Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi - Vol. 3 Ch. 17 - The Clayman Cometh!!

[MangaDex]

 

[GabrielH]

It's the never ending cycle

 

[ColonelCrisp]

Crisp.

 

[UnknownSaint111]

So is it the MC fault for all these tragedies??

 

[Pentium_MMX]

Is this "Aoba City", with a "Mount Kabuto" to the north, fictional? Sendai and Yokohama each have an Aoba-ku, as a ward. There's a Mount Kabuto in Nishinomiya City, much to the west of Sendai and Yokohama. The scripts are different as well.

 

[gcMugen]

Great chapter with a interesting concept.

 

[RyoukoKonpaku]

I find this concept pretty interesting. I see this concept a lot as well in manga that involves the supernatural, but only in Japan. The concept of willing things into existence when there's a lot of believers that think it's real. Like urban legends springing to life when it get's enough traction.

I think it's related to yokai folklore there where anything can spring to life given enough time or believers.

 

[beep_repair]

I find this concept pretty interesting. I see this concept a lot as well in manga that involves the supernatural, but only in Japan. The concept of willing things into existence when there's a lot of believers that think it's real. Like urban legends springing to life when it get's enough traction.

True. Tsukumogami, for instance, acquire conscious life from generations of use and care by humans.

I think it's related to yokai folklore there where anything can spring to life given enough time or believers.

I'm not sure where the concept originally comes from, but I agree that it's common in contemporary Japanese supernatural and fantasy fiction. In many manga and anime, even the power of Shinto deities (kami) is shown to wax and wane with the number and faith of their worshippers. Tsukumogami aside, though, the idea doesn't seem to have roots in either modern/organized Shinto or the older folk traditions from which it grew.

Tbh, I suspect that it's a 20th century, literary attempt to "explain" the fading of monsters, magic, miracles and gods from the visible world. I say this because it's not strictly Japanese. The idea has also long been present in Western supernatural and fantasy fiction in the Weird Tales tradition. It's even there in Tolkien.