Tonikaku Kawaii - Vol. 8 Ch. 70 - Labyrinth of time

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So, we've gotten some big hints that she might be Princess Kaguya from the classic Japanese folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. But the old lady and how it feels like she was held hostage makes me think of more like she's a zashiki-warashi. Legend tells that a family with a zashiki-warashi will prosper, and if it goes away, the family will decline. Curious where they're going with this.
 
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Rather than her taking Tsukasa back to the moon and having Nasa follow, I feel like it's more likely that they'll kidnap Nasa to get Tsukasa to follow him back to the moon lol
 
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Oh My! Here come a new challenger! Grandma story time for next chapter,and i remember a stream play on Sonic Twitch playing team sonic racing and everybody cheering up for her to get first place!
 
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Shouldn't it be "Nasa felt like he could DEFEAT the Devil Gundam" ? Since he achieved Nirvana and all?
 
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is this just the translator, or Tsukasa didn't use honorifics to her.
like, tokiko-san or such
 
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If the theories are true and she's actually very-very old, I'm rather surprised that she's never been married before - which definitely appears to be the case.
It's because she's been alive for as long as she has that Tsukasa has avoided attachments for so long, I'm pretty sure. Especially the way I currently suspect she became so long-lived, I feel like she was traumatized and terrified to grow close to people for the longest time, especially when they'd just die and leave her, eventually. Though it is apparent she didn't completely cut off other people, if Tokiko here is any indication. But she still kept people at a distance, generally, until Nasa.

I still think at some point shes going to get taken back to the moon and Nasa is going to use his brains to build a rocket there and use his skill with words and persuasion to get her back. He already said he wouldn't give up getting her back at the end of ... chapter 1? Although he didn't know she was Kaguya, it still means its very likely she gets taken back to the moon at some point.
Still amusing to me people kept thinking she's Kaguya at this stage of the story, when the better answer is that she's just someone that ended up given the immortality elixir from near the end of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter that Kaguya-hime was featured in. It just works so much better with all of the details revealed up to this volume, especially from the Q&As at the end of each volume, the Nara sight-seeing chapter (30), and the chapter splash art showing Tsukasa traveling the world throughout the ages.


Also, Tokiko! Lovely to see her. Loved her in the anime. She's amazing.
 

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