#they can fuck him up but don’t take him away aidairo pleaseee

[tsutsumi-kurose]

Have you read chapter 118?

I have!! sorry this response is coming so late, I was sick this week, but I’ve been really excited to talk more about the latest chapter!!

i really loved this chapter for a lot of reasons, but one thing that really piqued my interest was all the visuals we got that remind me a lot of early broadcasting club scenes!

this clock (?) in the room kou and mitsuba wake up in looks like it's from a similar technological era as/has a similar design to the radio tsukasa and sakura use to spread rumors:

the tendrils covered in eyes coming from amane kind of resemble the eyes on mistuba's school mystery form:

the creatures trying to get mitsuba and kou to leave most prominently only have mouths and hands, which is very similar to the imagery used when sakura and tsukasa turn mitsuba’s ghost into something new using the power of rumors, and of course the hands that help supernatural mitsuba find and contact yashiro

the tea party room is also full of these similar eyes and mouth and hands

i love how similar the red house visuals are to the broadcasting club visuals. it makes me feel like there’s a strong connection between the red house and the school, and the school mysteries specifically. it also makes me wonder if sakura may be connected to the red house, given that she plays such a big role in the rumor spreading and the tea party.

I'm also really interested in the way these creatures in chapter 118 seem to be interested in (supposedly) helping mitsuba specifically... it reminds me of how the hands helped supernatural mitsuba find yashiro

when the two first meet, mitsuba says the hands are "extensions of the school mystery who lives here," ostensibly talking about the hell of mirrors, but what do hands have to do with the hell of mirrors? if anything, don't they have more to do with whatever this space was?

and with tsukasa's design for supernatural mitsuba?

which makes me think the hands have more to do with mitsuba specifically, perhaps because he was made by tsukasa… potentially even made using the red house/enitity’s powers, given all the similarities between the latest red house imagery and mitsuba’s design

the way mitsuba touches the hand so gently and seems to consult it in that panel from the hell of mirrors arc is especially striking. the touch makes it seem like mitsuba almost has a familiar relationship with the hands. it would be so so cool if this meant mitsuba has some sort of connection to the creatures of the red house. it’s not out of the question that ghost mitsuba was warped by the entity’s or the house’s powers when tsukasa and sakura spread his rumor, or that supernatural mitsuba was created with the entity’s or the house’s powers—so it may be possible he has a connection to the red house or any of its current inhabitants in some way!! I think that would be really interesting. anyway here’s how mitsuba can still get out of this alive—