Futei no Olympia - Ch. 9 - Ayase vs. The Wife, Kaori

[Laxtir]

Damn the wife and the husband are a supernova of dense.

 

[pachingching]

I hate NTR.

But please get this abusive wife out.

 

[muttarpaneer]

Thanks for the translation laddie

 

[Bonzalez]

I am quite disappointed, I expected something more out of a Josei, but is like reading a shounen at this point.

It's seinen not josei

 

[NoAbsoluteCinemaHere]

First off, thanks for taking the time to translate this. Seriously couldn't been easy with ALL the misunderstanding in this chapter. Holy hell, my head hurts from this chapter lol! When she was putting all the pieces together only for her to fuck it all up. I am convinced a shovel AND 2 candy bracelets outperformed her on the IQ test too just like Billy.

 

[MiguelH224]

There's absolutely no fucking way..........oh my God my head hurts

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

Great work, TL

Gam...bare I guess??

3P inbound.

 

[ds13]

 

[ultrabread]

can't tell if this is "my fair body builder" or "the taming of the salaryman"

 

[DaBlackMamba]

Oh God, they're both stupid

 

[JoeKerr]

Japanese, the language that utterly fails at communicating.
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"Are you boning my husband?"
"Absolutely. The exercise regime and diet will strengthen his bones."
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I don't think they're on the same page. In fact I don't think they're even reading the same genre.

 

[mgRdr]

none of this is a comedy without this very dynamic, to be fair.
and I doubt it would be nearly as well-received, or readable, if this weren't a comedy.

Plus, I'd argue that though each component is rather tired and played-out, compounding each instance in this snowball fashion into a runaway fiasco does cross back over into comedic absurdity, and that sorta saves the story from itself.

Absurdity by itself isn't enough to make comedy, you do absurdity wrong and it turns into a contrivance. I can conceptually find this setup funny, i.e. the setup of them having a sit down to make their intentions clear and coming out of it with deeper misudnerstanding than before, I don't have anything against a misunderstanding being a plot point, and I can even tolerate one instance of this overplayed joke of one person saying one thing and the other person understanding it completely differently. But the problem is, this chapter is the same joke repeated over and over again, with no change of context and without any original spin put on it.

 

[vanCham]

Thats hilarious, the wife is completely retarded.
My sides are in orbit.

Thanks for picking this up. If this is really your first scanlation, you did really really well!

 

[ysil69]

I hate this chapter. This isn't misunderstanding. It's bad writing.

Unless there are some nuances to the Japanese language that we are losing in translation, then this is the dumbest and most infuriating chapters so far.

In Japan if the subject matter seems obvious, they don't repeat it. Manga takes this to an extreme when doing a gag like this.

I had suspected that the cousin and FMC would be getting together in this story in some way, since he liked her, though whether or not it ends up like that is yet to be seen.

I'm a bit annoyed that the wife has yet to really confront or reconcile that she was being negligent of her husband until now - that's the development I'm most interested in seeing.

Did she even confront or reconcile that she's been awful? Seemed just focused that she's being cheated on and not how she's acted at all.

 

[checkmy4]

I loved this manga so far, but this is easily the worst chapter. The blatant misunderstanding is such a tiresome trope. I honestly expected better.

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

Did she even confront or reconcile that she's been awful? Seemed just focused that she's being cheated on and not how she's acted at all.

Not yet; I also realised that SHE was caught with her cousin, the person she's been hiding her relationship with (for totally innocent reasons, mind you), and the person her husband believes she's cheating on him with, and she gave his feelings no thought as she was digging into him about the woman he was with.

The Wife remains an irritating character; I'm not rooting against her, but I want a major realisation on her end, and for her to take some responsibility.

 

[SpudWumper]

KING THANKS FOR TRANSLATION

 

[ComeSlammer]

Thanks for TLing it, you did a great job

 

[draxdeveloper]

I was going to say "you can't make this shit up" but, well.

The degree of misunderstanding due to presuming the actual subject matter of the conversation is...well, there's no other way this could go without turning into bloodsport, and it is objectively hilarious.
I cannot imagine how much worse (better) it's going to get, but I hope to find out.



Anyway thanks for the TL work. It reads pretty well, so your effort is appreciated.

To be honest, that's how is japanese, lol

 

[draxdeveloper]

I do not like the misunderstandings trope much either, though I do think it was funny when we found out what the wife's personality is really like when she got focus for a few chapters.

I also did enjoy the first few parts of this chapter when the wife actually figured it all out "I AM A GENIUS!" followed by the avalanche of overthinking it and fooling herself again "OH NO!" so I do think the trope was a bit more well done than usual on the wife's part.

Honestly I'm still more dismayed that Ayase turned out to be a virginial, shy, "i've never felt this way!" type of maiden instead of the psycho domineering stalker that she seemed to be.

Could have been a fun series with her being a yandere-ish Light Yagami trying to mislead the wife and get the husband to bulk up while slowly implanting the idea of leaving his family - while the wife is a blundering L that is always just on the cusp of finding the culprit while slowly starting to treat her husband better and noticing that he's been improving himself lately.

Nah, to cliche, this one is better