Okusan - Vol. 15 Ch. 103

[Glomoro]

@Elroy79 The author didn't show us the doctor having some personal agenda there, so that'd be nothing more than speculation really. We shouldn't operate under the assumption that it's the case.

Also, Okusan's figure is kind of the point and all but so is all the time she spends at the gym trying to do something about it and her not being successful pretty much at all because she snacks in excess and stuff like that (highlighted by her formerly fat friend slimming down like crazy). That's the running joke, she wanted to slim down a bit but is getting in her own way to maintain that status quo of thiccness for the sake of the series.

Which is also why the author doesn't really need to insert any other reasons in here later either. We have them already; she's bad at diet and exercise plus she's pregnant. Two factors to her weight gain in the present, one of which a medical professional told her to try and work on. But here in this chapter, she kind of says how she's only getting fatter because of the pregnancy to her friends. We know about the doctor conversation, they don't. That's why I said she's using it as an excuse right now. She knows better, we're in on that from reading, and even her friends kind of look at her like "Okay whatever you say."

 

[Elroy79]

@Glomoro, the doctor simply said she was gaining weight and from what I've seen skimming around the storyline, she's smaller than she was a few chapters ago. So I'm still skeptical of the doctor making this statement right after telling her she's pregnant and making it in a sort of chastising way. "You're gaining weight" Nah, she's pregnant. "Go lose weight."

I've had four children and been with my wife to doctors during her pregnancies and I can testify that I don't recall one doctor telling her to stop gaining weight the moment they find out she's with child. Edited to add: This is not to say that if a woman's weight gain was threatening her that a doctor wouldn't say something about it, but again, Okusan is smaller than she was several chapters ago.

I went back to chapter 96 and saw she gained weight but slimmed down. My argument is centered on everyone saying she's fat now in chapter 103 when she's pregnant. Yet, she's smaller than she was in chapter 96.

So it seems, again, in this chapter that she is getting fatter because of her pregnancy. As I said, a lot of women go through this change during their pregnancy and it can get worse for women already struggling with their weight. From skimming back to chapter 96, it seems Okusan seesaws with her weight a lot since she's already a full-figured woman.

Overall, my point is that saying she's simply just a fatty now and ignoring her pregnancy is ignoring the reality that women do gain weight while carrying children to term.
I want to stress that I'm not ignoring the author's obvious desire to make Okusan seesaw with her weight. Given the context I've seen from skimming, that also seems to be the point of the story. A story about non-thin, full-figured women with extreme curves. (Who do exist in reality I might add for those who think this is a figment of the author's imagination or fetish, not saying you said that.)

 

[EcchiT]

Please Squiggles, for the love of kami-sama, don't leave half the expressions untranslated kudasai

It does not make the translation more nippon banzai