"Ghost in the Abandoned House" - Oneshot

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A flower and a condom-wrapper... What exactly were she planning to do when the ghost showed up?!?
Y'know, I'm quite sure that was a cookie...


How in all the HELLS did you manage to confuse it for a condom is beyond me, but it does show me I've yet much more to learn.
 
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Y'know, I'm quite sure that was a cookie...


How in all the HELLS did you manage to confuse it for a condom is beyond me, but it does show me I've yet much more to learn.
Cookies are rarely square, even more rarely have a circle printed on them, and admittedly quite often is torn (crumbled*) apart in twain.

Although it's not apparent whether the circle is printed on, or if it is the condom lying ontop of torn wrapper (but the way tear is drawn on a layer above the circle, my guess is that it's a print).

And no, the square is clearly not a plate (if you thought it was a square plate with a circular cookie)). you even see that 2 edges are frilled, something common for wrappings but not plates. And the tear is drawn through the plate, in that case, but, plates are generally not split alongside the cookie it presents.

(Though most importantly, long-&black-haired older women in white one-pieces sitting on stained beds in downtrodden houses with sad smiles, is a very common way to draw/represent prostitutes in manga. Particularly if their first action is to invite physical contact of any kind)
 
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Cookies are rarely square, even more rarely have a circle printed on them, and admittedly quite often is torn (crumbled*) apart in twain.

Although it's not apparent whether the circle is printed on, or if it is the condom lying ontop of torn wrapper (but the way tear is drawn on a layer above the circle, my guess is that it's a print).

And no, the square is clearly not a plate (if you thought it was a square plate with a circular cookie)). you even see that 2 edges are frilled, something common for wrappings but not plates. And the tear is drawn through the plate, in that case, but, plates are generally not split alongside the cookie it presents.

(Though most importantly, long-&black-haired older women in white one-pieces sitting on stained beds in downtrodden houses with sad smiles, is a very common way to draw/represent prostitutes in manga. Particularly if their first action is to invite physical contact of any kind)
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That looks like an environmental murder-case...
Sadly I have heard of how that's reality in japan and somehow not a shitpost ;(

But yes, I suppose you might be correct that it can potentially be a condom-wrapper that had been used to package cookies instead, like in that image. Though it's a bit small (and I have no idea why anyone would carry a singular cookie of that size), but the environmental disregard is already at 0 anyway so it's not inconceivable.
 
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That looks like an environmental murder-case...
Sadly I have heard of how that's reality in japan and somehow not a shitpost ;(

But yes, I suppose you might be correct that it can potentially be a condom-wrapper that had been used to package cookies instead, like in that image. Though it's a bit small (and I have no idea why anyone would carry a singular cookie of that size), but the environmental disregard is already at 0 anyway so it's not inconceivable.
That's because that cookie is the size of a grown-man's fist.

It's likely that it's a senbei, a japanese cracker that about as large as a small plate, hence why they don't exactly pack them together: a cookie THAT big you only want to eat one.
 
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That's because that cookie is the size of a grown-man's fist.
I assume you mean the image you linked? Cause the circle in the manga was closer to having a diameter of the top half of ones thumb to maybe an inch (though I doubt it, but hard to say without anything near to compare scale to). (ps: I don't know how long an inch is, but I imagine it is what it says on the tin: the length of a thumb. meaning around 4-5 cm)
It's likely that it's a senbei, a japanese cracker that about as large as a small plate, hence why they don't exactly pack them together: a cookie THAT big you only want to eat one.
No. Japanese packaging is really that atrocious. If you ever tried watching youtubers try out japanese candy, you see them open a regular bag of candies, only to pour out tiny plastic bags each containing 1 tiny candy each.
 
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I feel like the beginning is a plot hole... who are the other kids talking to when mentioning of the abandoned house... are they talking to the ghost boy? Regardless of whether or not, why is he acting scared while searching knowing he's the mean ghost.

I guess for the sake of comic effect from the twist, but it's still a bit weird, even if he's acting in case someone would see him walking in. It was a 6/10 until that plot hole... now I think it deserves a 4/10. I don't know... I guess a 5/10.
 

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