Jun's Guts: A Collection of Gory and Bizarre Works - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Human-Faced Tumor Hunting

[MangaDex]

 

[zaibatan80]

Jinmensou/人面瘡 or Human-Faced Tumors are a staple of Japanese folklore. Here is some solid information about them:

https://uncannyjapan.com/podcast/human-faced-tumor-jinmensou/

 

[Voyvoy_]

There is a missing speech bubble on page 7. Also, why are the regular speech bubbles in bold italics?

 

[zaibatan80]

There is a missing speech bubble on page 7.

Fixed, thanks.

Also, why are the regular speech bubbles in bold italics?

That's the way all my scanlations have been for the past 21 years. If there is a rule against it that I am not aware of I apologize but I also don't think I'll change the way I edit my translations.

 

[zaibatan80]

That's the way all my scanlations have been for the past 21 years.

Not 100% accurate, actually. The first chapter of Maruo's The Laughing Vampire, the first manga I ever scanlated myself, was released using Times New Roman as the font of choice. The people on 4chan's /t/ board had some words for me that day that I can definitely not quote here.

 

[Voyvoy_]

If there is a rule against it that I am not aware of I apologize but I also don't think I'll change the way I edit my translations.

the general standard is roman/default for dialogue and italics only in narration and thought

 

[meatisgood]

Oh damn!! Thanks for doing this one man!!! And personally you do you. Fonts never mattered much to me or the way people use them. Just being able to more easily read something in English is all that matters.

 

[soidish]

Is this a metaphor for teenage pregnancy?

 

[zaibatan80]

Is this a metaphor for teenage pregnancy?

That's certainly how I interpreted it. Well, abortion as a means to deal with teenage pregnancy, to be precise. The "human-faced tumor" would, in this scenario, be the fetus and all the talk of "cutting it out" would be the abortion. Interesting, also, how the process only hurt for the one girl who had started to think the "tumor" was actually cute and had started to take care of it.

 

[AcidVlad]

Yeah