Yeeep. I don't like that. Zounose has an amazing style, but his stories are weird as fuck, and mostly revolves around people eating things. Like in French movies, but darker and bloodier.
I thought it's not what it seems, but haha, this guy sure ain't pulling his punches. Well then, I'm in the mood for another food-themed story. Wonder if I can finish this before my holiday ends...
Disturbing. But while unpleasant, it's certainly refreshing to see that youkai still eat people even in Gensokyo. Although I think we can do without the flesh factory.
Speaking of, those people are terribly lacking in meat. They're not getting the most they can get from each individual human. This is just bad for business, kappa.
Disturbing. But while unpleasant, it's certainly refreshing to see that youkai still eat people even in Gensokyo. Although I think we can do without the flesh factory.
Refreshing? I saw it being fairly common. Granted, most often, it's not treated seriously or just referred to, but it's actually common knowledge.
What bothers me the most if that those cans looks exactly like the tourist's breakfast food from the STALKER franchise.
I just meant refreshing as seeing it being seriously treated as part of the central theme of a work. We do get the occasional image or reference to them still eating humans but it's rare, for me at least, to see the fact being treated as the normal every day occurrence it probably would be in the overall picture. Like you say, it's often treated as a joke if shown at all.
I actually like Zounose's work. Sure it's disturbing, but it's probably the most realistic depiction we get as far as Yokai sensibility goes. They're essentially alien (in mindset), so it's interesting to see them depicted that way.
This story is great in various aspects, since Zounose show us how people with no determination (thats how i see them) taste bad, it's so interpretable in several aspects of life.
And well, I prefer this story instead of Sakuya being amputed.
Yep, Soylent purple is people. Welcome to Yukarin's wonderful meat factory! The oompa-loom... Kappa are singing merrily and the... Okay, this is NOT Wonka's chocolate factory no matter how much I wish it were.
I just meant refreshing as seeing it being seriously treated as part of the central theme of a work. We do get the occasional image or reference to them still eating humans but it's rare, for me at least, to see the fact being treated as the normal every day occurrence it probably would be in the overall picture. Like you say, it's often treated as a joke if shown at all.
That's because, even in canon material, it's generally treated as a joke, as well. (Much like Eirin using a Klein bottle in IN's plot to "contain" the world.)
Touhou is a game series where superpowered monsters of horror stories are cute little girls, and after all the nukes fly, all differences are resolved with a tea party. The notion that, somewhere, off-camera, those monsters are still eating people just flies completely in the face of the whole mood of the rest of the series.
Hence, ignoring (or completely writing out) the man-eating is entirely reasonable for fanon to do - it just doesn't comport with the feeling of the rest of the work.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the "Yukari gaps in suicidal people" idea was only for Remilia's blood needs, and I'm still surprised there's no fan work yet that doesn't try to explain that as some sort of cover story Remi spreads to hide the fact that she's actually got a small human village of her own "in her back yard" filled with people with powers from the outside world or something that got taken to Gensokyo with her. It would explain where Sakuya came from in a novel way (she's part of a legacy of servants from this village), and they pay "rent" in blood donations.
