Osananajimi wo Erabenai! - Ch. 15 - Karin's Wish

[kwendy]

Karin Machihashi no yuutsu

 

[Vxuna]

she's not dead.

When Karin moved away from Yuu and into middle school, she lost her sense of self as she grew up, for reasons that can happen to anyone.

But I suspect Yuu was her grounding force, and she yearned for the simpler times of childhood that she had, alongside him, and wished for things to go back to that point when she could just be a carefree child without worries or responsibilities, alongside Yuu.

And the crux of the issue is she wanted that return to simplicity and to forget all her worries and anxieties and all the "voices that contradict one another" that are born from that - and the Charm granted her wish after taking her literally.

Hence her splitting.
And so yuu met all of Karin's various "sides", and was supposed to pick the one version of Karin that she would fully manifest as, so she could go back to being untroubled and could just be with Yuu again and be happy.

But Yuu, loves all of Karin, and couldn't pick "just one part of her". Because that's who he loves. And so his wish of seeing her again conflicted with her wish of wanting things simplified at Yuu's hand, and the manga up to this point is the result.

But when that didn't work out, and Yuu accepted all of Karin, all her memories came back, she remembered all the pain she'd been in, and the total Karin scope collapsed, resetting back to what would "grant" her wish most literally - reverting her to her child self from a decade before.

And with that, all the aspects of Karin that were split off and manifested are consigned to be destroyed and erased, so that Karin's wish can come true. And Yuu now has to keep that from happening, so that he doesn't lose the Karin he loves, which is the whole of the sum of all the Karins we've met.

Or at least that's my take on it.

Appreciate that

 

[Vxuna]

Thank you for the all the translation up till now❤️❤️❤️

 

[TransPanda1]

Speaking as someone with OSDD (like Dissociative Identity Disorder but with no memory loss) this is actually a fairly interesting and comprehendable exploration of someone who has a somewhat fragmented mind (but not quite all the way). It honestly sounds like OG Karin had something akin to three stooges doorway syndrome, there were so many nuanced aspects to her mental space that they all got stuck lodged all trying to work at once.

We joked about this before but honestly, this along with the "there was no singular, tragic event" line honestly DOES make us lean a little towards Karin having undiagnosed OSDD 1B. Most people don't realize that C-PTSD, or just repeated mild trauma, can cause OSDD. We help a lot of people with the condition and they often assume they need a bit tragic event to be "plural", when it's often the opposite.

At the very least Karin feels somewhere on the spectrum. And, being a teenager still struggling with her identity, found a way to quite literally personify each of those aspects into their own beings. It's honestly a lot easier for us to comprehend this manga if we interpret each Karin as a previously unidentified alter being made manifest in the flesh. Honestly, Yuu giving them each nicknames is also what we would argue as evidence to this idea.

So. Where to go from there, then? How should Karin grow from this conundrum, of her brain literally wanting to be many different people at once? Perhaps even being multiple people at this point? Honestly... and again, this is speaking as someone deeply experienced with people who are literally that irl just without the body splitting:

We think they should be in one body and take turns.

Alters are like people. They grow, change, and adjust like anyone else. The reason Karin was struggling so hard was her different aspects were all fighting to come out at once. And simply fusing them into one singular being has clearly been portrayed as deeply harmful to Karin's mental state. What needs to happen for anything to happen is to treat "Karin" like an overall shell, a car to drive for each of them.

And again, if you doubt us, we're speaking heavily from experience. The most well adjusted systems we've seen have let their alters grow and change by giving them time to see who they are. And (outside of an expensive fashion bill), it's kind of the only way we see Karin managing to come together healthily while still keeping all the offshoot Karin characters as individuals still. If it's really still gonna go, maybe the charm will keep spawning different aspects of Karin that need to get shlormped back into the "inner apartment" of Karin's head, to keep the fantasy aspect, haha.

 

[Basic_human]

This is so cruel.... Shit

I just read replica can fall in love, about a replica of a person who fall in love and have her own identity but she at the same time have none because she just a copy of the original.

Damn it.... Damn it......

 

[NARESH4444]

Why do scanlators think that,just because there's official English,that there's suddenly a reason to stop?

Any and all reason to stop never existed,whilst any excuses made pale in comparison to the great loss caused by the massacre,we have no other source then the pirate sites,and Mangadex is the most stable,despite their promise not coming through.

There is no alternative,we're reading it here,so keep scanlating 'em until all is said and all is done.

 

[Teasday]

Why do scanlators think that,just because there's official English,that there's suddenly a reason to stop?

Motivation

 

[NARESH4444]

Motivation

How lacking.

But also,yeah,that's just a very poor excuse.

What really happens when an official English version comes out for a Mangadex member on these high seas?

Nothing,we wouldn't even be here if official English was even available as a reasonable price,we still come here and await the next chapter.

Mangadex doesn't rip from official sources,nor do the links to official sources last,what people await for is the scanlators.

Their motivation should be the fact that they are the ones who provide the service for us all,something no official,region locked,overpriced,limited time English provider or Goddamn mobile application can ever stop.

The alternative are even more scurvy pirate sites,that ones that loot the looted booty and smear it in an even thicker layer of barnicles,pop up ads,the massacre already forced plenty for further venture into those dangerously charted waters,we need not landlubbing scanlators push us further upon that plank simply because the British East India company licensed the treasure chest,since we still can't get our hooked hands on that gold despite the "official"-ness.

 

[Teasday]

But also,yeah,that's just a very poor excuse.

I don't know why you think you can read my mind and accuse me of lying, but no, that's literally just our reason. It's very demotivating to "compete" against a simulpub. Our limited time and energy can be better spent working on something else instead.

 

[NARESH4444]

I don't know why you think you can read my mind and accuse me of lying, but no, that's literally just our reason. It's very demotivating to "compete" against a simulpub. Our limited time and energy can be better spent working on something else instead.

I don't know why you can't read what has been typed above,there's literally no competition to speak of.

The official English version exists,do we get it on Mangadex?

No.

Is it sold in everysingle store around the world?

No.

Is it going to be at an affordable price for everyone around the world?

No.

Is the website/phone application it is hosted on available to every country?

No.

If the link is then shared to Mangadex,will it last more then a few months?

No.

Between literally bloody nothing for anyone who is here and your scanlation that every Mangadex user has access to internationally(save for those stuck in real Hell holes)for free,do you honestly think there's something to compete against?

 

[Teasday]

Between literally bloody nothing for anyone who is here and your scanlation that every Mangadex user has access to internationally(save for those stuck in real Hell holes)for free,do you honestly think there's something to compete against?

I did use quotation marks around "competition" for a reason, because I didn't mean it literally, but whether it's available on mangadex or not is completely irrelevant to my answer to your original question, which is why I didn't bring it up and ignored it when you did.

 

[NARESH4444]

I did use quotation marks around "competition" for a reason, because I didn't mean it literally, but whether it's available on mangadex or not is completely irrelevant to my answer to your original question, which is why I didn't bring it up and ignored it when you did.

Your answers were a lack of motivation due to competition.

As established,that is a poor excuse,for there is no competition that can cause the lack of motivation.

Also,it is relevant whether it's on Mangadex or not because that's the whole point.

If the official English was available as easy as the scanlations are,then no one would even care to come to Mangadex nor care that a scanlation was made,no one would ever care about the piracy.

As said twice already,that is not the case,and therefore there is no demotivating factor at all,how can you be demotivated by something that is clearly inferior and has no way to actually reach the ones who want to read it?

Do you really want to be another scanlation group who uses the throwaway lazy statement of "there's official English" as justification for a reason that can't even exist,and creating an end result where no one gets to read it outside of the small subset who are lucky enough to get the official English?

An end result where a comic sits for literal years,with no updates,no finalisation of the story,and readers sitting around unhappy until someone with actual gonads comes along and finishes it by hook or crook,like a true scurvy dog whose sailed the seven seas,whilst y'all get remembered as the landlubbers who couldn't perform when the time actually mattered,is that what you really want?

 

[Teasday]

As established,that is a poor excuse,for there is no competition that can cause the lack of motivation.

Do you just actually not understand why it might be demotivating to work on a scanlation when there's an official translation already out by the time you manage to squeeze out yours, or what on earth is the point of insisting that I'm actually secretly motivated to continue? Why wouldn't I just do it, then? What is going on.

Do you really want to be another scanlation group who uses the throwaway lazy statement of "there's official English" as justification for a reason that can't even exist,and creating an end result where no one gets to read it outside of the small subset who are lucky enough to get the official English?

Brother, we've been doing 100 Girlfriends for years despite there being an official English version. I didn't cite that as our reason because it's not. That's entirely your own imagination. That's what I've been trying to tell you.