Boy's Abyss - Vol. 17 Ch. 168 - Their Aquarium

[MangaDex]

 

[dweeceman]

Deng. 3 releases in a week? It must be my birthday

Edit: I'm an idiot

 

[doutatsu]

Thanks for the release - was really annoyed to see you get sniped, was waiting for this, the actual good release

 

[Makenai]

Was happy to get a third one at first.... Why releasing this again?

 

[Camillionaire]

Was happy to get a third one at first.... Why releasing this again?

The other releases were from another group and not the dedicated translation team, "Abyss When Scans." So the team probably will do those two chapters again for the sake of completion.

 

[Ghost-0]

Was happy to get a third one at first.... Why releasing this again?

I mean why not? More translations = more opportunity to check differences between TLs

Some like it fast and fairly accurate: some like it slow but precisely accurate

 

[Lustrist]

from a past lifeeee

 

[Makenai]

I mean why not? More translations = more opportunity to check differences between TLs

Some like it fast and fairly accurate: some like it slow but precisely accurate

This wasn't meant to be negative. I didn't notice it was from another team.... Though I say, the translations didn't seem that bad to me. But yeah, I will read it again to notice if there's any significant differences.

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

This wasn't meant to be negative. I didn't notice it was from another team.... Though I say, the translations didn't seem that bad to me. But yeah, I will read it again to notice if there's any significant differences.

Others are marked as from 4chan's /a/, since they often post the original Japanese "raws" of popular manga with someone adding later adding translation in comments, they have those quickly and not bad quality compared to MTL, and I assume it's easy for someone from /a/ to decide to use those translations to release proper scanlation here, without having dedicated group of scanlators.

I think that's why /a/ translations of manga that's popular on /a/ enough to get raw dump threads are sometimes appearing so quickly here.

 

[Absent666]

Tbf, i prefer When?! as their scans have better quality and the text flows more naturally.

Reiji's confession, even if it's not the best moment on a meta sense (trapped on Yuri's domains, with her very possibly overhearing because Nagi raised her voice a bit on a panel is like Reiji is deliberately wanting Yuri to chimp out) may be what Nagi needed at this very moment. It also serves as a counterposition to Esemori's rejection of Yuko and a parallelism to Yuko's last attempt at climbing back from the abyss (Ch. 164) before being pushed back into it by Akira.

Let's see what happens after the flashback.

 

[arkosb]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[fritzcis]

nooooooooo : /
reiji confessing to nagi is the worst thing that could happen here...

 

[Joe17mama]

This is everything I wanted. All this time, whenever I thought about how Reiji and Nagi could pull themselves out of this despair, I keep thinking of how a heartfelt, romantic, and vulnerable confession of love might be the way to break Nagi's ice, seeing as that human connection is ultimately what she desires. Also, I kept thinking, they both share a connection and a desire to care for each other, they've clearly been previously intimate, so what if their abyss is terrifyingly deep, affection and warmth always have a way of combating the darkness and nurturing the small ember of light present deep within every abyss.

This is totally my hopeless romanticism on display rn, but I don't care, because that connection, sharing their pain and burdens, without having to carry everything on their own shoulders, has to be their salvation. There is literally hope for nothing else rn, that's how strong the metaphorical Abyss is in this story. It's the ultimate antagonist, surpassing even the likes of Yuko. As a Reiji x Nagi shipper, I'm on cloud nine rn!