Status Updates From Tono Monogatari

The chapter on foxes opens with someone murdering a fox for no good reason :( poor baby

Maybe all these people should have just pooped in the woods and not followed the ghosts to strange and mysterious places. Did they ever consider doing that?

CW: girl and horse get married and uhhhhhh how do I put this delicately...have a good time in the hay. WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO DRAW THAT? EWW GROSS ICK BLEH. WHAT THE HECK. Yes this is real. It's not super graphic, but still. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Foxes stuffed dirt in the hunter's gun to avoid being hunted. Good foxes

Ok so why did he have to draw the monkey like that? Monkeys don't even really look like that. All the other monkeys look like normal monkeys except that one monkey. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, good. It's better that you don't know. I did not need to see that.

Having a modern map is sometimes helpful, but often the names used are older names that aren't on the map. Most of the mountain names are the same, so I can get an idea of what region each tale is from, but even then, sometimes they don't reference the mountain.

I had no idea that much of Japanese folklore was almost lost in the early 1900s. I have much to learn about the world.

#the52bookclub #20 A FAIRY TALE RETELLING