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Warning : Spoilers for Ghost Reaper Girl chapter # 37AShonen Jumpmanga calledGhost Reaper Girlwhich draws intemperately from HP Lovecraft’sCthulhuMythos has taken a dramatic turn using two Lovecraftian monsters that Lovecraft himself did n’t invent . Ghost Reaper Girlrecently resume serializationin Shonen Jump ’s Manga PLUS internationally and Shonen Jump+ in Japan after a more than yr - long hiatus .
In chapter # 37 ofGhost Reaper Girlby Akissa Saiké , the champion Chloe Love drinks a toxicant from Hastur , the chairwoman of her supernatural employer , but Hastur ’s high - rank companion , Pope of West Capital Church Bastet , is compelled to try and spare her .
The poison , promise the Drops of Decay , eat the drinker ’s soul until they become a creature of Hastur . Hastur had intended to trick Chloe ’s Quaker Kai Iod into drinking the poison due to Kai possess the Silver Key that can launch the logic gate of Hades anywhere and for recently succumbing to his alternative ego , the Yog of Destruction . However , Chloe heroically stepped in to save his life - at the expense of her own .
Ghost Reaper Girl Expands Lovecraft With Hastur & Bastet
This development is quite a geological fault in the overall story . Chloe has mostly hunt ghosts with her spirit friends under the alert center of managing director Nyarlathotep , but now they are all at the mercy of two new part who divvy up the namesakes of Lovecraftian monsters , Bastet and Hastur . The fact that Bastet and Hastur dish as the current patch ’s main driver is challenging since HP Lovecraft did n’t make them , though they do appear in theCthulhuMythos to some degree .
Hastur is actually the creation of generator Ambrose Bierce . Lovecraft was so enamored by Bierce ’s so - called god of shepherds that he let in the name in his news report " The Whisperer in Darkness , " though it was only mentioned in passing as an equivocal entity . Hastur would only be fleshed out later on by Lovecraft ’s inner set , and it ’s clear thatGhost Reaper Girlis work more so by their renditions of him than what Lovecraft wrote . Meanwhile , Bastet is based upon the actual Egyptian feline goddess of the same , and she only appears in a myopic story by the Lovecraftian source Robert Bloch . Lovecraft never actually included her in any of his whole caboodle , either , though he did save extensively about cats and the supernatural , like in " The Cats of Ulthar . "
Ghost Reaper Girl Expands Lovecraft’s Mythos With New Ideas
Although this is n’t the first time thatGhost Reaper Girlhas featured characters based on other Lovecraftian authors , these two are by far the most important , and their grandness clearly shew that mangaka Akissa Saiké see the work of every Lovecraftian author as canon .
Much like how Hastur and Bastet are n’t rigorously Lovecraft ’s creations , Hastur ’s Drops of Decay do n’t seem in any of his works . In fact , it is n’t a condition in Lovecraftian mythology at all . However , Lovecraft did write about poison , like the meteorite that contaminates the soil in " The Colour Out of Space . " The concept of decomposition is also prevalent in his works , like the line , " That is not deadened which can everlasting Trygve Lie , And with unusual aeons even death may die , ” from " The Nameless City . " This , and other original creations , are trial impression of mangaka Akissa Saiké ’s blaze . AlthoughGhost Reaper Girlis deep inspired byCthulhu , the manga is very much one of a variety .
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