Yeah I didn't really know how they would explain the talking to animals, maybe like it was the kid's imagination but when it was explained it made so much sense
Thought he was dead for sure when I saw the tunnel. Heading to the light through the tunnel is like the afterlife shit where you go to the other side to be reborn etc. Him being a raccoon actually made no sense to me at all because raccoons can't communicate to other animals... Like bruh do you see cats talking to your dogs? No, they talk to your neighbour's cat. Same logic here.
@Luke_chase Oh, that makes more sense. I was sitting there thinking "ok, I get that the tanuki either imagines itself as a kid or transforms into one, but how do those people know them?", but if they're existing characters from another manga, that explains it.