Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Vol. 11 Ch. 131 - Hotel Employee ③

[beansbunko]

urabaito slay once again

 

[Pagemistress]

so the conclusion is, being gay is a mental illness?

No, but toxic obsession is!

 

[sotokouya]

the bald dude recognizing yume from way back before what the arc have shown us remind me of detective conan where korn remembers camel, in a way that should they recounted the more recent interaction it would've kinda put them in adnger

i shared the same level of absentmindedness with the manager's niece and would totally fall for the room 309 curse too

 

[Sonaldo]

so the conclusion is, being gay is a mental illness?

What do the mangaka mean by this?

 

[minh9dngt]

So I'm confused. Was the whole hotel suicide thing because of a guy who was so obsessed with the hotel manager that he killed himself and then cursed the hotel to kill everyone who entered a specific room?

So then what about the end? The hotel manager retired then encountered to obsessive ghost in his room?

i think he lives in room 309 now.

 

[minh9dngt]

Rereading the chapter, I just realized that at the end, the manager didn't return home to the ghost in his room, he actually drove all the way back to the closed hotel and went into room 309. That's a damn strong curse.

no i think he just lives there now.without being killed like other people

 

[friendly]

...Man i'd read the hell out of an old man ghost yaoi series.

 

[Fuzaki]

This ghost is a huge PoS.

 

[Vainfire]

So, there's a few things going on here.
1. Yeah, it's a little unfortunate that the first time we see gay love explicitly represented, it's as a toxic and obsessive kind of thing. The last time this was alluded to was back during the babysitter story when our deuteragonists were mistaken for a married couple, and that was played for laughs. Still though, one-sided love is bad no matter what the gender of the participants, there's no reason to think that this was uniquely about homosexuality in any way, it's a very casual usage as opposed to a causal one.
2. The manager is probably aromantic, though because the mangaka is Japanese I doubt he knows that word. Whatever it is, we see that the manager is indeed unwilling to marry, well, anyone. He had a niece but not a daughter, no wife to speak of. His contemporaries would probably speculate that he was gay, but he wasn't, duh. He said that he was, truly, envious of Mr. Osada's ability to love so fiercely. Speaking of which...
3. Mr. Osada was a gay man who needed to get his heart broken a few more times in life. You gotta learn to let them go, dude! Campaigns of revenge are nice and all but they shouldn't end in your death. Still though, the author writes "burnt lover" pretty well. ("Relationship? I didn't think I'd hear that word coming from you.") He opened up a hotel near the manager's hotel and it FAILED HARD. Because duh, he wasn't interested in a hotel, he was interested in spiting the man who broke his heart. So he ended up having to (implied) sell the hotel, move into the manager's hotel, and then when he couldn't take it anymore, he killed himself... nooooot entirely sure why the wife and child also killed themselves?
4. After the events of the deuteragonists' intervention and the hotel closing, the manager finally moves in with Mr. Osada, into Room 309. The manager now lives a quiet, peaceful life side by side with the ghost of the man who loved him, hated him, and drove multiple businesses into failure and a dozen or more people to suicide.

Ultimately, I didn't mind the story. Yes, it's less eldritch horror and yes, it's also not claustrophobic family horror... but I think it's neat! AND we're getting plot progression in an otherwise episodic story!

 

[Pagemistress]

So, there's a few things going on here.
1. Yeah, it's a little unfortunate that the first time we see gay love explicitly represented, it's as a toxic and obsessive kind of thing. The last time this was alluded to was back during the babysitter story when our deuteragonists were mistaken for a married couple, and that was played for laughs. Still though, one-sided love is bad no matter what the gender of the participants, there's no reason to think that this was uniquely about homosexuality in any way, it's a very casual usage as opposed to a causal one.
2. The manager is probably aromantic, though because the mangaka is Japanese I doubt he knows that word. Whatever it is, we see that the manager is indeed unwilling to marry, well, anyone. He had a niece but not a daughter, no wife to speak of. His contemporaries would probably speculate that he was gay, but he wasn't, duh. He said that he was, truly, envious of Mr. Osada's ability to love so fiercely. Speaking of which...
3. Mr. Osada was a gay man who needed to get his heart broken a few more times in life. You gotta learn to let them go, dude! Campaigns of revenge are nice and all but they shouldn't end in your death. Still though, the author writes "burnt lover" pretty well. ("Relationship? I didn't think I'd hear that word coming from you.") He opened up a hotel near the manager's hotel and it FAILED HARD. Because duh, he wasn't interested in a hotel, he was interested in spiting the man who broke his heart. So he ended up having to (implied) sell the hotel, move into the manager's hotel, and then when he couldn't take it anymore, he killed himself... nooooot entirely sure why the wife and child also killed themselves?
4. After the events of the deuteragonists' intervention and the hotel closing, the manager finally moves in with Mr. Osada, into Room 309. The manager now lives a quiet, peaceful life side by side with the ghost of the man who loved him, hated him, and drove multiple businesses into failure and a dozen or more people to suicide.

Ultimately, I didn't mind the story. Yes, it's less eldritch horror and yes, it's also not claustrophobic family horror... but I think it's neat! AND we're getting plot progression in an otherwise episodic story!

I think the stalker ghost made his wife and son die with them. He probably framed it as revenge for failing rather than "I can't handle the person I love does not love me back, so I will curse him."

I'm also not entirely certain the poor, possibly aromantic man (that is an intriguing possibility, btw) is actually going to live much longer, sadly.