Tonari no Jii-san - Ch. 18

[MangaDex]

 

[yurimakesmeuglycry]

Thanks for the update. Loving this manga so far.

 

[biologist]

Oh no she gonna DISTORTTTT

 

[EchoGirl]

I'm pretty sure other than some 'magic barrier', the smell of corpses would def leak out to the main road(?) ; but gurl no don't stab ur friend in the classroom you're gonna be taken away to a loony bin

 

[shwiftyshfifty]

Blood for the blood god!

 

[shwiftyshfifty]

I'm pretty sure other than some 'magic barrier', the smell of corpses would def leak out to the main road(?) ; but gurl no don't stab ur friend in the classroom you're gonna be taken away to a loony bin

She gun rip and tear until it is done.

 

[Lunkli]

I'm pretty sure other than some 'magic barrier', the smell of corpses would def leak out to the main road(?) ; but gurl no don't stab ur friend in the classroom you're gonna be taken away to a loony bin

People are already hallucinating the big-heads into normal people, so I'd assume they're also hallucinating the smells away.

 

[Al_Azif]

F to my boy, he should have been wary when the scientist lady was defending the thing.

 

[gustavonerdz]

it's what they always say, never turn your back on someone you tried to set on fire

 

[Skullkrusher]

it's what they always say, never turn your back on someone you tried to set on fire

I don't think he expected a government conspiracy where they are keeping this 500 year old fatso alive and contained to study his immortality.

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[deenzfan12]

I fell for her the moment she went as far as to stab him for the sake of research.

 

[Cool.Ice]

Aren't you curious

Maam it's fucking eating my people

 

[fatto_catto]

I know of the story where a girl can attain immortality if she eats mermaid flesh, guess this is something like it, except the dude has enormous appetite. rip baseball guy, you were too heroic for your own good.

 

[ngubaoson]

oh no

 

[MsW0lf]

Okay. So, just caught up. So: we have an immortal old man in a derelict train tunnel that may or may not have eaten a mythical creature. He now eats talented people that are sacrificed to him by the brainwashed people of the town who hallucinate things as “normal”. These talented people either gain said talent from waterborne super-parasites, or, the parasites are drawn to people with extreme talents. The elites of the town know about said parasites and are either looking to exploit the effects of the parasite, or to spread the parasites to the rest of the country to unknown ends. The brainwashing effect is caused by auditory means. There is a government or extra-governmental agency in the town investigating the phenomenon, but the town elders are not aware of this. You can train yourself to fight the effect of the brainwashing through extranormal perception techniques, such as seeing an art subject as their individual components, or (perhaps) focusing on a specific point and letting everything else fall out of focus. Like a magic eye. The sacrifice of the talented people has been going on since the nineties, is connected with a temple that was set up during that period, but there is evidence of afflicted people existing that have not been sacrificed (the old man who went fishing with his grandson).

Now the one thing that I’m unsure about is the complicity of the adults. Is it a literal sacrifice and people like the mum and mayor talking to those who have left on the phone just keeping up appearances for the other people? If so that‘s pretty cold for a mother to do that to her daughter. Are they unaware and hallucinating the phone calls, and the “sacrifices” and the desire to spread the water to the rest of the country an effect of the parasitic brainwashing, think how cordyceps causes hosts to go to a high place to spread spores most effectively? Because, let’s face it: the sacrifices are Dead dead, and not in some other dimension where they can call to give updates on their studies abroad. And why did the folklorist paint the graffiti at the station in the first place? The one at the school was a reply from Baseball. Was it a message to the researcher? Are they working together or separate? And what is the connection between the old man and the parasites? I mean other than he likes the taste of them. Is he the cause, or just a natural predator? And if it’s the latter, what are the parasites ACTUAL purpose? Why get sent to the old man in the first place? People don’t make sacrifices to beings without something in return, even if it’s just protection for the majority from retribution. And old dude doesn’t look like he’s going on a murder rampage any time soon: he literally hates the taste of non-parasites.

Anything I miss?

 

[Pouco-chan]

From what we have understood so far, everyone in this city has parasites, but only people who are interested in leaving the city transform into those balloons, since the friend said in the previous chapter that she was interested in "leaving and becoming an idol" and now the transformation has begun; those in the town who can see "the truth" are the ones who have developed antibodies. I wonder if the researcher will take the baseball guy for studies~💦
Thks for the translation~

 

[moosemoosemoose]

Baseball guy you should have brought your bat

 

[Vainfire]

I tend to like it when the protagonist goes "no, I don't care about the truth actually" because it usually means that they're doing something smart. Too bad baseball guy was a bit of an idiot. In general I wish that the people in this story would talk and coordinate more with one another, you kind of get the sense that things just happen, people appear wherever the plots needs them, and protagonists make their minds up off-screen.

Overall though, the premise is compelling, the mystery is developing at a good pace, and I find myself caring about the protagonists, even if the plot can feel a little haphazard in its direction.

 

[zawarudo]

For some reason this chapter made me remember Golden Gold