Tonikaku Kawaii - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - Everything will disappear and be lost

[mangareaderxx77]

hayate no gotoku shared universe???

wow I should pay closer attention to the page description for these mangas LMAO

 

[blammo]

only time I remember Silvia attacking you was OKUSENMAN OKUSENMAN

 

[ryouhira]

right after he said something about "if everything burned"

 

[takakaka]

There's a fate reference in page 11

 

[Magic_Phantom]

the constantly referencing FGO lol

 

[Human_the_2nd]

This manga is obsessed with FGO references lol

 

[RichardPercival]

Lol, it actually burned down

 

[Revvex]

Something about it being safe even if the apartment building burned down...?

 

[Mr_Cleaner]

Sketchy Woman

 

[bozunee]

Wataru is the landlord? Ah my sides.

 

[MewOne]

Now its starting to piece together that shes definitely not "16". Shes probably not interested in historical sites because shes seen enuff of em or there may have been some unpleasant memory she recall. This would also explains why she adores camera, film, multimedia especially online platforms. Its a great preservation tool!

 

[apstorm]

In the original Kaguya-hime story, she gave the prince whom she treasures an elixir of immortality. He didn't drink it though, but burnt it.
Sooooooo, maybe this time things will be different.

Off-base, but actually, the elixir is still key. Everything else about the story is correct except the final fate of the elixir, far as I can tell from watching the anime. It wasn’t burned, but likely taken away by one of the soldiers who were tasked with its destruction, and administered to Tsukasa, likely his own daughter who was sick or injured or something that made him want to defy the Emperor’s orders. She is not Kaguya-hime. This isn’t really a retelling. The story happened in the past, and it does have bearing on her life and maybe some future events, but it is not necessarily metaphor for this story.

 

[apstorm]

I bet she is indeed princess Kaguya. Or at least an incarnation of her that needs a moon rock (remember the rock in her mansion?)to stay on earth. Then she also was there in the old days but something happened that caused her to be in (suspended animation caused by a destroyed moon rock?) Then her "family" finds her and she wakes up when she is brought in proximity with their moon rock (or maybe the girl came first and then the rock) and gets adopted. Then shenanigans and mango starts.

The rock is a red herring. It isn’t special, outside of what it represents for human history, and in turn sentimental value to Tsukasa because of that. It doesn’t have some supernatural connection to Tsukasa. Tsukasa has no actual connection to the moon besides her interest in space exploration. She has lived through the thousand or so years that have transpired since the events of the story of Kaguya-hime, but she is not Kaguya, nor is she anyone of particular import from that tale. She is, in my best guess on what I know based on the anime, just some soldier’s daughter who might have been on her death bed when the order to destroy the elixir was handed out. Her father defied the order to save her life. That’s all. She is, ultimately, just a normal girl, just like she’s said. Just one that cannot die, get sick, or grow old.

 

[apstorm]

Damn who could every guess who burnt the house down. It’s not like one of chitoses maids is standing right outside

That’s not Chitose’s maids, that’s a character from the mangaka’s previous works making a cameo.

 

[apstorm]

Y'all be making these theories about how she's an alien or some time traveler when they literally hinted multiple times that she's kaguya from the tale of the bamboo cutter, just modernized.

Far as I’m aware, the tale of the bamboo cutter isn’t metaphor for this story, just backstory for it. This from someone who watched the anime first, admittedly.

Kinda funny, though not surprising, how people jumped to such big conclusions about this. The reality feels like it was a lot tamer than the assumptions, to me.