Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 208 - Human Billboard ②

[MangaDex]

 

[fennec]

Oh, so the ad from last chapter saying "make a weird expression" was probably real and not Hama's imagination, since this chapter had a guy think about the ad. Then it flashes to some image that serves as a trigger for the supernatural stuff.

Also love that the front billboard changed to say "AHHHHHHHHHHHH" as he floated away.

 

[MicroMay]

Page 9 is honestly so goofy with the front just being "ahhhhh" 😭

 

[Sovyonok]

Hm, maybe whatever this thing is, is doing something in similiar vain as that Farmer Fruit job from before. As far as Hama's side goes, that dude seemed oddly fine even with his face turning black. But at the same time we saw folks just floating away ? Yeah i can't tell as of now lol.

On second thought maybe it is some sort of a channel, Yume's side might be the one that "sucks" people in while Hama's side is the side that "releases" whatever it is into the people. Not sure what the bowing has to do nor what's gonna happen at the meeting point but wouldn't surprise me if it is another meet the quota or things get fucked scenario.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[ReGats]

So the billboards change to lure people in or affect them differently?
What's the point of having two of them? What happens when they meet? Why have deadly billboards?
You'll never know what you'll see in this manga.

 

[Nov152000]

Honestly surprised the military isn't using the supernatural to take over another country.

 

[farranpoison]

So what's interesting is apparently the stuff written on the back wasn't in our MC's imagination, it actually was true. But it seemingly changes for people seeing it? And makes them float/disappear? Interesting.

 

[nutjob]

@longmaba
Typo on page 9:
surpisingly > surprisingly

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[friendly]

Oh INTERESTING. So the signboard changes, and once it has peoples attention it flicks to..... something. And then there's the bowing part of it. I like how this one feels like it echoes the whole shape of being a grey worker. Literally carrying an 'ad'. Becoming a vector with something on your back, where you can't see. Unable to see the effect you're having except through peoples reactions, except through your surroundings. Not knowing why. Not knowing the effect.

But hey. It pays! Just.... follow the rules. And think fast.

 

[solamente]

2nd part is always incomprehensible, so this is just what stood out to me:

• The "waiting for my pizza to arrive" part, then "hurry up, time is money"
• When Nagomi bows down, it's at a shrine and the back monitor flashes

So, even without all the clues sprinkled in, the safe guess is that it's not humans they're advertising to. At each waypoint, the act of bowing only "displays widely" to the sky. Maybe whatever's there seems to be their actual clientele (and humans are just the equivalent of "pizza").

• Nagomi thinks of her billboard as "the best reaction will be rewarded", and sure enough, halfway through we see those same reactions being "taken" - one man with a black void for a face, another with his expression twisting and almost hollowing out.
• Yume thinks of her billboard as being "follow me and receive 10k yen", the people walking behind her are picked up and taken into the sky.

In that case, the irony in this arc is another variant of the abstract grammatical transposition we see in almost every story. There's still lots I don't really get:

• I'm saying "thinks of" - it seems like Nagomi wasn't really getting any strong reactions, only the moment after she thought of that as being the message, did we see anything particularly visceral. And then, when we did, it only reinforced what she was thinking.
• So, when the front of Yume's billboard changes to "AHHHHH", maybe it's simply reflecting what the man behind her is thinking?
• The difference in emphasis on the perspectives in Nagomi's chapter vs Yume's - Nagomi's is angled from above, and the people affected fall down (not sure if that's significant). Yume's is very ... flat with respect to the ground? Level? And when people are "taken", it's upward and into the sky

• When I saw the routes, I thought "magnetic repulsion/attraction" but I don't know how that meshes.
• In either case, it's as if the people around them become the "human billboards", advertising themselves to the back monitor in some sense.