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The amount of panels where it's clear these two want each other carnally is driving me insane!!!!! The way they look at each other is just so ugh
It's not the mirror that drives people insane, it's the drawers underneath the mirror. The mirror harms Sorawo because it's a gate and she's using her blue eye to look through it, it's not a major part of the ghost story.Before she looked at the mirror, she remarked that it reminded her of a story about a mirror that drove ppl insane after a ritual, claiming the neighbours (in that story) lives too.
And she only got affected by the mirror after she moved the hair away and looked straight at the mirror.
Sure, but this was 8 panels (or like ~5 seconds in their universe's time) directly after having just said "they found a mirror stand, and those who looked inside lost their minds and never recovered"Yeah Sorawo do careless mistake sometimes, although this is not the first time they got bamboozled with cognitive hazard entity (that early chapter with a man searching for his missing wife come to mind)...
I have a couple ideas just off the top of my head:Well, how else have they solved literally all of their otherworld problems? Sorowa looks at it with her eye and Toriko shoots it or uses her hand. As the story progressess, more and more of the otherworld incidents are seemingly designed to trap the pair. Makes sense to try capturing Sorowa before Toriko has a chance to do anything.
She quite clearly said it was the mirror stand, not the cabinet. Though she did warn her partner that the drawers [in the cabinet] likely are hazardous too.It's not the mirror that drives people insane, it's the drawers underneath the mirror. The mirror harms Sorawo because it's a gate and she's using her blue eye to look through it, it's not a major part of the ghost story.
The manga is pretty much 1:1 with the novels, minus Sorawo's (completely bonkers) narration.This series is so impressively well crafted. It's not even done yet and rereading the whole thing brings new perspectives and the foreshadowing is kind of crazy. Most non-sense scenes end up significant one way or another which I find wild. Like, at some points I'm tempted to check out the novel just to see if it's just as well crafted or if these are thing's added by the manga to polish things up.
if this is the end of this mystery, it feels a bit anti-climactic
It's crazy to have such internally consistent logic and well laid out plot then, for what basically amounts to improv.The manga is pretty much 1:1 with the novels, minus Sorawo's (completely bonkers) narration.
The story is really well crafted, and I think for two reasons. First, Miyazawa is a guy who cut his teeth in the TTRPG world, contributing to scenario design for a few different games. He's mentioned in interviews that at the start, he didn't really have an overarching plan for the series. He took a very DM approach to writing by focusing on characterization and dropping in character/narrative details that would be available for him hook into later. Second, I saw a tweet from him a while back mentioning his spreadsheet of netlore and ghost stories grouped by themes or motifs, which I would guess is how he finds these weird connections between disparate stories and manages to make them land every time.
I mean, she has consistently proved to have an ego of "oh I know about this it will be fine" and then things go wrong because she goes in head firstMy question was more about why she pulled the cover off. And why she didn't warn her partner about the cognitive hazard before doing so.