Mieruko-chan - Vol. 12 Ch. 64

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The cover page was a bit difficult for me to translate, so I wanted to explain my choices and also who is who.
I think Seto is the heretic.
The way we’ve seen other psychics are, they see ghosts and works in way that human are vulnerable to ghosts. They depend on methods, such as wisdom, rituals, amulets, and compromise.
Seto is different. He can’t see them, and his method are brute.

寵児 could refer to Rom, on how he is treasured by Mitsue and his late teacher. And he is the most “child” among them, both Mitsue and Seto treats him as still a kid.

職者 can refer to monk. Also, Japan’s use of 職 as in 職人 can tend to give nuance of “craft” (such as artist, like painters, sculptors, swordsmiths, teacher), where the expertise is held with pride as an art and life work.
I think it fits Mitsue more.
 
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i wonder why miko see him as UB, now im curious how seto and the gang sees him
he said before that everyones has different view/perception of him, not sure what its based on tho (mybe i missed that one explanation)
also probably romm and obachan hate seto cz he is 'rough' and no mercy
 
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Ok, there’s a lot of bad shit going down but we cannot forget that this rabbit is draining the life force. Sure she had too much and it attracted ghosts, but this is not something to be ignored.
Wait for it to be a nuke when the time comes
 
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I don't think "getting violated by Pii-chan" is much better than "getting violated by The Tentacles".
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No, but having a Pii-chan fetish sounds a lot less disturbing than having a tentacle fetish.
 
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I think Seto is the heretic.
The way we’ve seen other psychics are, they see ghosts and works in way that human are vulnerable to ghosts. They depend on methods, such as wisdom, rituals, amulets, and compromise.
Seto is different. He can’t see them, and his method are brute.

寵児 could refer to Rom, on how he is treasured by Mitsue and his late teacher. And he is the most “child” among them, both Mitsue and Seto treats him as still a kid.

職者 can refer to monk. Also, Japan’s use of 職 as in 職人 can tend to give nuance of “craft” (such as artist, like painters, sculptors, swordsmiths, teacher), where the expertise is held with pride as an art and life work.
I think it fits Mitsue more.
Oooo, yeah, that makes a lot of sense as well!!
 
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I can't believe it we just learned Pii-chan's name! He was no longer a red shirt! Don't kill my boy like that!
I'm hoping Hana's aura can save him.
 
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At this point Miko should have been more alert than this, at least point Hana to Michiru and ask her if she sees Hana before running toward her...
 
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D....Did I just witness a Tentacle Monster perform a heroic sacrifice to save a Japanese High School Girl?

Seeing more depths of the relationship Romm & Mitsue share was very touching, and also glimpses of the cleansing ritual was neat especially in the progressive stages of black curse materializing in the glasses as they were extracted from his body since we last saw him bedridden and now that he's up they'be become clearer.

Hana's Shining Lambda Rabbit is definitely going to become a key item later on. Thanks for the TL!

Prayers for Pii-chan. :qq:
Weird but yes... You have witnessed right... :D
And only IN HERE we can see people for the dying pervert tentacles... Wildest thing is most mourning ones like they are so pure they almost not aware of tentacle p... That much of purest mourning is actually disturbing :D
 
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Did pii-chan seriously receive so much damage just from reacting to it's presence??

How can Miko look at it so comfortably? I mean the fact that it looks like a normal person is dangerous but at the same time it could suggest it's something Miko can be comfortable around which is even scarier, is Miko an actual freak?
 
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Pii-chan’s case brings worry for Seto’s involvement though.
Seto is probably immune to ghosts because he can’t see them, and the Men in Black don’t have “eyes”.
But if Ugly Bastard’s curse can also hit them, would it also reach Seto?
I think you don't need to see it clearly for a reaction to be triggered, possibly just reacting to it's presence is enough. However that likely also means the effects are lessened.
 
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At this point Miko should have been more alert than this, at least point Hana to Michiru and ask her if she sees Hana before running toward her...
She has always had these small slip ups, specially when she lowers her guard and now add up that Hana's figure wasn't being obstructed by anything so there was no reason to think it'd be a ghost... and well it wasn't exactly a ghost, Miko just has never had to deal with illusions, plus iirc no ghost has tried to pretend to be someone she know either.
 
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"Incomplete information can be dangerous"

But "Carry on like normal" isn't even worse? At least in the first case, she'd be aware that there's danger heading her way.
Across religious mythologies and stories of JP and CN, the person who can banish or investigate ghosts or paranormal entities keeps their mouth shut when the enemy is not 100% confirmed. There are many reasons:

_When involved with an evil entity, no choice is a safe guarantee, but one choice will have a better chance than another.

_Evil ghosts and enities do not belong to the human world, and they usually want human life force. Why? because life force is what make the world not falling to darkness and other nasty shit of 4th dimensional world like Hell, or Limbo.

_Humans sustain or increase life force by just living normally. There have been many stories about when investigators give the haunted person wrong/incomplete information, negative feelings and thoughts become a burden, eating away at the person's life force.

_Fear of the unknown. So if the person keeps fearing like that, they will invite evil and power it up eventually.

=> Romm is being a professional, and Miko has a good daily life minus the ability to see. She could keep her life force high, which gives Romm more time to investigate because, like I said, fear invites evil.
 
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Did pii-chan seriously receive so much damage just from reacting to it's presence??

How can Miko look at it so comfortably? I mean the fact that it looks like a normal person is dangerous but at the same time it could suggest it's something Miko can be comfortable around which is even scarier, is Miko an actual freak?
the reason can be du to the modus operandi of that ghost, the main attack of that particular ghost is not cursing to provoke sickness to his victims, but "bad luck that provoke death", each time he appear in the serie, miko is prone to having an fatal accident, remember chapter 43 when she was saved by michiru before being isekaied into an other world by truck kun, or in chapter 64 with a vase falling, potentially, the death of miko's father can potentially traced to him.

the cursing seem to be a defensive mode when someone try to discover the ghost, or because someone is perceived as an obstacle between the ghost and his prey like here with michiru, it's the second time she save miko.

the ghost seem to be a shinigami, with the costume and accessory that resemble a japanese farmer rice cultivator:

https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-...ice-farmers-planting-rice-paddy-image12914305

the asian version of our old westerner grim reaper, and i higly doubt that his face is his real face, but a mask made from real skin a la leather face.

another thing i found, is that the ghost approach miko little by little, if we consider that the ghost was here since she was in elementary school like in the photo of chapter 50, the more he is near her, the more violent and recurent his attack will be.

all of that lead me to 2 possible explaination of how miko is able to see dead spirit :

first one, the least possible for me, she was cursed by the shinigami to see the dead spirit, and when you see the kind of horror she see, it lead to madness or jumping into the sea with concrete shoes.

the second one, she has faced death with the accident of her father, and because of it she is able to see dead spirit, think of it like harry potter and sombral for the concrete exemple.

and because she is friend with hanna, who is literrally a living battery that can buff anything, miko's power to see thing upgrade really fast, like mitsue the old medium, just being near hanna level up the capacity of the old medium as explain in chapter 27
 
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the reason can be du to the modus operandi of that ghost, the main attack of that particular ghost is not cursing to provoke sickness to his victims, but "bad luck that provoke death", each time he appear in the serie, miko is prone to having an fatal accident, remember chapter 43 when she was saved by michiru before being isekaied into an other world by truck kun, or in chapter 64 with a vase falling, potentially, the death of miko's father can potentially traced to him.

the cursing seem to be a defensive mode when someone try to discover the ghost, or because someone is perceived as an obstacle between the ghost and his prey like here with michiru, it's the second time she save miko.

the ghost seem to be a shinigami, with the costume and accessory that resemble a japanese farmer rice cultivator:

https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-...ice-farmers-planting-rice-paddy-image12914305

the asian version of our old westerner grim reaper, and i higly doubt that his face is his real face, but a mask made from real skin a la leather face.

another thing i found, is that the ghost approach miko little by little, if we consider that the ghost was here since she was in elementary school like in the photo of chapter 50, the more he is near her, the more violent and recurent his attack will be.

all of that lead me to 2 possible explaination of how miko is able to see dead spirit :

first one, the least possible for me, she was cursed by the shinigami to see the dead spirit, and when you see the kind of horror she see, it lead to madness or jumping into the sea with concrete shoes.

the second one, she has faced death with the accident of her father, and because of it she is able to see dead spirit, think of it like harry potter and sombral for the concrete exemple.

and because she is friend with hanna, who is literrally a living battery that can buff anything, miko's power to see thing upgrade really fast, like mitsue the old medium, just being near hanna level up the capacity of the old medium as explain in chapter 27
It being a shinigami makes sense, but it choosing to curse those who see it is somewhat less scary than my initial theory, I was under the impression that this was something many realms above from the other ghosts.

While everyone seems to have different ways to perceive the spirits, when it comes to actually seeing them they seem to become harder to see depending on how above the hierarchy they are or how much spiritual energy they have. For example remember the ghosts near the donut store from chapter 4? Miko can see both the ghosts lining up and the thing that eats them but Yulia and Mitsue only see the ghosts lining up, I believe that the spirit eating them is in a higher realm than the other ghosts as it fulfills a given function inside of this weird "ecosystem".

I've used the word ecosystem and hierarchy because I believe that what Miko sees is a mirage of the afterlife, as in it exists in a different realms but overlapping with the world of the living. Spirits like the one eating ghosts at the donut store and the axe guy at the train are in charge of processing different kinds of ghosts, axe guy deals with the ones possessing people and donut guy with those weird ghosts that line up in front of it.

Not sure if it's an actual ecosystem or more like a system designed by some higher spirt or god but I think that any given spirit belongs to a given realm depending on either having a given function inside the afterlife or having accumulated enough energy from prayers, draining it from people or preying on weaker ghosts, the higher their spiritual energy or position in the hierarchy the higher the realm.

The higher the realm the less details mediums can perceive regarding the particular spirit or ghost, evidently this is affected by the medium's talent, as such what I first thought when we found out the old guy didn't look that way to Rom was that it was a spirit far beyond Miko's ability to see and that Rom could barely make out anything from it. However the old guy's appearance from Miko's perspective seemed pretty odd to me as it didn't look like those nearly transparent silhouettes other mediums see, my answer was that it was "taking a peek" at Miko, it was purposefully nearing Miko and as such she could see enough detail to make out it's facial features but not enough to actually see it's inhuman attributes.

Because of all of this I thought of it as some sort of eldritch horror/deity instead of just another spirit, a bit like the god from the first volume but more authentic/ancient, the idea that it would purposefully target beings like Michiru/Pii-chan or Rom lowkey shoots down that idea tho, or at least to me that makes it look less scary, as that would mean it needs to deal with them as opposed to having hurt them simply by existing.
 
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Damn, I'm always expecting shit to go down (or at least get a page-turn shock of some sudden creepy face) but page 35 got an audible "oh, fuck" out of me nonetheless. Beginning with the tension of the ambiguous siphoning of Hana's life energy & the dramatic life-flashback-before-death of the one thing reliably powerful enough to handle most threats, suddenly seeing this vague but distant threat mere feet away is more worrying than 99% of scenarios she's been in so far, lol :worry:
 
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Ok, there’s a lot of bad shit going down but we cannot forget that this rabbit is draining the life force. Sure she had too much and it attracted ghosts, but this is not something to be ignored.
Who knows, maybe it'll be turned into something to banish the ghost dude with all that excess life force drained into the keychain
 

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