Boku no Ikezu na Konyakusha - Vol. 3 Ch. 13

[Edgecutter]

Mm. As a half-blood myself, this chapter hit me harder than I expected it to. I'd say these feelings of alienation, and frustration are something every halfie goes through and is necessary to develop your own identity. You'll never truly belong to either side, but you can always stay true to yourself. Doesn't mean you'll always like it.

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[RhyeBread_]

In most scenarios I'd say a change away from a proper font to Wild Words is a downgrade. It's a perfectly fine font, but since it's so widely used, it lacks character and automatically adds blandness.
(I say this as someone who uses WW.)

Honestly, true as hell. There's for sure some panels where I stare and rethink my decisions... I might make yet another font change, not sure yet. But definitely not back to Manga Master, it's way too damn thick...

 

[Encyclopedium]

Damn the otherism really bites this chapter. That's some alienation right there.

On the other hand, all of our characters have some real, true to life depth. That's some damn good story telling.
Is her bubbly personality then a cope for all the loneliness & alienation?

rather self-aware of the author on that matter of Japan & their relation to foreigners

 

[AnimuVsMango]

Of course her dad is white and her mom was japanese, even in their own fiction they can't help but cuck themselves 😭💀

isn't japanese

surprised when people don't treat her as japanese

LMAO keep up the copium

 

[Kaarme]

that's sad flashback. she no longer has mother, her father works abroad and rarely comes home, and her home life is lonely even though she lives with her grandmother. at least marry has miyuki as her best friend

No, the dad is not abroad, she is. She's the exchange student who left home to see her mother's country of origin.

 

[nihaoma11]

Thanks for the chapter but damn this feels pretty depressing for such a bubbly person

 

[saili6]

feels so odd to me seeing canadians of all people making fun of someone for their accent or “intonation”
maybe it’s just cause i’m a city kiddo, but here, it’s so damn multicultural that nobody in their right mind would make fun of an accent
or maybe it’s just cause they’re children, but i doubt making fun of accents would fly even in elementary lmao (or they’re the hicks)

 

[toru_okada]

But also very Japanese; as a culture, they tend to treat it like a club you'll never really be part of if you aren't from there.

But chapters like this proves that Japan's not a monolith and that there are people who actually have different opinions on cultural things.

 

[WaterSoluble]

feels so odd to me seeing canadians of all people making fun of someone for their accent or “intonation”
maybe it’s just cause i’m a city kiddo, but here, it’s so damn multicultural that nobody in their right mind would make fun of an accent
or maybe it’s just cause they’re children, but i doubt making fun of accents would fly even in elementary lmao (or they’re the hicks)

I had the same reaction.

It also feels written by someone with little experience in how fast kids learn languages. Any immigrant kid that transferred to my school in elementary school could speak perfect English within a year. A kid being raised here but not speaking good English because her mother only spoke Japanese at home is just wild.

 

[saili6]

I had the same reaction.

It also feels written by someone with little experience in how fast kids learn languages. Any immigrant kid that transferred to my school in elementary school could speak perfect English within a year. A kid being raised here but not speaking good English because her mother only spoke Japanese at home is just wild.

well now that you mention it, that definitely makes no sense

first and foremost, if canadian english was her first english, she'd have learned it by the end of like, two years of school, tops (unfortunately my evidence for this is entirely anecdotal, being raised in a mandarin-speaking household, but i'm sure i could find a study if i dug deep enough)

if, for some reason, she learnt some other dialect of english first, as long as interaction w/ canadian english occurs before ~8 years old, she'd also acquire canadian english
there are plenty of case studies on this matter, such as Chamber 1992 (which i can't for the life of me find a copy of? but my sociolinguistics prof cited it way back when so i'll trust him on that matter. UPDATE: i found it, i was just searching under jack chambers instead of jk chambers, his pen name), Tagliamonte & Molfenter 2007, and Trudgill 1986
tbf all these case studies have to do with children moving from one english speaking country to another (canada to england, ottawa. canada to york, uk, and britain to australia respectively)

in conclusion, children acquire language bloody fast, don't underestimate them