Magical Trans! - Vol. 6 Ch. 64 - Karin's Courage

[MangaDex]

 

[Thorn14]

If I had a nickle for every blue haired TS protagonist who is denser than a neutron star I'd have 2 nickles which isn't a lot but its weird its now happened twice.

 

[Dekker]

The scanlation looked great to me, keep up the fantastic work and thanks for the chapter!

 

[shneepsh]

Any Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun fans get PTSD from this chapter? "I also love fireworks" 🎇🤦‍♂️

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[LordofLeechers]

You know, for someone who aspires to be an evil overlord, glasses guy is a pretty cool bro.

 

[DedBeet]

so close yet so far

 

[dy4y]

You know, for someone who aspires to be an evil overlord, glasses guy is a pretty cool bro.

Telling Minami to go on a straight date instead of a yuri one is one of the most evil things he's done thus far

 

[Lyricanna]

I like how Minami is significantly less dense than most protagonists in that she can at least comprehend the idea of being asked out by Karin. I don't think she really views it as a possibility though, given I don't think Minami has actually realized that girls can like girls.

That said, ooph. I forgot just how strong of gender dysphoria Minami has and represses. She's literally at an amusement park with her best friend, and her first thought was "If I was a girl right now we'd both be happy." The ONLY panels of Minami smiling was her thinking of doing something nice for, and directly caring for Karin. For all that we make fun of Minami for being a somewhat narcissistic trans idiot, she does genuinely care about Karin.

 

[Lunkli]

Poor Karin... At least you got a churro.

 

[LordTartaros]

A single churro... fckin cheapskate

 

[sarusa]

RE the ending note, you are absolutely right, but Japanese is further deliberately rigged against you delivering a confession (even back in the 1100s they must have known this would be vital to the manga industry).

1. As you said, Japanese is very low on pronouns, so it's very easy to mistake what the subject (or object) of the sentence is.
2. 'suki' is deliberately vague, it just means 'like'. Then you're supposed to figure out that means love in this specific instance. But as I'm sure you've seen in other manga, people can just say 'sure, I like you! And I like him and her too, you're all very likeable.'
3. As famously documented (sometimes maybe apocryphally), Japanese men can be so vague (because otherwise they'd have to commit) that 'I love you' can be basically sidling up and making c'mon c'mon motions with your eyes. 'The moon is beautiful tonight' or 'I want to eat your miso soup every day' are famous lines for 'hey baby, marry me'.

So literally all Karin said was 'suki' 'desu', literally 'like', 'it is'. The 'I', 'you', 'churros', 'love' is all implied and subject to misinterpretation (though in this case 'I' is very strongly implied). 'I like churros' was a perfectly valid interpretation of this since dumbass MC has just mentioned churros.

And Japan's manga industry loves it that way.

 

[Terrate]

Minami really tried to mimic the look of a maiden in love 😭

 

[faaresemo]

everyone here lamenting Karin here...
she truly has a tragic love. she likes boy Minami, and Minami clearly has no interest in being boy Minami

and as Lyricanna said, it's so evident by their facial expressions. Karin is having the time of her life, so much so that she's missing out on Minami kinda just cruising through it

 

[AncientWatcher]

Minami, you dense motherfucker.

 

[CuteGothLolita]

everyone here lamenting Karin here...
she truly has a tragic love. she likes boy Minami, and Minami clearly has no interest in being boy Minami.

Just pure speculation on my part, it could be that Karin does some heart, soul, and spirit searching, and comes to the conclusion that she, all along, has been or could be Bisexual. The problem with being romantic to both Minami and Karii Maki; solved.

 

[Ayazel]

I like how Minami is significantly less dense than most protagonists in that she can at least comprehend the idea of being asked out by Karin. I don't think she really views it as a possibility though, given I don't think Minami has actually realized that girls can like girls.

That said, ooph. I forgot just how strong of gender dysphoria Minami has and represses. She's literally at an amusement park with her best friend, and her first thought was "If I was a girl right now we'd both be happy." The ONLY panels of Minami smiling was her thinking of doing something nice for, and directly caring for Karin. For all that we make fun of Minami for being a somewhat narcissistic trans idiot, she does genuinely care about Karin.

what is bro waffling about

 

[MTFish90]

I like how Minami is significantly less dense than most protagonists in that she can at least comprehend the idea of being asked out by Karin. I don't think she really views it as a possibility though, given I don't think Minami has actually realized that girls can like girls.

That said, ooph. I forgot just how strong of gender dysphoria Minami has and represses. She's literally at an amusement park with her best friend, and her first thought was "If I was a girl right now we'd both be happy." The ONLY panels of Minami smiling was her thinking of doing something nice for, and directly caring for Karin. For all that we make fun of Minami for being a somewhat narcissistic trans idiot, she does genuinely care about Karin.

I've kind of been skipping over this chapter in rereads because of how unsatisfying it is for Karin's confession to just be completely missed by Minami, but honestly with this comment and the other comment about japanese grammer I think I'll give this chapter a bit more credit.
Still a shame for Karin to not have a satisfying canon ending to her love, though that's where fanfiction is here for. Someone needs to write a fic where Minami comes out and a trans lesbian and Karin to realise she can love her as a girl, (there's some hints to this being the case with chapter 23 page 11 and a few other chapters afterwards), though I think that author might end up being me lmao.