Osore: Reiwa Kaidan - Vol. 5 Ch. 47 - Electric Scooter

[MangaDex]

 

[EchoGirl]

i've seen some electric scooters down town, they're heavy. shame they don't work manually without the app just in case of emergencies lol

at least she's ok? unless that being gets revenge for her knocking over the memorial(?) flower vase

 

[Arexty]

Scooter-based horror chase sequences like this remind me of Robot Carnival's Chicken Man and Red Neck feature:

 

[SMAXZO]

Ghost face: Hey, make sure you send that pic..those scooters cost me money!

 

[Gunlord500]

I was SPOOKED

 

[Mister_S]

As long as it keeps people from leaving them on the middle of the sidewalk.

 

[strawberrywarrior]

The flower vase she knocked over from the sidewalk is a memorial to someone who died in that area - likely from a scooter-related accident since the police officer cited loosened regulations and an increase in scooter incidents.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Kinda dumb to put the vase that much in the way and then complain that it got knocked over.
Japanese Ghosts really behave like Karen's, aren't they?

 

[Vainfire]

Kinda dumb to put the vase that much in the way and then complain that it got knocked over.
Japanese Ghosts really behave like Karen's, aren't they?

A ghost story of this sort has two parts: a sin, and a punishment. Sometimes the sin can be absurdly small, such as accidentally knocking over a flower vase on the sidewalk, or failing to listen to an old woman's ramblings. It doesn't really matter, since the audience is only interested in voyeurism of the thrilling punishment, buttressed by the slim feeling that you would be safe were you in the same scenario. Perhaps at one time we told these stories as warnings to avoid transgressive actions, but certainly the main point of them now is the blood.

I think despite not being a ghost story, Funny Games (2007) exemplifies and examines this sort of structure. I'd also point to Otherside Picnic's treatment of the ghost story: they're not punishments, you didn't do anything truly wrong... you just got unlucky, as though you were caught in a natural disaster.

 

[fight2live]

usually when a ghost story involves someone who died of vehicle accidents, we'd see the ghost haunting the place of accidents. it's rare to see a ghost haunting the actual vehicle

 

[strawberrywarrior]

Kinda dumb to put the vase that much in the way and then complain that it got knocked over.
Japanese Ghosts really behave like Karen's, aren't they?

LMAO tbf, the ghost didn't put it there, but whoever was mourning them. A ghost haunting the guy who set up their memorial this carelessly would be an interesting story, though I think it already echoes all those stories of ghosts being stuck on earth because of improper funerary rites.

usually when a ghost story involves someone who died of vehicle accidents, we'd see the ghost haunting the place of accidents. it's rare to see a ghost haunting the actual vehicle

OOooo perhaps because it's vehicle-borrowing service? So it haunts the scooters / scooter stations / app instead?