SANDA - Vol. 16 Ch. 142.5 - Vol. 16 Extras

[MangaDex]

 

[UlysUlysUlys]

Look, I enjoyed this manga, I really did.

But, did it feel rushed to anyone else? Like it doesn't feel right as an ending. The fact that there's so many questions left, and the author has to write it down in the afterword is indicative of that. I enjoyed the manga for what it is, but it lost focus along the way.

 

[Doomroar]

Paru you coward, just say Fuyumura has a wife and is a mega lesbian in front of her adopted kid, playing coy all the way down to the extras Q&A of the final volume is lame

Grow some ovaries, afraid the anime wont get 2 seasons out of it? at least go out swinging

 

[KingZantair]

All the haters who went "wow can't believe they ruined Fuyumura by marrying her off" getting hit with the "that's just speculation, it's possible she adopted" cause they didn't wait 17 hours before getting mad.

 

[AlanYTlol]

Here's an extended version of my thank you messages that I had to shorten cuz it was too long:
Hi, I'm Alan, the PR/QC for the... last ⅓rd of the series!
Thank you so much for reading!

Sanda has been a very special story for my heart, and it's because of it's message. The idea of slowly growing up from a child to an adult scared me for the longest time, but as I read the series, as I learned how each person accepted what it meant to be an adult, it slowly taught me how to accept it aswell. and while I may be an adult by age now, I don't mind living as a kid for just a little longer.

Now, I may not have been working on this manga for as long as the others, but I'm still thankful that I got to work on it at all!

Sanda was the first ever manga that I got to work on. Going from just pointing out typos in general chat in the TL's server, to actually proofreading pages and pointing out all the mistakes in the chapters for rhye to correct and being credited for it... Seeing it end and being able to say that I was, not only there for the ride, but also one of the people that pushed the ride forward... The best part, honestly, was getting to read the chapters early lol

Sanda was Baking Translations' first series, and the one that made us grow the most, and while Sanda may have ended now, we will still continue to work on other works, and hopefully show them just as much dedication as we did to Sanda.

Huge shoutout to Rhye and the rest of the team that worked on this! and thank you, the reader, for joining us along on this crazy, wild, yet still heartfelt ride!


-# PS, and I told Rhye I was gonna do this
Total Mistakes Corrected: 171
I'm also gonna make a google drive with screenshots of every correction I found while working on this and posting a link to it in the comments, so be on the look out for that if you're interested lol

Also, have this li'l sketch I made to celebrate the end! and with that, cy'all whenever I see ya next!

 

[skywardgem]

ah, totally forgot about volume extras lol

I was already prepared to assume Fuyumura was with a woman if anyone so I can appreciate that situation being left open even if I do generally like a more straightforward answer too. Half the fun of stories is playing in the gaps left for you on purpose or otherwise, so I'm overall Happy with where this story landed, def glad to have read through it all

already said on the final chapter but once again: a huge thanks to the full translation team! Got curious about the manga after the anime was first announced and was overjoyed to see an ongoing translation, y'all did some killer work on this series 🙏

 

[hitoshiamaya]

Ah sanda my beloved series ill miss you. thank you again to the team who worked on the translation we appreciate you!

 

[spurgleburgle]

Look, I enjoyed this manga, I really did.

But, did it feel rushed to anyone else? Like it doesn't feel right as an ending. The fact that there's so many questions left, and the author has to write it down in the afterword is indicative of that. I enjoyed the manga for what it is, but it lost focus along the way.

Same. I also enjoyed the series, but I feel like it piled on so many new things that important parts of the beginning of the story got left behind.

A comment about the last chapter pointed out that the series began saying that Santa was being hunted because of their society's stranglehold on children (because Santa helps them grow up), but then it just became about Fuyumura's dad.

I liked the descendants characters, but they detracted from the Santa theming, and the child/adult focus. I wish the reindeer had more to do; after all of the other descendants showed up, they got most of the attention.

 

[narutok]

thanks for the ride!

 

[UlysUlysUlys]

Same. I also enjoyed the series, but I feel like it piled on so many new things that important parts of the beginning of the story got left behind.

A comment about the last chapter pointed out that the series began saying that Santa was being hunted because of their society's stranglehold on children (because Santa helps them grow up), but then it just became about Fuyumura's dad.

I liked the descendants characters, but they detracted from the Santa theming, and the child/adult focus. I wish the reindeer had more to do; after all of the other descendants showed up, they got most of the attention.

The major setting did really just... fade away over time, when it was very explicit that the Principal's views weren't something that was abnormal. They were a result of the entire society forming around children's puberty and the problems that came from that, he was supposed to be the most extreme, and a IDEAL of that society. Yet, it feels as if everything just... solved itself after he died? The major problem that Santa has, is that he's hunted because he committed a murder, not because he's inspiring hope in children that growth is normal. The cultists were just the cause of everything, I guess?

It's odd, I like the descendants characters too, but I wish it just stayed in the school, but that'd be hard to do, there's only so much you can do to push that theme that eventually pushes them out of that school to solve society as a whole. And maybe, this society was so unsolvable that it could've pushed the author to focus on something else, because it came about as a result of numerous factors unrelated to the characters.


The battles in just got in the way of the story, no matter how fun they were.

I wonder, did the story get cancelled or something? This wrap-up feels like the story got cancelled, I've seen so many stories end in a similar way when they get cancelled, but that can't be it, right? It just got an anime. It's at the top of their popularity.

 

[Kurovah]

Regardless of how she ended up with the kid, I hope she's happy

 

[Infimus]

I really like the answer about Fuyumura, because her sexuality doesn't really matter, the point is that she grew up, and that's what's important.

I will be honest, I wish this Q&A corner had like 50 questions, because that's about as much as I have with ending of the manga.

From the moment Ooshibu died, the story went by way too fast, it feels like she was only giving time to talk about the main cast, while I like what was done with Sanda, Amaya and Fuyumura. I can't help but wonder about everything and everyone else, what did the descendents did after all was done, how Tonakai was doing since his family is connected with Sanda's, how were Sanda's parents after their son became a fugitive, what happened to the people in Kumon's cult, the whole thing with the police framing Santa Claus felt like build up to this, just to name a few.

I still enjoy the manga for what it is, but I can't stop thinking about how the story could have wrapped everything together better with more chapters at the end, because the build up to the conclusion was very good.

Thanks again to you guys and the folks at Hybridgumi.

 

[RitoTheLittle]

Can you imagine you go out for a one night fling, and you apparently fuck Santa. God, I wish.

 

[huntercheco]

Thank you, congratulations for completing this translation and to Paru-sensei for this wild ride.

Happy holidays to everyone and may Santa visit your home with his motorized sled!