out there, original and groundbreaking in many aspects.

I do not like some of the new characters, particularly the girl in the dad and girl couple, and the whole pacing of this volume was a little bit more slow and adrift, less emotional maybe; probably because we get to see less of Yomiko and Toshiro, which might be considered our two main characters, and there seems to be some mystery around Yomiko herself that so far we can just wonder about for the most part.

Still, looking forward to volume 5.

[Kelli]

This is so relentlessly bleak.

[Jean]

loving everything here. the paneling in this series is just amazing.

[scarlettraces]

Shit getting dark

[Lucía Sánchez]

lo he pasado fatal con este número, he sentido náuseas

[Sophia Paul]

yeah so…. it’s sure getting dark. the fucking slums are brutal. the parade…. the Forest. like i understand why ivy did what he did because those slums need to burn. and then father daughter dynamic that just seems to get worse. my jaw dropped like 3 times during volume. amazing and harrowing!

[Marureviere]

Volume 4 of Fool Night left me deeply shaken. As the story delves further into its brutal world, the oppressive systems and heartbreaking sacrifices only feel more suffocating. Watching the characters—each so raw and human—be crushed by forces they can’t control is agonizing. Every glimpse of hope feels fleeting, and every moment of defiance is met with overwhelming injustice. It’s not just the bleakness that hurts; it’s how believable and personal it all feels, like these events could mirror real-life struggles. I can’t stop thinking about how unfair everything is, and yet I can’t look away. This volume perfectly captures that painful beauty Fool Night is known for, and it’s a haunting experience that lingers.

[Noah Mueller]

As the murder mystery continues, we find more answers, but are left with even more questions about our mysterious Ivy and the anti-transfloration government.

I love the world building in this series, with the dark atmosphere, plants and trees that used to all be human, and the rampaging crowds that riot, and I can go on and on.

This series and this book specifically wins you over with its conflictions, like giving money to the transforlated for sacrificing themselves, but taking money from those who don't want it (oxygen tax which is crazy) and the act of giving transflorations as a whole.

It's now up to the company to defend its name or else everyone will lose their jobs, but with the Ivy killings putting them in a corner, it's grasping desperate measures, whatever will they do 😱😱😱😱

[Elpis]

"La vie n'a pas de fin. La vie est un lien."

Mon dieu que ces phrases me font frissonner tant elles sont remplies de terreur existentielle.

Ce quatrième tome est clairement un de mes favoris jusqu'à maintenant. Le contraste entre les scènes du début et l'horreur du reste du tome m'ont retournée. Le côté horrifique prend une toute autre dimension maintenant que l'on connaît vraiment le coup de cette transfloraison, pour cette minorité que l'on décide arbitrairement de sacrifier pour le plus grand nombre. Les scènes de la ferme et dans la ville précaire de manière générale sont très bien pensées, et m'ont parfois évoqué la désolation de La Route.

[The Book Dragon]

Trigger warning for underage prostitution.

In the aftermath of the Ivy murders, antitransfloration is at an all time high. Toshiro barely escaped punishment from the police but now he’s determined to uncover exactly what turned Ivy into a killer. And how a plant was able to walk.

And what he finds isn’t pretty. The darkness of the city is nothing like the darkness in Paupertown and other places like it. And we get a front row seat as we follow a father and daughter who were just exiled to this desolate place.

[Peter Derk]

In this book, people are turned into plants, which are sometimes trees, which means sometimes there's furniture made from people.

Wouldn't it be faster to just take a toddler's bones and make a chair rather than waiting for it to grow into a whole-ass tree? And aren't toddler bones a little flexible, so maybe they'd make an excellent building material.

I should stop this review now before I get into straight-up endorsing this or anything like it.

[Nicolás Agustín]

Sin dudo mi tomo favorito hasta de esta serie hasta la fecha. Me esta encantando lo dura y cruda que se esta volviendo este manga. La construcción del mundo me encanta y me atrapa totalmente. A pesar de ser un futuro post-apocaliptico, es bastante real y refleja las injusticias sociales y la lucha de clase que se mantienen en la sociedad actual. Sin duda una lectura muy recomendada hasta ahora.

[yana]

incidental allies somewhat inconveniently bound together as a matter of necessity in the face of a larger problem that also happen to be all women and one and a half guys is such an excellent flavour of friend (?) group

[Cassandra]

The most interesting volume so far. So much is shown this time around: political conspiracies, wealth disparities, child trafficking... Just.. Wow.
Yasuda's dystopia is horrifically realistic.

[Tiina]

We learn so much of the world in this volume. The Paupertown is grim, even for this series. We don't really see Ivy at all, but her secrets are being revealed slowly.

I just want them to solve the problem with the clouds. Nothing really makes that much of a difference until they do that.

[Leslie Carnahan]

The mystery behind what is happening is SOOOOO wild. I literally can't put this down.

[Tanner Caraway]

The more the world is revealed to me, the stronger the magnetic pull this series has on me becomes. What a wonderfully sad and beautifully horrifying tale is being spun.

[Samuel]

damn this shit is bleak. still doesn’t feel like a five star for me but still a good read despite how depressing it is.

[Ruben]

I want to know what will happen next.

[Elizabeth]

This series is dark and depressing as hell.

[Isel]

Is she going to be transflorated?

[Roglin]

Ah jeez, that hurt a lot.

[Avary]

its been so long since ive had my heart ripped out like this . The brutality in this dystopian future is gut wrenching

[alita]

A little slower but much darker.

[tig :3]

jesus christ