Ikoku Nikki - Vol. 5 Ch. 23 - page.23

[inpovin]

i wonder why asa doubts her mom's diary so much, it seems kind of out of character? i think what her mom wrote about her name is really beautiful so i'm just a bit confused.

 

[luckystars]

asa is still young and doesn't have enough life experience to process her current situation. i think her reaction was natural since she still a kid. maybe asa feels betrayed? her mom died before she could give asa the diary and there's that comment on death in her notebook...

 

[onthedot]

Fuck what a great chapter. This story just keeps getting better and better

 

[Sarsak]

Best case interpretation of Asa's name: I named you Asa in hopes that you can be loved by everyone and love your life in turn.
Worst case interpretation of Asa's name: I named you Asa in hopes that I could love you and bring my life to what I hoped it would be.

I'm honestly super confused about Asa's dad. I mean they were effectively in a legal marriage because that's how common law marriages work, right? He wouldn't have stayed otherwise if he hated them or something like that. Maybe he just has a trauma regarding marriage, but it's too early to tell.

 

[tickub]

@inpovin She's juxtaposing 14 years of a mother she did know against another side of her mother she never knew at the delicate age of 15. It's not unnatural to reject all this conflicting information.

 

[Otaku713]

Thanks for the translations, this is a gem of a story!
I'm sure more about her dad will be revealed in later chapters but for now its a bit......odd?!?! So he was ok being a father (did Asa not say in some early chapter that her parents were average or something like that- I mean it gave me the impression that she wasn't close to either parent or maybe I'm just not remembering it right) but not a husband in the legal sense? Was he married, was this bigamy? Did he have another family or some trauma of his own? Or he did not like Asa's mother- or just someone who did not believe in the institution of marriage??? The plot thickens.....🧐

 

[themoobz]

feelsbadman the manga

 

[DPLBatoDex]

I didn't realize this in my initial read-through, but I am pretty sure pages 28-29 are supposed to be a 2-page spread. There's detail in the bottom half of page 29 that looks like it bleeds over from page 28. Setting the reader to "right-to-left," two pages and going to pages 28-29 definitely shows that is the case. @Kewl0210, when you can, please fix this.
Edit: It's been fixed. Many Thanks to you @Kewl0210 and your group. 😃

 

[JeezyHungry]

This is so good

 

[crimony]

it's interesting to see in minori's memories, makio pointed back at her and yelled some things too. not that it makes it 'even,' we don't know the full story, but it's interesting to remember that makio herself said she could only see minori from her own limited perspective, and that's why she refrains from imposing it on asa. how much of how makio viewed her sister is warped? i'm so curious to see more of how minori viewed their relationship.

more and more this manga seems to be underlying the theme that everyone lives together, but in their own worlds. makio says writing is lonely, which is strange because it's meant to be communicating to someone. but that's how life is as well, no matter how we form relationships with others, the way we view those relationships is wrapped up in our own perspective. "we're two different people." it's both inane and profound. there are just some things we won't see the same, but we're drawn to each other, while still living alone.