Magabanashi: Ghost Stories Spreading on Social Media - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - There are nine people...!

[MangaDex]

 

[nueee]

Ufufu

 

[Hitspark]

I'm not gonna lie. The whiplash of seeing what I assumed was a little boy grow up and turn out to be a woman hit me harder than the ghosts. Tomboys, man. Don't ever underestimate them.

 

[solamente]

quick notes here bcs the sparsity of this one is bothering me.

• "don't fall out" - how do you fall out of a bunk bed of that particular design? with wooden planks all around you? with context, sounds less like a precaution than an injunction
• the sanatorium beds were retained when it became a youth camp?
• eight, prosperous -> nine, ku (agony, torture?)
• there's the figure entering the room (feet seen) & the figure outside. can't tell whether they're different.
• theory: she's the ninth. leaving the bed to wake up her friend counts as falling out. this is why she doesn't have any primary school memories prior to this.
• what a weird roll-call. "is everyone from group c, all eight of you, here" with a collective response instead of reading out names.
• actually, no names in this story at all aside from "mako" her teacher and "kasamiyadai". less weird but still weird.
• the perspectives are weird. top bunk or bottom bunk? there are panels from both perspectives.

notes on this series so far

• test of courage in chs. 1, 2, 6 - all forestalled or cut short. weird!
• hauntings due to unresolved death in chs. 3, 4
• ch. 5 - last panel is just the four urinals. he chose the third. why?
• ch. 2 - "if you make eye contact with someone standing by the window ... you'll go blind" - ch. 5 has the person with duct tape over their eyes
• if there's some dumb numerology theme here then i will stop attempting to dissect this because i hate numerology and also numbers in general

 

[fight2live]

this is a different kind of childhood trauma

 

[welcome2atlantis]

This one looks like PTSD.
A friend died. And he tried to forget. Maybe.

 

[Sonaldo]

Okay yeah that weird kid next to his bed is surprisingly creepy as fuck. Had to turn on the lights while reading this. Best chapter so far

 

[MrMapache]

There are not many places to discuss this series and I wanted to discuss this chapter.
My theory is that this is a fake memory that she gained at the sanitorum, and there were orginally 9 kids and 1 died in the courage test. There are many things reinforced through the chapter.
There is an enfasis in there being 8 of them (the weird call from the profesor, 4 bunk beds so 8 beds, 2 panels showing all 8 of them, etc).
The courage test was called off for a weird reason, this seems like the lie to forget that there ever was a courage test.
The kids chant "there are 9 of us" while in a sleep talk. This might be what they told each other while in the sanitorum to not forget the dead kid.
And finally, MC wonders specifically in what she forgot.