Otherside Picnic, Vol. 6: T is for Templeborn ★★★☆☆

Because if you try to do everything yourself, you may find yourself in a situation where you can only do everything yourself.

Very cute for a series that focuses on internet horror stories come to live to have a sort of feature-length special and have it based on a shitpost.

T-san, though, kind of highlights how arbitrary a lot of the monsters in this series can feel. Horror often relies more on vibes than on logic but I am used to horror with more clear thematic thrust in what’s going on than Otherside Picnic tends to have. The trail they follow become a road and then a car full of doppelgängers and then a rollercoaster. Every time T-san “hah!”s people it does something different. There doesn’t seem to be much of a connection to it all other than pulling from different online posts and mashing them together.

This does make more sense for T-san, who is more of a genre than a character as emphasised by his unremarked upon shifting appearance, but it’s how the series has felt for me most of the time, not just in this story.