Osore: Reiwa Kaidan - Vol. 5 Ch. 49 - Bento

[MangaDex]

 

[Skullkrusher]

The punishment for creating bad publicity for a corpo is death and soul annihilation. Know your place, peasant.

 

[Gunlord500]

2spooky

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

man, even the ghost participate in shrinkflation now.
You are dead! You really don't need to scam people anymore!

 

[EchoGirl]

false bottoms aside surely it'd be like "300 calories/25 grams of x" or whatever

revenge/target of the ghost?

 

[SMAXZO]

"Say my art is crap, huh? I'll fix her!"

 

[OnePoundStrongberry]

What if your bento had a bulge in it?

 

[3141592653589]

Possibility the first: the ghost is anti-social media. It doesn't kill you for seeing the picture, it kills you for posting about it on Twitter.

Possibility the second: the ghost is an IP troll. Creating unauthorized reproductions of its copyrighted artwork gets it to come after you with its army of ghost lawyers and people end up killing themselves rather than pay up after being sent through the ringer in Ghost Court.

 

[Skullkrusher]

Possibility the first: the ghost is anti-social media. It doesn't kill you for seeing the picture, it kills you for posting about it on Twitter.

I think it kills anyone who digs too deep. The average person will look at the false bottom, lament it for a few seconds, and then ultimately accept their lot, like a good little consoomer. But some will not accept their lot. They will take it a step further and investigate. These types are a threat to the corpo's profit margin. So they put a little trap. You complain about it online (because that's the only place you can), it triggers the corpo's ghost hound to hunt down and silence you permanently. Threat eliminated. Profit margin secured. And who would believe a corpo having a ghost on staff nowadays?

 

[Arexty]

This is why you stick to the take-and-bake pizzas.

 

[EchoGirl]

This is why you stick to the take-and-bake pizzas.

i've heard the pizza in jp isn't that great, or at least, the few acquaintances i know who went to jp for work or tourism said they didn't like it as much , tho i'm sure the pizza buns at the JP 711s might be good

 

[Vainfire]

I like the ending on this one. It leaves the conclusion pretty up the air, lets you draw your own conclusions about what happened during and after the fade to black. I liked it when The Sopranos did it, I always interpreted that ending as being a sort of commentary on the inevitability of Tony's death: it doesn't matter who does it, or when, or how. So long as he's in that life he'll always be looking over his shoulder. Similar here: it doesn't matter who's at the door, really... she'll spend the rest of her days second-guessing every doorbell.

Something else I'd point out here is the lack of the "sin-punishment" cycle. In stories like these, ghost hauntings are "punishments" for past karmic "sins". The comments here are sort of trying to reinstate that order by positioning the ghost as a corporate stooge, or that the woman's sin was looking too deeply into things. I think that in this case, it was more like a natural disaster... she got caught in bad weather, that's all it ever was.

 

[Skullkrusher]

I think that in this case, it was more like a natural disaster... she got caught in bad weather, that's all it ever was.

Normally you'd have a point with these kinds of stories, but in this case it was explicitly NOT random. This time, there is a clear and reproducible pattern.

1) Investigate the false bottom of the bowl.
2) Discover the image.
3) Post the image on twatter, thus bringing attention to it.
4) Get annihilated from existence exactly 3 days later by something that relentlessly hunts you down and destroys you and everything in your local area.

Other inquisitive people followed this exact set of steps, and reproduced the exact same result - death. Note what the corpo rep even said on page 5, "Please wait to hear back from us." They knew.

 

[ResidentialVisitor]

Normally you'd have a point with these kinds of stories, but in this case it was explicitly NOT random. This time, there is a clear and reproducible pattern.

1) Investigate the false bottom of the bowl.
2) Discover the image.
3) Post the image on twatter, thus bringing attention to it.
4) Get annihilated from existence exactly 3 days later by something that relentlessly hunts you down and destroys you and everything in your local area.

Other inquisitive people followed this exact set of steps, and reproduced the exact same result - death. Note what the corpo rep even said on page 5, "Please wait to hear back from us." They knew.

Couldn't that just be the incidents we actually know about? I think it's more likely that the curse or entity targets anyone unlucky enough to possess the image hidden in their false bottom. A few manage to discover it beforehand and post about it before they die, but far more people probably perish without ever realizing they've been cursed.

 

[ElP45]

The photo is prolly a drawing from the deceased's mother that got wrongfully sent into the bento, by the time the net realize, they stopped viralling it and somehow one of them went to the one's house that made them gone viral in the 1st place