Fear: Reiwa Ghost Story - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - May Sickness

[MangaDex]

 

[Madologist]

I call it 2020s fatigue.
The new 20s weren't it.

 

[farranpoison]

So it's a literal sickness?

 

[Vainfire]

Hmm... I like this one. Old cultural traditions clash with modernity, with a healthy mix of the paranormal. Perhaps I'm not so enmeshed in Japanese culture to pinpoint why exactly this is a "Reiwa-era" ghost story, but there are some allegorical similarities--the adjusting to a new environment, the cultural traditions such as a "Golden Week" and "May Sickness" no longer applying to the new and strange.

 

[nobody2002]

Thanks for the upload.

 

[sleepyknight]

long covid 😔

 

[Arexty]

Very unsettling in the post-COVID world. You never know when symptoms are just the mundane or something more...
Thanks for the chapter.

 

[jaaaace]

Chat, my May sickness has turned into a year sickness into a decade sickness into a whole life sickness what next chat what’s next

 

[strawberrywarrior]

I'm definitely missing a lot of cultural context here... but sudden illnesses like that, or being unable to recover quickly from an illness hits different in a world with covid. Not only do we have to deal with the initial infection, we also have to worry about long covid, and a whole host of chronic illnesses or immune system fuck-ups that are triggered by the infection.

It's only a flu, right? Just "May sickness"? Nothing more. Just the new normal after being employed. You'll recover in a week's time, surely.

 

[fight2live]

what the actual hell was on his screen??

 

[EchoGirl]

Nothing to add/theorize but like the way this artist draws eyes

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Folks, don't work too hard. Take care of your mental health.