Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san - Vol. 4 Ch. 28

[Kaarme]

I hadn't thought about it before, but whenever manga/anime is dealing with Japanese divine entities/deities mingling with the mortal world, there should actually be a bit of a clash due to the calendar. The new year, like in this particular chapter, is one month too early for the divinities, because it's only been like 150 years since the Japanese started to use the Gregorian calendar. Not that I'd expect Senko to make an issue of it, considering how fluffy she is.

 

[Talismaster]

@Kaarme
You’d figure the gods would have time to adapt and accept the change somewhere within those 150 years, or go along immediately. Or it’s either they don’t care, and New Years is when the celebrations happen. Kinda like a subverted version of nobody really caring about Christmas not actually being Jesus’ factual birthday.

 

[Kaarme]

@Talismaster Yeah, you could think of it that way, or you could also assume nothing changed for them on their heavenly plane of existence, as the flow of time doesn't necessarily need to be the same there as on ours. It's just rather interesting that the roots of the Japanese beliefs ought to be a few thousands of years old, at least, so 150 years is nothing. But then again, even their previous calendar wasn't that old, so I suppose if there was already one change before, a second one isn't such a big deal. Nevertheless, I don't recall ever reading a manga where a deity or a lesser divine being would have complained about it.

It's not so much caring about Christmas actually being some pagan holiday originally, but what would happen if it was suddenly decided that, let's say, from 2022 onwards, Christmas would be November 25th, not December 25th.

 

[Renard]

I know this manga is all about tails being fluffed, but dammit he lost a good chance to just cuddle.

 

[sdarkpaladin]

This would be a totally different manga if all the fluffing is changed to sex.

 

[JigokuShounen]

*Still waiting for the anime in April*
The FLUFF!!!!!!!!......Man, maybe I should consider taking a pet for Fluff.....

 

[Vincentius]

@Kaarme While I doubt it's a conscious factor in things, I'd personally imagine it has to do with the fact that the concept of a calendar is completely arbitrary; there's no reason the year has to start in January, after all, it just does. A year is just a measure of how long it takes the Earth to make one full orbit around the sun, so the "year" could really start at any point in time based on whenever people decided to keep track. From a seasonal perspective, it would make the most sense for the New Year to take place once winter ends (so about end of March in the Northern hemisphere and about the end of September in the Southern hemisphere), since that's when the world comes back to life, so to speak, with the beginning of spring.

That said, a more likely reason is that the deities, being immortals, have no real concept of things like specific dates and so whenever mortals decide to celebrate something is when that celebration takes place (the main exception would probably be if said celebration is in their divine spectrum, but even then, it'd probably be more of a general sense of time).

 

[Kaarme]

@Vincentius Yeah, sounds plausible, but no manga seems to ever mention it, despite there being lots and lots of series with various kinds of deities and divine creatures, such as fox eared maidens with fluffy tails. Unless I remember completely incorrectly, I think the Japanese actually adapted some of the traditional events, religious or not, by shifting them around in the "new" calendar back then so that they still match the time in the old calendar better seasonally. However, New Year is obviously something that can't be moved anywhere relatively to the calendar.

I mainly thought about this whole thing since visiting a temple seems to be a thing in Japan around New Year, and temples obviously have something to do with fox eared divine ladies with fluffy tails.

 

[dreminh]

The FLUFF! is way better than COCAINE

 

[Ironclad]

 

[Esper]

@Kaarme

However, New Year is obviously something that can't be moved anywhere relatively to the calendar.

Tell that to the Chinese. It's a different day EVERY year.

 

[Kaarme]

@Esper Huh, sounds rough. But I don't really know enough of the Chinese calendar to comment, except that year of the x animal thing.

 

[Speedphoenix]

 

[lapin]

I assume the "weird guy from uni" will be introduced as a new character in the nearish future.

 

[raltzero]

Senko-san almost screwed up by saying "again". Good thing she caught herself huh.

 

[Marenjii]

Thanks for the upload.

 

[Houdini111]

It's always a pleasant surprise when this gets an update.
And we've got the anime coming. Thank the lord fox goddess.

 

[ampnaman]

Lucky dude gets to fluff such a magnificent tail anywhere and anytime he wants...

 

[Shewy92]

There's fluff right in front of me

My reaction to this manga

 

[Seregosa]

I wish that the author would make the main character more relatable, to make us actually feel like he deserves even a little bit of this fluff. At least stop him from being such a fucking downer 24/7. Damn complaints all the time even when enjoying himself.

I don't really like the mc. I dislike his neighbor and honestly the fluff isn't enough, it's way too mild. There aren't enough expressions and cuteness. The only pro of this manga is the coziness(at times) and the lolibaba fox girl, but that alone can only get you so far when the mc actively tries to bring the manga down by acting in a dreary manner. It'd be nice if he started to get more positive and energetic since the fox girl is there, but he keeps his previous attitude. Urgh. I get how it would be important to make him a broken human from the start to make him relatable to the target readers(single men in their late twenties to thirties who are unhappy with their work in one way or another), but shouldn't he lighten the mood up after that? Also, this mc really only has himself to blame for taking all of this shit and living a life where he's pretty much better off dead(no free time at all, when he's got free time, he pretty much sleeps it all away). Even a shit job with less hours spent would be way better even if the pay was a bit less. Even if he had to live frugally, it would still beat being slaved to death. But it seems he's too afraid to actually do something about his situation.

This has the potential to be WAY more soothing and awesome, but the author spoils it, mainly by not brightening things up after the initial chapters. Aren't people reading this for wish-fulfillment and escaping reality? Why would they want to be reminded of work all the time and have to read those negative comments by the mc? Seriously...