Boku wa Konyaku Haki Nante Shimasen kara ne - Vol. 2 Ch. 11

[halcer]

thanks for the chapter!

 

[Umbrecola]

I recently learned that in "Romeo & Juliette", Romeo was engaged or been courting Juliette sister before or at the beginning of play. Then he fell in love at first sight with Juliette when he saw her at the party.

I guess casual people had misunderstood the true context of the story and believed it to be romance instead of tragedy that the author intended it to be.

Rosalind is Juliet's cousins not sister

 

[Salfaro]

In an earlier chapter, they also saw Hamlet and Serea didn't know it was from Earth either. Denmark (Hamlet) and Italy (Romeo and Juliet) are IRL contries

Yeah, when I said "at first" I was actually thinking about Hamlet, I had forgotten that the first play she saw was Hamlet (not Romeo + Juliet).

 

[Yunefia]

The though bubble is too much of a pain to clean, but it would make a nice reaction:

I should learn to read more slowly...

 

[BlackElite]

that journey to the moons is very literal. . .

Yeah, I thought it would be the Japanese folklore about the moon princess, but instead we got Apollo-11 mission...

 

[Claresilver47]

I recently learned that in "Romeo & Juliette", Romeo was engaged or been courting Juliette sister before or at the beginning of play. Then he fell in love at first sight with Juliette when he saw her at the party.

I guess casual people had misunderstood the true context of the story and believed it to be romance instead of tragedy that the author intended it to be.

A lot of people only read the sparknotes. The vast majority of Shakespeare's plays are a comedic tragedy hence why I said "emotional and stupid people dying stupid deaths" because that's what they are. Romeo & Juliette is actually the epitome of the comedic tragedy and you're supposed to be laughing at how these two idiots killed themselves because they're so dramatic about everything and never bothered to talk things out

 

[sketchy333]

why is this author such a shakespeare hater? very funny to keep trotting out your beef with the most popular playwright of all time (especially when the characters' criticisms come from a very superficial reading.)

that’s what i’m saying!!! in-universe it’s fine for serea to interpret R+J superficially since she passed away as a child, but on a meta textual level the opinions presented are no better than a 3am tumblr text post 🫠 it’s ballsy for the author to tell us that the two most famous works of the most famous playwright in western literature were “actually kinda lame tbh” 😭

 

[sketchy333]

A lot of people only read the sparknotes. The vast majority of Shakespeare's plays are a comedic tragedy hence why I said "emotional and stupid people dying stupid deaths" because that's what they are. Romeo & Juliette is actually the epitome of the comedic tragedy and you're supposed to be laughing at how these two idiots killed themselves because they're so dramatic about everything and never bothered to talk things out

i dont know if laughing at romeo and juliet is actually the intended effect because the play presents some really crazy tragic outside casualties (like mercutio cough cough). the play presents it all as a tragedy because of the foolishness of the two lead characters. multiple people got murked because of the mistakes of two lovestruck buffoons, and though ymmv i’d say that qualifies as tragic and not comedic 😅

 

[Luke_chase]

Five more chapters huh

 

[Claresilver47]

i dont know if laughing at romeo and juliet is actually the intended effect because the play presents some really crazy tragic outside casualties (like mercutio cough cough). the play presents it all as a tragedy because of the foolishness of the two lead characters. multiple people got murked because of the mistakes of two lovestruck buffoons, and though ymmv i’d say that qualifies as tragic and not comedic 😅

A lot of Shakespeare's works are their version of satire. It's a tragedy of their making and it got there in the dumbest way possible. A lot of his works openly mocks the upper class

 

[Anything_Random]

i dont know if laughing at romeo and juliet is actually the intended effect because the play presents some really crazy tragic outside casualties (like mercutio cough cough). the play presents it all as a tragedy because of the foolishness of the two lead characters. multiple people got murked because of the mistakes of two lovestruck buffoons, and though ymmv i’d say that qualifies as tragic and not comedic 😅

If you're ever seen the actual play in production you would understand how comedic it is. Everything about it super over the top, the main characters are always acting like idiots, a lot of the side characters are caricatures. There's a lot of laugh out loud moments.

 

[bladahbla]

In an earlier chapter, they also saw Hamlet and Serea didn't know it was from Earth either. Denmark (Hamlet) and Italy (Romeo and Juliet) are IRL contries

You mentioning that Denmark and Italy are real is so funny to me for no reason.

 

[RamenRider]

why is this author such a shakespeare hater? very funny to keep trotting out your beef with the most popular playwright of all time (especially when the characters' criticisms come from a very superficial reading.)

This criticism is somewhat valid even if they failed to realize that their criticisms were kinda the point. The entire play is a series of entirely preventable disasters. Romeo is a fuckboy. Juliette is a sheltered princess easily seduced by the first man that comes her way because she’s sheltered and naive about the world. Mercutio cursed both families because he realized they were acting stupid over nothing. The two families were so concerned with their beef that they tore up the city killing each other and lost the most prized members of the next generation to a senseless conflict. It may not be a complete farce, but it is farce adjacent.
TLDR the joke flew over their heads because they didn’t realize it was a jokes instead of something to take seriously.

 

[d_a_renoir]

First Hamlet and then Romeo anf Juliet, but the reincarnated girl hasn't noticed anything?! Like did her world not have Shakespeare? Or she just never read it?

 

[blackLuna]

And with this, vol 2 is done. There's still one more extra chapter, I'll do it in two or three days time and after that, I'll take some break for two or three weeks, I'm quite busy with college stuff. Thanks for reading and thank you for your support!and don't forget to check my ko-fi page 😉

So no translation of the omake?

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First Hamlet and then Romeo anf Juliet, but the reincarnated girl hasn't noticed anything?! Like did her world not have Shakespeare? Or she just never read it?

Even if she hadn't read it, the plot is so widely known and reused that anyone, at least anyone above the age of thirteen, from the 1st world would know of it.

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In real life, Romeo and Juliet was written years before Hamlet.

And yes, it loses a fair amount of its pathos in how much of it could have easily been avoided. As far as its aesthetic/literary content goes, what's important is the feud and its effects on the populous of Verona, not that the leads are reckless hormone-driven teenagers.

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

"We think she's Reincarnated too"

:Opens a Literal 7/11:

You think?