Gal Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 7 Ch. 49 - Otaku & Gyaru & Circle of Friends

[Karikko]

KYAAHAHHHHHHH ICHIJJIIIIIIIIII
also man, gen-nii told him that is so wholesome. Everyone does love you Seo.

 

[RedNanaki]

yeah keep up the good work don’t understand how people can complain when they ain’t the one doing the work and acting like they can do better job

 

[doomskull]

What do you mean by buckle under pressure

I mean is it not written that the translation was changed to "stop people calling it trash"? If that ain't buckling, I dunno what is.

 

[nidaime]

The bit where Gen gently corrects Seo that "all of us are here now because we appreciate Seo Takuya" made me grin so much. I fucking love when characters are sincere and heartfelt ahhh!!!!!!

Yeah, that one kinda caught me off guard. Pure sincerity almost got me choked up.

 

[PreStoneX]

I mean is it not written that the translation was changed to "stop people calling it trash"? If that ain't buckling, I dunno what is.

And is that bad? or I don't get it xD You make it sound like its a negative thing.

 

[Darkshade13]

And is that bad? or I don't get it xD You make it sound like its a negative thing.

It can be. You guys are the ones translating it, so you should do what you think is best. You seemed to indicate that you were happier to use "fave" than "oshi" originally and the change only seems to have come about because a bunch of people kicked up a big fuss about it and were negative/critical about the quality of the work solely because of word choice (which is asinine). It's one thing to take other people into account in making your choices, but quite another to go against your own judgement because of insults or threats even if they are somewhat benign given that nobody can really do anything to you on some random anonymous internet forum.

 

[PreStoneX]

It can be. You guys are the ones translating it, so you should do what you think is best. You seemed to indicate that you were happier to use "fave" than "oshi" originally and the change only seems to have come about because a bunch of people kicked up a big fuss about it and were negative/critical about the quality of the work solely because of word choice (which is asinine). It's one thing to take other people into account in making your choices, but quite another to go against your own judgement because of insults or threats even if they are somewhat benign given that nobody can really do anything to you on some random anonymous internet forum.

You can read through all the argument in chapter 47's comments, I always gave my honest opinion on this matter and never agreed with people who think oshi is better cause "it has more nuance than just fave".
I simply just changed it so people stop causing war and complain all the time over 1 mere word, it can get annoying and it's better to avoid it, but I guess changing it also makes people comment on it.

Anyhow, it's not like we were against using oshi in the first place. We were trying to make the wordplay work in Ch47 that uses oshi = push to which Seo misunderstands, so felt compelled to translate the word oshi too... people just like to ignore this simple fact and think it was as simple as preferring to write fave over oshi xD And I wrote this many times, but not everyone knows what the hell is oshi, most of the staff or discord member didn't know, I think they still don't know, so I still think assuming that most people know what it means is just wrong.

 

[AnacondaHL]

Some sort of indirect message this chap

 

[TheWritingWriter]

does anyone know who the black haired girl is on the volume cover?

 

[kodakato]

Gotta be Swoletaku to carry both girls and their football team of kids in the future.

 

[retolee]

Thanks for the TL it's always been great!

 

[Adul0]

 

[kurosooqa]

What do you mean by buckle under pressure

The whole oshi thing.

 

[Kaarme]

Otaku-kun... This is your sign to get absolutely fucking jacked up and protect both Ijichi and Amane

Building muscles is never a wasted effort, but I have to note that even without, this is a better otaku x gal series than the one with the fake confession and a bodybuilder otaku.

 

[KuroViLolitannia]

I love Valentine myself. The chocolates are on discount so my fat ass can buy one and use the pretty wrappings to wipe my tears.

 

[MiguelH224]

People called the translation trash because it didn't use Oshi? Come on bruh

Only weebs complain about that, same mfs that use that word despite not being Japanese, shit is so cringe

 

[MiguelH224]

My mind at page 6 immediately went to something dirty. I apologize.

Lmfaoo no need to, I literally said "ayoo" when I got to that page 💀💀


I absolutely knew that was gonna get brought up in the comments

 

[StandFab]

People called the translation trash because it didn't use Oshi? Come on bruh

Some manga readers are wild

 

[stephen01king]

@PreStoneX I wonder who called your translation trash over the use of the word oshi since I couldn't find anyone using that word in the forums since the fave chapter was released. The first use of that word I saw was used by yourself.

The worst comment I saw was the guy who said he hated the use of the word fave and most of the other posters were very respectful.

I was confused why you reacted so negatively to those that were just saying why they disagree with your point and wasn't pressuring you to change anything. I only saw actual arguments starting after your post.

 

[jolynehoestar]

Otaku is getting so genuine that he is dropping surprise attacks here and there