My survival depends on absorbing your life energy.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

So I was reading the League of Super-Redundant Heroes today, and they came up with a plausible refutation of one of the Sailor Moon tropes ...

[Pata Hikari]

How does this in any way refute magical monsters sucking magical life energy out of people?

[Spica75]

How does this in any way refute magical monsters sucking magical life energy out of people?

It doesn't, but it's still funny.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

How does this in any way refute magical monsters sucking magical life energy out of people?

It equally could suggest youma are human?

[AxelTheBunny]

hmm I actually see what your getting at, the idea Youma are either originally humans, or similar enough to have some form of relation to humans. It could be that youma are similar to the shadows from Persona 5. (as I've been playing through said game) byproducts of distorted human desires that manifest themselves or some type of similar byproduct of the human soul.

[Pata Hikari]

It equally could suggest youma are human?

It doesn't.

They're monsters, demons, evil spirits who feed on humans, etc.

[Spica75]

It equally could suggest youma are human?

Does it? The basic "life energy" concept is so vague that there's nothing saying it must be specific to species.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

If I played baseball, I'd be left field. Since I don't, I'm out of left field.