Nikaidou Hell Golf - Vol. 4 Ch. 39 - Respect

[MangaDex]

 

[dustbird]

Thank you for the translation!

This has me a bit on edge, not gonna lie. Cheating with the whole time travel thing is gonna eat him up from the inside out. I wonder what this manga's conclusion is gonna be like.

 

[benshapiro]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[keatsta]

Thanks for a bunch of great chapters! The story went in a lot of different directions that I didn't expect, but ended up where I predicted: Nikaidou preparing to become the invincible God of Golfing with his powers of time looping... I like that he ended up determined to do it through something virtuous, instead of his regular vapid fantasies of being a pro golfer. For once he's clinging on to something real: the inspiration he's given others. It's really beautiful. This is an all-too rare sports manga that focuses on a true failure, really wallowing in his failure, not as some underdog story where he starts winning sooner than later, but like, five volumes counting of failure. Until now?

But yeah it's still hell golf. I'm still foreseeing an ending where he's endlessly replaying one shot over and over, living through years of subjective time, still unable to make the shot he needs. I think if it can pull off some sort of transcendentally horrifying ending like that, it might end up as my favorite FKMT series ever. As it stands it's up there...

 

[dopaminecloud]

Thank you for the translation. The ego talk was very interesting here. He's stopping himself for ego reasons, but he's giving himself the greenlight for ego reasons too. This is one of those decisions designed to kill you, regardless of path chosen. He can hold on to his inspirational narrative for now, it's all well and good when it serves as fuel for the reason to start cheating. That won't last. People are alone on a deeper level than that.

 

[gustavonerdz]

anyone who has played a golf simulator and ended up abusing mulligans too much knows how this is going to end up

 

[commandervimes]

thanks for the translations, love this manga

 

[Doomroar]

Thanks for a bunch of great chapters! The story went in a lot of different directions that I didn't expect, but ended up where I predicted: Nikaidou preparing to become the invincible God of Golfing with his powers of time looping... I like that he ended up determined to do it through something virtuous, instead of his regular vapid fantasies of being a pro golfer. For once he's clinging on to something real: the inspiration he's given others. It's really beautiful. This is an all-too rare sports manga that focuses on a true failure, really wallowing in his failure, not as some underdog story where he starts winning sooner than later, but like, five volumes counting of failure. Until now?

But yeah it's still hell golf. I'm still foreseeing an ending where he's endlessly replaying one shot over and over, living through years of subjective time, still unable to make the shot he needs. I think if it can pull off some sort of transcendentally horrifying ending like that, it might end up as my favorite FKMT series ever. As it stands it's up there...

And here i was thinking that as he uses his power more and more he would be able to travel back in time till he can get a hard reboot

But no! your scenario of him being stuck trying to land that one shoot over and over again is way more scary, i can actually see it happening with zawa zawas and all

 

[Amplify]

This is genuinely my favourite thing to read in ages, I'm enjoying it way more than I thought I would at the start. On the matter of using superpowers for golf, personally I see it as part of him and his ability, in his shoes I'd just use it with no hesitation.

Also I want to come out and give massive thanks and props to the typesetter / cleaner / redrawer for this series, you're absolutely fantastic and this level of editing is what I've been aspiring to achieve myself over the last 14 years.

 

[deenzfan12]

A chapter in which two old guys were honestly, earnestly, very cute.
That final self-justification felt like it polluted his goal... Tasty stuff.

 

[ocsibrm]

Strongest Man Kuro... Nikaidou.

Related: Smart-tarou could absolutely make Kabu-man work... just gotta either Kamen Rider it up or Spiderman it up, depending.

 

[tommywrighttheIII]

Very uplifting chapter and manga overall. It surely reaches Kurosawa level of "keep going in life" motivation.

 

[jesuscristo]

oh yeah he got there

 

[Snowmanne]

Thanks for a bunch of great chapters! The story went in a lot of different directions that I didn't expect, but ended up where I predicted: Nikaidou preparing to become the invincible God of Golfing with his powers of time looping... I like that he ended up determined to do it through something virtuous, instead of his regular vapid fantasies of being a pro golfer. For once he's clinging on to something real: the inspiration he's given others. It's really beautiful. This is an all-too rare sports manga that focuses on a true failure, really wallowing in his failure, not as some underdog story where he starts winning sooner than later, but like, five volumes counting of failure. Until now?

But yeah it's still hell golf. I'm still foreseeing an ending where he's endlessly replaying one shot over and over, living through years of subjective time, still unable to make the shot he needs. I think if it can pull off some sort of transcendentally horrifying ending like that, it might end up as my favorite FKMT series ever. As it stands it's up there...

You mentioned the infinite loop ending in a previous comment section and I am becoming more and more convinced that it would be the perfect ending for this kind of story.