Tsurenai Hodo Aokute Azatoi Kurai ni Akai - Vol. 4 Ch. 26 - Corruption or salvation?

[MangaDex]

 

[BongoKatze]

Snail appears a few times in this manga. I’m not sure what it’s about, though. Could it be because snails are associated with sloth or laziness?

 

[Ann2004]

Wut?

 

[misopogon]

Really cooked with the art of this one

Some small translation mistakes:

In page 2, the plural of human is definitely not "humen". Nice try, though.

On page 5, the fan club president says, referring to Arata, "you who affection them as a human", but that's not how you use the word affection, it is not a verb. Should be "show affection to them" or something similar, if it can't contextually be translated to "love them as a human".

Nothing huge, but you know, it does take you out of it a bit

 

[t28]

Wut?

Last chapter, Newspaper club president is telling him a story about the missing guy who could no longer control himself when he became obsessed with Hayami and ended up attacking them. As a result, Newspaper club prez (and the others) decided to maintain their self-control as a group by distancing themselves from Hayami as a person and revering them in a deity-like way instead to prevent anything like that happening again.

This chapter she concludes the story by warning Arata that he will inevitably befall a similar fate as he is also obsessed with Hayami in the same way. Arata has been aware of this to a degree already tbf, but the warning plays up on his mind in his sleep and he has a nightmare where he, as a beast, assaults Hayami.

The beast is obviously meant to be metaphorical loss of control/rationality and giving in to base desires (insert “all men are wolves” idiom here), but then again with this manga & mangaka, you never know.

 

[LewynMartell]

his dream was just like that scene in bram stoker's dracula (the movie by francis f coppola)

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

This manga is always so close from turning into smut

 

[Kosumi.flr]

Really cooked with the art of this one

Some small translation mistakes:

In page 2, the plural of human is definitely not "humen". Nice try, though.

On page 5, the fan club president says, referring to Arata, "you who affection them as a human", but that's not how you use the word affection, it is not a verb. Should be "show affection to them" or something similar, if it can't contextually be translated to "love them as a human".

Nothing huge, but you know, it does take you out of it a bit

Thanks for pointing these out, I'm not a native english speaker so I can't guarantee I won't make any more of those mistakes. I can only hope an English team will soon take this over cause I think it's a shame for english readers not to have a more appropriate translation (and it's taking me way too long to work on 2 languages).

 

[ssecf]

Damn that was really spooky.

 

[ynysdyn]

@Kosumi.flr Re: Belphagor: I stumbled upon this by complete accident tonight, BUT:

I think "Belphegor's Quest" is a reference to this novella by Machiavelli, which is itself an adaptation of a medieval Slavic folktale in which the demon Belphagor tries to figure out why so many men in hell blame their wives for their downfalls. Belphagor tries getting married himself and...gets his ass back to hell as quickly as possible.

Seems fitting.

 

[UnvalidUserName]

An interesting detail about Hayami is that in the color pages they never have the same eye color. Also, it's specifically him, the other characters to get color pages were consistent in the eye color when repeated, like the crazy blonde for example.
I wonder if this detail will be relevant at some point. Last chapter pointed out the eyes as supernatural so I'm assuming it will be.

 

[UnvalidUserName]

Snail appears a few times in this manga. I’m not sure what it’s about, though. Could it be because snails are associated with sloth or laziness?

Given that they mention Belphegor in the same page, It must to be the case. But I don't see how "lazyness" fits as theme here. Unless taking shortcuts to getting to know more about Hayami is relevant? But if that's the case then Arata is safe because he is doing everything the hard way, right?
Maybe that's why Hayami keeps saying he is "special"?

 

[feignedremoteness]

Snail appears a few times in this manga. I’m not sure what it’s about, though. Could it be because snails are associated with sloth or laziness?

snails can also be associated with sexuality/hermaphroditism. because many snails are hermaphrodites, but they reproduce in a somewhat dramatic way that can read as “obviously sex” to human eyes (as opposed to bugs that just sit on top of each other for a bit and that’s it). also because they’re soft and can extend themselves outward, so humans can see them as visual metaphors.
they might also be a seasonal reference, since everyone’s in their summer uniform.