March Comes in Like a Lion - Vol. 1 Ch. 10 - Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[MangaDex]

 

[goodhunter]

Holy crap, this connects back to the first chapter. I'm confused, I wonder why it seems like his shogi father is the one who left him in the first chapter, but here we see that it was his own choice in choosing to leave and be dependent. I'm so confused, the first chapter almost felt like he held some grudge against the shogi father.

And it's really sad to see that even that family was pretty broken. Obsession with something always tends to do that. The father's obsession with shogi led him to neglect his actual children and not see their emotional and mental health all too important. He seems like a man who cares, but his obsession with shogi made him into a man who became neglectful to those who didn't perform to his standards within shogi. That leads to a very complicated relationship with MC, as I'm sure MC looked up to him as a father figure but understands that he's stolen that from the man's own children. At the same time, if he didn't perform well in shogi, would this man have even shown any attention and care to him?

 

[thename0fthewind]

Wow that is one shitty father

 

[Senros]

@goodhunter you mean the part where he more or less says it felt like he was pummeling his father when they played shogi and he won? He isn't angry at him, he didn't want to beat him, but he felt he had to. Probably to keep being his "son." He regrets that he destroyed their family, even though he didn't mean to as he just wanted to survive and have a place he could call home.

 

[GuildMasterJin]

Started to re-read this and taking in the lessons from irl is that the main thing that Masachika Kōda (Kiriyama's adoptive parent) failed to do is to teach and raise his children with positive reinforcement in mind(along with kindness); subjecting his children to harsh punishments especially Kyoko after small fights only scars children and causes them harm in the future. Due to Kiriyama seeing how the father treated his own blood related children to poor treatment also caused harm and trauma to him as well

tl;dr:
Kiriyama Parent 2.0 awful
be better

 

[Kuroww]

not the dads fault his children were dogshit at shogi lmao

 

[leusee]

@Kuroww what is your profile picture from? looks good 😃

 

[Kuroww]

@leusee it's from beck

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[MangaPapi]

The sleave metaphor was immaculate. This is one of the best manga chapters I’ve reas in a while.

 

[Kaarme]

In all the manga/anime I've seen, this is one of the best depictions of an adopted child feeling like they shouldn't be there. Yes, he wasn't officially adopted, but there would have definitely been a legal guardianship established, and in practice he was very much one of the kids in the house. The cuckoo metaphor also works perfectly when the father's shougi obsession is in the picture.

 

[my0tis]

fuck, man (x2)