Magabanashi: Ghost Stories Spreading on Social Media - Vol. 2 Ch. 15 - The Man Who Sells Photos

[MangaDex]

 

[ReGats]

I don't think the Photo Seller is a bad person? Yeah, taking advantage of kids to earn some pennies is fairly bad, but he might be (or might have been) warning them of something?

 

[Hitspark]

This guy is living in the past. If he wants to sell haunted pictures they should be of Ghost Feet, he'd be swimming in money.

 

[BakedBanana]

"Isn't there a brave soul among us?" (Page 5)

Among us?

 

[twincubus]

guess we will never know if that was a prophecy or a curse

 

[SaucyJack]

Among us?

 

[EchoGirl]

Serial killer? Sensei plot twist hm, I feel bad for the wife/kid

Tho , “convenience” aside other than getting rid of “bad kids” no one would miss/care about it’d prolly put more suspicion of one were to hurt /kidnap a kid within the school you work at versus a diff city, cram schools aside

This guy is living in the past. If he wants to sell haunted pictures they should be of Ghost Feet, he'd be swimming in money.

Japanese ghosts don’t have feet apparently tho lol

guess we will never know if that was a prophecy or a curse

I don't think we got hints of other bad things happening but depends on if we see him again versus it just being a one off/if the original story this got adapted from had some darker things to it

 

[Hitspark]

Japanese ghosts don’t have feet apparently tho lol

Dang, he's gotta look for some foreigner ghosts then

 

[EchoGirl]

Dang, he's gotta look for some foreigner ghosts then

i mean he doesn't even have to go the supernatural route, tho i mean considering he's only offering it to kids, that might be weird as opposed to beach photos and showing it to like high schoolers or so

 

[Hitspark]

i mean he doesn't even have to go the supernatural route, tho i mean considering he's only offering it to kids, that might be weird as opposed to beach photos and showing it to like high schoolers or so

Capitalize on the market eggs before it hatches, I like your style!

 

[fight2live]

bad omen?

 

[friendly]

I think the most chilling part of this story, to me, is the sense that the photo ojiisan might have protected these kids from something.....

 

[Arexty]

Honestly the prices he charged the kids were a deal. I was afraid one of the kids was going to steal one of the photos before it was burned and trigger something awful happening. You couldn't get away with this sort of story if it weren't a flashback from the narrator as modern kids would all presume the photos were photshopped or AI-generated. Thanks for the chapter.

 

[SMAXZO]

"Hey kids..wanna buy some......CURSED PHOTOS?"
Sounds like those drug dealers you see in 80's cartoons.

 

[ResidentialVisitor]

I don't think the Photo Seller is a bad person? Yeah, taking advantage of kids to earn some pennies is fairly bad, but he might be (or might have been) warning them of something?

Pretty sure the Photoseller doesn't take money from kids for any monetary reasons considering he's a Ghost/Supernatural. Seems the money is a "requirement" which is why he says,"We'll just say you paid 10,000 yen" instead of explicitly stating she doesn't need to.

We're left with a lot of questions in regards to the Photoseller and sensei Kanamori, but I believe that the Photoseller is a cursed entity and Kanamori is his victim. Sensei seemed more concerned about money being circulated than the kids running into the man or even what they may see. It's fine to run into or met the man but they "must not give him money". Of course in the end it didn't matter since Photoseller 'gets the money'. Through taking the photo he has turned Kanamori into 'Master of the Haunted House'. Once his picture is bought and observed the subject expires, and maybe attempting to avoid that outcome Kanamori takes his wife and child and flees but curses can't be escaped.

Alternatively, Kanamori could already be possessed / cursed by the house itself and the reason PS shows the picture to the kids is because he's set to die soon in the accident so the picture will no longer have any value. Probably this latter idea, but it was a bit curious that the last time we see both Sensei and PS they're both wearing the same smile.

 

[Yuyu_yusha]

It reminds me of one quite well known site back in 2005-ish which showing ghost photos or just simply ectoplasm photo. Most of us believed the ghost in the photos were real, but after one of my friend just blurted out: "that just a photo of cigarette smoke!" The hype gradually went down and site was taken down not too long after.
Yeah, you can't make a logic of supernatural thing i guess. Like that's the charm of it. But, sometimes making sense of supernatural thing is the best thing to do.
It reminds me of a couple of supernatural hoax photos that came up at the same years, people weaponized it for religious fearmongering. The two photos that i still clearly remember were:
1. A photo of a very ugly man with cone head. The story went that man cursed for rebelling against his parent. Years later after i joined Biology department in university, i realized that stupid photo is just the face of manta ray skeletons.
2. A disturbing photo of woman-dog chimera with hunched body. They story went similar to the first one. She rebelled against her mother and desecrated holy scripture. She was cursed to be a dog as her punishment. Turned out it just a photo of deformed Saluki or Borzoi dog. Those dog breed kinda creepy to me tho, like their face kinda has human like feature.
Moral of the story is you can believe about ghost photo and the existence of a ghost but take it with a grain of salt. I believe ghost exist, but i also belive they are ton of scumbags out there who use the supernatural for their own pocket money.

 

[fennec]

Seems like Kanamori knew he'd be in the photo. I wonder what else the 500 yen interior photos would have shown...