Totsugi Okureta Kitsune ga Yome ni Kuru Hanashi - Ch. 120.1 - You're Just an Outsider

[MangaDex]

 

[sarusa]

It's easy to hate this schlub

but I kind of see him as a Japanese everyman, totally worn down by his job and family responsibilities. He's what Goro could have turned into if [things] hadn't happened. He just wants his Mom to be safe - but then she's just on his pile of things he's responsible for. I don't like him, but kinda get it.

This chapter has had no PR (other than mine) yet since Thumper's sick but I want to get you your weekend chapter. Will update once he (or you) flag anything.

 

[xanon]

Mugi-chan's gonna give him both (emotional) barrels.

 

[nljm]

It's easy to hate this schlub
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but I kind of see him as a Japanese everyman, totally worn down by his job and family responsibilities. He's what Goro could have turned into if [things] hadn't happened. He just wants his Mom to be safe - but then she's just on his pile of things he's responsible for. I don't like him, but kinda get it.

ngl yea, this guy's story is quite sad and understandable, though not good.

Im more interesting what his dad plays in this. Did he divorce Kawashima? (I've forgotten earlier chapters so it may be true?) Is he going to be her caretaker in place of the son?

 

[sarusa]

Im more interesting what his dad plays in this. Did he divorce Kawashima? (I've forgotten earlier chapters so it may be true?) Is he going to be her caretaker in place of the son?

Kawashima-san's husband passed away. I think that was mentioned a long time ago, but - I should probably have made a note since page 7 would be obvious to any Japanese person, but that's his photo at a little Buddhist shrine for him in her apartment. So definitely dead.

So this has gotta be

Spoiler: spoilers for next chapter!

Mutsumi-chan looking like him

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[ReligionSomething]

Damn, this hits way too close to home.
I get it.
Can't even dislike the guy, I'm living that life right now. It's hard to do the right thing for an aging parent, and often there isn't a clear cut right thing.

 

[Ikariniku]

It is easy for those without responsibility to criticize those with it. While I doubt the son will be presented favorably and assume Mutsumi's deception will flawlessly work, relationships with older family members never break down so cleanly into "right" and "wrong". This is, however, a story about connections, so I do expect the relationship between mother and son to be healed.
I'm glad to see Kawashima-san's malady is as simple as hocus pocus eyestrain. And we get an Akane update. Thanks as always to sarusa. Get well soon, Thumper.

 

[Mangamoz]

If you can't be there for your aging parents cause of work related reasons, then giving them a call now and then isn't going to kill your work performance.

If you can't even do that, that's on YOU.
(That is if they were good parents, if they were abusive aholes, screw'em)

 

[Jatopian]

I think what really pushes me to sympathizing with granny's son is that she didn't even tell him she was living with someone now. What if she'd actually collapsed and he had to figure out who this was on his own? How was he to know these aren't suspicious people? And knowing people are keeping an eye on her could reduce his worries and make him less in favor of the care home option - why does she not want to reduce his worry for her?

So this has gotta be

Spoiler: spoilers for next chapter!

Mutsumi-chan looking like him

...oof yeah, that fits with Mugi making this about herself and her racial complex (which the son wouldn't even have any way of knowing since he doesn't know she's a tanuki and probably isn't aware of supernatural world). Mugi-chan about to way overstep with this one.

Character growth inbound all around, I guess.

 

[Angry_Panda]

If Mutsumi has thought about how to approach this, I can see it going well. If not...

Either way, it'll be a learning experience for her!

Thanks for the chapter - get better, Thumper!

 

[DeadintheWater]

I think what really pushes me to sympathizing with granny's son is that she didn't even tell him she was living with someone now. What if she'd actually collapsed and he had to figure out who this was on his own? How was he to know these aren't suspicious people? And knowing people are keeping an eye on her could reduce his worries and make him less in favor of the care home option - why does she not want to reduce his worry for her?

...oof yeah, that fits with Mugi making this about herself and her racial complex (which the son wouldn't even have any way of knowing since he doesn't know she's a tanuki and probably isn't aware of supernatural world). Mugi-chan about to way overstep with this one.

Character growth inbound all around, I guess.

To be fair to her, it would be hard to explain the circumstances. I bet she felt it would be easier to just let it slide. Which is a really bad idea. All sorts of bad conclusions could come out of finding out that your family got hospitalized after they took in someone that, as far as you knew, had no connection to them prior.

 

[Ikariniku]

It's somewhat amusing that, in her first appearance (Chapter 25), Kawashima-san tells her son not to call her so often. of course, this is in the context of him trying to get her to move into an elder care facility. However, Kawashima-san isn't completely innocent, either. She stubbornly refuses to move, and it's implied to be because this is the home she had with her deceased husband. So, Kawashima-san and her son are at loggerheads over her future. A very relatable position to be in within a family.
EDIT: Additionally, in the next chapter, Kawashima-san reports to her son that she feels better ("found something to look forward to") and wants to wait a while before entering a care home.

 

[Crystalball]

Tanuki trickery, huh?

 

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I dont know man, impersonating dude dead father to manipulate him.Time to get some tengu or maybe even random people to cook the tanuki or some shit.

 

[nljm]

Kawashima-san's husband passed away. I think that was mentioned a long time ago, but - I should probably have made a note since page 7 would be obvious to any Japanese person, but that's his photo at a little Buddhist shrine for him in her apartment. So definitely dead.

So this has gotta be (a spoiler!!!)

Ah thank you, i didnt know the rest beforehand

EDIT: Additionally, in the next chapter, Kawashima-san reports to her son that she feels better ("found something to look forward to") and wants to wait a while before entering a care home.

I was exactly thinking that, im glad that plotline was cleared up at this point but it made a brand new one lmao

If Mutsumi has thought about how to approach this, I can see it going well. If not...

Either way, it'll be a learning experience for her!

Thanks for the chapter - get better, Thumper!

Tanuki trickery, huh?

I dont know man, impersonating dude dead father to manipulate him.Time to get some tengu or maybe even random people to cook the tanuki or some shit.

Ngl i have like no idea whats her plan here
I think its rude but thats only because we know about it, to the son, it might as well seem like a supernatural experience

 

[henman]

Aha, so Mutsumi goes the way of trickster tanuki after all. Gonna mess things up. Shaking my head, those animals are uncorrigible...
That tanuki on p.5 is totally badass. But the text on a frame with him...I mean, Mutsumi is revealing a secret about her being a Tanuki. Kawashima's son looks like he can't see...plus text on previous and next frames doesn't mention their true nature at all, and after it her son doesn't act as if he'd learned about it...it all looks like her inner monologue...should it be in rectangles? I'm confused

 

[MilkDrinker]

Loving the in-depth lessons on Japanese culture in the credits page, as always. Thanks for the TLs!

 

[sarusa]

Aha, so Mutsumi goes the way of trickster tanuki after all. Gonna mess things up. Shaking my head, those animals are uncorrigible...
That tanuki on p.5 is totally badass. But the text on a frame with him...I mean, Mutsumi is revealing a secret about her being a Tanuki. Kawashima's son looks like he can't see...plus text on previous and next frames doesn't mention their true nature at all, and after it her son doesn't act as if he'd learned about it...it all looks like her inner monologue...should it be in rectangles? I'm confused

I agree that this whole thing was a little confusing. I re-read it at least six times to see if I'd missed something. So here's what I think is happening: the son doesn't 'see' the tanuki picture, he's just hearing what she's saying (which is kind of rambling) so as far as he knows she's just talking about some downtrodden Japanese human clan (like ragpickers). And what she's saying in a very roundabout way is that her 'clan' is used to being outcasts so they set up their society (tanuki, but son doesn't know that) to emphasize supporting each other over what outsiders think.

Mutsumi is kind of implying that all of them at the apartments are outcasts/outsiders who have banded together. She's not an outcast, but she's alone far from home. Goro is kind of an outcast from work (he's certainly not a normal salaryman), Kogane is away from her village, Yotsuyu is away from her home in the woods, Grandma Kawashima isn't living with her family, etc. So they'll stick together and take care of each other, because you won't take care of your Mom.

Just my read anyhow!

 

[Karamru]

While I agree with Mutsumi's sentiment, the son is ultimately right, and it's easy to hate on him for it but you can't force a person to move into a nursing home but to ask someone to stop whatever they're doing just to help is also not realistic but that might be just the naivety of Mutsumi talking who knows next to nothing of human culture and living conditions and is projecting her own morals onto the son.

And if she is using the man's dead father's image to trick him into agreeing with her, I would find that disgusting and morally repulsive to win an argument with something a person who can't defend himself against the supernatural.