Major 2nd - Ch. 291 - The true identity of the Hanamura family
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As I said last week, this chapter marks the two-hundredth chapter of middle school arc in mejaseca. はい, おめでとう! (パチパチ).
Hmph, yeah right. As my two (seemingly one now since Desert is MIA!) loyal readers (cute little puppies) will know and as it was explained in the charts, this far surpasses every arc in MAJOR in terms of chapter count except for the high school arc. It’s a given that it will surpass that too, but that won’t be happening for another good year or so, so I won’t be getting into that. Sir pekocheco Sir, what happens in mejaseca middle school arc that warrants more, far way more chapters than elementary school, middle school, minor league, WBC, and major league arcs in MAJOR? Who knows, you’d have to ask the old man about that. And let’s not even get into serialization length. Actually, no. Let’s do it, let’s get into it. As of the release of this chapter, it has been 2766 days of serialization. That’s 7 years, 6 months, and 26 days. Almost eight years, huh? Well, eight was never the question, we all knew it was gonna go up to eight. The question was: is it gonna go up to nine? If six months ago you had asked me that, I would have been doubtful. I don’t think I would have been able to answer. Now, I think that it’s definitely doable. Add six months for this game if the Fujimihara game is anything to go by, and I think another year of bullshit after that is definitely possible, to be expected, even. Maybe nine was never the question, maybe it was always…ten. Scary! Isn’t it? This and everything that’s been going for the past few months got me thinking about something I read once:
“After the 16-year long serialization had ended, the author Takuya Mitsuda recalled, ‘I had a feeling that I wanted to continue the story. I wanted to continue the story of Goro as a batter (lie) and the story of his son (also a lie). But I had just finished a long serialization at the time, and didn’t feel like doing it right away.’ What prompted Mitsuda to return to baseball (doubt) manga was the presence of Shohei Ohtani, a pitcher and batter garnering attention as a “dual-wielder” for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.”
That’s right…Ohtani. Ohtani…? You mean it’s all…his fault? All of the suffering that I’ve been through, it’s all…his fault? Well…yes. You know, I remember being really mad at Mitsuda when the chapter where it was revealed Furuya had Tommy John surgery was first released, because it was released shortly after the news of Ohtani’s second elbow injury with the Angels and I found it to be in poor taste. Ah, Furuya. Why does it always come back to him? He truly is the main character of this work. When I read people in Saranami threads talking about Yami as though she’s the real main heroine of the work, it reminded me of how I used to think that way about Furuya too. I guess I felt…nostalgic? About the Fujimihara game? Sure, it was a bad game, it was the worst game of all, but the emotion! The posting! The 1000-word peko rants! Hell, it created The peko rant! That’s never coming back, there’s only boring chapters and statistics talk in the road ahead. (sigh) Anyway, realistically, there was no way for the old man to know that Ohtani was going to get hurt and need surgery again (or was there?), but if I can blame him for something, I’m gonna blame him. You know me, I’m as far gone as he is. By the time that the Fujimihara game was over, Ohtani had already made his Dodgers debut (alas, in spring training, but you get the point). The world keeps moving, meanwhile Mituda’s manga is stagnated. Ohtani has achieved so much since Mitsuda’s words. This so-called “inspired” baseball manga of his is forever stuck in a meaningless, boring, girly middle school baseball rubber ball tournament. Seriously, nowadays authors can't even understand basic things like how middle school is only a stepping stone to high school (cough). It makes me feel that we’d all be better off if we all just put down the manga and watched Ohtani instead if this is the best that the genre can do in the modern era. Heisei baseball manga have this recurring theme, right? Of baseball losing popularity to other sports like football and being seen as an “outdated” sport, you see this is MAJOR too. Should we all just admit defeat to other sports and go home? I blame Ohtani, how many baseball manga authors have outright admitted defeat after watching That? It’s a losing battle…or so it seemed.
So the plan was that I was gonna come here, I was gonna say all that, and then I was gonna go, but that was before I saw Ohtani’s performance during the World Series. I am not joking when I say that, even for just a little while, Ohtani choking on the World Series saved baseball manga. Ohoho! Eat your heart out, Ohtani! Nogoro actually did it, he actually won against you! It showed me that there are still moments where fiction surpasses reality. That baseball manga, no, 2D won’t go down without a fight so easily! That made me happy, truly.
The chapter. Furuya was a meta commentary type of character about Mitsuda's hatred for the traditional baseball manga main character archetype that he built his career upon. He had already rejected the archetype with Daigo (throws up just typing this name), but he actively scorned it with Furuya. He showed that such a type of character has no place in a modern Takuya Mitsuda manga, it has no place in a modern "baseball" manga. I suspect the Hanamura brothers might be the same type of meta characters. TL/N: In p14 Riku uses the word 噛ませ犬 (literally "someone who looks like they're putting up a fight but really has no chance of winning", character doomed by the narrative) to refer to themselves, they're very much self-aware. Judging by their hatred of Fuurin-Oobi, the commentary is something like "fuck you if you don't like my manga as it is now". Yes, when you think about it this manga is really just a big fuck you to the readers who made Mitsuda a successful author in the first place. Seriously, where is all this anger coming from?
The chapter was actually done yesterday, but since I had to write this peko rant, I couldn’t post it until today. With love, your one and only favorite scanlator, and your master
Hmph, yeah right. As my two (seemingly one now since Desert is MIA!) loyal readers (cute little puppies) will know and as it was explained in the charts, this far surpasses every arc in MAJOR in terms of chapter count except for the high school arc. It’s a given that it will surpass that too, but that won’t be happening for another good year or so, so I won’t be getting into that. Sir pekocheco Sir, what happens in mejaseca middle school arc that warrants more, far way more chapters than elementary school, middle school, minor league, WBC, and major league arcs in MAJOR? Who knows, you’d have to ask the old man about that. And let’s not even get into serialization length. Actually, no. Let’s do it, let’s get into it. As of the release of this chapter, it has been 2766 days of serialization. That’s 7 years, 6 months, and 26 days. Almost eight years, huh? Well, eight was never the question, we all knew it was gonna go up to eight. The question was: is it gonna go up to nine? If six months ago you had asked me that, I would have been doubtful. I don’t think I would have been able to answer. Now, I think that it’s definitely doable. Add six months for this game if the Fujimihara game is anything to go by, and I think another year of bullshit after that is definitely possible, to be expected, even. Maybe nine was never the question, maybe it was always…ten. Scary! Isn’t it? This and everything that’s been going for the past few months got me thinking about something I read once:
“After the 16-year long serialization had ended, the author Takuya Mitsuda recalled, ‘I had a feeling that I wanted to continue the story. I wanted to continue the story of Goro as a batter (lie) and the story of his son (also a lie). But I had just finished a long serialization at the time, and didn’t feel like doing it right away.’ What prompted Mitsuda to return to baseball (doubt) manga was the presence of Shohei Ohtani, a pitcher and batter garnering attention as a “dual-wielder” for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.”
That’s right…Ohtani. Ohtani…? You mean it’s all…his fault? All of the suffering that I’ve been through, it’s all…his fault? Well…yes. You know, I remember being really mad at Mitsuda when the chapter where it was revealed Furuya had Tommy John surgery was first released, because it was released shortly after the news of Ohtani’s second elbow injury with the Angels and I found it to be in poor taste. Ah, Furuya. Why does it always come back to him? He truly is the main character of this work. When I read people in Saranami threads talking about Yami as though she’s the real main heroine of the work, it reminded me of how I used to think that way about Furuya too. I guess I felt…nostalgic? About the Fujimihara game? Sure, it was a bad game, it was the worst game of all, but the emotion! The posting! The 1000-word peko rants! Hell, it created The peko rant! That’s never coming back, there’s only boring chapters and statistics talk in the road ahead. (sigh) Anyway, realistically, there was no way for the old man to know that Ohtani was going to get hurt and need surgery again (or was there?), but if I can blame him for something, I’m gonna blame him. You know me, I’m as far gone as he is. By the time that the Fujimihara game was over, Ohtani had already made his Dodgers debut (alas, in spring training, but you get the point). The world keeps moving, meanwhile Mituda’s manga is stagnated. Ohtani has achieved so much since Mitsuda’s words. This so-called “inspired” baseball manga of his is forever stuck in a meaningless, boring, girly middle school baseball rubber ball tournament. Seriously, nowadays authors can't even understand basic things like how middle school is only a stepping stone to high school (cough). It makes me feel that we’d all be better off if we all just put down the manga and watched Ohtani instead if this is the best that the genre can do in the modern era. Heisei baseball manga have this recurring theme, right? Of baseball losing popularity to other sports like football and being seen as an “outdated” sport, you see this is MAJOR too. Should we all just admit defeat to other sports and go home? I blame Ohtani, how many baseball manga authors have outright admitted defeat after watching That? It’s a losing battle…or so it seemed.
So the plan was that I was gonna come here, I was gonna say all that, and then I was gonna go, but that was before I saw Ohtani’s performance during the World Series. I am not joking when I say that, even for just a little while, Ohtani choking on the World Series saved baseball manga. Ohoho! Eat your heart out, Ohtani! Nogoro actually did it, he actually won against you! It showed me that there are still moments where fiction surpasses reality. That baseball manga, no, 2D won’t go down without a fight so easily! That made me happy, truly.
The chapter. Furuya was a meta commentary type of character about Mitsuda's hatred for the traditional baseball manga main character archetype that he built his career upon. He had already rejected the archetype with Daigo (throws up just typing this name), but he actively scorned it with Furuya. He showed that such a type of character has no place in a modern Takuya Mitsuda manga, it has no place in a modern "baseball" manga. I suspect the Hanamura brothers might be the same type of meta characters. TL/N: In p14 Riku uses the word 噛ませ犬 (literally "someone who looks like they're putting up a fight but really has no chance of winning", character doomed by the narrative) to refer to themselves, they're very much self-aware. Judging by their hatred of Fuurin-Oobi, the commentary is something like "fuck you if you don't like my manga as it is now". Yes, when you think about it this manga is really just a big fuck you to the readers who made Mitsuda a successful author in the first place. Seriously, where is all this anger coming from?
The chapter was actually done yesterday, but since I had to write this peko rant, I couldn’t post it until today. With love, your one and only favorite scanlator, and your master
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magnificent rant peko
made me wonder how many world series win will ohtani and the dodgers get until this middle school arc ends
the part of it being just a stepping stone to high school is funny since we still 0 hints to that so far lmao
daigo complaining to the ump was a 10/10 moment truly. also nice that mutsu got a strikeout ig
the monologue from the enemy team this time around is pretty lame tho
anyways been a good year for me as a sports fan with the 2 teams i was watching winning their championships
made me wonder how many world series win will ohtani and the dodgers get until this middle school arc ends
the part of it being just a stepping stone to high school is funny since we still 0 hints to that so far lmao
daigo complaining to the ump was a 10/10 moment truly. also nice that mutsu got a strikeout ig
the monologue from the enemy team this time around is pretty lame tho
anyways been a good year for me as a sports fan with the 2 teams i was watching winning their championships
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I just wanted to casually thank the translator for their hard work, because I actually enjoy this manga despite a couple questionable moments. Otsukaresama.
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Oh I wasn't just talking about Mitsuda when I mentioned modern authors who don't understand that it's just a stepping stone (cough cough). Please...I can't bear the thought of doing this for another ten years (if you stick by my side I might think about it, though), and I just don't think the old man's body can handle it either.
Yaay❤️Happy Luci❤️You know what I like about you, Luci? If anyone else came on here and said anything positive about that Daigo line, they could never show their face around my comment section again, but you do it because you know it's your right and your privilege that you can get away with it. You carry yourself around with a stature befitting yours and my position! I've sure trained you well. My Luci values his independence, and I respect that. If you want a big backyard to run around on, I don't have a problem with that. Also, what's your other team that won their championship?
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it's T1 from LoL
started watching lck this year after i happened to watch them by chance and got fascinated by Faker's still ongoing legacy
(also i have never played a moba before lmao)
