Net Keijiban Hyakumonogatari ~Toshi Densetsu Comic Kaidanshuu~ - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Mad Family (Saitou Shunke)
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From Mad Father to Mad Family, huh...? <- Has never played that series just know the name
I'm sure despite 'family' being a huge thing in japan and stuff and common to just stay with them even if you're not some shut in neet, ppl are eager to move out
Tho overprotective aside maybe some ppl will half joke like "oh, just send me 300 dollars every month for living expenses ;P" maybe that'd make some 'overprotective' parents back off of that if they don't indulge them, win win either way i guess
oh , that's a boy, the slightly long hair threw me off lol/thought it was a tomboy but i do like the androgynous vibe
i mean i guess it's a common horror trope but dang must be sucky to be the only one immune (they still didn't get rid of the tv?! [i mean sure, whatever signals would probably still 'come' from somewhere else but still...])
Guess someone's not ever having children, tho surprised his bloodline didn't die sooner unless it's 'just' activating or so
I'm sure despite 'family' being a huge thing in japan and stuff and common to just stay with them even if you're not some shut in neet, ppl are eager to move out
Tho overprotective aside maybe some ppl will half joke like "oh, just send me 300 dollars every month for living expenses ;P" maybe that'd make some 'overprotective' parents back off of that if they don't indulge them, win win either way i guess
oh , that's a boy, the slightly long hair threw me off lol/thought it was a tomboy but i do like the androgynous vibe
i mean i guess it's a common horror trope but dang must be sucky to be the only one immune (they still didn't get rid of the tv?! [i mean sure, whatever signals would probably still 'come' from somewhere else but still...])
Guess someone's not ever having children, tho surprised his bloodline didn't die sooner unless it's 'just' activating or so
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Bloodline curses are a very popular theme in Japanese horror stories. That being said, I really have to wonder if the family really was able to just bounce back like it was nothing after that incident. You would think that they'd do more than just get amulets.
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Clearly , it didn't seem to work that well, unless the ghost won't give up til that specific family member dies lol
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Okay, but how believable is it that Daisuke just happened to be the only one unaffected? Plus, it says that the curse was already there, and only "woke up" because it got tired of waiting, but the change was clearly caused by something on the TV. It seems more likely to me that Daisuke is the one who got cursed, with said curse being caused by whatever was on the TV. His family acting strange and even his "friend" solving things with the charms were just hallucinations brought about by the curse.
Maybe nothing was resolved, and in reality he's in a mental health hospital somewhere, with his parents and brother by his side with no idea what happened to him? Or maybe his delusion that his family's "curse" was dealt with has allowed him to mostly start seeing things objectively again with only occasional, mild "outbreaks" where he starts hallucinating again.
Which of those is the worse outcome, I wonder?
Maybe nothing was resolved, and in reality he's in a mental health hospital somewhere, with his parents and brother by his side with no idea what happened to him? Or maybe his delusion that his family's "curse" was dealt with has allowed him to mostly start seeing things objectively again with only occasional, mild "outbreaks" where he starts hallucinating again.
Which of those is the worse outcome, I wonder?
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Fairly uncomplicated horror doesn't diminish the terror. All it takes is for just one family member's charm to break, get lost, or become disenchanted for this household to turn into a crime scene. The other son probably can't be left alone or move away either. Thanks for the chapter.
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"She often skipped gym" i feel like some teachers would tell you to suck it up and force you unless you had a doctors note or so, i know you needed to get a physical before joining a sports team but i guess it wasn't too strict of an inspection b/c i heard of one person dying do to heart related conditions while being a football player
Extreme supernatural /actual 'ghosts' and such aside, i imagine one could do a good story about that with cult members or ppl with some mental illness conditions even tho the latter is a bit overdone
Extreme supernatural /actual 'ghosts' and such aside, i imagine one could do a good story about that with cult members or ppl with some mental illness conditions even tho the latter is a bit overdone
The chapter already mentioned that he was unaffected due to his past life as a holy priest. People like him do exist, where any attempt to harm them via curse/black magic/hex do not work due to them being protected/past life as holy person, so they bounced back and targeted family members instead.
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The problem is that that feels a bit too convenient, for him to have been a priest in his past life, for him to have connections with people that allow him to quickly resolve the issue, for no one to have died despite them all trying to kill themselves, &c.
I'm also not sure if I believe that being a priest in your previous life would protect you in your current life. Being reincarnated basically makes you a whole new person, so I don't think you'd keep any "holy aura" you had before dying. And it was sort of implied here that his past life as a priest was a long time ago, not his directly previous life, so really he ought to have lost that protection from not practicing for what were literally multiple lifetimes. To think that being a priest once several lifetimes ago would just protect you forever is a bit silly.
And again, saying that the curse was already there clearly contradicts the TV being shown to cause it. It very clearly shows that his family members didn't go crazy until directly after the TV switched to static, even showing his parents staring directly at it for some time before being fully "cursed." And when the last line appears, "the curse still continues," the whole family is staring directly at the TV again, with their eyes warping again like they had when they were "cursed." The TV is very obviously involved, so if what the head priest told Daisuke is the truth, why didn't he mention the TV at all?
Not really. Nothing wrong with one of his past life being a priest helped in protecting him from curse in his current life. Like I mentioned previously, there are people like that who are protected due to their past life (I am one of them).
As for the TV, it could have been used as medium for the curse. They should have got rid of it, but maybe the author didn't want to.
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Okay, no, sorry. I didn't want to say anything at first because it would've been a bit disrespectful, but you can't just use your own real life beliefs as a means of interpreting a fictional story. There's no guarantee that the world in which the story takes place follows the same rules that you believe exist, and there's no guarantee that the author believes the same things that you do.
And besides, even if we decide that "protection due to being a priest in a previous life" is an acceptable possibility for this story, it's all still too convenient. Why is it specifically the guy whose entire lineage was cursed who was protected? And why did the curse specifically activate in the generation where one of the its targets had divine protection? And why did he happen to know someone who could resolve the curse with little issue?
And here, if the TV was the medium of the curse, why didn't the head priest mention it? You can come up with as many explanations for it being involved as you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the guy specifically said nothing about it. The Head Priest in clearly not telling the whole truth here.
Just because the entire lineage is cursed doesn't mean it will affect everyone. Once in a while someone like Daisuke do exist: someone who is protected. Again it's not "too convenient". You only said that because you have never meet people like us irl. I doubt you ever see curse being happening in front of your eyes either.
How are you so sure that the curse specifically activate in the current generation? Knowing such curse, they might have activated in previous generation(s), but the author decided not to mention it (either because it is too much of a hassle to mention them in a oneshot chapter, or they don't know about it). I doubt the head priest know if the TV was the medium; Daisuke never mention it to anyone else beside his brother.
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Man, I can't imagine that your arguing in good faith at this point. You just keep bringing up how you believe that this stuff can happen in real life even though I've repeatedly made it clear that that's completely irrelevant in the context of this fictional story. I can't see this as anything but you trying to push an agenda, sorry.
For the record, I don't believe that curses or divine protection exist in real life, and nothing you say is going to convince me. This isn't a problem of me never coming across it, it's a problem of me being unwilling to believe something that does not make logical sense and has no reputable evidence. If you believe these things exist, then all the power to you. But stop trying to push it on other people.
People like you are the worst. Perhaps it is best that you see one for yourself in real life one day, so that you realized that people like me and the protagonist actually exist.
Also I don't understand why you keep on complaining about it being convenient. He is the protagonist, so it shouldn't be surprising that there is something special about him (protected). And I don't understand why you even read a horror manga if you don't believe in curses. Weirdo. They exist. You should be thankful that you have never encounter them yourself. I doubt you could survive anyway, not with that mindset. I pity you for being ignorant and stubborn. Believe? Hey, I personally see and experience them okay! Not only that, but I have seen ghost too!
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