SCP tte Nan desu ka? - Ch. 6 - Mementic

[MangaDex]

 

[VinylAT]

Yknow, the artstyle of the blog-manga thing is sort of reminiscent of the Oversimplified SCP manga series. I wonder if that's on purpose or if it's just me reading too much into it.

 

[Lunkli]

The implication here definitely seems to be that the Foundation actually exists in H and M's world. They don't know where the requests for these chapters are coming from and all that. Presumably, this would manga they're making would be a sort of cover-up operation: It draws attention to the "fictional" SCP wiki and frames the whole thing as fiction. Thus, if someone actually finds some evidence of the Foundations existence, people will just point and say "Okay, but that's just a story, see?"

I believe there was an actual SCP with this concept, but I don't remember it's number.

 

[Doomroar]

Oh boy questions, lets see

1 & 2 - As i understand the first chapters focus on introducing us to the plot of the manga as the narrator recalls how it all began, but from that point onwards we follow the story in real time, so the narrator stops recalling things, and what used to be exposition bubbles become thought bubbles to see the inner monologue of the character

3, 4 & 6 - No idea, they all seem to be similar to found footage of stories, as if they wanted to portray the SCPs as parts of real events, since this manga has so far made no mention of any containment procedures, in this case the evidence was the manga diary of an author living in the country side, so maybe next chapter would be a podcast, or audio-logs for the research team (those are actually quite popular on SCP YT)

5 - no

7 - yes

8 - I also only have seen OP doing cover stories, but as i understood, what the editor asked them this time was to make a manga remake, a manga adaptation of another manga, in this case to redraw the manga diary that was found

9 - Something that has been notoriously absent so far, is containment procedures, which is the primary aspect of SCPs, you know SECURE, CONTAIN, PROTECT, yet so far no such things have been addressed, my guess is that the purpose of this manga is to be the containment procedure for the "real" ghost stories and urban legends that are being covered, by taking what looks to be evidence linked to, recalling, or mentioning a real supernatural event, and transforming it into a manga, the SCP becomes contained

 

[NickieTheFool]

The questions helped me think more about all the issues I've been having with the manga so i really appreciate it

 

[ShyGuy-096]

I believe there was an actual SCP with this concept, but I don't remember it's number.

I believe you may be referring to SCP-101-FR, which is the wiki itself. Essentially, in SCP-101-FR, the SCP wiki is a website that can't be taken down permanently, and somehow copies all SCP foundation documents and data into a wiki format, while disabling all the memetic kill agents, security clearances and whatnot.

I loved the idea, since I'm a big fan of metafiction and metahorror.

 

[ShyGuy-096]

Not sure if this is exactly a translation error, but I've never heard the term "meme contamination" being used in the SCP community before. I've heard "memetic infection", but never "meme contamination". I might just be misremembering, maybe it was used in some articles or by some authors that I haven't read or remember, or maybe "meme contamination" is a term used by one of the other international branches, but personally I'd suggest changing the translation to "memetic infection", because it sounds more natural to me.

Please feel free to correct me if I've made any mistakes.

 

[IceCreamYo]

Is he recording the convesation while walking? He has his phone in hand and then that hand in his pocket right before he's asked if the bottle is real or not.

 

[xandekk]

Not sure if this is exactly a translation error, but I've never heard the term "meme contamination" being used in the SCP community before. I've heard "memetic infection", but never "meme contamination". I might just be misremembering, maybe it was used in some articles or by some authors that I haven't read or remember, or maybe "meme contamination" is a term used by one of the other international branches, but personally I'd suggest changing the translation to "memetic infection", because it sounds more natural to me.

Please feel free to correct me if I've made any mistakes.

Well, it can also be translated as "memetic infection." Honestly, I didn't remember what the correct expression was and I was too lazy to look it up, so I ended up translating it as "meme contamination." But I appreciate the feedback, I've made the change.

 

[nathan67003]

Possible typo in chapter title; fairly certain it's "Memetic", not "Mementic"

 

[xandekk]

Possible typo in chapter title; fairly certain it's "Memetic", not "Mementic"

So, I kept the title the same as the original. If it were wrong, they would have corrected it by now, since more than a week has passed.

 

[shelliana]

I remember seeing a rice milling machine like that when i visited Japan, something like this. At the time I thought maybe it was for washing rice so that you wouldn't have to do it at home lol.