Josou Off-Kai (Pre-Serialization)

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Kurisu the translator of this series hates me so much they blocked me here, banned me from their discord (where I get notified of new series or updates of manga) and they seemed to of insulted us by calling us "smol brains" in a different version of the chapter.

All because me and some others thought "trans" shouldn't be the translation of "former male"
 
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@kurisu

Immature and childish.

We give you criticism and you reacted so poorly.
I didnt even mind the translation at first until someone pointed out the discrepancy.

I actually had respect for you. Now you've kinda lost it.
 
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Should be 8.5 or higher. I'd rate 10/10 for my personal preferences... Why is every series with crossdressing underrated by a full point or two? I feel like people just have something against crossdressing or something... ;-;

@smolbaka judging from their reply, you didn't lie about what they did. I'm curious what kind of criticism/insult you had towards kurisu's translation, but if it's anything short of outright cussing I highly doubt you deserved what happened.
@kurisu That aside, I'd support the translator simply because they're doing what is essentially charity work of their own accord. Thank you for doing that, and I'm sure all readers appreciate it, but most criticism is constructive and well-meant, so keep an open mind because you can always just ignore something you don't like, and criticism (both positive and negative) is just like all other information - it can only help when you make use of it. Geeze, that run-on sentence had poor grammar...
 
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@Firemorfox Yeah, but a lot of people including me explained why Trans was a natural and appropiate translation for 元男, but smolbaka and other 2 or 3 people kept complaining I was just pushing an agenda. I got ticked off and blocked them all.
 
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@kurisu

You most likely blocked me too, but it's whatever honestly. Trans or former male.
No difference between the two.
Like, what else is there besides male and female?

I did talk to someone about this who knows japanese and grammar. She noted that trans girl probably shouldn't be the literal translation for "元男" but it's acceptable.
 
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@kurisu
Ah, in that case I guess everybody involved overreacted (but mostly the complainers). If they kept mentioning repeatedly the topic after you already talked about it, then you already did what you should have done. They overstepped boundaries regardless of whether they had good intentions or not. It's clear they did it often enough to the point to annoy you, probably even after you told them to stop repeatedly.
Thanks for explaining this to me!
 
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That's a pretty fun concept

I wonder if they're going to explore more into the trend or keep it surface level for the comedy. I always wondered how actually far spread cross dressing was in Japan.
 
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I wonder if they'll eventually accept themselves. They seem to make a huge deal of it, even though they themselves are doing it. Specially MC.
 
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@Firemorfox

I found kurisu's actions a little uncalled for imo.

Especially towards me who was banned from their discord without ever talking in it.

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And they even page inspect my profile name and link to my Twitter to say "smolbrain"

Now tell me, was that necessary?
 
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@smolbaka
I guess just ignore it then. I don't think you can do much about their attitude, and I don't think you can conciliate kurisu over whatever you said if they jumped straight to advocating people to block you. I guess I'll wish good luck in your future unrelated endeavors?

that said, both of you seem equally strongheaded, so I guess it makes sense the two of you might be incompatible
 
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@smolbaka
The fact that you make sexual remarks in almost every crossdressing manga's comments on this site is good enough reasoning for a ban on a scanlators discord.
A translator shouldn't have to cater to you or your opinions on the text they are working on. The fact that people even cared about choosing 'trans woman' over 'ex-guy' and then tried to justify it with bullshit arguments is proof enough of toxicity. Like there are legitimate mistranslations that happen all the time in manga, but ppl rarely care.

@Firemorfox
Kurisu did nothing wrong lol. If you really want to know what type of person smolbaka is, just click on their twitter. I wouldn't recommend it though.
 
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@thepythia
Thank you for the advice; I'll see it for myself. It's my fault for forming opinions before looking at both parties closer.
 
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The fact that you make sexual remarks in almost every crossdressing manga's comments on this site is good enough reasoning for a ban on a scanlators discord.

??? Where exactly do you see me saying such things?

@Firemorfox

Yeah I'll ignore it. Just wanted people to know what sorta person this kurisu person is.
 
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What I love about this manga is that it addresses gender issues with deep respect to self-identity and without romanticizing victimization. It's just a slow and awkward process of learning to live with each other, just as it should be.
 
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beginning is lame but the more you learn about the characters the better it gets
 
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This one really grew on me. Solid writing, cute characters, tropes are used well rather than just peppered all over it. Can't wait to read more.
 

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