#is that crazy?? i don't know. i'm hearing myself. takashi is the main character lol

[coquelicoq]

when i talk about yorishima as grandpa i'm not saying anything about whether i want him to be grandpa, just whether i think it's likely that that's what the narrative is setting us up for. and it's not so simple as determining whether there are suggestions that he is grandpa (there are) or whether this suggesting is done in a sneaky fashion (it isn't, or at least some of it isn't), it's more, should suggestions made in this particular way by this particular narrative be taken to mean anything? the foreshadowing that yorishima is grandpa is clunky, but given this story's baseline for foreshadowing, is that a point for or against the yorishima is grandpa theory? like is it reasonable to expect this story to very adroitly hide the clues about who grandpa is?

i'm on the fence about it. i'm rewatching s07e01 right now and the within-episode foreshadowing is as obvious as it is possible to be - natsume wonders if the little creature tanuma saw was a mouse, then immediately notices that the clay figurine he made is missing, and yet he doesn't make the connection that the creature tanuma saw could be the figurine, though that is the most logical conclusion and likely to be the conclusion that the audience will draw (since we know this is a story and have certain expectations about story logic and efficiency and relevance and so forth). and in this case we were right to draw that very obvious conclusion. so sometimes we're really hit in the face with what's coming. but i also feel like sometimes the setup for things that are revealed down the road is pretty hidden/offhand. which of these is what is happening in the case of grandpa? i don't know. i can't figure it out. so i'm always looking for clues about who grandpa is but then once i have them i can't actually do anything with them lol.