Getting Shot on the Frying Pan - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Agave Spirits

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Nice chapter as always! On page 2 something that confused me is Piero-san is referred to as she, everyone looks like a woman (have we seen any actual women yet?) but aren't they still usually called he and such since they are male?
 
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Nice chapter as always! On page 2 something that confused me is Piero-san is referred to as she, everyone looks like a woman (have we seen any actual women yet?) but aren't they still usually called he and such since they are male?
The translator mentioned it in the comments some chapters ago.
This is me making a conscious decision with the narrative since in Japanese, narration dialogue boxes get really funky. Normally, they're from the perspective of Juntarou-sensei, the writer, looking back on the events that happened and giving his input and random fun facts. But sometimes, the tense changes and it's more like Juntaro, the protagonist, describing what's happening in the moment. Also where I've read so far, narration boxes are the only time where the script features pronouns—which Japanese rarely utilizes, let alone the explicitly gendered ones.

So I decided to split them up into two distinct "characters": Juntarou-sensei who is aware of the actual sex of all the people featured in the story and uses the appropriate pronouns and speaks in italicized all-caps, and Juntaro who has extreme brainrot and treats everyone like they're a girl and thinks in italicized normal case.

And since I'm doing all that, I wanted to lean into it a bit more by making everyone but Juntaro use the appropriate pronouns when necessary. Though there is that one time I made Rob call Juntaro a princess, but it matched the original script and he was ribbing on Juntaro anyway.
I thought it was neat.
 
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Oh I didn't see that, but I agree, that's a nice and funny way of doing that
 
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We are far from chapter 1 but still they eat that ... 🍖 🥓 🥩 mystery...
 
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Nice chapter as always! On page 2 something that confused me is Piero-san is referred to as she, everyone looks like a woman (have we seen any actual women yet?) but aren't they still usually called he and such since they are male?
prolly just mariozan's wife
 

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