Sora wo Matotte - Vol. 4 Ch. 23 - The Deep End

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaiofficialone]

Shiki cooked his ass

 

[Litreara]

What a letdown... But on the bright side, here she is in all her splendor:

I truly hope she says something nice about Haro's painting and doesn’t pile on with criticism🙏

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Jgold101]

I saw that coming but he needed to be humbled to set up his growth.

 

[jonnywarlock]

Ahhhh. Art Witch. I sometimes forget how breathtakingly beautiful she's drawn. 😍

Poor Haro. He has to realize that you can't win all your battles with nudity.

 

[ColdEnviousOne]

This chapter was a joke.

 

[ResidentEvil05]

you know what, i'm actually rooting for anyone else but the mc in this, what an idiot

 

[poba]

Cool. The moment the painting got revealed i hoped he wouldn't place. I hope from now on the manga, and subsequentially Haro, is going to develop more depth and really figure out if it's just a fun ecchi or a manga about art (not saying you can't have both, but Haro is not there yet imo).

 

[CheesiBoye]

you know what, i'm actually rooting for anyone else but the mc in this, what an idiot

Am in the same boat, he's such an ass hat in every aspect. No class wanting to talk about his painting, and most of his works truly look uninspired and uninteresting. I get that's the point, but I wish he'd get to that conclusion himself faster. It's annoying to see how he's so blind to how outclassed he is by everyone he's interacted with.

 

[orcadanh]

University is where you LEARN, not your own workshop. Finally, REAL LIFE slap some sense in his face.

 

[Virtualplayer]

It's honestly BS. Because Art is an interpretation that doesn't survive the test of time. No one can agree on what the "classics" really mean because it's partly a context of the time it was created, and then when viewed, those times change and so does the interpretation.

To me this is simply a story of someone who has a habit - literally a fetish for nudes without context, and does what he wants. He's clearly not a hero with clay feet, so he's a peg to get whacked at. Whether that whacking molds him or destroys him seems to be the question, but for now, it's all about destroying individuality for the sake of art nouveau (the villain's work).

Oh and in case you think I'm just pissed about it (yeah I am) I did read more than a few raws ahead,

Spoiler: Here's the outcome

The witch calls the villain's work essentially trite - it's technically superior, but it has no soul. It has no meaning. Our hard-headed MC on the other hand? She doesn't outright praise him, but says essentially what I wrote above - "You cant help but draw what you want to draw. Thank you for this, I'm looking forward to more." Oh, and the annoying gal whose Dad didn't want her to be an artist? She came in second.

So there you go. It's nice to be able to have read between the lines and actually be validated by the Raws. Let's move on.

Spoiler: Ok I can't help myself

But there is a big connection between the villain's hot sister and a major character. That's all. It will become self-evident in the next few chapters. But more importantly, does he get to see her nude? Heh. All I can say is the villain gets his comeuppance but not in the way you think.

 

[mrboxeater]

The witch is prolly gonna favour the MC, the rivals interpretation of the question seems so straightforward to me, hes gonna get cooked since the witch will prolly prefer ambitious answers.

 

[jaysiim]

MC was pretty cringe.

wHy iS mY aRT noT tHEre?!

I really like the manga but I hope he develops more.

 

[Thehealbus]

I'm starting to get tired of the MC gimmick.

 

[3141592653589]

Damn, I was way overestimating how erudite Haru'd be able to be about his titty picture. Dude's getting indignant about not even making it to the podium when he couldn't even manage to churn out an author's statement longer than a single sentence. You could at least learn to talk a good game to make up for the fact that you're about a half rung above a Fiverr smut artist.

Also super disappointed that rival dude's picture won. Girl Eating a Comically Oversized Piece of Bread was robbed.

 

[Wachtail]

So no sister's nude painting, yet huh... Sadge.
So now I guess it's time for the witch to crush the other dude's ego and lift MC's back up.
On the other hand, I'm glad the cute spats girl did great.
Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Kitsune_115]

OH
We are so back because she is back

 

[Funky_Cosmonaut]

I'm going to dust off my classroom critique skills here (haven't used them in a while, lol)

Haro's work shows his obvious love of nudes, as that's where all the effort went. The rest suffers horribly. The "classroom" in the piece isn't apparent, and I honestly thought he just forgot to blend or erase the perspective lines. Not gonna lie, I actually laughed when I saw it. I also have to criticize how he seems to default towards torsos and hasn't graduated to full-body drawings. As a result, it feels objectifying by removing emotion or identity from the matter. It doesn't matter how well he can draw a nude, if it feels empty and it's placed in an empty setting.


Kazari doesn't fair much better. While he has a far more all-around consistant and technically impressive work, there's a sterility here. He's properly framed by the nudes around him, with enough dynamism in both the implication of movement and their overlap with the mid-ground. Simultaneously, he misses the theme by cutting the classroom out of the picture, and elevates himself as the subject.


In the end, they're mirrors of each other: Haro wants to make art, but he refuses to learn. Kazari wants to learn all the techniques, but he only makes drawings, not ART.

 

[b-no]

It’s not that he’s a beginner. It’s just that he didn’t understand the instructions and just drew whatever comes into his mind.

 

[Myricae]

It's one of the few times i don't agree with anything that is written in the comments ahhaha. Anyway, I really really enjoy this manga, thank you for the translation 🙏