Project Kowai

I Think Ghosts Are Real

115: anon open: ：2017/05/01(Mon)13:07:37 ID:Nqk

242 The following is an anonymous message posted on behalf of a VIP : 2010/01/02(Sat) 20:45:44.68 ID:5e2tTJbD0

I think ghosts are real.

When I was little, I could see my big sister.

She wore the same dirty clothes as me and we lived together.

But one day I couldn’t see her anymore.

Mommy and daddy won the lottery. They told me I had daydreams of a sister because we were so poor.

But now we’re very happy!

Although I heard that the lottery money is almost gone.

123: anon open : 2017/05/01(月)14:42:53 ID:JDH

By the way I don’t understand >>115 could someone explain it to me

124: anon open : 2017/05/01(月)14:46:05 ID:Nqk

>>123

The big sis was sold (or killed for insurance money or organ trade)

So, if the money is running out now, what happens next…

115 ：名無しさん＠おーぷん ：2017/05/01(月)13:07:37 ID:Nqk

242 以下、名無しにかわりましてVIPがお送りします 2010/01/02(土) 20:45:44.68 ID:5e2tTJbD01

オバケって本当にいるとおもいます。

小さいころ、わたしにはお姉ちゃんが見えていました。

同じきたない服をきて、いっしょに住んでいました。

でもある日お姉ちゃんは見えなくなりました。

パパと、ママが宝くじをあてました。

びんぼうだったから、そんなはくちゅうむを見たのだと言われました。

今はとってもしあわせです。

でもそろそろ宝くじのお金がなくなっちゃいそうです。

123 ：名無しさん＠おーぷん ：2017/05/01(月)14:42:53 ID:JDH2

ところで>>115の意味が分からんのやけど誰か解説してクレメンス

124 ：名無しさん＠おーぷん ：2017/05/01(月)14:46:05 ID:Nqk3

>>123

お姉ちゃんは売られた（もしくは保険金殺害か臓器売買）んやで

で、そろそろお金が無くなりそうってことは次は

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  1. The duplication of the user interface elements here isn’t a mistake, it is a transparent indication that the story is being copypasted from an earlier thread. ↩︎
  2. This reply is posted by a different person than the story itself, as indicated by the ID. ↩︎
  3. The ID here shows that this response is posted by the same person who copypasted the story into the thread. ↩︎

This story relies on the readers’ recognition of trafficking and exploitation of children who come from poverty as an ongoing issue (in both Japan and elsewhere), or else some knowledge of a not-so-distant past in which girls were either tricked or sold by their families into prostitution. In this sense, the story directly challenges an image of Japan or the modern times as ”safe” or as having overcome issues of wealth disparity. Selling your child should be unthinkable in this day and age, and yet it still continues to happen. The bleak realization is enhanced by the naive and even childish writing style of the main character: she mostly writes in hiragana, using only kanji at an elementary school reading level. It is the contrast between the childlike innocence and the cynical realization of real-world evils that is at the core of what’s ”scary” in this story.

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