Touhou Suichouka ~ Lotus Eater-tachi no Suisei - Ch. 68 - A Mosquito’s Bite Will Make a Drunkard Run (Part 2)

[MangaDex]

 

[Sunset_Liddel]

well guess that repellent worked after al and hey rinnosuke popping in how nice

 

[Vladlad45]

Rinnosuke and an Okina cameo? We got some good characters this chapter.

 

[maeribaeri]

Episodes like these make me think of that one statement in an interview of ZUN's along the lines of "I use the series as a diary of sorts", and I can't help but imagine this man just being really annoyed by mosquitoes one day and going "I've had it with these, I'm going to devote several chapters of my manga to driving them off!"

 

[noob1928]

Okina wasn't even relevant to the chapter, she just realized she hadn't made an appearance in the manga for a few years and needed to fix that. Typical behavior for her tbh...

 

[ampnaman]

Woah, even Okina is powerless before mosquitoes... Our tombug Wriggle truly is the strongest!

 

[AEnigmatrices]

WTF 🤨 So you can study actual magic and shit as a villager in the village??? Like, this is a legal thing to do???

So Marisa's out in the wild not because magic is some kind of taboo at all?

 

[arctess]

WTF 🤨 So you can study actual magic and shit as a villager in the village??? Like, this is a legal thing to do???

So Marisa's out in the wild not because magic is some kind of taboo at all?

Given how Marisa is, I expect that a third of the reason why she lives in the woods is for the aesthetic.

 

[Valahuir]

WTF 🤨 So you can study actual magic and shit as a villager in the village??? Like, this is a legal thing to do???

So Marisa's out in the wild not because magic is some kind of taboo at all?

From context clues it seems it's at least socially taboo if not outright as most magicians refered to have been on the fringes of socity or outright live like hermits.

 

[IronicWeeaboo]

Okina losing to bugs once again
Eternity Larva sends her regards

 

[Vladlad45]

From context clues it seems it's at least socially taboo if not outright as most magicians refered to have been on the fringes of socity or outright live like hermits.

Yeah, and the line "It's not something you'll often hear talk of in public" makes it sound like magic isn't the sort of thing you talk about in good company within the village.

 

[Oeconomist]

The word “fewer” is the comparative for things that are measured by integers; “less” for things that are more divisible. Mosquitos are integral, so one should write “fewer mosquitos”, not “less mosquitos”.

 

[SpiritedBreak2]

Kourin huh... spouting garbage as usual (not that he knows any better).

You know kinda feels weird to say "he" when talking about touhou chars lol.

 

[VINT64]

seeing Marisa's smile at p.14 is all I need

 

[akari_house]

I feel this one left more questions than answers for me. Especially after looking up the composition of mosquito coils and their history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_coil

Unsurprisingly, one component is similar to one used in gunpowder, which acts as a slow burning fuse for the coil releasing the insecticide of crushed chrysanthemums.

What was special about the alcohol? Why was the odor similar to the grounds of the old manor? Who really lives there and what are they actually up to?

I feel like a number of these stories have some loose ends that could be pieces of a bigger puzzle hiding in plain sight, if only they can be put together the right way or get further revisited later.

 

[Gierek]

Wait a second, i think i get the story. Zun inserted that anecdote in the middle of the chapter about mosquitos not going to people's palms because they associated it with being hit by humans through reflex. Similarly they stopped bothering Marisa whenever they feel her cooking up things in her house because they associated that with pesticide.

I dont think Marisa's concoctions actually killed any mosquitos. I think it just invoked the same feeling as the house, which if i'm guessing correctly belongs to someone who hunted insect all the time, and for some reason water their soil with booze(?). I feel like ZUN wants to present a theme about beliefs, which is completely in place in a Touhou media, although i think the execution is way too vague

 

[Valahuir]

I feel this one left more questions than answers for me. Especially after looking up the composition of mosquito coils and their history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_coil

Unsurprisingly, one component is similar to one used in gunpowder, which acts as a slow burning fuse for the coil releasing the insecticide of crushed chrysanthemums.

What was special about the alcohol? Why was the odor similar to the grounds of the old manor? Who really lives there and what are they actually up to?

I feel like a number of these stories have some loose ends that could be pieces of a bigger puzzle hiding in plain sight, if only they can be put together the right way or get further revisited later.

The alcohol is because a tincture is made by disolving your ingredients in a medicinal alcohol.

Plus it's the funny booze touhou manga I guess.

 

[oleanders]

2 entire panels of okina this is the best chapter yet