Dachou Juujin no Hachamecha Musou: Aho Kawaii Saikyou Shuzoku no Leader ni Narimashita - Ch. 9

[allaboutTHEBEES]

People are about to get eaten in the style of a cartoon piranha swarm evicting a cow - good luck enemy nation! You’re gonna need it!

Thank you for translating!

 

[Chizan]

Lightning magic strong against soldiers wearing armor? Better hope they're not wearing full armor, faraday cage and all that..

Also, I'm not too sure the strategist's plan is without holes, town surrounded by monsters on all sides all swell, while other nations can't even set foot into those forests without getting owned? Ever thought WHY they might not feel the need for excessive defenses against OTHER nations?...

 

[MTFish90]

bruh, I really dislike the last three pages because it cut out all the dramatic irony of what the strategist was saying

 

[BanzaiYuri]

"sir, they killed and ate our entire army"

"My lord, it seems the mercenary beastkin have awakened magical powers including the high tier spells only our missing forces could possess"

 

[hippomann]

I am in love with this manga, they make me so happy. I wonder if she will be able to stop them from eating human flesh and traumatizing their hosts.

 

[Iriadel]

Breakfast?

 

[MathMols]

Can feel a slaughter coming. The important question is if the victims will only be enemies or also ”friends”

 

[Kyte]

bruh, I really dislike the last three pages because it cut out all the dramatic irony of what the strategist was saying

Think of it like the promo for a monster truck or wrestling show. "TOMORROW, BANE THE BACKBREAKER BREAKS BATMAN'S BACK. GET FRONT ROW SEATS FOR THIS GRUESOME MASSACRE!"
It's not about the twist, it's about hyping up the upcoming violence.

 

[hippomann]

Ok So i noticed something:

Spoiler: difference between manga and LN

In the illustrations from the LN she has human feet, but in the Manga she has ostrich bird feet, but why is it different? does she unlock human feet at some point? wouldn't that be a massive detriment to her? or did the artist of the LN not want to give her bird feet?

 

[AvidMangaReader81]

The lightning magic may not be a threat to our cute birdies, but it'll trigger their PTSD.

Was about to say that, damn.
They’re instinctually afraid of it—and since the “actual-threat-lightning” is the ONLY lightning they’ve ever known…—well, y’know. They’ll just assume that that lightning is the same.
Assuming it’ll go something like when they actually get hit and they realize they’re fine…that’s when shit goes down. Overcoming their fears and such, lol.
The “Oh shit, I’m okay. Well, time to beat their asses, I guess.” mindset, if you will. (Literal statement, not to be considered in the slang way 💀).

 

[Elhao]

They’re instinctually afraid of it—and since the “actual-threat-lightning” is the ONLY lightning they’ve ever known…—well, y’know. They’ll just assume that that lightning is the same.

Not exactly the only one, in a small panel in chapter 7 Reisu already explained the difference to at least one of them, nevertheless they will definitely react afraid because of their experiences.

 

[Luke_chase]

They don’t wear metal armor, only plot armor

 

[ildemir]

So they planed to have a 10 to 1 advantage, which would historically be a reasonable ratio for castle siege assault, and now that new forces arrived that will put them on only a 2 to 1 advantage(disregarding any casualties enroute) they still want to execute the plan. I'm gonna say this falls on bad writing on a "fun" read.

They are also planning to involve their magic squad which is notable because those were up until the ostriches arrived considered important enough to keep hidden for an upcoming decisive battle. Like they are taking the necessary precaution here.

Their confidence in the magic squad is well founded.

They’re worth more than a Beastman (who is 10x that of a human) is in combat power.

Spoiler: Magic Squad

These 500 soldiers are enough to make the rest of the army capable of easily cutting through the monster infested forest with no casualties. Their abilities are such that they have contingencies for their gear to be destroyed if they are in danger of dying to prevent it falling into enemy hands.

The ONLY reason this isn’t tilted so far in their favor is because of the Ostrichs’ bullshit levels of magic and especially Electric Resistance. Any normal beastmen mercs would get their shit stomped in, never mind the 500 standing guardsmen in the town.

my numbers were based on this chapter only;
Enemy tactician states "their new manpower is around 3.5K while ours is 5K. Let's add 500 magic soldiers to our invasion force which will make our new power level 6.5K(this suggests one magic soldier is worth three normal soldiers which was kinda weird)".
So, either the chapter is missing key information the tactician would know and gain confidence from, or the author doesn't really care/understand about numbers for warfare. Again, this is still a fun read, I just have to not overanalyze every detail.

 

[Noros]

My understanding of the text is that he is a hardliner that sees a multi-racial society as something that would lead to civil war. On page 18 he says...

He then goes on to say that idealogy is a disease that erodes nations.

I'm guessing some of it is lost in translation, but everything on page 18 points to him being a hard line speciesist(spl?) who thinks a multi-racial will lead back to the beastkin dominating their nation.

Its impressive how I read the same exact text you did and, like most it seems, understood the complete opposite, genuinelly, it always surprises me how one same picture can be interpreted differently if shown to 2 different people and can be applied to text as well.

 

[Solandri]

If that's true, much of the context is lost in the translation.

I feel like the context is very clear.

The line of thought started with the fact that he's sending "expendable soldiers with human supremacist ideology to the front line."

Then an explanation of why the ideology took root in the country.

Then the concern that this ideology would bring about internal conflict in an increasingly multi-racial society.

Hence his conclusion that the ideology is a disease that would erode their nation.

Its impressive how I read the same exact text you did and, like most it seems, understood the complete opposite, genuinelly, it always surprises me how one same picture can be interpreted differently if shown to 2 different people and can be applied to text as well.

The author may have deliberately made this ambiguous. Japanese (and Korean) sentences frequently leave out the subject, and the listener has to assume what they're supposed to be. So it's a common literary trick (sometimes even in official statements) to write ambiguous sentences where you leave the subject out. And it means one thing if you assume the "obvious" subject. But the actual meaning is the opposite because the writer actually meant a different subject.

For an equivalent English example off the top of my head. Something like: "Bob slacked off at work again, and as usual his senior had to bail him out. What an idiot." Is that referring to Bob as the idiot for slacking off? Or the senior as the idiot for constantly bailing Bob out, implying Bob is actually brilliant for getting the senior to do his work for him?

So the translation may actually be spot on. And the author deliberately made it ambiguous whether he meant human supremacy ideology, or multi-racial ideology is diseased. As a way to hide their true motivations while still giving exposition on what they have planned. As you can imagine, this sort of stuff can be a major headache for translators. And sometimes requires them to go back and re-edit stuff if they later find out that they assumed the wrong subject for a sentence 5 chapters back.

(Note that "human supremacist ideology" is the only ideology ever talked about here. A "multi-racial society" is not an ideology; it's a state of being.)

Acceptance of a multi-racial society is an ideology.

 

[Typewriter]

Acceptance of a multi-racial society is an ideology.

Yeah, but he's not talking about "acceptance of a multi-racial society". He's explicitly talking about demography, and how the (human supremacist) ideology would lead to conflict when put in the (multi-racial) society.

It's very explicit even in original Japanese.

 

[AncientWatcher]

Attacking a neutral country currently host to exceptionally overpowered and resilient ostriches will not end well.