Futsuu to Bakemono - Vol. 3 Ch. 21

[MangaDex]

 

[Cogito3]

Thanks for waiting! We should be able to get out future chapters relatively quickly until the end, but as always, no promises. (We also may or may not be working on a hentai yuri oneshot, so stay tuned for that as well!)

I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

 

[CyberneticSusurrus]

You really should switch to referring to the teacher with 'sensei' instead of "Mr".

The author made it explicit in previous chapters that the entity in question is genderless.
Constantly referring to it with masculine terms is both incorrect and messing with one of the themes of the work.

 

[Raptorofwar]

Damn, wow.

 

[almostdeaf]

“Even as I do as Niehara says, abandon my territoriality, and think of a way to flee…”

“I’m cut from the same cloth as Mister N, you know? There’s no way I’d ever be sad”

something something takahashi finally admitting something to herself

thank you for your hard work on this translation! a delightful surprise notification

 

[TrashRatMo]

Thank you for translating!! I wonder why Mister N is able to control corpses like that

 

[Serenata]

Oh nice! is back and oh no... she's dead, very much so, is easy to forget they're monsters.

 

[GLFanatic]

Yeah, no. Mr. creepo needs to go.

 

[Serenata]

You really should switch to referring to the teacher with 'sensei' instead of "Mr".

The author made it explicit in previous chapters that the entity in question is genderless.
Constantly referring to it with masculine terms is both incorrect and messing with one of the themes of the work.

The translator explained this choice in ch12's credits https://mangadex.org/chapter/60e13adb-407d-473d-b4de-f5746ad4007b/21 which basically comes from the 2 protagonist's perception of Niehara as the male teacher (the character the monster decided to mimic), this perception also works for Itou san to see Takahashi san as a girl and not a giant worm monster and by doing so, this becomes a yuri work... It is complicated.

 

[Cogito3]

You really should switch to referring to the teacher with 'sensei' instead of "Mr".

The author made it explicit in previous chapters that the entity in question is genderless.
Constantly referring to it with masculine terms is both incorrect and messing with one of the themes of the work.

I understand this perspective, and I appreciate the constructive criticism, but I disagree. Itou and Takahashi use the same exact terms to refer to Niehara before and after learning they're a monster, so it's not like the work is explicitly drawing attention to such things. Furthermore, even if I had them use "sensei" instead I'd still have to decide on which pronouns to use for Niehara, any choice of which carries its own set of issues.

All translations involve constant decisions about how much to make the text "feel like it was written in English." I certainly don't go all the way in this direction, since I keep things like "-san" and "-kun" and Japanese name order. "Sensei" is a widely understood enough word that it would be totally justifiable to use it, and maybe I should have from the beginning, but I don't think it's important enough to change at this point.

 

[onedumninja]

That was vile 0_0

So she's just a puppet now? Dead but still moving according to the puppeteer's will