Across
- 3. The cursed family line whose dark rituals are tied to the entities dwelling on Mount Nisayama.
- 6. A supportive classmate who gets caught up in the boys' frantic attempts to manage the supernatural.
- 9. The academic term for absolute, radical otherness that the creature embodies when its human mask slips.
- 10. The sacred, weathered structures on the mountain where the ancient rituals to keep the mountain entities sealed were traditionally performed.
- 16. The specific, forbidden mountain where the entity first consumed the real boy.
- 17. Cohen's fifth thesis, mapping perfectly onto Mount Nisayama, a forbidden space where human curiosity is violently punished by transformation.
- 18. The paralyzing emotional state that drives the protagonist to accept a monster rather than face absolute loss.
- 19. The mercenary investigator sent by a mysterious company to hunt down the entity masquerading as a student.
- 20. The distinct, non-Kansai regional speech pattern the entity perfectly mirrors to blend into the community.
- 22. The specific, unsettling nature of the bugs and spirits that begin invading the village after the entity descends.
- 23. The constant, deafening summer insects whose buzzing creates a oppressive auditory backdrop to the horror.
- 24. The cheerful boy with a snaggletooth who went missing on the mountain and died before the series began.
- 25. The serious, dark-haired protagonist who carries the psychological burden of knowing his best friend is gone.
- 27. Cohen's first thesis concept, proving the entity represents the specific anxieties, isolation, and hidden histories of Kubitachi village.
Down
- 1. Cohen's second thesis rule, seen when the entity shifts its amorphous shadow form to constantly evade true capture or understanding.
- 2. The unique, highly unusual visual sound effects used in the manga panels to amplify the uncanny atmosphere.
- 4. Cohen's sixth thesis concept, capturing how the protagonist is simultaneously terrified of the monster yet deeply attracted to its presence.
- 5. Cohen's third thesis, defining the entity's unsettling refusal to fit cleanly into the binary lines of alive or dead, human or monster.
- 7. A neighboring village wrapped up in the historic, dark folklore and supernatural calamities of the region.
- 8. The cheerful, perceptive classmate with a rare ability to sense the supernatural anomalies around the boys.
- 11. The ancient, eldritch deity name whispered by the village elders, tied to the dark history of the mountain.
- 12. The isolated, tightly packed village in Mie Prefecture where the characters are trapped by social pressures and myth.
- 13. The footwear left behind on the mountain that served as the grim, physical proof that the original boy never actually came home.
- 14. The strange spirit-sensing pet used by the investigator during his supernatural tracking.
- 15. The humid, summertime community gathering where the visual masks of normality start to fracture.
- 21. The state of being on a threshold, describing both the village borders and the psychological space the protagonist inhabits.
- 26. The symbolic fluid and anatomy imagery used to show the terrifyingly intimate, non-human nature of the creature.