The Moon on a Rainy Night - Vol. 4 Ch. 15 - Sympathy

[TanyaTheEvil]

Thanks for the translation, I am so enjoying this manga

 

[the_descolada]

Yeah, in a manga about accessibility and disability no less. Gotta knock a few points of the translation for this one. Although, I can see some jerk like that girl using it.

Forreal. Like, yeah there's instances where I can see it being a good translation for a bully character like this, but with Saki agreeing in her head it very obviously...is not the correct translation, lol. It feels out of character and forced edginess from the translator. Bad choice.

 

[Inori]

I've been looking for that mysterious thing y'all already cancelling the translator for, but I can't see anything. Was it edited out? Is it still there but I just don't notice it because it's not something we pay attention to in my culture? Weird, weird.

Anyway, it's kinda curious to see if the new bully girl is really hard of hearing, herself. She doesn't strike me as such a bad person, more like an anguished one. I definitely noticed her cup her ear as if she was having trouble following her friends' conversation, so perhaps her belligerence is close to self-hatred than anything.

 

[Cyrra]

i wonder what that bully’s past is, since apparently they knew each other when they were kids

I'm guessing she's also hard of hearing in maybe one ear. It seemed like it irritated her in that one panel.

yeah, it looked like she was projecting her own insecurities about being hard of hearing on Kanon and venting about it.

 

[ChuuritsuTv]

Why can't she listen to the song? She can still kind of hear, especially in her room...

That's something I was also wondering
Apparently she isn't fully deaf, so I'm not sure why not

 

[KarlMarx]

Yeah, in a manga about accessibility and disability no less. Gotta knock a few points of the translation for this one. Although, I can see some jerk like that girl using it.

I always think that stuff like that is artistically justified as long as the narrative does not support it.

 

[KarlMarx]

Dont Care about the new bitch past, she deserve a slap in the face and this is where Saki annoyed me in this chapter. she cant stand up for herself or Kanon at all, she simply sit there cant say shit and lets the other people talk extremely bad about them… had it been any other person with just a little bit of respect for themselves or their friends they would atleast have talked back to the bitch or slapped her in the face🤦🏼‍♂️

Thats what I also thought with the whole arch about Kanon´s Middle School friend.
Saki´s just way too timid. I hope this gets addressed by the author and not overlooked as "normal" behaivour.

 

[KarlMarx]

i still had some hope since the early chapters were so good. But this degraded into an obnoxious progressive disability masturbation diary with too much angst & drama and no progress at all. This is a yuri work stuck in the 00s. I might pick it up once the next chapter drops and if its shit, i will tell how how shit it is and you will read it. Like you do with all my other posts. Just follow me already.

Harsh words coming from someone stuck in the 00s.
That Manga is actually quite realistic at times in its depiction of disability.

While I was also slightly cringing at this chapter, I wonder, if it really was "a bit too on the nose" or if thats just the enviorenment I grew up with speaking (After all, I want to belong to the kool kidzz and make fun of minorities)

 

[Kamui]

Why can't she listen to the song? She can still kind of hear, especially in her room...

Kanon isn't completely deaf, but she has lost most of her hearing, she relies heavily on lip reading. Music is way, way, way more complex than speech and she already has issues with this. Add the fact that Kanon was a gifted musician and you can see why she wouldn't want a "subpar" experience. Specially after hearing Saki rave about it.

 

[Empyrette310]

Friggin hell. As someone currently in college studying to become a teacher, I find this "teacher's" behavior to be embarrassing, infuriating, and annoying.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Ikerot]

I don't understand why a deaf person has to participate in something that involves them having to HEAR 😂

Harmony in group and all that, but fuck the people who can't fit I guess

 

[Navier_lazlo]

I like this a kind genre❤️

 

[WhereTheYuriAt]

I'm not really complaining about it, cause it fits the story alright, but it's soooo funny to me that she started sobbing by just reading the (extremely basic/short) lyrics to Ebony and Ivory. Like, not even listening to the song, which adds a bit more feeling to it, just reading it lol.

 

[Thrembs]

I always think that stuff like that is artistically justified as long as the narrative does not support it.

As someone else said, since she internally agrees, it’s inaccurate.
this is just a bad decision.

 

[Thrembs]

I don't understand why a deaf person has to participate in something that involves them having to HEAR 😂

Harmony in group and all that, but fuck the people who can't fit I guess

Japan.
”a standing nail gets hammered.”

 

[Thrembs]

I've been looking for that mysterious thing y'all already cancelling the translator for, but I can't see anything. Was it edited out? Is it still there but I just don't notice it because it's not something we pay attention to in my culture? Weird, weird.

Anyway, it's kinda curious to see if the new bully girl is really hard of hearing, herself. She doesn't strike me as such a bad person, more like an anguished one. I definitely noticed her cup her ear as if she was having trouble following her friends' conversation, so perhaps her belligerence is close to self-hatred than anything.

“Re****ed” is a slur in most English-speaking countries for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. It’s generally only used for describing biological phenomena like stunted growth or spread of something.

in the UK “sp***ic” is similar. Here in the US it’s not used that way, but just for muscular twitching or being way too hyped up.

 

[Kamui]

As someone else said, since she internally agrees, it’s inaccurate.
this is just a bad decision.

As you can see

She just called her "stupid" in a really rude way. I get that "stupid" alone doesn't convey what the text was going for, but there are way better choices than what it was used here.

 

[OnewingedMasios]

“Re****ed” is a slur in most English-speaking countries for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. It’s generally only used for describing biological phenomena like stunted growth or spread of something.

in the UK “sp***ic” is similar. Here in the US it’s not used that way, but just for muscular twitching or being way too hyped up.

it really isn't outside Tumbler and Twitter vocal minorities pretending it is. It just is a synonym for "stupid", "idiotic", "foolish", etc especially here in Canada, my friend's home country of Australia, and its neighboring New Zealand. The only time I've ever seen anyone consider it is a slur is in the US.
I really dislike ppl trying to make this into a slur as well. I'm both neurodivergent and 2SLGBTQIA+ and so is my lil sis and we both have a cousin who is austistic who we love (he's only going on 8 though). All of us use retarded all the time just as we and our friends who are gay use fag, queer, and gay to self identity with all three actually having been slurs for decades, yet you'd never see a gay person getting offended being called gay or tell another off for self identifying as queer, gay, or a fag.
I call myself "fucking retarded" all the time since that's how I feel in that moment. Is it suddenly not okay for me, as someone who is both gay and neurodivergent, to use so called "slurs" to refer to myself? Are stupid, idiot, dumb, fool, mentally impaired, autistic, etc going to become "slurs" too? We'll have no words to not only refer to ourselves but for neurotypicals to use to refer to situations such as the medical field where someone needs to know if you are mentally impaired in some way to give you proper care in treatment.
Would you expect my autistic cousin who is severely scared of strangers to be treated like a neurotypical since we're not allowed to call him autistic due to it being used a slur so often? How about me who is nonverbal and types to people on my phone irl along with some korean and québec sign language to communicate with friends, families, doctors, and strangers on the rare occurance I talk to a stranger. How am I supposed to let them know I can not speak, but can hear just fine if they immediately assume I'm simply deaf and I have no words to express I'm not due to every possible word I can use to explain having been or is still actively used as a slur?

 

[Thrembs]

As you can see

She just called her "stupid" in a really rude way. I get that "stupid" alone doesn't convey what the text was going for, but there are way better choices than what it was used here.

Yeah, just say she’s fucking stupid, a dipshit, a nitwit, a moron…