Mimi's Ghost Stories part 2

[kamino_neko]

Continuing my Hallowe'en-lead-up posting of Mimi's Ghost Stories, the first of which is here. I've skipped the second, just because...it just isn't very good. It's a 2 page story, done in 10, really. So, I skip to the third.

So, after the events of that first story, obviously, Mimi wants a new apartment. So, let's take a look at her new place.



Oh, Mimi, honey... With your luck, do you really think this is a good deal?

In any case, her boyfriend, Naoto comes over, and she tells him about the graveyard, and they go out into it because...because...well, because there wouldn't be a whole lot of story if they didn't. Mimi doesn't like it, but, they do it, anyway.




She hears a noise, and gets spooked. So, she looks out the window (Dammit, girl! Never look! If you don't see the ghosts, they can't get you!) and sees... Nothing. Because it's the dead of night and too dark to see.

So, the next morning....





She looks outside and sees Hitodama...the next day, she tells Naoto about it...



But, of course, all she ever sees when she looks outside is darkness, or the occasional hitodamabit of burning phosphorus.

And Naoto, being rather less inclined to credit supernatural explanations than Mimi, thinks she's imagining things. To prove she's not, she takes him out into the graveyard and shows him the turned gravestone... He spots another, then...



What? Naoto? What is it?



Oh, how creeptastic....



Mimi's really got a talent for picking strange neighbours.

So, Naoto and Mimi decide to wait until night, and try to see what the heck is going on with the graves.... At about 2, they hear the graves moving again....




Why, indeed, Naoto?

The two of them confront him, to try to get an answer...they mostly just spook him, and he ends up getting picked up by the cops...

So, anyway, after he gets back...



... Yeah.

Of course, this wouldn't be Mimi's life if things didn't go all pear shaped eventually, so there's another 10 pages after this...which I can't post, due to page limits. Read the book and find out what happens next!

Now, of course, it's time for another episode (or two) of Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro. Sadly, if this one was adapted, I've not seen it, so, let's go with a thematic connection...that connection is 'WTF?'

And another one, just because.

13 pages out of 40.

Comments

[silverzeo]

Oh God, if I was a ghost, I would screw that douche-jock up something royal, like decrease his muscle mass or give a pot belly to throw off the "perfect bod" of his.... what about the mound?

[kamino_neko]

It really was a burial mound...when they spook the neighbour and he runs off he steps on it, and it collapses, dropping him in with the skeleton inside.

[ulf_boehnke]

That must have been a shallow grave

[silverzeo]

And let me guess, because he wanted so much attention, the skeleton doesn't let him go?

[kamino_neko]

Nah...the skeleton was a perfectly normal, standard issue, non-mobile dead person. It just creeped everyone out a bit.

[silverzeo]

Oh... so how does he guy get "spook" at the end? Was he really a ghost afterall? I know I am askign to be spoiled, but I don't think they have the book in my stores.

[kamino_neko]

The dude is forced out of the apartment by angry relatives of the people whose graves they are.

It's Mimi who suffers the supernatural problems...her neighbour simply suffers completely natural ones.

[silicone_soul]

Why? He was just doing a little community service for all those bored dead ladies (and gents). Like reading for the elderly, only with less brain strain!

[silverzeo]

I know, it seems like you get what you wish for, and he wants to dead to admire him.

[kamino_neko]

The spirits in these stories are less about 'you get what you deserve' and more about 'you're here'.

Both in this version and the television version, so presumably in the source material, more often, the basis is 'Someone (Mimi, in this case) happens to wander somewhere where weird stuff is happening. They may be killed.' Much less common is 'someone does something and suffers supernatural consequences for it'. Even heart-warming stories are about as common as that kind.

[chaobell]

HUP

HURRR

Dying of lulz now, thank you.

[icon_uk]

Mimi's dating Shaggy's prettier little brother? Who knew?

[kamino_neko]

Hah...something about Naoto's beard was bugging me...I think you've just nailed it.

Zoinks.

[baihu]

Jinkies!

[punishermax]

I love Ito's art style. It's like, you see one panel and you immediately think "Well fuck, this isn't going to end well." Way to own your style man.

[meatwhichdreams]

Well fuckin' put. I never thought of it that way, but you are so right. Every line drips with dread and horrified anticipation and I loooooove it even though I usually am not affected by horror stories. His style is so unique.