The Diary of a Middle-Aged Teacher's Carefree Life in Another World - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - Ossan Becomes a Freeloader

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Could you please find a person who's first language is English to proofread your translations? If you don't make grammatical mistakes, then the translation choices are questionable which confuses the reader or the sentence construction is off which makes it sound unnatural. BTW, good job on already improving your typesetting by a considerable margin within only three chapters.
 
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Yeah, the typesetting's improved quite a bit. And the grammar really isn't that bad, but the spelling could use some serious work. Even a quick machine spellcheck would fix most of it.
 
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Predictable even though he could be her father and then some.

The spelling errors are a funny distraction. They don't hamper my ability to read the chapter at all but they are all over the place.
 
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@VonCesaw Honestly, in a medieval society without access to indoor plumbing, it's far more economical and was done in Europe as far back as Rome. Really, it comes down to this: if you have to haul the 30+ gallons of water for a bath, would you want someone to actually bathe in it and leave behind all the dirt and grime they washed off, forcing you to repeat the task for each bather? No, it makes far more sense to have a single large tub that for soaking and using smaller buckets for rinsing.
 
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The translation is OK, I mean, it's not painful to read. So I'm OK with that.
The art is meh, but it doesn't make my eyes bleed. So I'm OK with that.
But damn this story is stupid.
This manga should be called "Cliché buffet of the Deus Ex Machina". Everything is too convenient.
The MC or the main girl got a problem, well... just wait for 1 or 2 panels and BAM ---> convenient spell/item/person drops from the sky.
Frankly, if the tiny icon after the title on MangaDex wasn't a red dot on a white rectangle, I would have thought this was a manhua. It reeks of the crappy Chinese style of storytelling.

Also... fucking Japanese and their fucking baths. That's clearly a goddamn Dutch-ish/Germanic-ish country.
The girl is called "Celestina Van Solisthea" for fuck's sake (van=dutch, von=german... I don't know if the translation is perfect).
What's worst is the "Washing before entering the bath is common sense"... no it's not, you dumb fucking moron. The only fucking place in the world where that's "common sense" is fucking Japan.

This shit is like... like... like an algorithm took every Isekai manga available and then spewed some randomly generated "new" one with bits and peace of the older ones...
Just another useless, talentless and uninspired mangaka trying to cash-in on the Isekai craze.
Fuck this, I'm out.

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They have magic. That's way better than plumbing. Just "poof" the water and make a fresh batch appear from nowhere.
 
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@aFFi That's true, but it would greatly depend on how magic is regarded in this world. If it were something common as dirt that even the backwoods fishwife can perform at some level, then yeah, I could see "poofing" the bathwater into existence being an acceptable answer. However, since Celestina is regarded as a failure for not being able to use magic and there being an academy to teach people (obviously nobles, because education was seriously expensive in medieval societies), it's clear that magic is regarded as something amazing; you'd probably be branded as a heretic for using something like that for a task so pedestrian as to fill and heat your bath.

As for the bath issue: again, public baths have been a thing in Europe since Rome and were in use in Britain in the 19th, early 20th century; hell, even the US had a few in the 1800s. If multiple people are going to be using the same tub, it doesn't seem to be that hard to figure out that you should have a large pool for soaking and smaller tubs for washing, so as not to contaminate the water with your nasty ass body. I mean, Roman bathhouses could have up to 4-5 different types of bathes for different purposes. This isn't freaking rocket science, people.
 
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of course... it wouldn't be an Isekai manga without this kind shit happening (meaning not necessarily the same type of event)
now this is officially an isekai manga lol
 
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Translation is a little rough, but it doesn't bother me much. Thank you?
 
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every time I enter the mangadex comments I'm prepared for someone to bash the manga like a professional and its nothing wrong with that (cause everyone has an opinion) but some people bash the dumbest things and that's ok as well (cause it their opinion)
 

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