Ki ni Naru Kare wa #Josou Danshi - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[Shmeep]

Fantastic job and hilarious meme on the final page, thanks for your hard work!

 

[name_go_here]

Gyaru is kind to otakuokonoko.

 

[FloorRoof]

A guy compliments your clothes and makeup. Turns out he really, really, really does like you... your clothes and makeup.

 

[Sinuquera]

god i love this

 

[Jenaxu]

I need more straight yuri injected into my bloodstream

 

[JollyAssassin]

What do you mean one shot? This could be a really nice story!
Only reason it's a 9/10 is because it's a one shot!!!

 

[Vaudevillian]

Sometimes it takes a guy to be best girl, though Kuramichi is also best girl.

 

[medrus_358]

I don't think he considers himself a girl, so using she on the dude only because he crossdress throw me out of focus

 

[Dragon5eye]

The MC doesn't seem to consider him a girl yet either, but imo it didn't feel that out of place because that's not that odd for cross-dressers to use multiple sets of pronouns even in a English context. She was doing it mainly in response to the dirtbags who were mocking him because they clocked his birth sex, so using "she" felt like an appropriate way to spit back at them.

Thank you so much for the translation.

 

[TenmaMakoto]

Getting clocked by the voice is so real...
That was great though, femboy x cute girl is always good

 

[raineight]

Translator apparently messing with the translation. From someone else who read the Japanese:

'the gyaru never refers to Homare as a "she". She always sees him as a male crossdressing, not as a girl.

In the sentence that was translated as "this person" on the last page, she actually explicitely uses "kare" (him) so the translator deliberately made it ambiguous, when in the text she still sees him as male.

The character himself uses "boku", which doesn't say much (some girls use it) but is still a standard male "I".'

 

[Lamiapits]

Translator apparently messing with the translation. From someone else who read the Japanese:

'the gyaru never refers to Homare as a "she". She always sees him as a male crossdressing, not as a girl.

In the sentence that was translated as "this person" on the last page, she actually explicitely uses "kare" (him) so the translator deliberately made it ambiguous, when in the text she still sees him as male.

The character himself uses "boku", which doesn't say much (some girls use it) but is still a standard male "I".'

Yeah that someone else is also misgendering the translator so maybe take that with a pinch of salt.

 

[raineight]

Unless you can show that they're outright lying about whether 'kare' and 'boku' are in the Japanese, that doesn't seem very relevant.

 

[Dragon5eye]

It is relevant considering your analysis of the translation is starting from the point of:

Translator apparently messing with the translation.

Whether or not you meant it, this is implying an intent of deliberate mistranslation from the translator. That kinda plays into the idea of her editing the text to make it seem more queer, which unfortunately plays into right-wing conspiracy stuff like the "Gay Agenda" (AKA queer people are lying to us about stuff to force queer acceptance). You may not have been trying to do that, but hearing that the person you got this from was misgendering the translator points to some bias of theirs acting in bad faith, which further colors the analysis you're parroting in the direction of what I just said (even if its subconscious bias).

To make a point:

'the gyaru never refers to Homare as a "she". She always sees him as a male crossdressing, not as a girl.

I'd say the translation still does this. Using "she" didn't seem super out of place in the situation considering the jerks our MC was snapping back at were being transphobic and that she's about to be making a big scene in public. Like, think about it, Homare was clearly made uncomfortable by these two guys clocking him as a man and being shitty about him; if I were his close friend and was about to start a shouting match with two transphobes, I may not want to further invite the public's attention to seeing my friend as a man in a dress. Within a moment before this she was internally he/him-ing him so I don't think this concretely displays a change in how she sees his gender herself.

In the sentence that was translated as "this person" on the last page, she actually explicitely uses "kare" (him) so the translator deliberately made it ambiguous, when in the text she still sees him as male.

You can use "this person" for cis crossdressers too, I think it's a p normal way to refer to anyone regardless of gender. It's flexible language, I didn't read it as ambiguous at all when I was reading it because I was under the presumption that the MC saw her love interest as a man. You can critique it's use over a more specific term as a creative decision, but analyzing it as being a deliberate mistranslation is kind of a stretch to me. It's just not being as literal as possible, which people don't often do with their translations b/c fully literal translations are p awful to read.

The character himself uses "boku", which doesn't say much (some girls use it) but is still a standard male "I".'

This itself isn't critiquing anything that's been translated so I question asserting it's importance. Personal pronouns don't really come through in translation so nothing's been changed in the love interest's presentation to my knowledge. The other statements were touching on translation choices relevant to how our MC was referring to him not to how he does it himself; that's it's own thing.

There are other ways to read this translation in good faith besides what I've done above, but I don't think the one you forwarded here is included in them. Talking about the choices of individual word translations is interesting to a point, but assuming they're being made deceptively is p bad faith on it's own. If you wanna talk about them without knowing the language yourself you should scrutinize them a bit more before forwarding them to other places without caveats.

 

[japzone]

What do you mean one shot? This could be a really nice story!
Only reason it's a 9/10 is because it's a one shot!!!

I'd take even just a full volume. Just give me a bit more.

 

[CoolOtamegane]

This is the Manliest one shot genre i've read in this year