/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Rolling her wheelbarrow out of the HSE (after breaking another door), the world seemed a little brighter. Turning her attention to the various stalls around the main building, Yuuka decides to peruse them before returning home.

As to be expected some sold food, and others various trinkets. One particularly foolish soul was even selling shirts with 'Welcome to HSE' and a white splatter on them. Strangely though a very large percentage sold booklets and drawings. Unsurprisingly said drawings were of Anon, though they seemed to include other prominent Youkai as well. It goes to show how much this incident has thrown everything on its head. In her day, villagers would never dare draw Youkai so casually.

Approaching one of these stalls, she was met with a mousy woman wearing glasses. Picking up a prominently displayed booklet entitled ‘Puppy Love’, Yuuka asks, “What… what is this?”

The woman must be slow given she repeated the question multiple times while sweating (presumably from intense concentration), “T-This is my… I uhh sell doujin here to people w-who go to the HSE.”

Yuuka blinked at that, “You sell… groups? What do you mean?”

The woman shook her head, “N-No, I uh I sell… like manga and stuff.”

Manga? Ah! Those picture book things with all the fighting that Wriggle likes. Hmmm, she should buy some for Wriggle. That’ll surprise the little bug.

Wriggle probably wouldn’t be interested in something about Wolf Tengu, so Yuuka browses the collection. The covers are often strange, often placing Anon in precarious positions against domineering Youkai. Anon must be one of those underdog characters who defeat the evil Youkai with the power of friendship. Still, it’s strange that no Youkai has taken offense to being defeated by a human yet…

Yuuka freezes as she reads the title of the last manga that she took out, ‘Anon and the Ultimate Sadistic Creature’. The cover depicts her looming over a cowering Anon with cruel eyes, fang-like teeth, and nails akin to claws.

As Yuuka’s hand begins to shake she wordlessly looks over to the deathly still artist who seems to have lost all color in her face. Is this what the people in the village see her as? A monster to be beaten? A sadistic creature? Despite herself, Yuuka opens the booklet. She needs to know what’s inside.

The story begins with her assaulting the Hakurei shrine and presenting Reimu’s severed head to Anon. Far too much effort was put into said head, though it’s not that realistic. After that she mocks him a-and beats him around, all the while tormenting him over the death of his wife.

Looking up at the mangaka, Yuuka is pleased to see her trembling. As she should be for producing this… this awful thing. Drawn back to the story, Yuuka is shocked to see the slanderous character strip and then makes Anon… and then take out the rope and wax… and… and then… Yuuka herself begins to shake as it just doesn’t seem to end.

The final straw came when she grew a massive vine and s-shoved it up Anon’s… Looking down at the hyperventilating mangaka, Yuuka felt her hand tighten involuntarily and crush the doujin. Yuuka’s shaking grew more intense as the manga was crushed ever tighter in her hand. As the mangaka began to pray, Yuuka’s vision began to cloud-

-with tears as she ran away crying, “I-I’m not a monster! I w-would never do that! Why do you all hate me?!"

The startled mangaka, upon realizing she was not dead, quickly began packing up while plotting how to fake her own death to become a hermit.