J⇔M - Ch. 37 - A new life begins

[elroid]

After turning mama into normal difficulty, J just got arrogant and dives into a nightmare mode ojousama school manifested with mamas instead

 

[hnp435]

ah which series is that?

"High School Exorcist Akane!". But mangadex deleted all the chapters.

 

[Trin4life]

Cheers for the translation, but, man, the proofreader was asleep at the wheel.

Spoiler: typo corrections

Page 3
"Mei just has to be Mei" or "You just have to be yourself."
"I just have one last bit/piece of advice"

Page 8
"Oof, I sure ate my fill"
"So, it's that old man." (tbh that phrase still sticks out)

Page 9
"It also has a pretty hard boiled and mature feel, doesn't it?"
"Apparently there's no alcohol in this house..."

Page 11
"You seemed like a stubborn and reserved craftsman"

Page 12
"Should I tell her that I'm also a gunsmith?"

Page 13
"I earn a living as a gunsmith."
"Gunsmith?"
"Gunsmith...? What do you mean by that?"

Page 14
"Accumulating daily effort is perfectly normal."
"Always learn upon waking; always stay off the starting line"
"mama thinks megumi has multiple personality disorder, and the kids at school think that she's posessed by a fox spirit, so no problem.

Page 15
"Even if I die, could you leave the repair job to Mei?"

Page 18
"Is life with a mother like this everyday?" (There shouldn't be a , after the a)

Page 19
"Even my classmates noticed what was in my bento..."

Page 22
"You aren't the fox spirit, are you?"

Page 25
"A liver at this age recovers very quickly" or "Livers at this age recover very quickly"

Page 26
"Besides, when I was in Megumi's Body, they picked on me a couple of times"

Page 27
"Hmm... doesn't seem like there're any delinquents either, seems like a nice, quiet place"

Page 32
"What? More annoying nagging" or "What? More of that annoying nagging?"
"To still refuse to greet your elder at that age, that is a tremendous lack of respect."

Page 33
"Do you get it? Shinsei Girls' Academy is a place to train true ladies" or "Don't you get it? Shinsei Girls' Academy is a place to train true ladies"

Page 36
"So these are your true colours."

Page 37
"What good acting... I didn't even notice." or "What a good act... I didn't even notice."

I won't bother bringing up any awkward turns of phrases, since I don't know what was said in the raws.

is cooking sake in japan somehow nice to drink??? I do not remember it being pleasant

J's pretty obviously an alcoholic if what happened to Mary's collection is anything to go by. Anything alcoholic can be bearable when in need, from my experience. Add in how drinking with a picture of a dead friend is hardboiled, I can buy J tolerating it.

 

[outinthegardener]

is cooking sake in japan somehow nice to drink??? I do not remember it being pleasant

Generally not, no. It has added salt. It's the same thing with Xiaoshang wine or cooking sherry. Not the best booze to begin with, but the added salt makes it rough to drink.

Now here, it's explicitly "no salt added" cooking sake, which makes it... regular sake. That's like selling a No-Cheese Cheeseburger. Maybe by packaging it as two different products, they get people to buy both?

 

[farkenell]

"High School Exorcist Akane!". But mangadex deleted all the chapters.

ah yep I suspected it was that one but I hadn't read it in ages so had forgotten about this particular character.

 

[hnp435]

ah yep I suspected it was that one but I hadn't read it in ages so had forgotten about this particular character.

I mean of course you wont remember her, because she was just introduced this year. The translation has been dropped for years, lol. I still read the raw version though.

 

[zetsuravez]

Thanks a bunch for the new chapter... How i miss this series...

 

[Levankua]

Its been so long Ive forgotten who everyone is lmaoooo

 

[Fauntleroy]

The girl holding fan is from another manga, btw. She is pretty funny too.
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What manga is this from?

 

[hnp435]

What manga is this from?

"High School Exorcist Akane!".

 

[DumFck]

It's mama redemption time, sure, she was tough, but she still mothered 3 motherless people, she is changing!

It's an ass move to drink while in a teenager body, c'mon, man

 

[AxeBurningfire]

J is speedrunning ruining this girl's life... But on the other hand, he's starting to deliver some hardboiled lines of his own. Character Development!

 

[sanshoku]

Thanks for the TL. It's one of my favorite manga and mangaka so I'm very glad to see new chapters coming out, and of course it's also good to see new blood in the translation business. Thank you so much for your work.
That said, I'll have to throw some bits of criticism your way, which I hope you wont take badly. Basically please try to mimick earlier scans when it comes to proofreading and writing so you avoid having lines feel like clunky JP-to-English wording.

For instance:

Punctuation would help the "To be honest, I still can't calm down." line
"From today on, this will be Mei's house", the biggest issue is the use of 3rd person which makes sense in Japanese but not in English. "From here on out, this is your house" or something like that.

"Mei just have to be Mei" -> "Just keep on being Mei" or something. You can't just literally throw the Japanese sentence into an English one.

"This is..." I realize the Japanese line in raw is probably something that would literally mean "This is", but once again in English you might want to use something that'd convey the analog idea (being at a loss of words trying to explain things), like a simple "Erm... I...."

These are just broad ideas and random suggestions. Hope I didn't sound like I was complaining too much and more like trying to give some pointers I think might help from my perspective.

Anyway, funny chapter, I didn't think the girls school was a bunch of mini-mamas even though it seems obvious now.

 

[solehuman]

Thanks for the TL. It's one of my favorite manga and mangaka so I'm very glad to see new chapters coming out, and of course it's also good to see new blood in the translation business. Thank you so much for your work.
That said, I'll have to throw some bits of criticism your way, which I hope you wont take badly. Basically please try to mimick earlier scans when it comes to proofreading and writing so you avoid having lines feel like clunky JP-to-English wording.

For instance:

Punctuation would help the "To be honest, I still can't calm down." line
"From today on, this will be Mei's house", the biggest issue is the use of 3rd person which makes sense in Japanese but not in English. "From here on out, this is your house" or something like that.

"Mei just have to be Mei" -> "Just keep on being Mei" or something. You can't just literally throw the Japanese sentence into an English one.

"This is..." I realize the Japanese line in raw is probably something that would literally mean "This is", but once again in English you might want to use something that'd convey the analog idea (being at a loss of words trying to explain things), like a simple "Erm... I...."

These are just broad ideas and random suggestions. Hope I didn't sound like I was complaining too much and more like trying to give some pointers I think might help from my perspective.

Anyway, funny chapter, I didn't think the girls school was a bunch of mini-mamas even though it seems obvious now.

Not at all, i really appreciate you taking the time to explain what was wrong and what could be better, I'm really sorry for all the cringe you had to go through

I'm not fluent in english, but I'll try to be better, cheers

 

[solehuman]

Chapter 38 is technically already done in term of cleaning and typesetting, but I'll let it soak with my friend who knows english a little bit better than me to catch grammatical errors and fix the awkwardness

 

[sanshoku]

Not at all, i really appreciate you taking the time to explain what was wrong and what could be better, I'm really sorry for all the cringe you had to go through

I'm not fluent in english, but I'll try to be better, cheers

Thank you for your work mate cheers and have a good one

 

[solehuman]

I'm in the process of overhauling chapter 37, i have a lot of post-upload regrets for this whole chapter, since the way i aproaches the translation from the beginning are flawed.

 

[MangaRoxas]

Happy to hear you're looking to improve. The extra readability goes a long way.