That ending was a little odd.

Yeah, I can't tell what that was about either...

Damn those hands! It was scary a lil D:

There's an old folk belief, still passed on in a "boogeyman's going to get you" sort of way, that if you sleep with your belly button exposed the thunder god, Raijin, will eat it. And probably the rest of you in the process.

This probably came from the older belief that Raiju, the god's pet, is a shapeshifter that would curl up in a convenient belly button to sleep.

The end though, I think that's connected to the author's other work that suggests that as cute as the Yakumo family is, there's a darker layer deep down, where Yukari is grooming and altering Ran little by little to become her replacement. Read Golden Cutting Line for more on that theme.

^I do remember that being a theme, but only devoting a single weird panel to it doesn't really give us much of an explanation, you know? And Golden Cutting Line was pretty off the wall, itself. Maybe we'll get a doujin that wraps up those threads, though. You never know.

The way I saw it is that Ran is still scared like a child of thunder even if she doesn't show it.

Wooooooooooooooooooooooah, that was good horror setup at end :o

Loved it!

I watched in Ninja Hatori that belly bottons are the source of life and the thunder god steals the belly botton of people who are mischievous or something.

Its blurry since i watched it as a kid.

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