Tonikaku Kawaii - Vol. 27 Ch. 251 - Immortality and Determination

[MangaDex]

 

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[dutchman]

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[K_Takuya]

I keep falling for how Hata can carry a heavy story and then throw a sudden left hook with an unserious art

 

[ciera]

Thank you for the release

 

[Saybah]

Who is this Mao?

 

[D00T]

Who is this Mao?

Sugawara-no-Michizane, a Nara period (or Heian I can't remember) aristocrat famous for being the one to convince the emperor to stop sending embassies to China among other things. He's worshipped by students studying for exams to help them study well

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

She slip this one out...
(OωO`)...

 

[RanmaChaos]

He then died...How regretful

 

[gamria]

Sugawara-no-Michizane, a Nara period (or Heian I can't remember) aristocrat famous for being the one to convince the emperor to stop sending embassies to China among other things. He's worshipped by students studying for exams to help them study well

Pardon me, but Ch 249 outright points out that this Mao child will later be known by the title Koubou Daishi - a famous monk, calligrapher and poet who founded the Shingon school of Buddhism. Legend has it that he was the inventor of the Kana syllabary of the Japanese language (ie invented the prototype writing system that later engendered the modern Hiragana and Katakana)

And Tsukasa happened to be teaching the young Saeki no Mao calligraphy and renowned literature in that same issue...

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[D00T]

Pardon me, but Ch 249 outright points out that this Mao child will later be known by the title Koubou Daishi - a famous monk, calligrapher and poet who founded the Shingon school of Buddhism. Legend has it that he was the inventor of the Kana syllabary of the Japanese language (ie invented the prototype writing system that later engendered the modern Hiragana and Katakana)

And Tsukasa happened to be teaching the young Saeki no Mao calligraphy and renowned literature in that same issue...

Oh my bad then, I got it confused since Sugawara-no-Michizane was mentioned at some point. My thought process was he's either a monk or Sugawara-no-Michizane. He can't be kukai since we've already met him and my mind just went to sugawara I guess because nasa mentioned him? I'm sure we'll meet him at some point as well

 

[henman]

lMao

 

[D00T]

Pardon me, but Ch 249 outright points out that this Mao child will later be known by the title Koubou Daishi - a famous monk, calligrapher and poet who founded the Shingon school of Buddhism. Legend has it that he was the inventor of the Kana syllabary of the Japanese language (ie invented the prototype writing system that later engendered the modern Hiragana and Katakana)

And Tsukasa happened to be teaching the young Saeki no Mao calligraphy and renowned literature in that same issue...

Also like isn't Kobo Daishi like 2 or 3 years older than Kūkai? They went on the same embassy to China iirc. How did Tsukasa meet both of them?

 

[gamria]

Also like isn't Kobo Daishi like 2 or 3 years older than Kūkai? They went on the same embassy to China iirc. How did Tsukasa meet both of them?

Please refer to the Wikipedia link I sent again: Saeki no Mao (birth name), Kukai (monk name) and Kobo Daishi (posthumous title) are one in the same

 

[apstorm]

Who is this Mao?

It got corrected later in the thread, but you never got mentioned again, so, uh... you heard wrong about Mao being Michizane. They're actually Kukai, born Saeki no Mao, as it says on that entry. He was introduced as of Ch.249, which had translation notes pointing out who he would be, and who his uncle (Ato no Otari) was and his father (Saeki no Tagimi). This entire arc has been about him since that chapter.

 

[apstorm]

Oh my bad then, I got it confused since Sugawara-no-Michizane was mentioned at some point. My thought process was he's either a monk or Sugawara-no-Michizane. He can't be kukai since we've already met him and my mind just went to sugawara I guess because nasa mentioned him? I'm sure we'll meet him at some point as well

We've had a LOT of historical figures, mostly from Japan, mentioned in this manga, to be honest. Sugawara no Michizane got mentioned back during the Kaguya-Emperor romance backstory arc that started with Ch.197 and ended with Ch.207. Specifically, Ch.204 is when Michizane first shows up and is mentioned in the manga, far as I'm aware, seeming to heavily imply he originally wrote the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter based on the passed-on, barely-recalled rumors that Tsukasa overheard 300 years prior while she was still mortal and working as an apothecary through to her suffering from the illness that nearly claimed her life.

The only other time I recall Michizane coming up was when the next Japanese figure shows up: Taira no Masakado in Ch.216, during the arc about Nasa's grandfather. The same chapter, another figure is mentioned, Tokugawa Ieyasu. There were translation notes at the end of the chapter explaining the connections and historical figures more clearly, too.

And another Japanese figure was covered in Ch.181, Shizuka Gozen. Heavily implied to have reincarnated as the 'headphones schoolgirl', Kurenai Hotaru. In connection to Shizuka was also mention of Minamoto no Yoshitsune.

Before these arcs, there was also mention of a French inventor, Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot, back around when the story first talked about Nasa getting a driver's license (Ch.161).

Before that was Tsukasa calling someone named 'Ike' from a US base in Japan back during the big Tokiko flashback arc- I feel like this was basically saying she knew President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower and was literally calling in a favor from the President to get her and Tokiko into the States.

And, of course, we should all know the several references to Prince Shotoku throughout the story, with at least a few instances implying Nasa looks like him and reminds Tsukasa of him, as well as that sequence of Nasa somehow recalling a memory of Shotoku's, leading to the idea that Nasa might be a reincarnation of Shotoku much like Kurenai seems to be a reincarnation of Shizuka.