Tonari no Jii-san - Ch. 31

[MangaDex]

 

[Skullkrusher]

She's weaponizing the larvae. It's in the big cities now. Containment has been breached.

 

[EchoGirl]

I guess it affects their memory too as opposed to just giving themselves a desire to leave or whatever tho if it's released in a big city I wonder if they'd head anywhere in particular

 

[ACEG]

A girl's gotta accessorize before unleashing global bio-terrorism.

 

[Skullkrusher]

A girl's gotta accessorize before unleashing global bio-terrorism.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Pretty cool, its probably gonna get loose and infects the water supply later but just showing it off can make people forget stuff? I wonder if she can show it on a tv show or something.

 

[MsW0lf]

Pretty cool, its probably gonna get loose and infects the water supply later but just showing it off can make people forget stuff? I wonder if she can show it on a tv show or something.

It’s the same effect that has the town in its thrall: because the town is infested with people infected by the parasites they are constantly having their perception altered. Momentarily exposing a person to a nearby parasite would briefly make them all forget. But its effects are proximity based, as images or videos from the town had already been released but were dismissed as hoaxes and fakes, so showing it on television would have no effect.

 

[GhostOfBiki]

Mikura having trouble committing to the fantasy?

 

[solamente]

She's an interesting villain. From the moment we meet her in chapter 11, she has this half-medical half-narcissistic detachment that leads her to see everyone as experimental subjects. I wonder ... when she found out there were humans who could naturally see, if that catalyzed a crisis in her worldview that could only be rectified by reimagining herself as something more than merely human. And so she swallows the adult form of the kobutori parasite, making her into a predator of humans already infected with it (or in terms of the mythology from the town, a deity of sorts).

Then here, we see her use that specimen to ... steal expensive jewellery? That pettiness, it seems at odds with her earlier ambitions, with her talk about gods and immortality. I think there's something interesting here. I have some notes sketched out, basic thesis being re: the fundamental tension of scientific study of human societies is that controlled experiments require you to distance yourself from the object of study, but social/interpersonal phenomena can only be understood from the interior perspective - via immersion. Note that all of the scientists studying this town wear headphones. She's the only one who's taken that next step. I feel like this is a promising angle for understanding her character but I think I'll wait for the next chapter before committing to anything.

 

[misopogon]

Women be shopping

 

[MsW0lf]

She's an interesting villain. From the moment we meet her in chapter 11, she has this half-medical half-narcissistic detachment that leads her to see everyone as experimental subjects. I wonder ... when she found out there were humans who could naturally see, if that catalyzed a crisis in her worldview that could only be rectified by reimagining herself as something more than merely human. And so she swallows the adult form of the kobutori parasite, making her into a predator of humans already infected with it (or in terms of the mythology from the town, a deity of sorts).

Then here, we see her use that specimen to ... steal expensive jewellery? That pettiness, it seems at odds with her earlier ambitions, with her talk about gods and immortality. I think there's something interesting here. I have some notes sketched out, basic thesis being re: the fundamental tension of scientific study of human societies is that controlled experiments require you to distance yourself from the object of study, but social/interpersonal phenomena can only be understood from the interior perspective - via immersion. Note that all of the scientists studying this town wear headphones. She's the only one who's taken that next step. I feel like this is a promising angle for understanding her character but I think I'll wait for the next chapter before committing to anything.

My take is that it’s her first step into excess. Whilst the “old man” existed in the train tunnel in a state of supposed poverty, he was still able to constantly feed his gluttony and worshipped as a god, and he had (apparently) been doing it for centuries. Now that the scientist has this power, she is exercising it to do the exact same thing: to fulfil her every desire and whim. But unlike her predecessor, she has access to much more, move farther, and achieve more. A pretty ring is just her first step.

 

[yurimakesmeuglycry]

I think they meant invisible, especially with the context of her vanishing in the jewelry store.

 

[ISingTheBodyElectric]

Becomes an scp, first thing on schedule - get some bling, women ☕

 

[friendly]

I don't think this is gon' end well for our boy.