Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover - Ch. 40 - Demon

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A much better translation, I had no idea what "he thinks he's some kind of assassin" was meant to mean as the most obvious example.

I don't think she's the one behind it as other people keep saying for the simple fact she goes back via regression, there aren't 2 of her, I think it probably is a member of her family though. The mother is the most obvious psycho but probably not the only 1. Either that or the clover person has driven her family to do this too.
 
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Ah, finally we can discuss the chapter.
We still know nothing of the misterious older brother, the stepfather killed himself I guess?
The mother...oh boy, is hard to criticize her, I think the author overreached with this one, she is cartoonishly evil, it feels too out there, I think he could have delivered the same result with a bit more tact, you can have the mother who pins all her hope on her child becoming a superstar, I have seen it too, but to the point that they threaten to cut them up with a smile....eh........could/should have been delivered better.

Maybe is because the author doesn't want to dedicate too many chapters on this flashback and so is doing the mom a quick and dirty job?
 
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Ah, finally we can discuss the chapter.
We still know nothing of the misterious older brother, the stepfather killed himself I guess?
The mother...oh boy, is hard to criticize her, I think the author overreached with this one, she is cartoonishly evil, it feels too out there, I think he could have delivered the same result with a bit more tact, you can have the mother who pins all her hope on her child becoming a superstar, I have seen it too, but to the point that they threaten to cut them up with a smile....eh........could/should have been delivered better.

Maybe is because the author doesn't want to dedicate too many chapters on this flashback and so is doing the mom a quick and dirty job?
I agree but you also need to remember 2 things
1. People like the mother do exist IRL, they might not do the same stuff but they just as psychotic, we cringe when we see people like that in media because they're rare but both Joseph Fritzl and Jeffrey Dahmer existed IRL
2. The clover guy may be behind it, remember we don't know anything about him/her but my theory has been they were going after Yotsuha from the beginning and Uichi was just a way to go for that end for a while now
 
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Ah, finally we can discuss the chapter.
We still know nothing of the misterious older brother, the stepfather killed himself I guess?
The mother...oh boy, is hard to criticize her, I think the author overreached with this one, she is cartoonishly evil, it feels too out there, I think he could have delivered the same result with a bit more tact, you can have the mother who pins all her hope on her child becoming a superstar, I have seen it too, but to the point that they threaten to cut them up with a smile....eh........could/should have been delivered better.

Maybe is because the author doesn't want to dedicate too many chapters on this flashback and so is doing the mom a quick and dirty job?
i thought the suicide might have been the last kid she was forcing to act and such
 
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I've already commented on the other translation so I'm gonna copy my comments for sake of discussion here.

Basically if a story is overloaded with shock value, at a certain point it is starting to get unbelievable. The fact that there isn't a single decent person in this series is starting to overstep the mark.
I hope it doesn't turns into another Sugar happy life. The fact that there wasn't a single decent person in the whole town got so ridiculous and unbelievable I couldn't take the shock scenes serious after the half point.

Ijimeru Yabai Yatsu at least went so far full blown over the top, the mangaka went with it and turned it into a bullying comedy. The first few chapters contain gore and torture for shock value and then suddenly we are reading about a Rube-goldberg-bullying-machine and other nonsense lol. Won't work with this series because it actually tries to stay serious and dramatic. We will see how well that's gonna work.
 
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Please, older brother, please be an actual decent person that also got oppressed by the demonic mom!

Otherwise the last thing to do would be to transport Uichi and Yotsuha on a spaceship then proceed to deathstar the world.
 
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I've already commented on the other translation so I'm gonna copy my comments for sake of discussion here.

Basically if a story is overloaded with shock value, at a certain point it is starting to get unbelievable. The fact that there isn't a single decent person in this series is starting to overstep the mark.
I hope it doesn't turns into another Sugar happy life. The fact that there wasn't a single decent person in the whole town got so ridiculous and unbelievable I couldn't take the shock scenes serious after the half point.

Ijimeru Yabai Yatsu at least went so far full blown over the top, the mangaka went with it and turned it into a bullying comedy. The first few chapters contain gore and torture for shock value and then suddenly we are reading about a Rube-goldberg-bullying-machine and other nonsense lol. Won't work with this series because it actually tries to stay serious and dramatic. We will see how well that's gonna work.
Agreed. It's starting to feel like one of those mangas where there's no competent adults to be seen. Which I know it can be possible as there has been stories where parents would isolate their children from any one else and Japan's mentality of not my family not my problem can be a factor here but this seems like it's being cruel just for the sake of being cruel. Sugar happy life was definitely like that. Hopefully it gets better and we see some people with empathy who can help. I'm thinking this story may be similar to Boy's Abyss.
 

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