Onigashima kara Hajimaru Momotaro Densetsu - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[Nissedood]

You dont throw babies down mountains because the only thing it ever do is kickstart revenge stories that will end your life. :V

 

[shadowtempestdemon]

So, that's the kid, right? Getting his revenge for his mother? or was she reincarnated... Is this based on anything? It feels like it is.

 

[Nissedood]

So, that's the kid, right? Getting his revenge for his mother? or was she reincarnated... Is this based on anything? It feels like it is.

Probably not based on anything.
Pretty sure its he survives the fall, gets raised by those 3 animals and then goes for revenge.

 

[kodumen]

I like it. Thanks for translating.

 

[NhifanHafizh]

Probably not based on anything.

it's Momotaro with no peaches

 

[yamiyugi101]

Anyone else reminded of hiei from yu yu hakusho

 

[Ares19373]

Japaneses moses lol

 

[Hitspark]

Japaneses moses lol

I mean...I guess in a sense?

Moses: Came back for his people.

Momotaro: Came back for his people.

 

[waalex11]

Ridiculously simple exaggerated unoriginal story.
How would that baby survive or know about his mother anyway, lol.

 

[Pouco-chan]

Brutal. Well all versions of Momotaro are welcome, including the not least, yaoi version (but that hybrid Momotaro one is good too)~

 

[Zero00_X]

Ridiculously simple exaggerated unoriginal story.
How would that baby survive or know about his mother anyway, lol.

Based on legend but possible options are perfect/photographic memory, his adopted parents hated or killed by demons, or etc

 

[Walter_vi_Britannia]

Ridiculously simple exaggerated unoriginal story.
How would that baby survive or know about his mother anyway, lol.

Well, he's half ogre so maybe he's just built different, trees and bushes can break the fall a tiny bit. And the original Momotaro story had him flow down a river so he probably fell into a river here. He also has animal companions, maybe one of them caught him and raised him. The surviving thing can be explained in many ways because its a fantasy story.

And about the revenge thing. We don't really know if he is there for revenge. The ogres eat humans, so he might as well be doing it for the peace of the humans or getting revenge for humans he was close to. He definitely had connection to some sort of civilization judging by his outfit and weapon. Either way, the story is that the ogre leader got karmaed. His wrongdoings came back to bite him, and in his dying moments he realized that through Momotaro's eyes.

You're finding faults because for some reason you decided to believe this is a revenge story when the story never explicitly stated that. The story is even from the PoV of the bad guy so its even more likely to be just about receiving his just deserts, the fruits of the seed he planted. Its not about Momotaro or revenge at all. And we all know the original Momotaro story, at least Japanese people do and this manga is originally meant for Japanese consumers. So just fill in the gaps with the real story and it makes enough sense. He was found by an old couple and grew up to slay ogres.

 

[Ares19373]

I mean...I guess in a sense?

Moses: Came back for his people.

Momotaro: Came back for his people.

Im more refering of baby that rides the river. But i think this works better.

 

[ramfall]

So, that's the kid, right? Getting his revenge for his mother? or was she reincarnated... Is this based on anything? It feels like it is.

You can see the scar on his eye, it's the baby

 

[BCS]

Anyone else reminded of hiei from yu yu hakusho

I was reminded of Mai-chan's Daily Life

 

[yamiyugi101]

I was reminded of Mai-chan's Daily Life

Haven't read it but heard of it

 

[OmegaDragon]

Deym, alt story of momotaro

 

[Pokari]

Ridiculously simple exaggerated unoriginal story.
How would that baby survive or know about his mother anyway, lol.

The basic Momotarou essentially goes that the oni are just kind of harassing everywhere on the mainland (though that specific addition to the folktale is actually possibly from war-period propaganda—before that it was just sort of assumed "killing oni is cool 'cuz they're bad, yay"—but the version where the oni are wreaking havoc has stuck around at this point) and so the mysterious Momotarou who had arrived floating down a river in a peach (not an oni in the original, but supernatural in unexplained ways), raised by his adoptive human parents, goes to Onigashima to slay them.

That is to say: The imagined prelude here would add a heavy element of dramatic irony, and/or suggest a "fated battle" trope of some sort—but it doesn't necessarily provide Momotaro's motive, which would presumably instead still come from the raiding the gang here would do in the intervening period.

(How he ends up in a peach is still left to the reader's imagination, one supposes.)

 

[Aireael]

The basic Momotarou essentially goes that the oni are just kind of harassing everywhere on the mainland (though that specific addition to the folktale is actually possibly from war-period propaganda—before that it was just sort of assumed "killing oni is cool 'cuz they're bad, yay"—but the version where the oni are wreaking havoc has stuck around at this point) and so the mysterious Momotarou who had arrived floating down a river in a peach (not an oni in the original, but supernatural in unexplained ways), raised by his adoptive human parents, goes to Onigashima to slay them.

That is to say: The imagined prelude here would add a heavy element of dramatic irony, and/or suggest a "fated battle" trope of some sort—but it doesn't necessarily provide Momotaro's motive, which would presumably instead still come from the raiding the gang here would do in the intervening period.

(How he ends up in a peach is still left to the reader's imagination, one supposes.)

The peach could just be some sort of oni magic or the gods, wanting him to kill the oni in the future, magically put him in a peach to safely sail down the river.

I mean it doesn't have to make that much sense. This is the same mythology where a random bamboo farmer finds the princess of the moon as a palm sized baby in a bamboo sprout.