Having multiple personalities can be a lot stranger then one might initially believe.
Boku wa Mari no Naha is a strange manga–definitely the strangest I’ve read in a long while. But that doesn’t make it bad at all, of course not. On the contrary, it’s one of the most fascinating stories I’ve experienced as of late. You can read more on why exactly I think so in my review of the story, but for now, I’d like to focus on one particularly interesting part of it: its depiction of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Before I get any farther into analyzing one very, very broken mind, I’d like to give a heads up–there’s HUGE spoilers ahead for Boku wa Mari no Naka. Huge, in that you will not be able to experience this story in remotely the same way, if you read this analysis before the actual manga. So I HIGHLY recommend you take a look at it beforehand, I promise it’s a pretty good read.
That being said. Let’s get started.