100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death - Ch. 91 - Poltergeist

[Siklaws]

This one was pretty funny. I could bet that Drunk ghost dad and little girl mom were both episodes of "the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy".

Thanks for the translations!

 

[BakedBanana]

That plot twist actually got me dang. (Page 14)

 

[strawberrywarrior]

That's lowkey actually kinda funny. He got their dad a whole fuckin bottle of sake on obon so now his ghost is stumbling around doing poltergeist activity in a drunken haze. The horror-ish part is the knowledge that the dead do indeed return.

Somehow, I didn't read it as an abusive alcoholic dad, just that the older son had a strained relationship with his father, and the comment about reeking of alcohol being the same as their dad was simply a reference to how the guy soaked the grave with sake. "You can drink all you want" just came off to me as that the dad was an alcoholic trying to limit how much he imbibed. Not ideal, but also not the worst.

The ambiguity of the ghost story and the misleading panels is actually making me a bit apprehensive -- is there something big about Yuta and his family that we've misunderstood? Were we given the worst assumptions because of our limited perspective?

 

[UncannyLuck]

It could be, but then why it's in future tense? And it also says "my own death", implying someone else died before that.

Because we're the picture he was talking to, I guess? We (the mom) will finally die after the 100 ghost stories help her save her son.

 

[SleepyDemon]

...So it would've been better if he had actually pissed on the grave?

 

[fatto_catto]

Because we're the picture he was talking to, I guess? We (the mom) will finally die after the 100 ghost stories help her save her son.

But she's already dead, not hooked up to some life support in a state of limbo.

 

[ResidentialVisitor]

It occurs to me that if we were the mom the whole time, that the titular "my death" may not refer to Yuta.

People have been theorizing that the one that's scheduled to die in once all stories have been told would be Hina seeing as the manga is initially introduced from her perspective. We're lead to believe initially that it would be Yuuma on account of his initial attempt at suicide and that he's the one telling the stories, but it seems Yuuma's attempts have always been to reunite with his mother.

At this point it can be either one or both of the two that meet a grisly end, but my money is on "Hina" surviving and the manga ending with 101 Stories in which she retells Yuuma's story and gives him the Happy ending she hopes he obtained from all this.

 

[zawarudo]

That's lowkey actually kinda funny. He got their dad a whole fuckin bottle of sake on obon so now his ghost is stumbling around doing poltergeist activity in a drunken haze. The horror-ish part is the knowledge that the dead do indeed return.

Somehow, I didn't read it as an abusive alcoholic dad, just that the older son had a strained relationship with his father, and the comment about reeking of alcohol being the same as their dad was simply a reference to how the guy soaked the grave with sake. "You can drink all you want" just came off to me as that the dad was an alcoholic trying to limit how much he imbibed. Not ideal, but also not the worst.

The ambiguity of the ghost story and the misleading panels is actually making me a bit apprehensive -- is there something big about Yuta and his family that we've misunderstood? Were we given the worst assumptions because of our limited perspective?

I believe this is the case. Like I and some others have said multiple times in the comments for this manga, the two dead cops (both killed by mom's curse) both told stories that can be interpreted as "don't listen to Yuuma's bullshit because it's just one side of the story". If you take into account that they were telling those stories to the photo of Yuuma's mom as well, they might have been trying to tell her to stop killing/hurting people for Yuuma's sake before it's too late.

Yuuma's story itself this time around is very interesting. It might be the author's way of telling us that Yuuma didn't really expect mom to just kill/maim everyone and possess Hina but now he feels he can't do anything about it because he still misses mom a lot and would rather have her around despite all the negatives.

 

[Somelonelyguy000]

This story was kinda silly ngl

 

[flxsemi]

Damn, all this time it was all to bring his mom back? I thought it was the girl that vanished at the start.

 

[strawberrywarrior]

I believe this is the case. Like I and some others have said multiple times in the comments for this manga, the two dead cops (both killed by mom's curse) both told stories that can be interpreted as "don't listen to Yuuma's bullshit because it's just one side of the story". If you take into account that they were telling those stories to the photo of Yuuma's mom as well, they might have been trying to tell her to stop killing/hurting people for Yuuma's sake before it's too late.

Yuuma's story itself this time around is very interesting. It might be the author's way of telling us that Yuuma didn't really expect mom to just kill/maim everyone and possess Hina but now he feels he can't do anything about it because he still misses mom a lot and would rather have her around despite all the negatives.

Nice! I have NOT been keeping up with the comments, but clearly I should. Foreshadowing like that is really neat.

I was thinking a bigger twist - like maybe whatever entity Yuuma calls "mom" isn't actually his biological mother or legal guardian of any sort. And not in a "this entity is deceiving Yuuma" way. Just that the thing Yuuma calls mom has never been human in the first place.

(Strengthened by the story in the next chapter. Someone that was loss was returned. I expected it was the person who went missing. Turns out it was the zashiki-warashi itself.)

 

[hafizrosly]

The moment i realize all the poltergeist is just his dad ghost just being drunk. I laugh a bit.

Im sorry

 

[looc64]

Interesting that the other son didn't seem to view his dad as poorly (unless it's the "i remember things diff" or "one child wasn't mistreated"/never was around when the dad was drunk and lashing out or he was simply a toddler/too young to remember anything 'negative')

It could also be "you abandoned us and left us alone with him."

Like I think in some cases where an older sibling shields a younger sibling and maybe their other parent from an abusive parent the younger sibling doesn't fully understand how fucked up that is.

They don't get that their older sibling is also a kid and that they shouldn't be in that position in the first place, and they see the older sibling escaping the household as a betrayal.

 

[Tenc]

OMG THE PICTURE WAS OF HIS MOM WASN'T IT!??!?!?!!?!? THE WHOLE TIME, HE WAS TELLING STORIES TO HIS MOM!!!!!