Missionchan ni Daibouken: Review This is my first review so do pardon the rookieness of the review. Major spoilers ahead. I think the main point of this manga is that it is an antithesis to existentialism. That is however you might try to give meaning/order to your life at the end of the day on an objective level life is unfathomable and choas. There are various instances where she was given a choice on what to choose but the why of it is made to be vague. What I think is these represent various things viz. telephoneorganiser and camera represent various entities that we may adhere to to escape the vanity of life. The following are the things with their respective symbolism that I believed it to have that are ways known to escape the chaos of life: + Telephone Being social and interacting with fellow humans. + Organiser Creating order in life by structuring ones life + Camera Art + Reasoning reason itself to escape the suffering of life.This was still a choice on her part the choice to be rational + Work Keeping ourselves occupied But these entities which we choose to give meaning to our life are juxtaposed to their short comings in this manga. Like the organiser getting useless as she begins to scribble and make it chaotic working to a unhealthy level makes her suicidal and camera getting insufficient for her enjoyment. For the others I havent figured out their antithesis. For reasoning it might be her unreasonable pretension she puts on while playing the piano and for telephone it might be the destruction of the social structure of the school at the end. Futhermore the art I believe to be is intentionally drawn as it is to portray the chaos of life. The red lines as borders abstract and distorted panels and the uneven lines of the characters represent the chaos. And finally for the end of my argument her being hanged in the cover photo represents the death to the mission in lifeThe meaning of life that we give ourselves as her name is literally missionmission chan i.e an antithesis to existentialism. These are the pages that struck a chord in me. Reason having no human element leads me to the idea which rationalist identity to be with. That senses can deceptive and that true knowledge can only be obtain through reasoning. But that deceptiveness and vulnerability that it causes in itself makes human. As human are characterised by their mistakes. If one is perfect every time more often than not they are labelled as a robot. As a creative individual myself atleast what I would like to believe this page truly resonates with me. Although not in the perspective of the action of doing specifically painting but art as a general creative process. Perfectionism can be a devil sometimes as right pointed out in the manga too with mission chan doing soliloquy of her being in pain due to her perfectionism. PS: I might be 100 wrong here but art is at the end of the day a conversation. Meaning prescribed by the creator may not be the sole meaning it can have.