Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight! - Vol. 14 Ch. 92 - Secret Ambition

[MangaDex]

 

[spectralSpices]

WHAT?! IT'S BACK?!
EROTIC FEMALE BAKI IS BACK?!?!?!?!

 

[Arikado]

What a chapter....
Also Saras boy is 2 years old now? Damn... What timespan did this manga cover thus far? Misora has gotta be in her mid to late twenties by now... .-.

 

[hypo]

Again, you upload an official release?
This is from the Seven Seas english release...

 

[SuperOniichan]

From what I've heard about the latest volumes, Rui has finally abandoned the original premise and any coherent lore in favor of pure fanservice, but I don't think many will complain about that. I don't know how long this third or fourth translation attempt will last, but I'll try to keep an eye on it.

P.S. More than 6.5, haha. The tournament arc and its hype continue to work to boost the manga's ratings. I still remember when the rating was below 5.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Again, you upload an official release?
This is from the Seven Seas english release...

Wait, this isn't even a fan translation, just an official translation of a chapter from a further license? I know that SS has already published subsequent volumes, but I didn’t think that someone would literally post the translation itself here.

 

[nxneil13]

Again, you upload an official release?
This is from the Seven Seas english release...

This has an offical release?!!
it is very surprising to see what mangas get an offical translations and which don't.

ngl i thought the scan group just dropped it,

 

[SuperOniichan]

This has an offical release?!!
it is very surprising to see what mangas get an offical translations and which don't.

ngl i thought the scan group just dropped it,

This manga was officially licensed under a separate imprint for erotica/borderline softcore pornography about two or three years ago. They were the ones who came up with the localization of "Booty Royal", by the way. A translator worked on the translation for a while, as the differences were quite significant. But since the official release published two volumes at a time, about every six months, at some point they finally caught up with us and the translator stopped. However, by this point, fan translation was still very irregular due to their personal IRL business.

 

[SrNevik]

From what I've heard about the latest volumes, Rui has finally abandoned the original premise and any coherent lore in favor of pure fanservice, but I don't think many will complain about that. I don't know how long this third or fourth translation attempt will last, but I'll try to keep an eye on it.

P.S. More than 6.5, haha. The tournament arc and its hype continue to work to boost the manga's ratings. I still remember when the rating was below 5.

It's still about battling, that hasn't changed in the new chapters. Is that what you mean? I don't feel like much is different. There's always random chapters thrown in there. They're currently in another major tournament/battle.

 

[SuperOniichan]

It's still about battling, that hasn't changed in the new chapters. Is that what you mean? I don't feel like much is different. There's always random chapters thrown in there.

What I'm getting at is that when the author went on a temporary hiatus a couple of years ago, he openly admitted that at some point he gave up on any plot or subplot and was simply looking for any way to give readers as much fan service as possible. The manga always had an overarching plot with some ideas (Who killed Misora's father, will she be able to protect her honor from becoming a porn star/sex weirdo, etc.) and even a well-known attempt at a classic battle shonen tournament arc at one point. But while this was the manga's main selling point among Western audiences, the Japanese audience clearly demanded a return to "random" chapters with weird sexual comedy. Rui has always been a rather quirky author, but this time, it seems, he was a bit disappointed.

 

[SrNevik]

What I'm getting at is that when the author went on a temporary hiatus a couple of years ago, he openly admitted that at some point he gave up on any plot or subplot and was simply looking for any way to give readers as much fan service as possible. The manga always had an overarching plot with some ideas and even a well-known attempt at a classic battle shonen tournament arc at one point. But while this was the manga's main selling point among Western audiences, the Japanese audience clearly demanded a return to "random" chapters with weird sexual comedy. Rui has always been a rather quirky author, but this time, it seems, he was a bit disappointed.

Oh, well what I'm saying is it's still battle shounen with fan service. That hasn't changed. They're still mostly fighting, with random chapters mixed in. The old plot about the father and stuff definitely got thrown out but this fighting stuff has stayed. The recent chapters have been all build up to fights and now currently in a few of them. The battles are still good.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Oh well what I'm saying is it's still battle shounen. That hasn't changed. They're still mostly fighting, with random chapters mixed in. I don't think it's changed much since these old chapters.

It was never a battle shonen in the true sense of the word; by the author's own admission, it's a mix of softcore pornography and MA action. But then again, it's all very subjective. If you don't notice the difference between the manga before a certain point and the current one, then I'm not going to argue on principle. Even if the author himself explicitly states so.

 

[SrNevik]

It was never a battle shonen in the true sense of the word; by the author's own admission, it's a mix of softcore pornography and MA action. But then again, it's all very subjective. If you don't notice the difference between the manga before a certain point and the current one, then I'm not going to argue on principle. Even if the author himself explicitly states so.

Well yes it's not a real battle shounen, but I assumed we both already knew that. My main thing is the flow of narrative isn't very different. Have you been reading the current chapters? Do you see a major difference? I think there was a point where a few chapters were random for a while but it's gone back to fights and never really abandoned them. I think Rui always enjoys doing more than just fan service so he eventually falls back into creating something with a bit more purpose. His older yuri series Mikarun X is a bit similar in that way.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Well yes it's not a real battle shounen, but I assumed we both already knew that. My main thing is the flow of narrative isn't very different. Have you been reading the current chapters? Do you see a major difference?

I followed this manga from the first volume until about 15 or 16. The idea of fighting/sex as such hasn't changed. What changed was the plot and narrative, they practically disappeared as such, turning an action manga with porn into porn manga with action. But then again, I don't know what we're arguing about. The author himself openly admits that at some point he simply abandoned the development of the plot or any narratives, simply switching to finding reasons for this or that fan service or sex scene. It's basically like Horimiya or Komi-san from the borderline hentai manga world, lmao.

 

[SrNevik]

I followed this manga from the first volume until about 15 or 16. The idea of fighting/sex as such hasn't changed. The plot or narrative as such has disappeared, making an action manga with porn into porn manga with porn. But then again, I don't know what we're arguing about. The author himself openly admits that at some point he simply abandoned the development of the plot or any narratives, simply switching to finding reasons for this or that fan service or sex scene. It's basically like Horimiya or Komi-san from the borderline hentai manga world, lmao.

Oh there's no argument. Just talking. I guess we'll to agree to disagree then. I know what he's said but on the page there have definitely been story arcs developing and currently the fighting team is in the middle of a major series of fights with a lot on the line.

I guess we'll never know what he meant when he said "finding reasons for sex scenes" because they haven't really become all that more frequent than they used to be. He must have made that comment around the 90s (around when you stopped?) but by around chapter 104 the plot all built up again and the arc is still ongoing with no stop in sight (currently at chapter 124). Maybe he had a change or heart. Either way, yeah nice talking about this a bit.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Oh there's no argument. Just talking. I guess we'll to agree to disagree then. I know what he's said but on the page there is definitely story arcs developing and currently the fighting team is in the middle of a major series of fights with a lot on the line. I guess we'll never know what he means when he says "finding reasons for sex scenes" because they haven't really become all that more frequent than they used to be. Either way, yeah nice talking about this a bit.

I think it's a matter of presentation and its perception. This manga is no stranger to being significantly overrated or underrated for one reason or another. Just remember the time when people thought it was a profound satire on the Japanese adult industry, or, conversely, accused it of promoting pedophilia.

 

[SrNevik]

I think it's a matter of presentation and its perception. This manga is no stranger to being significantly overrated or underrated for one reason or another. Just remember the time when people thought it was a profound satire on the Japanese adult industry, or, conversely, accused it of promoting pedophilia.

I added some more context to my above comment that maybe you didn't see. I get alerts from Mangadex. Just want to mention that. As for the rest, yeah that's possible.

 

[SuperOniichan]

I added some more context to my above comment that maybe you didn't see. I get alerts from Mangadex. Just want to mention that. As for the rest, yeah that's possible.

I saw it. He made those comments right after Chapter 104, because the Tournament Arc with 90 chapters had already ended by then, and Chapter 104 was essentially the formal finale of the series at that point. But again, the rest is a matter of subjective assessments; I don’t want to break spears again over personal feelings about a title whose author himself doesn’t want to go too deep and not for the first time almost completely changed the format of this manga in order to continue its life. The official translation/raws are widely available, so everyone can draw their own conclusions from what Rui is now writing.

 

[Renan_Walheim]

Lame localized name

 

[ComeEndTheKitty]

@SrNevik I'd say I agree with you. While there have been spots where one part or the other has taken the main stage, it always seems to come back to both.

Personally, they could drop all the action, I just skip all that anyway.