Kimi wa, Nina Janai - Vol. 4 Ch. 40 - My Love For You
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Howdy y'all, Kiwi here
That's it, aside from one last extra that's everything. It's been a long two years, and to be honest I should have been done with this a year ago. I've learned a lot, and had a lot of fun, but now we're at the end of the road. It's a little bittersweet, but it should free up more time for us to work on our other series which we're currently behind on.
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That's it, aside from one last extra that's everything. It's been a long two years, and to be honest I should have been done with this a year ago. I've learned a lot, and had a lot of fun, but now we're at the end of the road. It's a little bittersweet, but it should free up more time for us to work on our other series which we're currently behind on.
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Wrapped up. Nothing special, but it's an end.
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This was a nice read & I wish the ex girlfriend got a much worse comeuppance but then again that isn't main point of the story. At least the author has two other series keeping them busy even though one was unfortunately purged. Thanks for translating this to the end.
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Thanks for the great work and for sharing this manga with us 🥰🥂
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TY for your work and seeing this one through to the end.
Truly one of the endings of all time.
I mean pretty much all the conflicts were resolved, but I'd expected more.
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That was kind of a nothing ending.
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Uh, he stopped coming to work?
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What a disappointing ending. It lacks drama.
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"He hasn't come back to his desk" might be a better translation.
He's not showing up to the office but hasn't had to endure the shame of being fired, but they aren't addressing exactly what happened.
Also "he never returned" has a different connotation in Japanese than in English. In English, never means never: bro up an vanished and never returned to his desk. In Japanese "he never returned to the office", especially with a time skip in narration, means "he didn't return to the office during the time skip" - which could mean truly never, ever or might just mean 'for a long time'.
about the not showing up:
Work culture in Japan is very weird. Some companies people will just stop showing up to work but won't be fired - in some cases their pay continues. I can't explain it very well but the same sort of moral socialization that stops you from just grabbing all of the free pens at work stops people from abusing the system.
It has changed a good deal since the 90s or ever since the 00s, but especially in the 70s when you got hired in Japan at a Japanese company as a corporate drone, both employer and employee expected that this relationship would last until you were no longer able to work, the company failed, or the employee massively fucked up such that firing was the only option.
Now career change isn't as rare as it used to be, but especially a lot of larger companies are slow to change.
Plus the
Also its not like you just peace out with zero consequenes. He will be subject to various subtle forms of subtle punishment unless he has a very good excuse; at bare minimum his career trajectory will take a hit.
My friend who worked in Japan said a related company (literally, it was run by a "branch" family of the company president) had a dude who had offended company leadership in some way, and leadership response was to tell his division head he wasn't to be given any work, they even took his computer. Bro would show up, sit at any empty desk for 10 hours each day, and go home. (it was extremely fucked up, dude figured since he wasn't doing anything he'd at least take charge of the breakroom coffee pot; they made some new hire come in early to make coffee just so this dude would have nothing productive to do all day). I guess the guy had kids in school or something just had to put up with it.
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what the wtf?
Wait, I fail to see how it is a punishment? Sure, sucks to be unproductive because boredom, but he is still getting paid the same? That’s kinda a win in my books?
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Thank you for completing the translation! I only recently picked this up.
The end feels very abrupt. I feel like the last 2 arcs had absolutely no reason to exist. And then the story just ran out of things to do.
I feel like there was something else they could've done with the premise, but I can't say what.
The end feels very abrupt. I feel like the last 2 arcs had absolutely no reason to exist. And then the story just ran out of things to do.
I feel like there was something else they could've done with the premise, but I can't say what.
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So also remember when dude tried to keep the coffee pot topped up and they literally made it a new hire's job to do it before him? He was toxic, persona non-grata. No one interacted with him for fear of getting the ire of whoever he offended. No computer, no files, just sit there and stare at your desk until the boss leaves and you can go home.
(and technically not the same, no bonuses)
There is a reason solitary confinement is used as a punishment.
