Totsugi Okureta Kitsune ga Yome ni Kuru Hanashi - Ch. 160 - Don't Go There

[MangaDex]

 

[sarusa]

This is not the Final Battle, this is just Furutsubaki (at least from a quick flip through, I haven't actually read it).

And thanks to @Angry_Panda for putting up the Vol 10 cover image and (ironically) getting rid of Kanasaka and Furutsubaki cover.

Edit: And somehow I completely missed formatting the last bubble on page 4 and had a typo, fixed.

 

[Weebius]

Uh oh!

 

[GipoScribantino]

(Regarding the notes page at the end)
Hot take maybe, but I prefer to have "slower" updates and keep the intended cliffhangers from this new arc than reach the latest available original and have to actually wait for the author to draw and publish.

 

[Magneticmagnet]

Looks like Yotsuyu's protective services from chapter 124 are coming back sometime soon.

 

[xanon]

Your legs are ama~zing!!

I see Goro-mama is a woman of culture.

Looks like the gang is about to discover that some perennials are really hard to kill.

 

[Kaarme]

Poor Yotsuyu. She's only barely learning what a relationship is, yet will already be made a widow. She's a spider, so being a widow would suit her, but it's still sad.

 

[Mangamoz]

Oh shit, danger flower is back.

 

[Darkshade13]

Goro's mom still trying to angle her way into visiting the Kitsune village. The danger is real.

 

[Fushiginiku]

Obakeneko are Chinese? I had no idea.

 

[sarusa]

Obakeneko are Chinese? I had no idea.

It's Complicated.

Foxes are definitely Japanese natives, as are tanuki, even if China also had the idea of monster foxes. On the other hand, domestic cats were brought over from China to Japan around 500 AD, to help protect Buddhist scripts from being eaten by mice, and legends of monster cats came with them. Some might have been brought over earlier, and there was another big import of them later (1100ish), but at the very least normal domestic cats are not native Japanese.

To further complicate things there are two cats that are native to Japan, apparently holdouts from the last ice age, the Iriomote cat and Tsushima cat - but they never expanded beyond those islands and mainland Japan didn't really know about them. Iriomote's in Okinawa which is a separate (blended) culture, and Tsushima's a remote island half way to Korea. So anyhow, cats aren't considered Real Traditional Japanese, even if they're cute and fluffy and people love 'em.

So now I was curious as to what medium to large animals are 'real' Japanese, which in practice means anything there from late Yayaoi period (1000 BC) or earlier and besides those two cats, foxes, and tanuki, we've got bears, deer, hares, macaques, serow, wild boars, badgers, martens, stoats, and weasels. Lots of mustelids! There were two wolves (Japanese wolf and Hokkaido wolf), but they're extinct. And too many birds and marine animals to bother listing, plus those migrate.

So it's kind of like ramen which is technically Chinese, but the Japanese have changed it so much you could argue it's Japanese now even if some Japanese still call it Chinese food... Zanma could totally decide that 1500 years ago is plenty old for bakeneko to be Japanese enough, but on the other hand this might be why they haven't shown up at all.

 

[Karamru]

That was a sweet chapter, but that last page was one hell of a cliffhanger.

 

[FlameKingInferno]

0 to 100 real quick

 

[Angry_Panda]

Well this is a nice wholesome HOLY FUCKBALLS KILL IT WITH FIRE.

And thanks to @Angry_Panda for putting up the Vol 10 cover image and (ironically) getting rid of Kanasaka and Furutsubaki cover.

Contributor powers activate!

and besides those two cats, foxes, and tanuki, we've got bears, deer,

SHIKANOKO NOKONOKO KOSHITANTAN
SHIKANOKO NOKONOKO KOSHITANTAN
SHIKANOKO NOKONOKO KOSHITANTAN
SHIKANOKO NOKONOKO KOSHITANTAN

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[xanon]

...

To further complicate things there are two cats that are native to Japan, apparently holdouts from the last ice age, the Iriomote cat and Tsushima cat - but they never expanded beyond those islands and mainland Japan didn't really know about them...

How can mainland Japan not know about the Iriomote cat?! There was one in Azumanga Daioh, it was Sakaki's pet!

 

[finalm]

See? I told you you would regret not getting that big-ass SUV, Toda-kun .

 

[Fushiginiku]

It's Complicated.

Foxes are definitely Japanese natives, as are tanuki, even if China also had the idea of monster foxes. On the other hand, domestic cats were brought over from China to Japan around 500 AD, to help protect Buddhist scripts from being eaten by mice, and legends of monster cats came with them. Some might have been brought over earlier, and there was another big import of them later (1100ish), but at the very least normal domestic cats are not native Japanese.

To further complicate things there are two cats that are native to Japan, apparently holdouts from the last ice age, the Iriomote cat and Tsushima cat - but they never expanded beyond those islands and mainland Japan didn't really know about them. Iriomote's in Okinawa which is a separate (blended) culture, and Tsushima's a remote island half way to Korea. So anyhow, cats aren't considered Real Traditional Japanese, even if they're cute and fluffy and people love 'em.

So now I was curious as to what medium to large animals are 'real' Japanese, which in practice means anything there from late Yayaoi period (1000 BC) or earlier and besides those two cats, foxes, and tanuki, we've got bears, deer, hares, macaques, serow, wild boars, badgers, martens, stoats, and weasels. Lots of mustelids! There were two wolves (Japanese wolf and Hokkaido wolf), but they're extinct. And too many birds and marine animals to bother listing, plus those migrate.

So it's kind of like ramen which is technically Chinese, but the Japanese have changed it so much you could argue it's Japanese now even if some Japanese still call it Chinese food... Zanma could totally decide that 1500 years ago is plenty old for bakeneko to be Japanese enough, but on the other hand this might be why they haven't shown up at all.

Thanks for the awesome reply!

 

[ddulz]

Toda, get ze flammenwerfer!

 

[ikinetsu]

How many times must we teach you a lesson plant yokai?

 

[Jatopian]

Is she gonna kill him or just try to steal him away from Yotsuyu? I think the latter would be hard. He would miss Yotsuyu's specialty cicada tempura.

wdym cat yokai are an import... my cute twintails...