#onbusuman

Rin's mind is so powerful the vampire cat boy she imagined is one of the best things I've seen I have no notes thank you Rin.

According to Seiko, Rin is being haunted by an ombusman. Traditionally, that yokai is called the konaki-jiji (crying old man), which takes up the appearance of an old man or baby. It lures people to pick it up, then becomes a heavy stone that crushes its victim to death. No idea where ombusman comes from though. The name for this yokai in the Japanese version is オンブスマン (onbusuman), which may be a combination of "onbu" (piggyback), "busu" (ugly), and man, but who knows lol.

Like, its so fucking obvious how shit gets made to fit the plot that the mangaka wants to write instead of flowing naturally from the shit that was already presented to the reader.

Its what I fucking mean when I say the good guys in Dandadan have Batman levels of plot armor and that the series isn't interested in having actual stakes.

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Like, there's some evidence that it is aware of forms of play that don't involve murder and finds them enjoyable as well. And that it's capable of sympathizing with others.

But that its just a bit of an immature, selfish, and malicious being (as befitting the nature of the type of spirit is it). It only wants to do what it wants to do especially since it now has a physical body, and what it wants is murder for multiple reasons (fun and vengeance).

And we have no idea under what circumstances would cause it to mature if we look at the rest of the young formerly human spirits in the series in comparison. (Evil Eye and Brella boy not maturing at all tho Evil Eye is at least 200 yrs old and Brella Boy might be a decade or less while the Onbusuman is around the same age as Brella Boy but matured into an adolescent as a spirit during her exorcism) And Evil Eye maturing would not necessarily mean it'd become a safer being to be around.