Hen na E - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Picture of a Woman Standing in the Wind
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- KURIHARA!
- Just uploading the first chapter for now. For work/personal reasons, don't know how frequent uploads will be.
- I won't talk too much about the plot until translation's caught up with the current release, which is vol. 3 at this time. Don't want to spoil anything, inadvertently or otherwise.
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Horror?
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No, just mystery
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it's going to be marked as related to the other one, right?
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Internet based mystery is a bit goofy to take it seriously but lets see.
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Interested in seeing how the mystery pans out especially since I love the other series
So the order of the pictures going by number is
1. Baby 2. Praying Old Woman 3. Woman with windblown hair 4. Kid with bag 5. Man who looks like father?
By order of production
1. Baby 2. Kid with Bag 3. Woman with windblown hair 4. Man who looks like father? 5. Praying Old Woman
Edit: Post re-read notes of things I think may be leads or hints.
Most of the pictures she makes she also leaves a quote with it.
In order of the pictures production, with the number of the picture
1."Because this child is our Santa" 4. "Diagram of a future prediction" + "It's a secret" regarding the numbers 3. no quote 5. "He looks just like daddy" 2. "Calm Down" (Probably not gonna be relevant)
She also leaves an unquoted comment on the day after the final picture indicating she won't be making anymore pictures.
Random notes
-3 of the pictures are pointed out as secrets
-3 year gap between wife death post and final blog post (Kid could look like kid in picture)
-She's 6 years older than him
-MC notes naming someone Sakura in fall is kinda dumb
-The final prenatal check up post is on on 8/17 but the Maternity Blues post is on 9/03 afterwards she starts making the drawings
-The numbers aren't all placed in the corner for the photos and isn't consistent where the are placed?
-Ren's interpretation of the drawings are probably all wrong (cause he dumb)
-Santa gives gifts and is not a gift
-The pictures distinctly have colour
-The Baby picture and the woman picture both wear red clothes.
-The Kid and the Man both have similar haircuts, and similar colours in their clothes. Eg. Green bag/Green jacket, Blue pants/shorts, Grey shoes
-Praying old lady is wearing white and of course praying both things are noted by MC (Which is a funerary clothing colour in Japan?)
-The old lady photo is distinctly not oriented the same way as the others on the final panel
-The picture of the lady with the windblown hair can also be the woman laying on her back with the hair hanging down? if orientated like picture 2
-Baby picture can also be orientated on the side and make sense so maybe 1 2 3 are a set (Kinda meta but chapter 2 is also called optical illusion so I'm assuming the somehow form a optical illusion together)
Edit 2: after some more staring the picture of the kid and the father I have a theory that I think has to be right
The boys hand is like kinda weirdly drawn if he's just walking (or maybe he just slays like that). So following the logic that 123 is the set containing the secret Ren the father found, 4 and 5 will probably also be a set. If you set 4 and 5 next to each other then I think you would probably have a picture of a kid holding the hand of the man. The position of the numbers additionally have the boys on the left and the mans on the right, meaning the positions of the numbers probably determine the orientation for the illusion (although it does clash with my theory on the lady with the windblown hair laying down).
Edit 3: after some sleep
Realized that the woman and the baby aren't actually wearing same colour clothes, only similar, but the woman and the pillow are actually the same colour. So I think the pillow is actually the woman's body ala preggers, meaning the red hat is a birth canal. This positions the baby in a birth canal in the same breach position as the actual baby. So part of set 123 is going to be the woman giving birth, but I have no idea how this would indicate some sort of crime or how the praying granny factors into it.
Wish there were other theorizing posts I could crimp some insights from. But I'm more getting the vibe everyone already read the book.
I'm excited for all these things to be irrelevant
So the order of the pictures going by number is
1. Baby 2. Praying Old Woman 3. Woman with windblown hair 4. Kid with bag 5. Man who looks like father?
By order of production
1. Baby 2. Kid with Bag 3. Woman with windblown hair 4. Man who looks like father? 5. Praying Old Woman
Edit: Post re-read notes of things I think may be leads or hints.
Most of the pictures she makes she also leaves a quote with it.
In order of the pictures production, with the number of the picture
1."Because this child is our Santa" 4. "Diagram of a future prediction" + "It's a secret" regarding the numbers 3. no quote 5. "He looks just like daddy" 2. "Calm Down" (Probably not gonna be relevant)
She also leaves an unquoted comment on the day after the final picture indicating she won't be making anymore pictures.
Random notes
-3 of the pictures are pointed out as secrets
-3 year gap between wife death post and final blog post (Kid could look like kid in picture)
-She's 6 years older than him
-MC notes naming someone Sakura in fall is kinda dumb
-The final prenatal check up post is on on 8/17 but the Maternity Blues post is on 9/03 afterwards she starts making the drawings
-The numbers aren't all placed in the corner for the photos and isn't consistent where the are placed?
-Ren's interpretation of the drawings are probably all wrong (cause he dumb)
-Santa gives gifts and is not a gift
-The pictures distinctly have colour
-The Baby picture and the woman picture both wear red clothes.
-The Kid and the Man both have similar haircuts, and similar colours in their clothes. Eg. Green bag/Green jacket, Blue pants/shorts, Grey shoes
-Praying old lady is wearing white and of course praying both things are noted by MC (Which is a funerary clothing colour in Japan?)
-The old lady photo is distinctly not oriented the same way as the others on the final panel
-The picture of the lady with the windblown hair can also be the woman laying on her back with the hair hanging down? if orientated like picture 2
-Baby picture can also be orientated on the side and make sense so maybe 1 2 3 are a set (Kinda meta but chapter 2 is also called optical illusion so I'm assuming the somehow form a optical illusion together)
Edit 2: after some more staring the picture of the kid and the father I have a theory that I think has to be right
The boys hand is like kinda weirdly drawn if he's just walking (or maybe he just slays like that). So following the logic that 123 is the set containing the secret Ren the father found, 4 and 5 will probably also be a set. If you set 4 and 5 next to each other then I think you would probably have a picture of a kid holding the hand of the man. The position of the numbers additionally have the boys on the left and the mans on the right, meaning the positions of the numbers probably determine the orientation for the illusion (although it does clash with my theory on the lady with the windblown hair laying down).
Edit 3: after some sleep
Realized that the woman and the baby aren't actually wearing same colour clothes, only similar, but the woman and the pillow are actually the same colour. So I think the pillow is actually the woman's body ala preggers, meaning the red hat is a birth canal. This positions the baby in a birth canal in the same breach position as the actual baby. So part of set 123 is going to be the woman giving birth, but I have no idea how this would indicate some sort of crime or how the praying granny factors into it.
Wish there were other theorizing posts I could crimp some insights from. But I'm more getting the vibe everyone already read the book.
I'm excited for all these things to be irrelevant
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Ah, I think I might have figured it out. Yuki knew she was going to die from childbirth complications. As Zreth pointed out, if you look at the baby picture again it looks more like the baby is coming out of a birth canal, even in the breach position, instead of wearing a hat.
But then the baby's outfit was bothering me. Looking at it a few times, I was hit with the thought that it was supposed to be blood. Yuki's blood. But that shouldn't be that bad for a vaginal birth.
So then I looked at the old woman a few times. I suddenly recalled that Ren said their midwife, the one who kept reassuring them, was a veteran midwife. This picture, then, might be that midwife distraught that the situation is so much worse than she realized.
That's when I realized it.
It was a C-section. The reason for the pillow that Zreth said represented the belly and the baby's position compared to it is that they had to cut it out. Whether only from the breach position, or perhaps Yuki's age. We know she is six years older, but we don't know how old Ren is, so there is a chance she is past the age where all pregnancies are considered high-risk. And that age is, unfortunately, lower than one would think, starting in the mid to late 30s, according to internet research.
This even explains the picture of the woman who is obviously Yuki. Note the pink coloring. White is the normal clothing color for mourning and, I believe, for the body to be dressed in. And that dress is stained pink with blood.
What Ren realized was that Yuki knew she was going to die, and never once told him. She let him be hopeful of a future as a family of three, and never told him. She left him hints and didn't correct his mistaken assumptions, and let him think it just happened when she had made peace with it before it happened. Perhaps she even requested the C-section despite the risk because the baby, to her, deserved to live.
And the reason for that is simple. To not blame the baby. That's the reason for the fourth and fifth pictures. To show him the future where, even without her, he and their child are a happy family. That things would be okay. This may even be why Ren finally realized the truth. Perhaps the two of them were mimicking the scene without knowing and he looked at the picture later, or the child asked how mommy knew what they would be wearing.
Ren can't forgive herself for not telling him, for deciding to put the baby before herself without ever letting him know it was a choice. But he will continue to love her, because Yuki also made sure he only saw the baby as their child and not her killer.
That's my theory, at least.
But then the baby's outfit was bothering me. Looking at it a few times, I was hit with the thought that it was supposed to be blood. Yuki's blood. But that shouldn't be that bad for a vaginal birth.
So then I looked at the old woman a few times. I suddenly recalled that Ren said their midwife, the one who kept reassuring them, was a veteran midwife. This picture, then, might be that midwife distraught that the situation is so much worse than she realized.
That's when I realized it.
It was a C-section. The reason for the pillow that Zreth said represented the belly and the baby's position compared to it is that they had to cut it out. Whether only from the breach position, or perhaps Yuki's age. We know she is six years older, but we don't know how old Ren is, so there is a chance she is past the age where all pregnancies are considered high-risk. And that age is, unfortunately, lower than one would think, starting in the mid to late 30s, according to internet research.
This even explains the picture of the woman who is obviously Yuki. Note the pink coloring. White is the normal clothing color for mourning and, I believe, for the body to be dressed in. And that dress is stained pink with blood.
What Ren realized was that Yuki knew she was going to die, and never once told him. She let him be hopeful of a future as a family of three, and never told him. She left him hints and didn't correct his mistaken assumptions, and let him think it just happened when she had made peace with it before it happened. Perhaps she even requested the C-section despite the risk because the baby, to her, deserved to live.
And the reason for that is simple. To not blame the baby. That's the reason for the fourth and fifth pictures. To show him the future where, even without her, he and their child are a happy family. That things would be okay. This may even be why Ren finally realized the truth. Perhaps the two of them were mimicking the scene without knowing and he looked at the picture later, or the child asked how mommy knew what they would be wearing.
Ren can't forgive herself for not telling him, for deciding to put the baby before herself without ever letting him know it was a choice. But he will continue to love her, because Yuki also made sure he only saw the baby as their child and not her killer.
That's my theory, at least.
So, a correction was made to a couple pages. Given context from later chapters, I think I misinterpreted the part where the blog talks about crimes. It talked about the "amount" of crime, and I took that to mean "number" of crimes. But actually, it seems to be talking about the "severity" of a crime.
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I think your theory might be it, the c-section / age part I think are very strong support for her knowing she would die. Also, the change from number of crimes to enormity also helps a lot, since I was prior thinking under the impression that she actually had to have committed some sort wronging. Great theory excited to see if we are right or even close.
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Interesting how similar this name is to the other series
I mean, i would consider parental abuse a form of horror, but yeah, tho i dunno how many mysteries avoid 'creepy' vibes versus it being like a 'crime drama' that doesn't necessarily overlap with horror
i know 'art therapy' is a thing and all that but i wonder if ppl read into ppl's drawings of un-traumatized kids. if not it ending up not helping
I mean, i would consider parental abuse a form of horror, but yeah, tho i dunno how many mysteries avoid 'creepy' vibes versus it being like a 'crime drama' that doesn't necessarily overlap with horror
i know 'art therapy' is a thing and all that but i wonder if ppl read into ppl's drawings of un-traumatized kids. if not it ending up not helping
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