#akane sumire

[chaikachi]

Chapter 94, huh...

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Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun Volume 21 Promotional Illustrations

[hanako]

2025 advent calendar card illustrations!

[yuisalt]

An illusion

[lyingintheclouds]

round and covered in mud, just like lost raccoons, aren’t you?

pathetic yet adorable…

[yugitsukasadaily]

Feat the rest of the cast

[venxomi]

The God of the Pit and "Happiness"

Today I started thinking about the Pit God and its goals. What we know is that the series is slowly heading towards the destruction of all Yorishiros. Hanako claims that once you destroy all of the Yorishiros, "God" will grant his wish.

That is why he was using the rumors being twisted as a pretext to destroy them. Sakura will also be freed once they're all destroyed. But what does the Pit God get out of this?

Sakura also claims that everything might all just cease to exist. That made me think and think...

In the new present, chapter 120 reveals that it uses captured souls to lure the living and eat them alive, and then trap and use their souls to lure even more people, always wanting more.

Then it hit me. This entity was linked with "happiness" since its introduction.

In chapter 68, Sumire described how the villagers would say that the sacrifices would be granted eternal happiness, and we know that their souls are even now trapped inside the Red House's belly.

In chapter 120 in the new timeline, the Pit God even describes itself this way: "You'll descend to the bottom of the pit, to the land of the gods. This is happiness." It claims that everyone that's eaten up by It is "happy".

This happened in 118 too, when it said through Amane through the other souls that they should be happy, now that 2 new friends will join them. Again in 120, Kou explains that they're all trapped inside the Red House's belly.

Now, what do we know that the Red House is capable of doing? Showing people what they wish for, and what they can obtain in exchange for a sacrifice. How everyone who ever came to the Red House is trapped even now inside it, at the cost of their wish being fulfilled.

In 119 & 120, we can see how Amane's soul is kept in a moment of peace, where he is minding his own business and doing his work. He doesn't seem aware of what's going on at all.

The Seven Mysteries, therefore the Yorishiros, serve to keep the balance between the far and near shores, something devised to replace the practice of sacrificing people to the Pit God, especially after it was sealed. So if they're all destroyed... What if that would mean there's nothing to restrict the Pit God anymore? Nothing to stop it from consuming everything.

That would make Hanako and Sakura's expected outcomes one and the same. Everything will cease to exist because everything will be eaten up by this God, and all the same, the entire world will become something akin to the Red House, fulfilling everyone's desires while forever imprisoned inside its belly, granting them eternal "happiness", just like it's claimed to do.

[mari-lair]

Aidairo said that Sumire have Minamoto blood, which makes sense, the way she looks and acts is a perfect mix of Aoi-chan and Teru, but I have a feeling she was never supposed to be born.

Theory time: Sumire is a bastard child.

Not a single person in the manga calls Sumire "Minamoto", is always "Sumire-sama" and "Kannagi-sama".

When she protected the village people were surprised by her strenght, acting as if she is a surprise powerhouse, a substitute for a Minamoto, not someone connected to them.

The Minamoto clan is very prestigious. Yorimitsu became a legend and till this day, in an era where exorcist are forced to rely on shrines to get any jobs, the Minamotos live in a big house.

It's odd that no one heard about them having a daughter. Is odd that Sumire herself never refer to herself as a Minamoto or even think about 'following the family bussiness' and trying to gain control through exorcism, so I have reason to believe they went out of their way to hide her lineage: No one knows, not even Sumire.

Before we are properly introduced to Sumire, it is implied a Kannagi is mostly raised by their parents at home. It was seen as cruel to give Sumire away while she was only six.

The old man talking to Hakubo assumes the reason Sumire was given away was because of her resentment but Sumire is a very hopeful and educated kid, she is able to cook and clean and run baths at six .

You would expect a thrown away child whose family want her gone as soon as possible to have signs of trauma but she is pretty happy, only showing signs of the horrifying, yet normalized, way girls are trained to grow up too fast. She didn't even see this arrangement as being thrown away at the time, being very excited to 'marry' god.

So this is not a case in which Sumire was so hated they couldn't stand living with her anymore: It's because her lineage was being hidden.

She must have been born from an affair and the parents did not want to have their family reputation tarnished: A Minamoto going outside their duties is a no no, and an Akane, from the pure family that make high quality sacrificial maidens, having an affair is also a no no.

I do not believe a Minamoto ever had a child with an Akane before, because Sumire have special treatment: She is the only Kannagi with protective bell bracelets.

Not a single Kannagi before her was given a bracelet. None.

And that makes sense, a Kannagi is supposed to be given to a supernatural being, so a bracelet made to keep them safe from supernaturals and their influences is dangerous.

We have been shown the bracelet's spiritual energy have the power to snap a kannagi out of their drug transe.

Yet Sumire have not one, but two of those bracelets.

She was lucid when she was sacrificed. Her eyes are full of light, unlike Nene's or Aoi's once they were drugged.

Unless Sumire was someone a Minamoto had some love for, she would not have gotten this fucked up privilege: Despite being a secret, she is still a Minamoto, she got a spoil from her parents no one else got.