...or the Fierce Flowers if you're more familiar with that version. Not so much about the team, as about what happened around the planet as the homicidal flowers rampaged. How did people try to protect themselves? What happened economically? Were missing women automatically assumed to be victims of the Jigokillers? In more -- misogynistic -- countries, what happened to women? What were the bloviators saying? And so on. Post on ff dot net or Gatchfanfic. I'm trying to think of something even as I type.

Ooooo, UW - nice idea!

You folks should be able to come up with some good ones. Insurance claim! Oh, god, what the adjusters might do to get out of paying! (Of course, that assumes the Jigokillers really were spread around the world, rather than in a limited area. That they could all fit around a reservoir and could be ordered to move there suggests that Utoland City and neighboring areas were the primary targets. Doesn't mean a few didn't land in Australia, or West Virginia, or the Middle East.)

Going by my male friends there would be an awful lot of relieved widowers

Nasty, Tengu. Given how the Jigokillers operate, they'd be cleaning up a good bit of mess. And they could not sound too happy, lest people think they had sort of 'helped' matters along. The 'Fierce Flowers' of BotP were equal-opportunity carnivores (or so the episode implied). Which means things were even messier than the Gatch episode -- even if they were too cowardly to admit anyone was eaten.