IDOL×IDOL STORY! - Ch. 97 - For Whom Do You Raise Your Voice?
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Is like people has developed an strange fetish about Mimi-Goddess-Suke being humbled, burned, trashed, humiliated...
She is not perfect, but I really wonder why in the arc she has managed to shine some sector of the readers are this fixated about her.
We can interprete this arc as a warning about the dangers of fame and public perception making Mimi-Suke the perfect option, because she knows what's to be in the stage but failed in the end and the time she has been away from the public eye, while Bukki wAs still and idol not long ago or Michiru, who is used to fame from her childhood days, so, if Mimi-Suke, who have experience with the monster that the public, is feeling/behaving like this, what can we expect from the other girls who have zero experience in a situation like this?
We have been speculating about what's going to happen in this arc, so let me put another scenario:
White stars wins the night 3-0 making black stars lose unavoidable, after all the adrenaline runs out and Mimi-Suke returns to normal and she finds that is almost a done deal that Koyuki will be eliminated next day and feel guilty about it (survivor guilt) combining it with exhaustion from all what happened on day 1, making her sick enough to underperform or not being able to perform at all on day 2.
She is not perfect, but I really wonder why in the arc she has managed to shine some sector of the readers are this fixated about her.
We can interprete this arc as a warning about the dangers of fame and public perception making Mimi-Suke the perfect option, because she knows what's to be in the stage but failed in the end and the time she has been away from the public eye, while Bukki wAs still and idol not long ago or Michiru, who is used to fame from her childhood days, so, if Mimi-Suke, who have experience with the monster that the public, is feeling/behaving like this, what can we expect from the other girls who have zero experience in a situation like this?
We have been speculating about what's going to happen in this arc, so let me put another scenario:
White stars wins the night 3-0 making black stars lose unavoidable, after all the adrenaline runs out and Mimi-Suke returns to normal and she finds that is almost a done deal that Koyuki will be eliminated next day and feel guilty about it (survivor guilt) combining it with exhaustion from all what happened on day 1, making her sick enough to underperform or not being able to perform at all on day 2.
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It's because Mimi hasn't actually done anything bad that I think all this is just misdirection. She doesn't look conceited. She's not saying "I deserve to be loved." She's saying "I gave so much and now I'm getting something in return." That doesn't sound like arrogance to me. It sounds more like self-awareness.
Something will happen for sure, but I don't think it will be big crash out that most people are expecting.
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"EVERYTHING I DID WAS CORRECT!"
MIMI NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;_;
MIMI NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;_;
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This sounds pretty arrogant to me though, not something i'd expected from Mimi to be honest
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Only on the most malicious interpretation possible, if you totally ignore the previous page.
This sounds pretty arrogant to me though, not something i'd expected from Mimi to be honest
"I was right to keep trying no matter what, do whatever I could, help anyone as much as I could, as I kept trying to reach for my goal"
How dare she, so arrogant, feeling validated that all of her effort finally resulted into sucess.
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Yup. She's a pride comet, before the fall.
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She will take everyone in her loving arms, the ones that wish her success and the ones wishing for her to crash and burn.
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This sounds pretty arrogant to me though, not something i'd expected from Mimi to be honest
Out of context, maybe. But what she means is that she didn't make a mistake when she gave love to everyone around her because now she's getting that love back. There's no arrogance in that because what she says is true.
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I don't like that translation. I'm pretty sure what she says is more like "What I did wasn't a mistake."
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A more literal translation would be "All the things I did weren't wrong" but it doesn't sound quite right in English imo and wouldn't fit in the speech bubbles as well.
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The problem is that the two sentences "All the things I did weren't wrong" and "Everything I've done was correct" are two very different meanings even if they appear very similar on paper. The former, more literal translation, is an exhale of relief, I did all of this and it wasn't wrong! The latter is very arrogant, I was right, they were wrong, kind of mentality. You can sort of see that from the interpretations from the posts above.
I do get that space is important, but maybe like 1idd0kun said for their suggestion would work, as it captures the meaning more of the former and keeps it shorter than the literal translation. Alternatively, I'd suggest, "Doing that wasn't a mistake!" and would fit into the bubble fairly well.
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Fair. All in all, it's just my take from reading the text. It's not like I didn't know how that line was going to be interpreted. I went for a more uncertain wording because that was the vibe I got from the original JP text as well. Reading the chapter, I feel like we are supposed to be conflicted about Mimi at this point in the story
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If that was the translation i wouldn't be calling her arrogant, now i don't know japanese so i don't know which one is correct or not.
If this was the "correct" interpetation than i will retract my statement that she is arrogant in that instance.
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Another thing I wanna add is that this chapter doesn't exist in a vacuum. They've been pretty heavy-handed about what the story in this arc will be about leading up to this chapter. And just a couple chapters ago we had Mimisuke having seemingly arrogant thoughts too
That's your interpretation and I respect it. But everyone should get the chance to read the text as the author intended it and form their own interpretation as well. Although you didn't mean to you ended up forcing your interpretation on everyone else. And don't get me wrong, I don't mean to offend. It's genuine constructive criticism so I hope you'll take it that way.
My interpretation after reading the Japanese text is that the author is deliberately being ambiguous rather than making Mimi 100% unhinged, so there are moments where Mimi seems weird and moments were her feelings come across as normal. This moment was the latter. She was just expressing how everything she did until that point wasn't wrong or a mistake. There was nothing arrogant or weird about it, and that's how the author intended it.
But people who can't into Japanese and read your translation wouldn't get that. They'd think Mimi is being arrogant which she isn't. I think that's a disservice, to the author because that wasn't what he intended, to the character because she gets misrepresented, and to the readers who end up with the wrong impression.
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That's kind of my gut feeling too. I think there's no doubt that White Stars is the stronger team by such a large margin it's ridiculous. But this is a competition and someone has to lose and this time, two people will leave it instead of one, and one of them is likely Koyuki, given her chances and the Sword of Damocles having over her head all the time. And while the focus was on Koyuki's relationship with Karin so far, we shouldn't forget that both of them - Mimisuke and Koyuki - entered the competition together and it was kind of a big deal: both of them are adults, has just barely entered and with a massive impostor syndrome. But unlike Koyuki, Mimisuke has managed to gain a large fanbase, and has actual experience as an idol, sort of each other's antithesis. I wonder if that realization - if it happens - might lead Mimisuke to actively sabotage herself. At the very least, Mimisuke doesn't strike me as the kind of person who takes trampling on other people's dreams lightly, especially if she believes she's the one doing that right now.
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