Ningyo no Meuniere: Shiba Yuki Sakuhinshuu - Ch. 7 - The Gossip Bird
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Chapters like this are presumably why professional translations are choosing not to redraw sound effects any more - this was very tedious to do, and I'm pretty terrible at it anyway. If I could start this project again, maybe I'd just subtitle them instead...
While I like elements of all the stories in this collection, it's clearly the longer ones which are more effective at conjuring the weird tone of Akuma Nisei. While Mermaid Meuniere hews more towards the melancholy, this story (and Delivery Hell, the final and most successful story in the collection) brings in more of the slightly macabre humour that I think Shiba uses effectively in her serialised work.
For all of the annoyance of translating a million sound effects that made me want to throw the computer out the window, the "suicide" sequence is very clever in its escalating silliness while still putting Majima in an element of peril.
While I like elements of all the stories in this collection, it's clearly the longer ones which are more effective at conjuring the weird tone of Akuma Nisei. While Mermaid Meuniere hews more towards the melancholy, this story (and Delivery Hell, the final and most successful story in the collection) brings in more of the slightly macabre humour that I think Shiba uses effectively in her serialised work.
For all of the annoyance of translating a million sound effects that made me want to throw the computer out the window, the "suicide" sequence is very clever in its escalating silliness while still putting Majima in an element of peril.
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Im probably one of the rare case where I don't really care about SFX got redrawn cause surely there's gotta be other stuff that needs to be prioritized other than SFX but do very appreciate from the bottom of my heart who does it.
Also, as long as the translation is there and I can read and somewhat understand it I deemed it a good chapter.
Well, yes, but I didn't think "partially correct" made sense for the rumour about the fish in the river - she says herself she doesn't know if it's there. The rumour about her suicide is partially correct - because her mother cried (and through a Western cultural lens, her obsession with the Gossip Bird has meant she's committed social suicide - but not something I think applies here). But the human-faced fish rumour didn't feel like it was even "partially correct" to me. I suppose on a more generous interpretation the rumour's partially correct because there are fish of some kind in the river, so I've changed the note accordingly to reflect that and your comment.
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