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Repent. NEETs.

>>12452272
More than /jp/ seems to realize.

>>11599173
Why can't there be more doujins like this?

>>11351204
Given that she's the spirit of a deified Jizou statue placed as Yama by the Celestial Bureaucracy, I'd say that she's fairly close to being sin-free. Besides, she doesn't condemn people to hell for the slightest mistakes.To err is human, as you say, which is why a degree of leniency exists.

I do disagree rather strongly on your implication that the Yama is prey to the base desires that we ourselves are, though. It is her purpose to judge the dead, has a different role in the great wheel of things, and has a different set of sins than we do. For a Yama, being overly lenient would be a sin, as would being overly harsh. She does not sin by sending those she judges black to hell, but fulfills her purpose.

You also make the mistake, I believe, of thinking that hell in a Buddhist cosmology is eternal. No matter how dire the crime, eventually the soul will have been purged and may re-enter the cycle.

It would have been nice if she had given me her Cleansed Crystal Mirror, too. I mean, I can get a rough sense of how sinful the person was based on how heavy the rod of remorse is, so that can guide me a bit. I'll probably end up rubberstamping people into the reincarnation wheel unless I can't actually pick up the Rod of Remorse at all because it's too heavy, in which case they go to hell. If it doesn't weigh anything, they get to become a Celestial.

I figure that's about as good as I can do without the ability to look at their lives or be able to distinctly distinguish black from white.

>>11007978
That we are, anon. That we are. It's a shame no-one listens to her. You'd think that a personal visit from the Highest Judge of the Court of Paradise would warrant more than cursory attention.

>>10567899
I like to think that Shikieiki is the one thing that one be "uncorruptable", if that can even exist. For her to become corrupt isn't symptomatic of a problem with Gensokyo, or of the world; it signals that the very order of existence has become warped and decayed. Her existence implies some sort of Buddhist cosmology, and she, as one of the Yamas, is ordained or appointed by the Powers that Be. If she becomes corrupt, the whole universe has.

Stories where the Yama is righteously angry as fuck and judges THE HELL out of people's asses for mass sinning and bitch slapping them across the face with the raw end of JUSTICE gives me ecstasy.