Why do people think the game is anti-male? Hinako wants to get fucked by both Kotoyuki and Shu. Why do people think the game is anti-natalist? Hinako writes in her journal about the bellies monster "The wonders of birth do not apply to this." Why do people think the game is anti-marriage? Hinako simply wants to marry someone herself, not to be given away like a prize by her drunk father. Why do people think Hinako hates her father? She simply hates his alcoholism.Try to have empathy for someone else for once and put yourself into their shoes. You're 20, 1960's rural Japan, you've got fuck all for opportunity to rise above your station. You are told from a young age that you must devote yourself to a man, because they will do everything to provide for you. But day after day, you witness violence, abuse, alcoholism running rampant, girls disappear from town and are never seen again. The only friend you really have in the world is a boy you grew up with who "doesn't see you as a girl" (even though he desperately wants to fuck you) and he doesn't want to talk to you like one either. You are equals, in play and life. This inspires in you a desire to live freely, away from the towns expectations to be married and live a life of total devotion. But one day growing up, your father was ripped off badly, money stolen, debts incurred, and now that you're grown up, you are to be married off to the local fox deity shrine, the place where (seemingly) all the girls who disappear are last seen.Not only are you to devote yourself to a man, but the man is actually the personification of Inari sama, which is Hinako's deepest fear.A man who will put her underneath his charming spell, to make her think and act in any way he sees fit. Forsake her name and her identity to graft his identity onto herself, arm for her choice, face for her persona, and the brand for her name. This action "kills" herself and her parents, spiritually.Wouldn't you be scared? Wouldn't that be terrifying?
Hinako can see the blood that covers the shrine, but yet she's still completely charmedTerrifying
