i read the manga some years back...so my memory is not that good i guess but

is the oldman really just a lonely old man
full of alzheimers
and with a drugproblem

i remember him calling to some helpline in the last chapter talking about ichi and after the conversation ends the girl he was talking to
talk to her coworker about him and they make it sound like he have been calling in these crazy tales for a long time

and in that last chapter some of the thugs that fight in the street looks alot like some of the main characters from early on in the manga

after the old man takes drugs in the van in the last chapter ichis story continues...the old man start dreaming up weird shit again

most things the old man does is kind of outragous and he knows things he just should not know or be able to know and the fact that everything works out makes it all seem like fiction

am i reading to much into it...lol
or was it so obvious?

i hate that most manga i like have weird endings like this
i like it coz i have to think about it...in a way...but at the same time i want an actual story...that is more than a druggers dream

...i have to add something that is beside the point i made in my first post so i ...write another

I reread the whole thing

omg we were cheated
the story never went anywhere
around the middle it seem that the author lost interest and it became a picture book of violent immages

i only remembered that i didnt like the ending but...the story with the old man could have taken a much better turn
we never got to know his reasons for doing what he did
so it all felt pointless

it should have ended with ichi killing the old man by accident/he coming up the stairs to see the fight with ichi and kakihara and ichi just killed him

that would have been a good ending...coz then we would never have got the awnsers

the ending we got felt like garbage since there was no end whatsoever
just ending with a silly twist that everything might be just a drugaddicts dreams

CRAP