Saikyou no Shuzoku ga Ningen Datta Ken - Vol. 4 Ch. 34

[MangaDex]

 

[CountryMage]

Why are Japanese versions of vampires always obsessed with ketchup, do the people of Japan really believe that red tomato is the same as blood, is this why hentai characters drink so much milk, they think it's the same as jizz?

 

[Kevadu]

@CountryMage It's a stupid trope that most authors are too uncreative to even think about changing.

 

[Kayriel]

@CountryMage

It's to make the vampires seem less inhumanly appalling, make them more cutesy and relatable rather than a vicious undying monster that rapes your veins for fun and satiety while treating you like garbage cattle.

This way the loli is someone folks can like, etc.

 

[HDMI1]

@CountryMage Ahem.

Spoiler

 

[Riger]

So the goblins will probably join him and he'll smash the beastmen? Unless they have cute girls. Then they'll both join him, lol.

 

[RWorld]

 

[Hell_Satan]

@CountryMage Not just japan even in western media only its tomatoes.

 

[Glomoro]

People that add ketchup to everything. Pfft, how vile. *wears a smug expression while stirring cayenne pepper powder into ice cream*

 

[Vassago]

Ketchuuuuuuup??? Mowwwwww? Mowwww ketchuuuuuuuppp ???!!

 

[JavelinJoe]

@Kayriel
It also allows for later fake-drama cliffhanger bullshit when she somehow gets "hurt" only to find out all that blood is fucking ketchup because she keeps a bottle on her person AT ALL TIME.

 

[Okaariin]

I am also hungry

 

[elfalas]

I know one of those ketchup maniacs, he added that to everything,including his b-day cake and such.

 

[Gimmy]

Yeah, drink that isekai boy bathwater you filthy animals.

 

[bk3k]

So next a goblin girl joins the harem I see.

 

[CountryMage]

@Hell_Satan i don't know what you're referring to, most western vampire stories have them drinking wine, like the elitist snobs they tend to be, or treating blood bank blood as if it were wine.

 

[Hell_Satan]

@CountryMage https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VegetarianVampire Notice the quote

The really lucky ones can substitute tomatoes, tomato juice, or even the color red.

 

[starburst98]

So harem now has 2 lolis and 4 adult/teen girls.

 

[captain_crunch]

this mc turning into internet girl, selling his bathwater, make million dollars

 

[CountryMage]

@Hell_Satan Adventure Time (guessing that's the source of HDMI1's image) and children's book Bunnicula, I read that one, it was all vegetables, and the third example given is Rosario to Vampire, which is still Japanese.