Tengoku to Jigoku: Psychona futari (EP1) (Patreon)

To take credit for her work, the earnest Ayako gathers evidence through her own investigation and identifies a suspect in a murder case. Ayako sets her sights on Hidaka, the president of a venture company, and just as she is about to arrest him, their souls are swapped.

NOTES:

• shingetsu - new moon, crescent moon
• Satsugai jiken - Murder case
• Ryōki satsujin - Bizarre murder
• Renzoku satsujin - Serial murders
• Fuuki iin (風紀委員) - Disciplinary committee member
• Marugai (マル害) A cryptic term used by the police to refer to the victim of a murder. (police jargon)
• A point of contact (POC) or single point of contact (SPOC) is a person or a department serving as the coordinator or focal point of information concerning activity or program.
• Mentaiko - pollock roe. Which originates from Korea. The one commonly known now as mentaiko (karashi mentaiko, after WW2) is a slight modification of its Korean counterpart to adapt to Japanese tastes.
• Maruhi (マル被) suspect (police jargon)
• Gasajo (ガサ状) - warrant
• Kuroi (黒い) - Black (criminal, sinister, suspicious)

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Did you know? The moon was actually supposed to be the sun and the sun was supposed to be the moon. But because he stole the Shakanaro flower... The moon became the sun and the sun became the moon. Their fates have been swapped.

is from the book Anthropos (Greek for human being) on page 87-109 is "The Flower Contest between Two Divine Rivals. A Study in Central and East Asian Mythology."

Full Story:

The sun rises in the sky all day long, but in reality it should be the night moon. On the contrary, the moon at night should be the sun during the day.

It is said that one night, the following happened.

That night, the sun and the moon were sleeping together.

If a Shakanaro flower blooms on the stomach of either of them tonight they promised that the one who bloomed would be the sun in the daytime and the one who did not bloom would be the moon in the nighttime.

"It was on the moon's belly that the Shakanaro flower bloomed."

But the sun woke up first and wanted to be the day sun himself, so he secretly replanted the Shakanaro flower on his belly.

After that, the sun came out during the day and the moon at night.

Since then, the sun, which had done something wrong, now looked like something no one could see properly.

The moon has a beautiful appearance that can be seen forever and ever.

Reference and citation: Kagoshima Prefecture, Kikaijima Folktales

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