...I'm almost afraid to ask how you know that, but I believe it. Brains are weird. [ Brilliant deduction, Detective Mizumori. Gold stars all around.

Less weird than brains are tsukumogami, which Tama does feel at least somewhat qualified to talk about. ] Tsukumogami usually attain sentience by being well loved and cared for, over several generations...so at least they're kind to humans who treat them with that same respect. I would have expected the haniwa would be the same, being burial effigies from centuries and centuries ago, but I'm starting to assume the ones here aren't actually that ancient. [ He'd rather theorize on if the haniwa were a clever ploy to trick the Japanese lost souls in to seeing them a certain way than dwell on how much his brain feels like it's fossilized inside his skull. ]