Fear: Reiwa Ghost Story - Vol. 3 Ch. 21 - Sense of Detachment

[MangaDex]

 

[Madologist]

 

[Jatopian]

Each story in the series reflects modern anxieties

I'm not sure this story reflects anything, tbh.

 

[EchoGirl]

I'm not sure this story reflects anything, tbh.

I guess something about overly friendly relatives but it just seems more so of monsters getting prey or so.

 

[Spiraphobia]

I guess something about overly friendly relatives but it just seems more so of monsters getting prey or so.

This was made during COVID - so I guess it's about the importance of social distancing? 😅

 

[musicfreak12]

I guess it's just them fattening and observing their prey? Tbh it doesn't connect to anything, it's just "Oh they eat human now"

 

[jaaaace]

The anxiety is 2-fold

• personal space: it’s uncomfortable when people you barely know get so physically close but also all buddy-buddy with you. And it’s hard to speak out when they’re senior to you.
• food: family and in-laws can be overbearing in making you eat and this feels more acute for women. Like why do you want me to eat so much, I’m already full? Why are you making weird comments about my body? What is it to you?? Which then manifests into the horror that the “concern” is monstrous, because why else would this nosy bitch without personal boundaries keep insisting I eat her cooking

 

[SMAXZO]

"Oh..sorry honey...no, we're not eating you. You ever eat those popcicles and just suck the taste? Yeah, that's what we do..except the taste is fat. Why we go for the head? We tried from the stomach once and dad accidentally suck out stomach acid."

....if I was the one writing this.

 

[Pagemistress]

"Oh..sorry honey...no, we're not eating you. You ever eat those popcicles and just suck the taste? Yeah, that's what we do..except the taste is fat. Why we go for the head? We tried from the stomach once and dad accidentally suck out stomach acid."

....if I was the one writing this.

That sounds like an interesting premise for a comedy horror manga. She could just keep running into people in town that are kind of terrifying but what they do turns out not to be as bad as it first appears.

 

[KATCRX]

Ew, the real scare is those nasty unwashed hands!

 

[fight2live]

wtf

 

[3141592653589]

I'm not sure this story reflects anything, tbh.

It reflects the anxiety people feel about our modern industrialized food production systems.

Back in the day you could always count on incestuous cannibal clans to be one of the few remaining bastions of true artisanal cuisine, preparing Michelin-grade long pork sashimi and Donner kebabs out of only the most carefully selected ingredients. Nowadays they've grown just as addicted to pre-prepared meals as the rest of us; their curatorial zeal for their raw materials and their fastidious attention to the minutia of the culinary arts is gone and when they start feeling a mite peckish they grab the nearest in-law, dislocate their jaw, and go to town just like the rest of us lazy slobs.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Huh, I thought it was just weird feeder family but they eat their fattened up victims too?

 

[SaucyJack]

Quagmire toilet

 

[ElP45]

Liposuction family, creepy!~~~

 

[Vainfire]

The anxiety is 2-fold

• personal space: it’s uncomfortable when people you barely know get so physically close but also all buddy-buddy with you. And it’s hard to speak out when they’re senior to you.
• food: family and in-laws can be overbearing in making you eat and this feels more acute for women. Like why do you want me to eat so much, I’m already full? Why are you making weird comments about my body? What is it to you?? Which then manifests into the horror that the “concern” is monstrous, because why else would this nosy bitch without personal boundaries keep insisting I eat her cooking

Good analysis!

I'd also like to point out the juxtaposition with an overweight space-hogger on the train in the intro, as well as the framing of this happening during COVID times. Both of these are additional sources of anxiety for the idea of violating personal space, with the space-hogger in particular kind of a summation of the entire story (someone pushing into your personal space against your will, not even realizing they're at fault, combined with the idea of overfeeding).

 

[zawarudo]

gemerald tbh

 

[Arexty]

When her BF's fam were asking her over for dinner I don't think this is what she had in mind.