Ikoku Nikki - Vol. 3 Ch. 11 - page.11
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Today's lesson is .... Turn your problem into Eels and go to bed.
Cute kid...
I'm glad she made new friends, well, that seems to be the case! but where did her best friend ran off to? well, she's busy with her debut anyway xD this chapter had such an extrange feeling, like, it took some time to process what she was feeling at the moment and there were many moments like that, like it deserves a second read. Thank you for the translation by the way! so clean like an official work.
The colors pages were really nice too, specially Makio chan!
It caught my attention that it says "a study" instead of "Story", I don't know why's that, I don't really read much beyond manga so I'm pretty dumb
Cute kid...
I'm glad she made new friends, well, that seems to be the case! but where did her best friend ran off to? well, she's busy with her debut anyway xD this chapter had such an extrange feeling, like, it took some time to process what she was feeling at the moment and there were many moments like that, like it deserves a second read. Thank you for the translation by the way! so clean like an official work.
The colors pages were really nice too, specially Makio chan!
It caught my attention that it says "a study" instead of "Story", I don't know why's that, I don't really read much beyond manga so I'm pretty dumb
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Thanks for the translation, as usual! Im glad Emiri's mother finally apologized to the kid 
Emiri's mother still doesn't get it LMAO so glad Asa told her well she's not my parent so she doesn't have to come aka My parents are dead so I have no one to come so its none of your business
also am I the only one who feels like something dark is gona happen soon, that eel part/just joking with new people about dead parents didn't feel right
Also its amazing how at first reading this series I was like wow Asa's mom is shit and wins award for worst mom, but now I actually feel sad she died and don't think she's as bad as we thought she was......wish we could've seen her alive....feelssadman
the writing in this series is phenomenal
also am I the only one who feels like something dark is gona happen soon, that eel part/just joking with new people about dead parents didn't feel right
Also its amazing how at first reading this series I was like wow Asa's mom is shit and wins award for worst mom, but now I actually feel sad she died and don't think she's as bad as we thought she was......wish we could've seen her alive....feelssadman
the writing in this series is phenomenal
Those color pages are phenomenal. Color pages in manga don't usually do much for me, but these, wow.
This series continues to be amazing. I'm sure I've said it before, but just in case, thanks for your hard work scan team!
@dokidoki re: foreshadowing, eels, and off-color jokes; This came out a lot longer than I intended. I'll preface it by saying that my intent is not to shit all over your prediction. I wanted to offer my perspective as someone who has been where Asa is.
So speaking for myself, I lost a parent (just one, fortunately) around the same age as Asa. I think one of the reasons I enjoy this comic is that despite our differences in culture and gender, Asa's emotions, experiences, and reactions about her parents' deaths are eerily familiar to me. It's accurate to the extent that I wonder if the mangaka experienced a similar loss as a teenager, or is close with someone who did.
Among the things that feel accurate are Asa's off-color outburst and anger (? maybe not the right word) leading up to the eel this chapter. Goodness knows that at the time I would talk and joke about it in ways that I wouldn't dream of now. And regarding the eel, I think the root of that is Asa realizing that her mother was flawed (as we all are), and that comes into conflict with her idealized image of her. While that's something most adults unpack at some point, I don't think it's necessarily something that teenagers, whose minds will continue developing for about another decade, are emotionally equipped for yet.
This is all to say that yes, given the theme of the work, something dark could be coming. But, these could also be depictions of the ordinary experience of a young person who loses a parent. If something dark does come, I predict it will be mundane by manga standards: Asa falls back/further into depression, engages in minor self-destructive behavior (think neglecting school work, not drug abuse), gets involved with a bad crowd, something like that.
Or I could be full of it, and the mangaka takes this train off the rails. Who knows. It's just been so grounded so far that I don't expect that to be the case.
This series continues to be amazing. I'm sure I've said it before, but just in case, thanks for your hard work scan team!
@dokidoki re: foreshadowing, eels, and off-color jokes; This came out a lot longer than I intended. I'll preface it by saying that my intent is not to shit all over your prediction. I wanted to offer my perspective as someone who has been where Asa is.
So speaking for myself, I lost a parent (just one, fortunately) around the same age as Asa. I think one of the reasons I enjoy this comic is that despite our differences in culture and gender, Asa's emotions, experiences, and reactions about her parents' deaths are eerily familiar to me. It's accurate to the extent that I wonder if the mangaka experienced a similar loss as a teenager, or is close with someone who did.
Among the things that feel accurate are Asa's off-color outburst and anger (? maybe not the right word) leading up to the eel this chapter. Goodness knows that at the time I would talk and joke about it in ways that I wouldn't dream of now. And regarding the eel, I think the root of that is Asa realizing that her mother was flawed (as we all are), and that comes into conflict with her idealized image of her. While that's something most adults unpack at some point, I don't think it's necessarily something that teenagers, whose minds will continue developing for about another decade, are emotionally equipped for yet.
This is all to say that yes, given the theme of the work, something dark could be coming. But, these could also be depictions of the ordinary experience of a young person who loses a parent. If something dark does come, I predict it will be mundane by manga standards: Asa falls back/further into depression, engages in minor self-destructive behavior (think neglecting school work, not drug abuse), gets involved with a bad crowd, something like that.
Or I could be full of it, and the mangaka takes this train off the rails. Who knows. It's just been so grounded so far that I don't expect that to be the case.
@BilliusX yeah my bad I didn't know what words to use and said Dark but I meant like explode or something, what I meant was like this whole time Asa hasn't or shown that she accepted that her parents are dead, when I read all the chapters I felt like she's in a dream like state instead of this is reality yet and that her parents are dead hence the joking around of dead parents/eel/desert/SLEEPS ALOT......what I meant dark was that she might explode soon and either get Super angry at someone/herself or cry a lot aka sudden burst of emotion.
Also I find it funny how I'm actually more interest in the relationship of the aunt and Asa's mother than with Asa herself, like why does the Aunt hate her so much (imo could be childish reasons as I do have problems with my sibling and think of hating them too but realize that its only a long phase) but the person I'm most interested in this series is Asa's mother as to who she really was because I actually don't think she's as bad of a person as the beginning chapters made her seem to be and that she could have been a super loving mother/sister but had her own warped or heavy kind of love for them (speaking from sibling experience). So in reality I actually think maybe Asa's mother could have been the saddest person in the series but we will see as to how things unfold.
Also I find it funny how I'm actually more interest in the relationship of the aunt and Asa's mother than with Asa herself, like why does the Aunt hate her so much (imo could be childish reasons as I do have problems with my sibling and think of hating them too but realize that its only a long phase) but the person I'm most interested in this series is Asa's mother as to who she really was because I actually don't think she's as bad of a person as the beginning chapters made her seem to be and that she could have been a super loving mother/sister but had her own warped or heavy kind of love for them (speaking from sibling experience). So in reality I actually think maybe Asa's mother could have been the saddest person in the series but we will see as to how things unfold.
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I don't think her mother is "that" bad of a person. Let's see
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amazing
This manga hits really close to what is happening to me. Unfortunately people won't understand if it doesn't happen to them. My parents also both died, and my friend's mom said "you should learn to be fine, I teaches my children to be fine even without me, so even when I died maybe they will be happy instead". I really want to tell her "then why not exchange your life to my parents". My friend's mom even still have both her parents alive. How can she thought she understand my feelings. Sorry for my rambling.
