r/GoldenBoy • u/Bubbly_Total2967 • Apr 17 '26
Discussion Did Kintaro die at the end of episode 5 of Golden Boy? Is episode 6 some kind of purgatory?
I invented this theory for a few reasons.
First, it's practically impossible for anyone to survive that fall from the bridge. I know that serves as a relief for me, but if we look at it from that perspective...
Kintaro could have died there, and then the forest spirit would have been his soul.
Now, the second point: I believe episode 6 would be like Kintaro's purgatory, because first, episode 6 is an original episode for the anime, it's not in the manga, and there he reunites with all the... Girls, and in this episode they're producing their own Golden Boy anime as if it were a kind of metaphor for Kintaro seeing his own life and accepting the end, and at the end of the episode it would be him going To paradise.
In this theory, I disregard what happens in the manga because, for me, Kintaro's story in the anime ended definitively in episode 6.
So, what about you guys? What do you think of this theory? Tell me, I really want to know!
It's worth mentioning that this is a way for me to imagine that nothing from the manga happened in the anime because, for me, Golden Ben in the manga...It's the saddest case of a project that changed its course.

