Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Vol. 8 Ch. 35 - What Frames the Sun

[MangaDex]

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

Ah come on author! We've been talking about this for three chapters straight and you think we still don't get that Miko was evil?

...

OK this is actually pretty fucked up.

Also, you might notice that the resolution for this chapter is a bit less satisfying. Who could have predicted that the anonymous guy who upload scanned mangas on suspicious websites has betrayed us.

 

[Mashii52]

I really don't like this arc lol

 

[Iratana]

I know it's wrong. But part of me wants to say: "Is that it?"

Yeah, she was evil, monstrous, and/or sadistic , but goodness gracious, I'm pretty sure that goes for almost all yokai, demons, evil spirits, etc, in that world. If anything, the fact that Miko is the way she is and actually tried to change her ways deserves the upmost praise imo. (yeah, I'm bias because I like Miko, she's my favorite character here). Especially since it's such a rarity.

Hopefully if Hinako's upset it'll be more because:
"You're telling me that you could've killed me way back and spared me all the heartache and suffering, and yet you didn't. You're so cruel!"

Instead of : "I can't believe you killed people so horrifically.".

Thanks for this.

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

I know it's wrong. But part of me wants to say: "Is that it?"

Yeah, she was evil, monstrous, and/or sadistic , but goodness gracious, I'm pretty sure that goes for almost all yokai, demons, evil spirits, etc, in that world. If anything, the fact that Miko is the way she is and actually tried to change her ways deserves the upmost praise imo. (yeah, I'm bias because I like Miko, she's my favorite character here). Especially since it's such a rarity.

Hopefully if Hinako's upset it'll be more because:
"You're telling me that you could've killed me way back and spared me all the heartache and suffering, and yet you didn't. You're so cruel!"

Instead of : "I can't believe you killed people so horrifically.".

Thanks for this.

To be fair, Hinako had no idea about anything Miko did. Only we the readers do.

The way I see it, this arc could become a critical development point for Hinako now that she faces something with an actual shape of "the thing that devoured her family" for the first time. She would be fine reconciling with Miko, but reconciling with the personification of her trauma(as compared to Shiori, who is the other personification of her trauma) would be a different challenge.

 

[Iratana]

To be fair, Hinako had no idea about anything Miko did. Only we the readers do.

While that's true, Hinako has seen her fair share of yokai and nearly all of them were monstrous ravenous beings who (with the exception of Miko and Shiori) wanted to devour her, and if I remember right, Shiori and Miko both confirmed to Hinako that Miko devoured humans (the only thing that she lacked was the details of the action). Anyway, I'm just hoping we don't go through an arc of Hinako feeling betrayed by Miko, simply because she learned the details of how she devoured humans.

 

[Nat_reed]

Ohh come on, just eat that noisy racoon and problem resolved, but nooooooo the author is gonna make like 7 or 8 chapters more, and with this is month release, is gonna take to june or july to finish this arc

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[sirflimflam]

Just rip her head off like you said, girl. You totally got this.

 

[Chikaon]

I love Miko, but really now...it's been the same shit for like 3 chapters. I think we readers already have the horrible things Miko did in the past drilled in our heads by now. It's time to move on with the story. Give us something more from the Tanuki. She's not even a character right now. The story has been so good to this point so I don't know why the author is handling this particular arc so badly.

 

[WolfenLady]

I heard raccoon meat smells rancid when cooked. For the sake of science, let me cook the b*** raccoon dog, I volunteer my wolf olfactory receptors to see if she smells as bad as her personality 😒

 

[zanonyn]

I know it's wrong. But part of me wants to say: "Is that it?"

That's not wrong at all. This is frustrating because Miko should just blow off that stupid racoon and tell it to stop living in the past.

Yeah, she was evil, monstrous, and/or sadistic , but goodness gracious, I'm pretty sure that goes for almost all yokai, demons, evil spirits, etc, in that world.

Or as I wrote in a previous chapter, what about Humanity (which is what all these legends are reflective of anyway IRL of course)? The Japanese themselves were absolute monsters in some of their fairly recent history. If you went back through Hinako's family tree it'd be completely unsurprising if there was someone who participated in the Rape of Nanking or some other horror from the wars, or farther back into the Restoration period or warring states. Or same in every single other country on the planet. We have a bloody history. What counts the most is how we've worked on that, and how we continue to struggle with that because it's not easy and the potential for backsliding is always there.

If anything, the fact that Miko is the way she is and actually tried to change her ways deserves the upmost praise imo. (yeah, I'm bias because I like Miko, she's my favorite character here). Especially since it's such a rarity.

In some small way Miko is just Japanese history itself given form. While there are certainly still other flaws and challenges and lingering old skeletons in old closets, there is plenty to admire in their path from 1800s/first half of 1900s until today.

Seriously while a neat theme to some extent this is actually also somewhat breaking my suspension of disbelief just because Miko is acting more like a human teenager vs something ancient and that should have some degree of wisdom. Like, "pretending to be friends with humans"? That's so cliche and dumb, she is literally friends with humans right now. There's no pretend there, the very fact she even reacts itself shows it to be true! Frustrating.

 

[NIPHY]

"Oh come on... looking at the details she's clearly just a mischievous little fox acting like toddler... because she is like that of a baby.... She doesn't know how to cherished lives yet nor experience relationships because she open her eyes without this things and haven'texperienceany of them, what do you expect... until that monk atleast."

I want to say this but... maybe that raccoon just want to open Hinako eyes and want to help miko? I mean miko is clearly buried by her past.

 

[gearoi92]

Looking back at some chapters i still hold out hope that everything will turn out all right.

 

[madamebeer]

Man, getting darker. I love their story. And hopefully we'll get to see Tanuki's past. She's clearly was wronged by human in the past, and looks like it was pretty bad.
And looking into Inugami Gyoubu's stories, a lot of them shows the ugly side of human and youkai relationship.

I dont think Tanuki Girl is merely want to mess with Miko. I think she's trying to make Miko see that at the end of the road human and youkai relationship would mostly end badly.

I cant wait. This is getting real good.

 

[KZO]

Hinako is obviously only gonna be upset about why Miko didn't kill her when she wanted it.

 

[Saon]

That racoon is definitely barking up the wrong tree.

 

[Picks]

Eat Hinako.
Make a Miko&Shiori solve local yokai mysteries buddy cop manga.

 

[KitsuKyouno]

She is not her friends, she is one of her wives

 

[Kurro]

bla bla bla evil.

Is it evil when a wolf eats a just born fawn? Is it evil when a wolf eats a domestic sheep? Personally I don't think so. Now if she did in on purpose and got gratification from it, sure maybe that's evil, though more of psychopath thing. Also fiction wise, putting human morals on a deity/monster is a bit silly in my oppinion. Something that doesn't age, isn't affected by disease and lives for centuries.