Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover - Ch. 68 - Odd insult.

[goobersloobler]

the herring is positively sanguine

 

[y0rum4in]

Thanks for the translation

 

[mr2005vc]

Giraffe-kun would have solved this entire mess in one chapter.

the giraf-kun sidestory will be expanded on

unless mangadex mods get mad at us

 

[R3k2y]

Count me in for "This is way too simple and easy", too, and thank you for the reassurance that it wasn't just me. I was so afraid this meant the series had gotten an abrupt axe.

For my money, this a reinforces my theory that Clover is her brother using the family power of time travel. It's right up a time-traveler's alley to have turned Rei against Uichi all that long ago.

(And if Clover can't time travel, the author has a WHOLE lot of explaining/setup to do for why Clover started picking on Uichi all those years ago and calling him a murderer.

I had a theory pop into my mind when reading this. What if it is the brother who can potentially time travel and is targeting Uichi because in the original timeline Yotsuha dies and blames Uichi because she wanted to visit him after remembering all the fun times before she got her heart surgery and while in the process of going to see him and stuff she has her heart problems and died causing her brother who probably has a weird obsession over Yotsuha to blame Uichi for her death causing Clover-san to be born.

 

[cybeast21]

This seems too easy and too convenient to be confirmed at once

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Damn, another tease chapter?

 

[MrTurtleMan]

Ok, even if Fuu chan doesn't end up being the mastermind, this timing was waaaaaay too convenient for her to not at least be involved. Maybe the mastermind was Shinzo Abe? All his plot to get her and him together so they can have sex and increase Japan's birth rate.

 

[TheEnd478]

trash human

thank you for translating

Honestly I had him pegged! His character type I compare to "Hikaru Gosunkugi" from "Ranma 1/2"

BOTH Ranma AND Akane helped the Trash out! And he "thanks" Ranma by trying to "curse and get him out of the way" becaus Akane is his fiancee! Not a single THANKS to him for dealing with his bullies (Ranma saved him because one of the teachings of "Everything goes" his father "hypocritically" taught him was "defend the weak" which he was doing! It's a common trope where a gloomy ungrateful bastard who gets saved instead of HATING those who beat them up, instead go after the one who HELPED THEM unless of course their of the gender they have a sexual attraction to, as exampled by Hikaru developing a crush on Akane who also helped him)

While he was in the end HARMLESS and Ranma DID beat his ass when he DID catch on to his attempts on him as he does to anyone who acts antagonistic with him (he's always shown to be fighting in self-defense, rarely the aggressor who attacked first unwarrented). Other examples end up being similar to this story! He likely HATED Uchi for "daring" to look down on him (He interupted his actions as "looking down on him" because trash like them with their inferioty complexes assume you can read their fucking minds! But the usual things is "They think you'll hurt them so they'll get to YOU before you get them!" This is why "some people can't be saved and shouldn't exist as you learn.

Though it's obvious he's a red herring, I wouldn't be shocked seeing how Clover's been targeting Uchi since he WAS a kid that he filled the Trash's head with lies, deceptions and half-truths! Though he's still trash for not trying to figure it out or giving Uchi benefit of the doubt because deep down he was LOOKING for WHATEVER excuse to justify that he is the ENEMY! I mean notice Uchi even showed it after that "Reveal" how his life suddenly started "Falling apart" after that incident! Clover has shown how well planned they have things, and VERY skilled at manipulating children! Uchi's sister and the Trash were easy, his parents were a bonus (more specifically his DAD was the Domino, as his mother likely WOULDN'T have cracked if he was actually fucking USEFUL instead of a ignoring useless enabler who focused all his energy on LOOKING competent instead of BEING competent! What makes her better is she DID acknowledge her and the family's crimes towards Uchi! Instead of being a pillar of support for him as his mother, she made HIM the support instead. Unless when you think on it, Yotsuha kind of SMACKED reality back in her at least! I mean sad part was she was the only one to care when he DID kill himself! His sister was so self-absorbed she was FRUSTRATED being at his wake instead of back in her room and hated EVERY MOMENT of it while whining, and the father was pathetic, going into PANIC MODE and likely HOPING no one questions if it's HIS fault that Uchi committed suicide, not "The family's" fault, "HIS" because all his actions have been shown in service of PROTECTING HIMSELF like the failure father he is! You can only think the WORSE for his mother in that timeline as she lost "her only Pillar of Support" and you know a "murder-suicide" of the entire family is incoming before Yotsuha's "Time Loop"). I'm sure in case of HACKING, he made it sure it was coming from TRASH. Since he was the LOUDEST.

But that "Murderer" part still bugs me as I don't get what he or Clover MEAN by it. But damn are Uchi and Yotsuha magnets for growing sociopaths and nutjobs to make them "toys" whatever it was that girl from the Facility who invoked likely her PARENTS abuse on her and each other on Yotsuha and getting away with it because the Facility likely noticed she was the only targeted so "Volunteered" Yotsuha to be the "Scapegoat" for the troublemakers/time bombs to focus their energy on to MITIGATE damage like the incomptents they are and this shit show

 

[arimareiji]

Oh darn, Uichi really went off to confront him alone...and going by his reaction afterwards, something went down between them...

I don't believe this (a few factors make it unlikely), but… what if Uichi's shock and nervousness when Yotsuha says it's hasty to decide Rei is Clover, is because he killed Rei last night?

Rot in piss, Rei.

I had a theory pop into my mind when reading this. What if it is the brother who can potentially time travel and is targeting Uichi because in the original timeline Yotsuha dies and blames Uichi because she wanted to visit him after remembering all the fun times before she got her heart surgery and while in the process of going to see him and stuff she has her heart problems and died causing her brother who probably has a weird obsession over Yotsuha to blame Uichi for her death causing Clover-san to be born.

Yup, pretty much. That's the logical backdrop.

 

[SpecialProjectY]

Thanks for the scanlation!

 

[JohannesKT69]

I call it now: Fuu-chan is the mastermind.

 

[Haze123553]

Now that they saying it's Rei I feel like it's hacker girl😭 she's way too on go for someone we no nothing about.

 

[77px]

I clicked too fast when reading pages so I read the last page at first fully thinking the chapter up to that point was a dream
until I saw the fucking giraffe

 

[GambierBay]

Giraffe-kun is the best MC

 

[Tomoemami]

Guys, I know the culprit must be her brother, hacker girl or rei. Still I think we are missing something yotsuya said: her brother doesn't want to live with her, so there is a reason. The unknown story about her father and the face her brother showed to her when asked about him. The one that 'hated' her the most was her mother. So maybe there is something beyond her brother in their family, even more that time travel is involved.

 

[arimareiji]

Guys, I know the culprit must be her brother, hacker girl or rei. Still I think we are missing something yotsuya said: her brother doesn't want to live with her, so there is a reason. The unknown story about her father and the face her brother showed to her when asked about him. The one that 'hated' her the most was her mother. So maybe there is something beyond her brother in their family, even more that time travel is involved.

Indeed. Back when I first realized bro's the most likely culprit, my guess was that Mommy Dearest went insane from all the looping she did… and we haven't seen anything more about their family (yet) that would contradict it. To me, it seems really likely that Sensei was influenced by the original Butterfly Effect movie.

 

[CovertFan]

People in this thread are saying they think this time travel stuff runs in the family, I wonder if that means it'll turn out that the watch has no special powers and Yotsuha can time travel without it or something? Maybe the watch will stop working and we'll think she can't time travel but then she ends up doing it anyway?

that peak is probably going to end soon tho.

 

[rocksilver]

I love the fact that Volume 2 has her covering the eyes of Uichi, and Volume 8 has Uichi shaking off the eye cover and seeing with his own eyes. Really makes it a bookend to each other.

 

[arimareiji]

People in this thread are saying they think this time travel stuff runs in the family, I wonder if that means it'll turn out that the watch has no special powers and Yotsuha can time travel without it or something? Maybe the watch will stop working and we'll think she can't time travel but then she ends up doing it anyway?

that peak is probably going to end soon tho.

Spoiler: Spoilers for the original Butterfly Effect movie (2004), which I think influenced the mangaka

Near the beginning of the film, the college-age MC rereads an event from the diaries he wrote, and he jumps back to that time then jumps back to the present. He resolves to go back and fix that event, and starts using the diaries to go back and fix things — which definitely doesn't always go as planned (hence the title).

Midway through, we learn his father has the same power. Late in the film, it's revealed that his father apparently used home movies instead of diaries… and MC is able to use one too. The journals and home movies weren't magical, they just acted as a focus for the power. Ymmv, but I'd bet the same is true of the watch.

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At least in the director's cut of Butterfly Effect*, time travel unambiguously does cumulative brain damage (depending on how much of a change gets made, i.e. how many memories the brain has to rewrite). His father ended up in a mental institution, and the more MC goes back in time, the heavier the toll. In two timelines he gets heavy nosebleeds, and in one of them scans find brain damage. In the next-to-last timeline, when MC jumps back to the present he's in the same mental institution. Scans show his cortex is badly damaged, and his cognition appears to be wonky.

My guess is that similarly, Yotsuha's Mommy Dearest is so effed up because she eventually went insane from time travel (although the manga's story makes a better case for "from trauma" than "from brain damage").

* - If you're curious about why the theater version is inconsistent, explanation below. But only open it if you don't mind ending spoilers.

Spoiler: The endings of the theater version and the director's cut

In the theater version, he uses a home movie to jump back to the birthday party where little MC met little love interest. To save her, he says something to freak her out so she wants nothing to do with him. He jumps back to a present where he's in college again, everyone except love interest's abomination of a 'father' turns out okay, and he grows up to be a successful psychiatrist (but the love interest is no longer part of his life). This makes no sense if the damage was cumulative.

In the director's cut he uses a home movie to jump back to his birth and kill himself, to save everyone from the effects of his time travel.

I really really hope Sensei won't give us an ending as dark as the theater version… but abso-frickin-lutely, Sensei please don't go anywhere near as dark as the director's cut.

 

[MagnaDrake]

People in this thread are saying they think this time travel stuff runs in the family, I wonder if that means it'll turn out that the watch has no special powers and Yotsuha can time travel without it or something? Maybe the watch will stop working and we'll think she can't time travel but then she ends up doing it anyway?

that peak is probably going to end soon tho.

Surely not. Whenever Yotsuha time travels every thing, including her illness, gets restored to the state of that time, EXCEPT her watch. When she first time travelled her watch is pristine. Then the more she used it gets worn and doesnt return to its pristine condition, until the latest state where its pretty much broken.