Touhou Suichouka ~ Lotus Eater-tachi no Suisei - Ch. 73 - Drinking and Sleeping In Are a Fast Track to Poverty (Part 1)

[MangaDex]

 

[IronicWeeaboo]

poor AND rude?
shion stocks plummeting

 

[Vladlad45]

Dang, good work on all the redraws for the sfx in this chapter.

Pyramid? What pyramid?

 

[polarisunique]

It'd be interesting if inviting in Shion actually wards off something worse from the shop.

There isn't really a need to cover the pyramid further in the manga since it would be rereading the same ground as the game. The chapters we got just filled in context for how the rest of Gensokyo perceived it.

 

[Sakuyadorf]

man Joon is adorable
I hope she shows up again

 

[DLRevan]

It'd be interesting if inviting in Shion actually wards off something worse from the shop.

There isn't really a need to cover the pyramid further in the manga since it would be rereading the same ground as the game. The chapters we got just filled in context for how the rest of Gensokyo perceived it.

It does do something. Shion kind of says it herself. You have to appease the kami (god) that brings misfortune like poverty so they don't stick around. Almost all of Shintoism is about recognizing or appeasing such spirits so they bring good fortune or take their bad fortune away.

GSK is quite interesting in that the way incidents and troublesome but powerful youkai are handled is pretty much Shinto in a nutshell. You put up with their antics so they're satisfied, then they and their associated 'thing' generally doesn't cause more trouble for some time. How Shion is being handled here is basically that. You put up with her for a bit, and the shop won't be hit with worse poverty later on, for longer.

 

[talihem]

This will always be a translation pet peeve of mine. Miyoi knows who Shion is, she refers to her with gender-specific pronouns three pages later, but she uses a gender-neutral one here just because the reader doesn't know.

 

[VINT64]

I didn't understand what happens at pages 14-16 at all. Man, sounds in manga are so confusing.

And what pyramid is everybody talking about???

This will always be a translation pet peeve of mine. Miyoi knows who Shion is, she refers to her with gender-specific pronouns three pages later, but she uses a gender-neutral one here just because the reader doesn't know.

it's because japanese is gender-neutral and at this point in chapter they keep a mystery about the the cloaked visitor. You're barking at the wrong tree

 

[talihem]

it's because japanese is gender-neutral and at this point in chapter they keep a mystery about the the cloaked visitor. You're barking at the wrong tree

I'm not unfamiliar with the causes. It's a pet peeve precisely because I keep seeing it handled like this.
Yes, Japanese frequently does stuff like omitting objects. Writers can use that kind of thing for ambiguity, like here. They can do that because it doesn't sound weird in Japanese to talk like that. But, in English, it does. In English, there are different ways of preserving ambiguity. It's not always easy, and settles halfway with stilted language like "that person", but it's preferable to this.

 

[DLRevan]

I'm not unfamiliar with the causes. It's a pet peeve precisely because I keep seeing it handled like this.
Yes, Japanese frequently does stuff like omitting objects. Writers can use that kind of thing for ambiguity, like here. They can do that because it doesn't sound weird in Japanese to talk like that. But, in English, it does. In English, there are different ways of preserving ambiguity. It's not always easy, and settles halfway with stilted language like "that person", but it's preferable to this.

It sounds weird only because of your own subjective use of English. The use of the word "they" is not incorrect or even unusual even if you know the gender, and it has been that way for centuries. Over time the prevalence of use of the word over gender specific pronouns has increased or decreased, or is even different in various countries.

The other poster is right, you're barking up the wrong tree on this. It's really a you problem.

 

[WeaverTVSC]

It sounds weird only because of your own subjective use of English. The use of the word "they" is not incorrect or even unusual even if you know the gender, and it has been that way for centuries. Over time the prevalence of use of the word over gender specific pronouns has increased or decreased, or is even different in various countries.

The other poster is right, you're barking up the wrong tree on this. It's really a you problem.

I can comp this. I didn't even notice that Miyoi used "they" before it was mentioned here