Ikoku Nikki - Vol. 6 Ch. 27 - page.27
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It's not chaotic but it's heavy, my bet is that a couple of weeks or a month has passed in this chapter with people coming and going in the house and how Asa and Making felt, it was heavy because with everything going on, Major still needed to write and do something good too.
I think that the fact she finished at the end was really nice.
What left me a bit surprised was that Making was working on Asa's room at the end, maybe for a change of pace?
I think that the fact she finished at the end was really nice.
What left me a bit surprised was that Making was working on Asa's room at the end, maybe for a change of pace?
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I'm on the fence about this. On one hand, all the individual bits of dialogue are, as usual, pretty damn cool. And it's an interesting thing to try. Whether it's ever been done before or not, it's still fairly experimental, and there's definitely a feeling of stretching oneself, not settling into a humdrum routine. Mangaka tried to pull off a big move in front of the audience, went for the quadruple axel instead of playing it safe with the usual triple. I respect that.
But I do think the result was, if not a fall, at least bobbling the landing a bit. It did come off incoherent sometimes, and there were only a couple times where I felt the different parts being side by side added anything. So I dunno. Mangaka's strength as a writer powered it through, but would it have been just as good, or better, with the same writing strength but organized more linear? Not sure. It'd be interesting to just snip it up and reorganize the panels to read it through that way, see how it looks.
But I do think the result was, if not a fall, at least bobbling the landing a bit. It did come off incoherent sometimes, and there were only a couple times where I felt the different parts being side by side added anything. So I dunno. Mangaka's strength as a writer powered it through, but would it have been just as good, or better, with the same writing strength but organized more linear? Not sure. It'd be interesting to just snip it up and reorganize the panels to read it through that way, see how it looks.
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Weird flex but ok
But my real comment is this. Writing a narrative is a struggle to make a legible form out of disparate fragments. This is obviously a chapter of metacommentary on life as a narrative arc (beginning middle end) that everyone is normalized into thinking life is supposed to be lived. From different conversations there is plenty of reflecting on the past, past decisions and their consequences, past desires for the future and the horizons that open and close along the way. We are constantly attempting to self narrate our life in order fit into a legible form, an arc that stretches toward some recognizable future (arts or sciences, a homemaker or a office worker), and this narrative gives meaning to all the fragmentary and episodic instanced that we have experienced. Or at least we hope it will give us a sense of meaning. But sometimes life remains incoherent and noisy, like radio interference, as Makio says “the world is too loud.” By the end of the chapter, after struggling on, and especially after talking it out with others, the writer finishes the narrative, makes sense of the world and their place in it, albeit briefly. Life is a struggle oftentimes to find meaning in living, writers write despite going into slumps, to see where the story goes. I guess we got to keep living just like writers, to see where the story goes.
But my real comment is this. Writing a narrative is a struggle to make a legible form out of disparate fragments. This is obviously a chapter of metacommentary on life as a narrative arc (beginning middle end) that everyone is normalized into thinking life is supposed to be lived. From different conversations there is plenty of reflecting on the past, past decisions and their consequences, past desires for the future and the horizons that open and close along the way. We are constantly attempting to self narrate our life in order fit into a legible form, an arc that stretches toward some recognizable future (arts or sciences, a homemaker or a office worker), and this narrative gives meaning to all the fragmentary and episodic instanced that we have experienced. Or at least we hope it will give us a sense of meaning. But sometimes life remains incoherent and noisy, like radio interference, as Makio says “the world is too loud.” By the end of the chapter, after struggling on, and especially after talking it out with others, the writer finishes the narrative, makes sense of the world and their place in it, albeit briefly. Life is a struggle oftentimes to find meaning in living, writers write despite going into slumps, to see where the story goes. I guess we got to keep living just like writers, to see where the story goes.
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It's not so much that Asa likes sleeping in Makio's office--that room is the second bedroom in the apartment, it's sorta-kinda Asa's bedroom. Makio for some reason hasn't seen fit to move her desk into her bedroom. At one point, when Makio was planning an all-nighter, she told Asa she could sleep in her bed.
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I think there's a error/mistranslation on the first page. I did the math and the day of the week of Itsuki Juno's visit should be a Wednesday, not a Tuesday. I also looked it up and all of the dates mentioned in this chapter correlate with the chapter (and subsequently, implicitly, chapters 2-26) taking place in 2018. I want to see what the original RAW of the page of this chapter looked like to actually determine if this was a mistranslation or an error on Tomoko Yamashita's part.
@ehoba If you wanted to bring up the mistranslations to Hi Wa Mata Noboru and it's leader Kewl0210, you should've @ at them in your post (like this: @Kewl0210) or sent them a DM.
@ehoba If you wanted to bring up the mistranslations to Hi Wa Mata Noboru and it's leader Kewl0210, you should've @ at them in your post (like this: @Kewl0210) or sent them a DM.
Loved this chapter. The tiger gag on one of the earlier pages had me grinning.
I did have to read this chapter twice, with a restart once I realized I wasn't paying enough attention -- but I reread most chapters immediately anyway, because I love these characters and want more time with them. So, no complaints here.
Thanks as always to the scanlators.
I did have to read this chapter twice, with a restart once I realized I wasn't paying enough attention -- but I reread most chapters immediately anyway, because I love these characters and want more time with them. So, no complaints here.
Thanks as always to the scanlators.
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I guess I can see why some would feel that this chapter was hard to follow, although I didn't feel that way myself as I feel it presented all three "scenes" well enough for me to keep track of the transitions.
I quite like how it melds three separate but similar occasions together to show that the whole topic of life choices and lifestyles in general is in itself confusing and without definite answers.
I quite like how it melds three separate but similar occasions together to show that the whole topic of life choices and lifestyles in general is in itself confusing and without definite answers.
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Not really if you can't identify it for what it is and instead choose to exploit the event to pat yourself on the back though. Again, not the first time that the author takes road less traveled (narratively speaking) in this series, but really the first one to garner so many "well I did got it" comments. That says something.
(also all of the pseudo- meta- "big picture high concept" post-modern readings here, yikes. rick and morty much guys?)
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cool way to structure the chapter
