In this episode of Lo-Fi Apocrypha, we explore Nobara Kugisaki’s cursed technique and the uncomfortable realization that modern fiction may not be as “modern” as we think.

From sympathetic magic and ritual objects to the persistence of ancient symbolic thinking, we look at how old practices continue resurfacing through anime, media, and pop culture. Because no matter how technologically advanced humanity becomes, the old ways never seem to fully disappear.

Maybe they were never gone to begin with.