Record of Festivals - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The Festival of Yajuumaru

[MangaDex]

 

[solamente]

you sure choose some unique vibes. hard to nail down what tags it should have. anthropological scifi?

it skirts towards a parallel timeline but blends enough with real life that "alternate history" doesn't feel adequate. I guess this is why the term "speculative fiction" was invented

 

[BluWacky]

you sure choose some unique vibes. hard to nail down what tags it should have. anthropological scifi?

it skirts towards a parallel timeline but blends enough with real life that "alternate history" doesn't feel adequate. I guess this is why the term "speculative fiction" was invented

I'd agree with both your labels of "anthropological sci-fi" and "speculative fiction".

"What if festivals were created by aliens" is a fun premise, with its melding of past and future, but at the same time you could almost strip all the sci-fi away from it and each chapter would work regardless as they're rooted in short character-based vignettes.

 

[KatoShuu]

😔🥲

 

[UdenEmpati]

Beware, the gentle man's righteous anger.

I did not know where this chapter was going, but the birthing of that particular festival feels all the more sorrowful with the truth of its origins being lost to time - right down to the perversion of the inspiring Lodger's demeanor into "terrifying".

Which absolutely makes it compelling storytelling, and a good tone-shift of an inclusion into the ongoing story.

 

[Elfteiroh]

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