At the End of 4 Minutes

4分間の終わりに

by

Yariku Hiramatsu

Illustrated by

Yariku Hiramatsu

Characters designed by

Yariku Hiramatsu

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At the End of 4 Minutes is a poignant manga that explores the intersection of life, death, and the mundane. The story centers on a Grim Reaper whose daily duties are surprisingly brief, lasting only four minutes each day. When not actively harvesting souls, this spectral being finds solace in simple pleasures, such as interacting with stray dogs, a stark contrast to its somber profession. The narrative introduces Anita Carmine, a young woman with a past shrouded in mystery, having been an orphan and an assassin from a young age. She has lived 27 years, but her time is now drawing to a close, marked for harvest by the Reaper.

a one shot where death finds himself intrigued by the life of a woman who kills for a living. death meets death. he follows her through time and again and she survives the four minutes he has to harvest her soul because she piques his curiosity over and over.

rather than taking her life, he simply watches her grow and change, seeing what someone can do while living on borrowed time.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 38/50
76%
Comics Read in 2026: 221/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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Tagged in the Menagerie

Absolute Asshole NPC (121) Accidentally in Charge (63) A Fetish For Suffering (69) Can't Say No (111) Chekov's Gun (64) Conveniently Cut-Off (57) Curiosity Fucks You Up (94) Cursed (87) Damsel in Distress (85) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (118) Dangerous Reputation (122) Doting Husband (82) Double Identity (59) Everyone Loves MC (113) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (57) Fan Service (123) Grumpy x Sunshine (64) Hypercompetent MC (94) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (67) I Know a Guy (79) Last Minute Hero (132) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (101) MC's Skewed Metrics (102) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (61) Modern Morals (62) Nat 20s (119) Not Actually Dead (102) Nuclear Revenge (90) OP Protag (104) Power of Friendship (98) Power of Love (92) Self-Sacrifice (85) Shock Value (65) Sympathetic Evil (86) The Moral is Community (82) Tragic Backstory (104) Twist! (67) Uniquely Skilled (108) Unreliable Narrator (61) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (104) Western-Style Fantasy (116) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (110)


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