/jp/ - Otaku Culture

context: high-schooler was pulled into a well by a spirit and spent one week there until rescue
>彼を引き上げたとき、ふのように 柔らかく膨れた肌には手形のような痣がたくさんついていたということです
what does ふのように mean? dictionaries yield nothing
>when they picked him up from the well, ?????? his skin had become soft and bloated, and he was covered in bruises in the shape of hands