Onii-chan Is Done For! - Vol. 2 Ch. 11 - Mahiro and Adventure

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If anyone thought the beginning was awkward:

The ambiguity of the situation is an example of when the joke doesn't translate very well into English.
In Japanese, the (sexually) suggestive version of "to come" is 出る (deru), which translates to "to get out", "to leave", "to exit".
Also, Japanese is one of the languages where the subject of a sentence is implied in the verb (the action).
So the Japanese can say: "出る" and mean anything between "I'm leaving", "you're leaving", "he/she/it's leaving", and so on.

In this context "come" doesn't fit very well, but "get out" does. Except then we'd lose the ambiguity and the joke.
That's why the joke felt awkward. It simply didn't translate well into English.

Just in case anyone needed yet another reason to learn Japanese 😉
 
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Why Mahiro looks like the stray forest girl from Urara Meirochou?
 
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I have a feeling the mad scientist little sister is still feeding MC THE DRUG. It has been a long time and there is still no sign of her returning to being him.
 
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I have a feeling the mad scientist little sister is still feeding MC THE DRUG. It has been a long time and there is still no sign of her returning to being him.

Well, yeah. She said he should go back to normal when she stops drugging him, not that she would stop drugging him.
 

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