Fear: Reiwa Ghost Story - Vol. 4 Ch. 32 - Item Tracker

[MangaDex]

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Is this ghost poop again?

 

[Skullkrusher]

Whatever it is, this girl deserves it for using location-tracking services. I'll never trust those things.

 

[Voyvoy_]

I feel like the way this story is structured is inspired by the urban legend of Mary-san.

 

[EchoGirl]

lol you'd think something as important as a wallet would be directly in a pocket or the purse as opposed to her setting it down out in public, versus her just using her phone to pay

i guess her friend looking horrified too might mean it's a ghost or severed finger versus "oh it's just in ur head/ur just paranoid"

Is this ghost poop again?

imagine if it was the 'soul' of the wallet/lost items itself like "how dare you abandon/lose/not take better care of me" like how the Banette pokemon is the grudge of someone's abandoned doll

 

[Madologist]

This had a Junji Ito wibe to it.

Whatever it is, this girl deserves it for using location-tracking services. I'll never trust those things.

What, it says it on the tin: Location Tracking Service. They just never specify, what it's tracking and who it's selling that data to, no?

imagine if it was the 'soul' of the wallet/lost items itself like "how dare you abandon/lose/not take better care of me" like how the Banette pokemon is the grudge of someone's abandoned doll

My personal favourite is the abandoned umbrella one. Tsukumogami are a myriad bunch. Kinda wish some of my possessions gained sentience, so I could actually teach them manners.

 

[SMAXZO]

They opened the wallet and found......an encyclopedia salesman! The horror!

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

lol you'd think something as important as a wallet would be directly in a pocket or the purse as opposed to her setting it down out in public, versus her just using her phone to pay

i guess her friend looking horrified too might mean it's a ghost or severed finger versus "oh it's just in ur head/ur just paranoid"


imagine if it was the 'soul' of the wallet/lost items itself like "how dare you abandon/lose/not take better care of me" like how the Banette pokemon is the grudge of someone's abandoned doll

Losing the stuff inside the wallet kinda already does the punishment part.
And the moral aspect wouldn't work, given that her first reaction upon noticing the loss is to try to find it.

 

[EchoGirl]

Losing the stuff inside the wallet kinda already does the punishment part.
And the moral aspect wouldn't work, given that her first reaction upon noticing the loss is to try to find it.

LOL yeah but who knows there have been ghosts and even humans that straight up hate each other for 'petty' reasons, but yeah be more of a thing if it's like "stolen items attack the thief" or so as a moral story or so

 

[fight2live]

okay i'll admit that eye jumpscare was pretty good

 

[Vainfire]

I think that the tracking app probably did add a little bit of suspense to the story. Without it, there wouldn't have been the knowledge that your wallet is rapidly approaching your location--just the discovery of it outside your door.

 

[Pagemistress]

And when they opened the wallet... they discovered... to their horror... all the bills had been replaced with foreign coins!

 

[strawberrywarrior]

Inb4 what they saw was us, the readers of the manga-

That's one way to use location tracking in horror. But admittedly, the open-ending fell flat for me 😅

 

[looc64]

I think that the tracking app probably did add a little bit of suspense to the story. Without it, there wouldn't have been the knowledge that your wallet is rapidly approaching your location--just the discovery of it outside your door.

Feel like they could have gone in a (literal) more interesting direction with that.

Have the wallet start moving in a way that seems like it was taken by a thief or the app is glitching and then it starts moving to a fucked up place in a fucked up way.