Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi o Suru - Vol. 12 Ch. 90

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[sssr]

Wait so the angels in "Mandate of Heaven" become Bible-accurate angels as they rise the ranks...?

To those having any kind of phobia, please save yourself from not looking into it

OK, so first of all, "Bible-accurate angels" don't exist. Religion for Breakfast made a video to explain the phenomenon, but basically the things now considered "Bible-accurate angels" used to be just other celestial creatures that hung out around God. Later they got "promoted" into "orders" of angels.

Secondly, and this is not fully touched-on in the RfB video, but there is a misunderstanding of what the Hebrew texts say about these creatures, but people closer to the era of the Septuagint actually didn't have this misunderstanding. If you look at early Christian art depicting these things, they all had human bodies. That's because it's actually an inherent assumption of the people who wrote about these creatures that they were all modified humanoids, or inversely, animals/chimeras modifed with humanoid features. So the wheels with eyes all over is just a wrong image based on how people closer to our time interpreted what they read in the Bible. The original texts didn't mean to say these creatures WERE wheels within wheels with eyes all over but that they HAD wheels within wheels AND eyes all over. Greek icons of the early years of Christianity depicted exactly the latter form.

Thirdly, ironically the description of Mandate is closer to what the original Hebrew texts were trying to convey. Gojo is saying that the higher level angels in Mandate don't have a good idea how human anatomy works, so they come up with random approximations. It isn't that angels somehow evolve into different forms as they rise in the hierarchy, but that the already-fixed upper levels of the hierarchy just don't care enough to try to work out how humans are supposed to look like, so they just randomly do the AI thing and make human bodies with too many hands and fingers and limbs and extra bits and pieces that shouldn't go there. Basically think of how billionaire nepo babies think of us plebs and screw up in horrible ways when they try to be "just like us". It's the celestial version of that.

As an aside, there is a funny scene of something like this happening in the manga Touge Oni when Tsukiyomi-no-mikoto (the Japanese moon god) tried to manifest his human form for the first time in ages to communicate with the protagonists. The idea being conveyed in Mandate is a darker version of that scene.

 

[Showman26]

Both Gojou and Kitagawa love to dress up each other...

 

[CookieMonster]

Reading about cosplay is actually much more interesting and refreshing in comparison with other romcoms that uses as much or even more time to progress, but doing it by shoving in forced dramas, misunderstandings and other dumb clichés just to prolong status quo. This manga isn't free from these tropes of course, but at least there are few numbers of them and they are not sticking out that much.

 

[comedyxtragedy]

Am I crazy or has this series stagnated. Ever since around issue 50 (2 years ago) they've just repeatedly introduced a new character, have a little arc about them , have a token interaction with both MC's in one issue, then immediately move onto the next. The focus of the story is the new character, not the MC's or the romance. We have downgraded to pure reaction thought bubbles + blushy face, something resigned for the worst romance manga's with zero progress. Something reserved for the
'Confession into Time Skip' on the final issue scum, then bane of romance mangas, which this has slowly becoming.

Remember when he was squishing her on top of him, or accidently almost kissing, anything that involves the two main characters. Anything, instead we get "cosplay shots", sorry I don't care about your profile and showing off you side work as a vTuber creator. I cared about the interactions with the characters.

I'll just be honest, romance is nice but learning about cosplay and have character development is way better. We see Gojo turns from introvert doll lover into more outgoing and share his hobby with more people.
Come for Marin, stay for Gojo.
I honestly think cosplay is the main idea for this series, romance is just sprinkles.

 

[pokefairy]

Evangelion?

Eva isn't dark fantasy is it? Though I will watch it

 

[jdjohndoe13]

@_Momocchi_

On page 10:

The angels would have to dragged out of heaven

Is there a typo? Shouldn't it be

The angels would have to be dragged out of heaven

?

 

[ponygobyebye]

Gotta love how all Kitagawa's male friends treat her like a bro

 

[radstylix]

But if "whole manga is about cosplay" why author is dragging the confession? I mean no one forbid them cosplaying as a couple, it could be even more interesting and, IMO, their relationship while being a couple may also be very interesting and entertaining. The more confession is delayed the more people are pissed and less the care about cosplay.

At this point Gojo rejecting the confession and them going back to square one one is better than dragging it for 10 more chapters.

• Same reason why they drag the confession as long as possible in any romance: it's finished once they're together and/or things get boring quickly afterwards.
• I'm sure the author is well aware of how many people are still reading for the (future) couple. Kinda dumb to give up the romance aspect of the manga, although that would actually cement cosplay as the whole topic for the manga.
• Marin is just cute gushing over him.
• We're all basically just waiting for Gojo to start realizing how he feels about Marin.
• Finally, Marin has perfectly valid fears about Gojo rejecting her plus it's her first love IIRC. Might end their current relationship and their cosplaying partnership. They're obviously gonna be together in the end, but the characters don't know that.

 

[SveNo]

So the wheels with eyes all over is just a wrong image based on how people closer to our time interpreted what they read in the Bible. The original texts didn't mean to say these creatures WERE wheels within wheels with eyes all over but that they HAD wheels within wheels AND eyes all over. Greek icons of the early years of Christianity depicted exactly the latter form.

The New International Version gets it right, though, because the translators worked from the original texts as far as possible. You can read the relevant chapter here:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/ezekiel/1.html

 

[SveNo]

Eva isn't dark fantasy is it? Though I will watch it

Well, it's fantastic, and plenty dark, so...

 

[Siquall]

Ok, the slice of life is good, but we need to go to the real part now.

The cosplay. Let Gojou shine.

 

[Big_Boss]

I feel like people that say this drags on haven't really read monthly/bi-weekly titles.
Thanks for translation!

 

[Kaeos999]

Ong Gojou rizz is a spectrum

 

[Sknite]

The New International Version gets it right, though, because the translators worked from the original texts as far as possible. You can read the relevant chapter here:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/ezekiel/1.html

Just want to say I approve of your avatar. Truly you're an individual of great culture.

 

[Shaunakuma]

Am I crazy or has this series stagnated. Ever since around issue 50 (2 years ago) they've just repeatedly introduced a new character, have a little arc about them , have a token interaction with both MC's in one issue, then immediately move onto the next. The focus of the story is the new character, not the MC's or the romance. We have downgraded to pure reaction thought bubbles + blushy face, something resigned for the worst romance manga's with zero progress. Something reserved for the
'Confession into Time Skip' on the final issue scum, then bane of romance mangas, which this has slowly becoming.

Remember when he was squishing her on top of him, or accidently almost kissing, anything that involves the two main characters. Anything, instead we get "cosplay shots", sorry I don't care about your profile and showing off you side work as a vTuber creator. I cared about the interactions with the characters.

Same honestly just feel like it’s a lot of “nothing” for awhile now.

 

[Diagus]

Next Boss

 

[SveNo]

Just want to say I approve of your avatar. Truly you're an individual of great culture.

Thank you! It was either that or Ikari Gendo.

 

[Quarnozian]

Necks, wrist necks, and leg necks. Thanks for including that bonus explanation. Otherwise it would have just looked like she was saying to tie scarves around every part of Gojou.

Also, I had no idea Japanese people were so necked.

 

[chusetto]

Bro wants some bromance, sis