Spirited Away by the Rain Woman Youkai - Ch. 9

[geal]

Don't worry kid, eat as many times as you want =)

 

[Duribu]

This kid was slightly more reasonably shaped in the first chapter. Ever since moving to youkai land he's gotten chibi-er and chibi-er.

 

[That-Guy]

Why am I tearing up? It’s not even that sad... I guess it’s just hitting a weird spot in my heart.

 

[sylvacoer]

My rage spike about eating more than twice a day was soothed by naptime. The rain woman was too nice to the people who abused this kid.

 

[Xeredge]

I can eat twice a day?

Hit me where it hurts

 

[GravityTaxes]

Damn, I want some udon.

 

[rarelambo21]

I can eat twice a day?

MAJOR OOF

 

[jirine]

even tho it's sad but its also nice to see the kid getting some much needed care and love... even it's from some ghosts

 

[Tamerlane]

The plot twist will be he's not like 6, he's just a wild child who's like 15 and never grew due to malnutrition, has major cognitive impairments, and is in an infantile mentality because of it.

 

[hancea1996]

So basically, his parents were scums therefore the rain woman killing the parents & adopting the child is justified?

 

[goodhunter]

@hancea1996 scum is putting it lightly. They beat the child every day, starved him and only let him eat a single meal that was probably pretty shitty. Kids need to eat enough to grow properly, if children don't get the nutrition they need growing up then their growth gets stunted and it has lasting affects for the rest of their life. I don't mind "parents" like that dying. I'd say it's completely justified. I'd rather have them dead and the child be able to live raised well and loved, rather than the kid being inhumanely tortured and abused like this. I wouldn't be surprised if the kid died if he stayed with them longer.

And regardless of that, you're trying to impose morality on a yokai lmfao, think about that for a second.

 

[hancea1996]

@goodhunter That still applies to them tho. Any sentient being can be applied w/ morality. Its just a matter of whether they r willing to go w/ it or not. Only automatons w/ no self awareness cannot have morals.

 

[goodhunter]

@hancea1996 regardless of whether you can apply human standard morals to non-human beings, my points before that still stand. Parents are absolute garbage, and for the sake of an innocent child's life and safety, it's better to have the two absolute degenerates dead. Unless you believe that every life is worth equal, regardless of what kind of person they are. If that's the case, it's better to save 2 murderer's lives over an innocent person's life if you had a choice. And if that's the route you want to take with your philosophy of morality, then I don't see any point in even attempting to further debate on this subject matter. And beyond that, what would be real fucked up is if the yokai just left the kid abandoned with no guardians after killing the parents, but the yokai took in the child and is actually caring for him in the most loving fashion a good parent would. In a argument for what's the better choice, I'd say what happened in this manga is better by miles and miles, than if the kid was left with the two shithead parents. Sure, you can make the argument that the yokai didn't have to kill them and could have just taken the child away, but in my opinion I'd rather tie up loose ends and make sure they can't do the same to anyone else. What if they had another kid, and they decide to do the same thing again? The best thing would be to have the two parents arrested and imprisoned, but a yokai cannot make that happen. The next best thing a yokai could do is permanently make sure that it will never happen again. Of course, I think the yokai did it out of anger more than anything else. But that's beside the point, because for a yokai, they don't need any justification because killing humans/causing deaths is a natural thing for a LOT of yokais. And this point leads into my second point below.

I still believe it's foolish to apply human's standard of morality to anything other than human. Human standard of morality should only be applied to humans, it's unfair to apply that same morality to any species/being outside of human. Cats kill for fun, and while we as humans think badly of it, it's natural for a cat and it's just doing what is ingrained in its nature. We cannot apply our human morality on that. So I'd say it's the same for supernatural beings like yokais as well, we can't apply our morality to them and say that what they're doing is "wrong." It may seem wrong to people, but what if there's nothing wrong within their own society and it's completely normal? Of course, all of this is hypothetical talk because I don't believe any in things like yokais, monsters, ghosts, or the likes to exist, but at least within the frame of this manga it doesn't make any sense to apply human logic to a yokai.

 

[TheDollCollector]

Just how abused was he by his bio parents?

 

[Arexty]

I can eat twice a day?

My God..
At least this answer the question posed by someone in the last chapter and how mentally developed the boy seems while being so small. Malnutrition.