The Tongue-taker returns...
This seems to be a loose sequel to
Ch. 194 in which another Granny warns a kid about the Tongue-taker.
Interestingly, this chapter here seems to take place only 2 years later in 1983 in Muroran City (only 131 km south of the infamous Sapporo) in Hokkaido, compared to the previous/original Tongue-taker incident reported in 1981 in Chiba City much further south on the main island of Honshu, east of Tokyo. I wonder if the geographic or temporal difference between the two incidents might have something to do with the vast differences in their respective portrayals
(whether they are part of the same class of entity, evolutions, or variations).
Further, in
Ch. 264 - Tongue-taken another possibly related phenomena occurs again with a different appearance to the entity assuming control of the victim's tongue function without physically removing it and this one occurred in 2008 with no specific location reported.