Great to see Yu on board with the plan. I'd love to see her back in her original body like she wanted. Stick it to court politics and her mother's ambitions, she should not be a mere tool for all this crap. Unless there's a plot to assassinate Rod and Seine, Yu shouldn't even be close to the line of succession. She'd be miserable as "king" in that way, just like somebody from the Fate universe.
I don't feel much sympathy for Misaki's ending back on Earth. (S)/he was a nasty bully and being a victim of something does not excuse becoming a villain in any way. It does not change the fact that they hurt others badly back then even if they were also hurting inside. There was a better way to do things. I'm actually tempted to see it as comeuppance for all that backstabbing and bullying back in school.
Thanks for working on this. It's just me and a hot take, but I do like having more than one scanlated version of a chapter (so long as MTL and/or incompetent translation is not involved). That way, when I come back to re-read after a long while I can go read a different version and the experience won't exactly be the same. Good quality work is always appreciated, and this one counts.
Everyone is entitlted to their opinion, but you get saying that suicide is a good outcome for anyone is kinda messed up right?
We only saw a brief moment in Rei and Misaki's story. They spent years in each others lives that we didnt get to see. And clearly in the end Rei loved Misaki and his suicide has had a much bigger impact on her than bullying her in high school did. Thats my read anyway. To the point that one of Rae's defining character traits in my mind is her determination to not let anyone she loves die if she can possibly do anything to stop it.
Rae told that story to Clair and Lily, not as an angsty "I Was Bullied" or tragic "My Friends Betrayed Me" type of story. But as a bittersweet "First Loves never work out story" because in her past life experience nobody's did.
I can't emphasize with Misaki at all. I understand you have your problems and all, but in no way will a bully gain my empathy by projecting her problems onto somebody else through bullying. I haven't read the LN and I don't know at this point what's Misaki's backstory, but with her nasty personality and behavior, would you be surprised that she would end up with very few friends to support her through her problems? Her chances to overcoming her situation just got reduced to a slither, thanks to her own doing, and whatever her own problems were, she had no right to destroy somebody else's high school life.
While I understand that it is the victim's forgiveness what's worth the most, I doubt Rei would condemn anyone unless it involved Claire. I think you are too hung up in what the character feels and does, forgetting that is just the way the author wills it to be. It is not the first time the author has imposed his own world views on us through the characters, that be through the incest issue, the maid rapist, or the overly tolerant MC girl.
Unfortunately or not, I have a hard time strictly confining fiction to fiction, as I usually put myself in the character's shoes to discover my own response to the situation. My response in this case, would be no contact with Misaki throughout the rest of my life. She died? It is inconsequential to me. As a matter of fact, I would be feeling Schadenfreude almost, to think that the person that bullied me to become a shut in had collected her outcome. You might say this is messed up, but I think it is normal that you do not want to see the people who made your life impossible live a happy go lucky life, and feels satisfied when karma comes around to bite them in the ass.
Edit: Just came up with a very petty argument, was Hitler's suicide a bad thing as well then?
And, if bitch Misaki died because she didn't want to burden everyone else, too late mate. Is all your bullying not enough burdening for your entire lifetime? Didn't know any better huh? I hate the tropes where any heinous crime can be forgiven by a sob story and a sorry, never sit well with me, never will.
