It's implied that the woman here is Wakano, the one on the news who murdered her husband, isn't it? Although our first instinct would be thinking it was because she was abused by the husband, the author also subtly hinted at her having a sadistic streak of her own. Shinjou (the yakuza dude...
This is perhaps the first isekai I see where the entity overseeing the MC in another world is a spiteful little bugger. But did he really think shaving off 75 years of their lifespan was a handicap?
I like this so far. Two martial arts geezers who hate each other in the normal world are Truck-kun'd (or Tengu'd in this case) into a high fantasy world. I wonder if Hyoudo will become a villain (I hope not).
I have two questions.
1) If the onee-san mentor's world was easily destroyed, are we even sure that her race had advanced enough tech to restore all the brains?
2) Why does she seem so fixated on choosing Tsutsuno as Earth's savior?
Is that scene of Auntie Sanda looking at a dead body from a past chapter or is it actually foreshadowing of a future one? I don't remember that corpse.
Perhaps the reason Shioi is shunned by Souichi's mom is because she knew Shioi was cursed. I'm going off on a tangent here but the fact that the family kept their distance instead of trying to help her might signify that her curse was a result of Shioi's own doing.
That's a cool reversal of the Hasshaku-sama motif lol.
In an earlier chapter, Asama's younger sister tells him that the spirits she plays with also calls humans "ghosts". So, in a way, just as we consider our viewpoint the "normal" and the spirits "abnormal", for the spirits themselves it's us...
I was also on a re-read and it seems like those lines are not just about Asama yelling at her little sister which caused her to run out and allowed the Moon Presence to consume her. He might have buried those few remaining bones of hers and her favorite marbles in that mountain god's territory...
I like the thematic consistency here. There is an implication that the (so far, shown to be very physical) power and nature of phantoms can diminish as observers learn more about them. It is almost like how you'd think a cellphone is a magical device if you do not have even the most basic...
I got the impression that this creature is implied to be something primordial that has always existed alongside humanity. It is perhaps a manifestation of how life began in water, hence the connection with the desire to "go back home" and its catchphrase about there always being something "just...