Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Vol. 4 Ch. 39 - Bridal Staff ③

[MangaDex]

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

I really didn't like that one, way too surrealist in style.

 

[xanketsu]

I don't really get what actually happened here. We were shown three version of the wedding:
A. Zombie groom attacked bride. Exchanged heads. Both are most likely dead at the end.
B. Bride danced with Doll. Doll looked like an ordinary doll, Bride lived at the end - seen talking after the wedding.
C. Doll and Bride was in wedding photo. Doll looked like an ordinary doll, Bride was presumably dead during photo session.

D. Something bad was implicitly happened to the bride after the wedding (dead or missing), shown in this chapter "The suspect ..."

Apparently Nishi-san saw A. Our duo saw B. I don't know who saw C.

My guess is that A & C were what really happened, but those "uninvited" would only saw A as B, and C as probably normal session (not shown). D was definitely happened and was the reality at the end.

 

[datsundacar]

god i just want more daidai chapters

 

[cromat]

no fuckn idea wtf this was. might have to read the chinese "understandings"

 

[farranpoison]

Yeah uh... I have no clue what was going on here. Especially what happened at the end.

 

[rikamayaz]

My best understanding of this episode is that the story starts with the existence of the wedding venue owner, who is not a conventionally attractive lady. Therefore, it is not easy for her to get married, despite it being her most important dream. To resolve this problem, she made a deal with the underworld denizens. She must sacrifice numerous people with supernatural gifts to them to fulfill her wish. People with supernatural gifts were individuals with the ability to see beyond the bride dancing with the doll scene. They must have the power to see the "real" thing that happens during the ghost marriage.

The problem is that in the morning after Nishi-san's rescue mission, the wedding venue building became the center of the news. It seemed like the authorities received many complaints about the venue. Thus, the wedding venue owner would be arrested very soon, which made her desperate. Finally, she went on a murderous rampage with her clients and their family members as the final bang to fulfill her death quota.

I hope someone can correct me if I am mistaken.

 

[Sonaldo]

What?

 

[cromat]

ok so i raed the chinese notes by the tranlsators and the only thing i could tell is that both the chinese readers and the japanese readers have no idea wtf was going on

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

My theory of only things that want to cause harm stinking is gaining more speed. Which is why she said it stank more if she said it out loud.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Dreis]

My best understanding of this episode is that the story starts with the existence of the wedding venue owner, who is not a conventionally attractive lady. Therefore, it is not easy for her to get married, despite it being her most important dream. To resolve this problem, she made a deal with the underworld denizens. She must sacrifice numerous people with supernatural gifts to them to fulfill her wish. People with supernatural gifts were individuals with the ability to see beyond the bride dancing with the doll scene. They must have the power to see the "real" thing that happens during the ghost marriage.

The problem is that in the morning after Nishi-san's rescue mission, the wedding venue building became the center of the news. It seemed like the authorities received many complaints about the venue. Thus, the wedding venue owner would be arrested very soon, which made her desperate. Finally, she went on a murderous rampage with her clients and their family members as the final bang to fulfill her death quota.

I hope someone can correct me if I am mistaken.

This seems like the most logical explanation. But i feel like the owner was just collecting guests (by killing those that can see) amd in the end just go through with it by making killing the groom and bride to take over the wedding and setting up the guests ( possesed dead people)

 

[friendly]

I suspect part of what we're seeing is the wedding organizers blend of desires, paranormal incident, and also her perception with a great deal of missing brain matter.

 

[silverpetricof]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was baffled by all this. I do my best to keep up but the Bridal Staff arc left me confused. All I know for sure was that everything surrounding it was fucked up.

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Vainfire]

This didn't seem all that confusing to me. The owner's ghost wedding itself was a little high-concept, sure, but the actual mechanics aren't too complicated. It's actually remarkably similar in motivation to the clinical trial story: someone doesn't like the real world, and they believe they have a way out: a ghost marriage where the participants are together forever. So they hold a lot of these ghost marriages (where the bride is, idk, killed and then temporarily kept animated via ghost energy or whatever, who cares), and by doing that they collect wedding guests. Some of the families seem to be in on it, especially the one of the dead guy who says the bride was "sent to" the ghost. Those who can see the real ghost wedding are extended an "invitation"—to what? Why, to the owner's own ghost wedding! Which requires you become, well, a ghost first.

In the end, the deaths of the participants rack up police suspicion, and the venue owner is forced to tip their hand a little early. Despite not having enough wedding guests, they decide to go ahead with their own ghost wedding. The mechanics of a ghost wedding we already saw earlier: it involves exchanging one person's head onto another. So the owner supplants their own head onto that of another bride, and then calls on all the forces of Hell in order to supplant the heads of the groom and the wedding guests, to have a ghost wedding. This of course kills everyone involved. One interesting thing to note is that they are not supplanting a ghost wedding: there were, originally, an actual human groom and an actual human bride (you can see by the altar, this isn't the ghost wedding venue in the basement). This also fits, however, with the entire venue hall being haunted, as we saw earlier when the deuteragonists went back to rescue their coworker, and with Nishi saying the entire wedding hall is "their playground".

One interesting thing of note: this does fit with the fact that Yume saying "it stinks" will cause it to stink more. After all, people who see the ghost weddings for their reality are extended an invitation... therefore, the threat is dire only if you say something silly like, oh, I don't know, "it stinks it stinks it stinks..." at an otherwise perfectly normal wedding convention. Best to keep quiet, eh?

Moral of the story is the same as usual: if you think you've managed to find an escape route from reality, you haven't. It's just that this time the mangaka is exposing some of the, idk, "fake happiness" around weddings? Or maybe saying they're overly idealized. And also, we see Hama going back to save people, which is some nice character development.

 

[bladahbla]

Am I high?