Meido Daigaku Genzou Seminar - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - FILE 2: Mother River Mystery ①

[MangaDex]

 

[Oeconomist]

Ooooo. I don't have an explanation; I don't even have a description; but I've given it a naaaaame! Isn't that scaaaaary?!?

Nope. It's asinine.

 

[SMAXZO]

"If you're asking me to around Japan finding and capturing ghosts, feeding the strongest to be your servant to fight some eldritch horror.....I'm out of here"

 

[Vainfire]

Ehh... not really getting anything special from this one. It's an okay execution but a really weak story so far. And even the execution isn't fantastic? The shock panels aren't shocking enough to rely on that, the tone isn't tense enough to build up to a reveal, and the plot doesn't have particularly interesting stakes.

It's weird, because I can actually pick out several individual elements that are high-quality: the design of the monster is rather unique, I like the babbling and the idea of being a kid in a car as your parents are hypnotized into driving off a bridge. But none of it coheres in a horrifying way?

Maybe it's the fact that the parents are making ahegao faces like someone's giving them a baby bump.

 

[Skullkrusher]

Ehh... not really getting anything special from this one. It's an okay execution but a really weak story so far. And even the execution isn't fantastic? The shock panels aren't shocking enough to rely on that, the tone isn't tense enough to build up to a reveal, and the plot doesn't have particularly interesting stakes.

It's weird, because I can actually pick out several individual elements that are high-quality: the design of the monster is rather unique, I like the babbling and the idea of being a kid in a car as your parents are hypnotized into driving off a bridge. But none of it coheres in a horrifying way?

Maybe it's the fact that the parents are making ahegao faces like someone's giving them a baby bump.

I think that because there's no buildup, it feels random. You're driving along, on the same road you've taken many times before for your monthly family dinner, when suddenly a titanic ghost randomly appears this time and kills everyone you love. Other stories that do things better have buildup and dread slowly established beforehand. If you want a good example of "Loved one dead in present, flashback years ago to how things started" then look up "Nikubami Honegishimi" or "Hanging Town Shinomiya Shrine" and compare how they use buildup and dread to set up their ghosts.

 

[looc64]

I think that because there's no buildup, it feels random. You're driving along, on the same road you've taken many times before for your monthly family dinner, when suddenly a titanic ghost randomly appears this time and kills everyone you love. Other stories that do things better have buildup and dread slowly established beforehand. If you want a good example of "Loved one dead in present, flashback years ago to how things started" then look up "Nikubami Honegishimi" or "Hanging Town Shinomiya Shrine" and compare how they use buildup and dread to set up their ghosts.

I was thinking, in "Nikubami Honegishimi" the lore and mysteries and whatnot are all sorta layered together from the get-go so you sorta feel like you're peeking into a world that's actively going.

Also now that I think about it the scenes are cut a lot differently. Like I think Nikubami Honegishimi would have cut away right after we saw the corpse not cremating properly and then switched to a different time or skipped to after they figured out what to do with the corpse.

Because "freaky corpse -> everyone in a different place looking kind of frazzled discussing what just happened" feels creepier than, "freaky corpse -> everyone's in the moment reactions."

 

[Solid_Wind_6398]

I liked the first chapter. I will have to wait around to see.

I think that because there's no buildup

I assume that's because this chapter is the buildup, not the climax. The next stories should be building up on this one phantom or related one until we get to whatever it was that healed the doc's daughter and what that one guy stole on chapter 1. I assume so, anyway. Hard to say anything before some more chapters.