Dokahisi Daisuki! Mochizuki-san Chapter 22: The Gag Manga Curdles Into Horror

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 163)

• At this point the cast of this manga could hold a full hearse race.

  霊柩車でカーレースできるじゃねこの漫画のキャラたち

  — @ヤマ丸さん19 likes

• Read a horror manga first thing in the morning, apparently.

  朝からホラー見てしまった

  — @aumaru38 likes

• A manga that's opened up a whole new genre: gourmet horror.

  グルメホラーと言う新領域漫画

  — @ねぎやなぎ64 likes

• It's shaping up to be the gold standard of gourmet horror manga.

  グルメホラー漫画の金字塔になりそう。

  — @ナゴ-x6s21 likes

• The reality keeps creeping in wider and wider……

  リアルが広がっていく……

  — @鴻鵠大志27 likes

• Just realized something — nobody has ever actually seen Mochizuki's reflection in a mirror.

  気づいたのだが、鏡に映ったもちづきさんの姿を誰も見てないんだよなぁ。

  — @akimurasima700142 likes

• The author is one hundred percent saving that reveal for later.

  作者そのネタ絶対温存してる

  — @sin868012 likes

• So… we were seeing Mochizuki through a filter this whole time? That kind of thing has started leaking out lately.

  つまり今までの望月さんはフィルター越しで見ていた？ 最近そんなのが出てきたな。

  — @mogura-n5z107 likes

• Nobody reacts to her sister being just as bloated = that's been her real form all along… is what you're telling me?!

  姉のデブ状態に無反応＝そもそもアレが本来の姿…ってコト⁉

  — @acrisa2120142 likes

• The fact that nobody's shocked seeing the sister swollen up means she probably doesn't look much different from this normally.

  妹が浮腫んでる姿見ても驚いてない時点でこの見た目とあんまり変わらないんだろうな

  — @mtou8886 likes

• Congrats, now that you've figured out the truth, time for a sanity check.

  はい、真実に気づいたあなたはSUN値チェックです

  — @醜女ちゃんネル17 likes

• Ever since that New Year's chapter a while back…

  この前の正月回から・・・

  — @らんらん-b5h8 likes

• Maybe even earlier than that — honestly there's a chance it's been like this since Chapter 1.

  @らんらん-b5h もっと前からか、下手したら1話時点からな可能性もあんだよなぁ

  — @古烏-l5w8 likes

• Mochizuki (true form).

  望月さん（真の姿）

  — @世界一カッコいいハゲ14 likes

• Maybe the way Mochizuki sees herself is the default, and the truth is she's basically a meat bun. Once the spell breaks, the Grim Reaper might finally get promoted to a regular cast member.

  望月さんの自認してる姿がデフォルトで本当は肉まんかもな。魔法が解けたら死神も遂にレギュラー化するかも

  — @イブニ9 likes

• What if the Grim Reaper IS the future, dead Mochizuki, and being forced to watch her own behavior is the punishment.

  死神が未来の亡くなった望月さんで自分の行いを見続ける事が罰とか。

  — @ヨッシーX-v5g36 likes

• Then that section chief, too…

  じゃああの課長も…

  — @カコクキン14 likes

• The scarier read: she notices the swelling, which means she might still think of herself as a skinny big-eater.

  むくみに気付くってことは自認が痩せの大食いだと思ってるかもしれん方が怖い。

  — @flack403 likes

• That's not 'reality' setting in — that's edema from way too much salt.

  現実じゃなくて塩分過多による浮腫では

  — @giko269879 likes

• This chapter was so brutal that an actual doctor on X went out of his way to point out the salt is scarier than the calories.

  医者がXでカロリーより塩分がヤバいってガチの指摘するぐらい今回もヤバい回だった

  — @ばっさりん86 likes

• Someone pointed out she's taking in about a whole shaker of table salt and my blood ran cold.

  食卓塩一本くらいの塩摂ってるって指摘されて背筋凍った

  — @焼蕎麦-m5o30 likes

• That's terrifying… there have been real cases of people dying from too much salt…

  こぇぇよ… 塩とりすぎで亡くなった事件あったやん…

  — @宇宙のすも6 likes

• Over 9,000 kcal in a single day works out to nearly a kilo of fat gained — manga or not, that's gut-destroying territory.

  9000kcal超えってたった一日で脂肪1kg弱増える換算だけど、マンガとはいえ胃腸が壊れるレベル

  — @シェパード-DD34 likes

• What gets me is the body actually breaks down from overeating here. In most food manga the characters can binge however hard they want and stay totally fine.

  これちゃんと食べすぎで身体壊すんだな 大概のグルメ漫画って大概どんな暴食してても身体壊れないのに

  — @黄金愚者25 likes

• A rare food manga where the food is drawn deliciously and yet it kills your appetite anyway.

  美味しそうに描かれてるのに食欲が失われる珍しいグルメ漫画

  — @rol36137 likes

• The tonkotsu ramen looked good and I wanted some for a second, but Mochizuki's transformation killed the craving and then some.

  豚骨ラーメン美味しそうだと一瞬食べたくなったけど、もちづきさんの変貌で湧いた食欲引っ込んでめり込んだ。

  — @片付無理19 likes

• Now I want ramen. A sane, normal amount of it.

  ラーメン食べたいな、常識的な量で

  — @qual156221 likes

• Just like reading Renchan Papa cures you of ever wanting to play pachislot, reading Mochizuki makes the idea of binge-eating feel completely insane.

  連ちゃんパパを読むとパチスロしたくなくなるようにもちづきさんを読むとドカ食いなんてとんでもないとなる

  — @bate-to-to6 likes

• I swear I once saw a comment somewhere calling this "the manga that breaks its own 'most messed-up yet' record every single chapter" — and yeah, it's true. Way too scary.

  以前「"過去一ヤバい"を毎話更新し続ける漫画」てコメをどっかで見たことある気がするけど、これはマジだわ 怖すぎる

  — @眠井-w5k8 likes

• I feel awful admitting it, but I'm reading on genuinely excited to find out whether Mochizuki ends up hospitalized or in the afterlife.

  我ながら最低だが、もちづきさんが入院になるか、あの世に行くのか、結末をワクワクしながら読んでいる

  — @zarashi-v7r9 likes

• Reminder that every chapter so far is just her life flashing before her eyes in her final moments.

  これまでの話、全て末期の走馬灯定期

  — @spy-ptsd7 likes

• If the next chapter opened the "Mochizuki Funeral arc," it wouldn't feel out of place at all.

  次回「望月葬式編」始まっても 何の違和感もない。

  — @-Z-0009 likes

• A series where people worry more about the protagonist's life expectancy than the author's.

  作者の寿命よりも主人公の寿命の方が心配される作品

  — @Uoti06117 likes

• She's speedrunning, right on schedule, the road to being "the woman only the worst possible future suits."…

  順調に「最悪の未来しか似合わない女」の道を突き進んでいる…

  — @ゆう-g6n3o90 likes

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