Okashiratsuki - Vol. 2 Ch. 9 - Coward

[MangaDex]

 

[fianrt]

It's almost 2am so my mind is a little bit unclear

I thought there was a timeskip and I was like - WHAAAA-
And then I kept reading....... It's the sister (I facepalmed myself)

Anyway, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
^ response for the chapter

Thank you PaulBunyan and cleaner-san!

 

[Kaarme]

Shouldn't a mushroom club be a club where you eat mushrooms you shouldn't be eating?

I couldn't quite follow Hiyama's actions and decisions in this chapter. Was her decision due to the Japanese custom/culture dictating that a marrying woman must leave work and become a housewife? Due to her personal history, she couldn't stomach that? Wouldn't getting together with somelike like that dude be the solution to that problem because obviously he couldn't support their family, so she would be forced to keep working? As developed as Japan is, I find it hard to believe getting just a single child would lead to getting fired from a governmental job. She could soon return to work and the dude could look after the child. I seem to recall she's not actually opposed to the very idea of dating a man, so that's not the problem. It seems a bit too overdramatic to me she'd be utterly opposed to marriage due to growing up in a divorce family. Just how many such families are there these days?

 

[unime]

She such a mature wholesome lady. T^T well though.. I kinda want to root for them but at the sane time I want him to respect her wishes.. So conflicted

 

[silentfx]

ty for the chapter

 

[Poortagonist]

Wow her two colleagues make my blood boil seriously Japan's work culture is SO FUCKED. "Doesn't matter how hard you work or how good you are at your job, you're a woman who might just get married/pregnant and quit so we can't promote you." What bullshit, I wanna give her a hug too.

 

[petra]

@Kaarme
Japan has some pretty rigid gender roles and divisions of labor. Maintaining her managerial career track, which will likely include transfers, would be difficult if she also had to factor in domestic and childcare duties.

 

[Kaarme]

@petra They do have that, but they also have an aging and shrinking population. And a prime minister who's concerned about it. Women working in Japan is hardly strange anymore. She might have to sacrifice something about her career prospects, but so what?

 

[petra]

@Kaarme
If her self-worth is currently measured by the status of her career then she isn't going to want to damage her career prospects. Ideally she decides to just do whatever it is that makes her happy.

 

[Kaarme]

@petra Yet she did sound kind of sad due to coworkers getting married or seeking marriage, while she's left behind. If she only cared about her work, you'd think she wouldn't care about relationships at all. Now it just seems like she's too afraid to change anything, even when it's offered to her on a silver platter. She's resigned, and hypocritically enough is then trying to live through the little sister by telling her not to give up.

 

[cherokeemoon]

She's thinking too much

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Kaarme @petra Well, she's certainly conflicted. She wants more than one thing and it's going to be pretty hard to get all of them. And it may be that some of them, she doesn't "really" want, but is being driven to seek at least partly by insecurities which won't go away even if she gets them. But that doesn't make her decisions easy.

 

[jnguy2]

I hope her sister finds happiness too.

 

[saenahonce]

“Aw shit this B cray cray”
I see liberties were taken when translating lmao

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

@saenahonce

I don't know what you mean. I speak fluent cat.

 

[Tcof]

When someone say "Japan social is..." like something mess up side of japan and made you "Japanese right ?". To be honest, The way i see it feel very familiar. Yeah, these must be a lot of unique issue, but not this

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

I have a couple of very awesome volunteers who have taken on cleaning the rest of the chapters (10, 11, 12) so what I may be able to do is release all three chapters at once in a binge format I promise all those months ago. I have the rough translation but I'm going to tweak them in the meantime so they're as ready as can be when the chapters are cleaned/redrawn.

 

[welcome2atlantis]

If she keeps thinking like that, when will she get married?
sigh

 

[Twi]

@Tcof while I agree it’s pretty common, somehow it feels like Japan has it on another level. For example after reading and watching many manga/anime that cover this or work in general, I’ve yet to see the mention of paid leave. I mean can mother’s to be take leave or is there really only the choice of quitting. From their dwindling population and abusive work hours that are possibly/likely connected I doubt women get the necessary conditions to have both a family and career.

 

[elefantine97]

Imagine being so ingrained by society with horribly cruel and unjust thoughts that you could just say it with a genuine smile
but still, this was a great chapter, thank you @ThePaulBunyanTrophy !
I'll savor the last 3 chapters of this volume and endure until 2020