Issak

[Army179]

Wanted to read some historical manga and it's just another nipwank mango, i dropped this garbage after see TEH SAMURI shoot down full plate armor guy in the chest with NIP Matchlock what a joke! The Author cultural insecurity are showing.

 

[A9DOC]

Death Toll Scans, thanks for translating this manga first and foremost. It's a manga that needs just that little bit of polish to be a nice "what if" take in historical genres.

What keeps bothering me however, is the name Issak. Why have you guys translated the name this way? I know it's common in English to butcher the name, but..
The common way to write the name is Isaac. If you want the Dutch spelling, it's Isaak. Is there a reason why you went with Issak? It bothers me to no end.

Edit: I also noticed the use of Hapsburgs. Why did you change it from Habsburg?

 

[Kendama]

@A9DOC Issak is the official Romanisation of the name by the authors or editors. You can see it on the cover at the top of this page. I know it makes no sense, but nothing we can do about it.

Well, it does make some sense in that his true name is Isaku, thus the strange European version.

Hapsburg is an alternative spelling of the Austrian imperial family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg

Personally, I'd have preferred Habsburg since it's more common, but I'm assuming our translator is following the romaji spelling, though I haven't checked myself. According to the possible etymology in the link above, both "hap" and "hab" may reflect the Middle High German origin of the name of Habsburg Castle.

 

[A9DOC]

Thanks for the reply. I guess sometimes Japanese is weird like that. Issak will bother me until the end of times.

 

[spiderbait]

Damn thought this would be cool to read, but it's as if a Weeaboo made a manga. Suddenly the world changes shape and nothing, including physics, can stop Japanesu steeruru.

 

[mustardhobo]

The Mc isn’t even likable... your telling me a Japanese dude is named issac? But the authors didn’t even bother using a normal name but using Issak instead?

 

[dudsuper8]

Almighty Japanese sharp-shooter 1 shot kills one of the best generals from the time period at a distance of 300 feet in first chapter? aight I'm heading out

 

[themanj]

if you completely ignore the historical context its fine

 

[MonkeyMagic]

The asspain is ridiculous.
This is like going to an american drama streaming site and complaining of gun violence and backstabbing.

 

[yamusing]

the art in this is so scruffy

 

[tizz]

Sometimes I wonder if people understand that Isaak is a ‘What If Spinola got killed before he wrecked his way through Germany” story and Isaak is just serving as a butterfly element. I don’t know why people even question Isaak’s name, it has already been established that it’s his European alias, same with Lorenzo. And the thing with Isaak’s musket, you do realise that Japanese matchloks have effective range of 200 meters right? Which the author never broke and you also have to realize that the current time in the story is already 30-40 years after Oda Nobunaga and his famous destruction of cavalry with his guns? Nothing about this story breaks the suspense of disbelief if you actually bothered to look into the relevant subjects.

 

[Harjeli]

A Japanese mercenary named I SUCK.

 

[samazam]

I mean, I get you guys, but y'all shouldve know that this one isnt going to be all that historically accurate when ghe girl on the cover wears chestplate that has pronounced boobs.

 

[UnknownSaint111]

I don’t think japan had any conflict with a country so far away and so dam different.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

@UnknownSaint111 Well, he's just a mercenary so there really doesn't have to be

 

[Jackie99]

love it!

 

[RNDM1]

@tizz That's a smoothbore arquebus you know. It'll throw a ball couple'a hundred meters easy, sure, but you know what empirical experiments then AND now say about the accuracy?
A skilled shot has roughly even odds of hitting a standing man at hundred paces, that's what. See ballistic effective range is a completely different thing from accurate range; similarly any halfway decent modern pistol cartridge will readily send a bullet hundreds of meters downrange, but the practical distance at which a handgun will actually hit something in combat conditions caps at about ten give or take.

Rifing was invented and is used for a reason; without centrifugal stabilisation the ball will just start veering off into a random direction and there's literally nothing even the best shooter can do about that because PHYSICS, SON. By the hundred-meter mark it can deviate a good meter plus from the point of aim, easy. There's very good reasons why gunpowder warfare consisted of large bodies of men operating as giant shotguns.
Doesn't really help that the Japanese guns like Our Hero's were still using (and never really graduated from) the old-style stocks that couldn't be held against the shoulder for a third contact point and better recoil absorption (both of which are of some real relevance to accuracy), ofc. By the end of the 1500s Euro designs had begun stabilising on a more modern pattern and the older type was relegated to small-caliber hunting and sport pieces - in such contexts it was apparently felt that bracing against the shoulder was cheating and a good shot should get by without.

And ofc even cheap mass-produced ("munition") cavalry body armour was required to stop an arquebus ball from about ten-fifteen paces (and pistol from some five - in cavalry fights muzzles were routinely pushed into direct contact before firing for this reason); the kind of expensive, tailored good stuff wealthy senior rankers who bought their own kit wore was naturally stronger still.

Also, for the record, by this date Japanese firearm tech was falling way the fuck behind the curve anyway. They basically got stuck on matchlock smoothbores until mid-1800s Western imports; Europeans had worked out rifling and more advanced mechanisms (ie. the wheellock) already over a century ago and were at this time poking at early versions of the flintlock ("firelocks" were standard issue for artillery guard detachments by the Thirty Years' War since troopers wandering around that much gunpowder with lit slowmatch was a self-evidently bad idea) - the French compiled the various designs floating around into the definitive model that basically stayed in use as-is until the early-mid 1800s invention of the caplock in the second half of the century.

 

[Anokineko]

I like it but it's really hard to read about these religious idiots.

 

[Jackie99]

love it

 

[Ayhano]

The current arc with those religious people is bland