Nietzsche-sensei - Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita - Vol. 14 Ch. 81 - From the Murky Depths of Social Media

[MangaDex]

 

[Ceiye]

Tbh I'd rather not know anything about my favorite mangaka's personal lives outside of big events they want to share (eg marriage, child, etc), and mostly only follow them for volume and chapter release info (or extra minicomics and drawings, but then I'm like "can you please add these to the volume release too. Twitter isn't really built for proper archival purposes"). Cause like, it's too easy to start seeing them as an extension of what they write/a character, especially in the case of semiautobiographical manga like this. And the way we treat characters is different from human beings. Gotta fight the urge to be parasocial.

Like I am kind of curious about whether Matsukoma actually writes that much about old men, but not enough to really take it beyond the manga page

 

[SatchelBagman]

Page 17, Panel 4: I wonder if the English expression "gird my loins" would be an appropriate alternate translation or if there's a different nuance to the original Japanese that would be lost.

 

[KSR_4849]

Page 17, Panel 4: I wonder if the English expression "gird my loins" would be an appropriate alternate translation or if there's a different nuance to the original Japanese that would be lost.

But you still understood the nuance despite the current line staying truer to the original though, right?

 

[SatchelBagman]

But you still understood the nuance despite the current line staying truer to the original though, right?

I can infer similarity. I was wondering — literally wondering, not asking rhetorically — because I am familiar with "gird my loins" as an expression (albeit a rare one) whose physical action is similar and my knowledge of Japanese idioms is not exhaustive enough to know if a similar expression in a different language had a difference in nuance between the two.

This is my first exposure to a direct translation of the Japanese expression and it stood out to me because "loincloth" is an uncommon word in English and it prompted me to check if I was correctly remembering what "gird one's loins" meant as a similarly unusual turn of phrase.

 

[KSR_4849]

I can infer similarity. I was wondering — literally wondering, not asking rhetorically — because I am familiar with "gird my loins" as an expression (albeit a rare one) whose physical action is similar and my knowledge of Japanese idioms is not exhaustive enough to know if a similar expression in a different language had a difference in nuance between the two.

This is my first exposure to a direct translation of the Japanese expression and it stood out to me because "loincloth" is an uncommon word in English and it prompted me to check if I was correctly remembering what "gird one's loins" meant as a similarly unusual turn of phrase.

Thanks for your thoughts. Personally I thought that if it is enough for most people to associate foreign expressions with the English one, it would be enough and wouldn't warrant a bit of a rewrite, but I'm guessing that it actually does

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.