Until I Become Me - Ch. 68

[MangaDex]

 

[Guyincognitus]

Always a pleasure to see a new chapter. Thanks

 

[Monstrengo]

Akira doesn't know what a condom is. Fascinating.

 

[JumboWheat01]

I will still never understand the bloodhound like noses Japan seems to have, if manga is even a quarter correct.

 

[StormSen]

1. JFC, just get over it already! Seriously, this girl has been moping about this since first grade.
2. You seem fine being a girl. Why are you confused about it 6(?) years later?
3. JP people quit squinting all the time. Eyes work better when they're open!
4. No wonder JP are dying to truck-kun -- can't see oncoming trucks with those closed eyes.

 

[Slogye]

Great chapter as always, thanks for the translation

 

[kraize]

Rumi getting jealous lol.

 

[Hicleric]

Time to drop in a Musubu reference?

Adult jokes aside, this quite the mature chapter. These girls are growing up!

 

[Orangechrisy]

That talk with Hana was just very nice, glad they were able to get those things off their chests and can now be friends!

Also that last scene with Aoi and Rumi oh my god they're so cute and gay

 

[rotationplus]

1. JFC, just get over it already! Seriously, this girl has been moping about this since first grade.
2. You seem fine being a girl. Why are you confused about it 6(?) years later?
3. JP people quit squinting all the time. Eyes work better when they're open!
4. No wonder JP are dying to truck-kun -- can't see oncoming trucks with those closed eyes.

1, 2: social pressures are powerful. she is a child and children aren't emotionally experienced. The 'disease' is a big, big part of her understanding of her identity. And the parts that we see about her are going to concentrate on the important and consequential parts of her life, so it isn't as if it is all she thinks about.
3, 4: like was this a joke? because isn't it obvious that that's an artistic license that's part of how manga culture in Japan convey that specific archetype of a person. the squintiness is demonstrating that the person is being a wise and kind person.

 

[Exzyeed]

Love seeing Rumi getting possessive (but not in a bad way)

 

[Lunkli]

I don't know if I noticed that Rumi was so much taller than her before now? She's like a giant.

 

[Narehate]

1. JFC, just get over it already! Seriously, this girl has been moping about this since first grade.
2. You seem fine being a girl. Why are you confused about it 6(?) years later?
3. JP people quit squinting all the time. Eyes work better when they're open!
4. No wonder JP are dying to truck-kun -- can't see oncoming trucks with those closed eyes.

Have you ever gotten over your lack of a father issue or is that something still bothering you

 

[5hijima]

I don't know if I noticed that Rumi was so much taller than her before now? She's like a giant.

i think akira just gave up growing www

but yeah i see it too , she is pretty tall

 

[NinjaGoemon]

I will still never understand the bloodhound like noses Japan seems to have, if manga is even a quarter correct.

Rumi knows her pretty well at this point so she probably picks up on the perfume smell of another woman.

That scene was really cute though. I hope they can start to sort out those feelings that have been bubbling over the years and take that first step.

 

[Sandmann1st]

talking with other people is a good way to get through your troubles
thanks for the chapter 💜

 

[AntQueen]

Thanks for the TL, I've been following this manga for a while and its one of my favorites. Looking forward to whenever Rumi confesses her gay love for Akira .

 

[StormSen]

1, 2: social pressures are powerful. she is a child and children aren't emotionally experienced. The 'disease' is a big, big part of her understanding of her identity. And the parts that we see about her are going to concentrate on the important and consequential parts of her life, so it isn't as if it is all she thinks about.

What I'm talking about is specifically moping about how she was mean to girls six years ago -- and she's still not over that. That's absurd.

Does she regret it? Ok. Then she regrets it and maybe apologizes or maybe doesn't. But if she's regretted it and hasn't done it since then it should be a resolved issue. Instead, we get six GD years of her moping about it, and unable to fully enjoy or live her life happily because of it.

And this is in the context of her having been very energetic as a boy. If that energy is her innate, unchanged nature, then she should have recovered it long ago, and just become an energetic girl. (Which would make this a totally different manga.)

And she's still waffling over "am I a boy, or a girl". This is despite her adapting quite well to being a girl and seemingly being fine with it. Yet the author still has her moping over this as well.

Seems to me that the fundamental issue is that the whole premise of the manga is "Ore" to "Watashi". So the manga is over when she finally commits to "watashi". So the author is milking it for as long as possible. (Just like how romance based stories milk the romance struggles endlessly to avoid terminating the manga.)

3, 4: like was this a joke? because isn't it obvious that that's an artistic license that's part of how manga culture in Japan convey that specific archetype of a person. the squintiness is demonstrating that the person is being a wise and kind person.

It's humor. Yes, JP manga and anime do this a lot, and it's something that manga/anime fans have to deal with. But my annoyance just bubbled over here. Especially for this grandma character, who has no reason to hide her eyes as far as I can see. (Squintiness indicates hiding the "windows to the soul" which may be for a good reason or a bad reason (e.g. they might be a psycho.) Though in her case it may just be that asian eyes are squintier than western eyes, and her eyes are squintty even for asian eyes.

 

[flxsemi]

When Akira worked up the courage to connect with the lady she feels awkward talking to, I get reminded why I consider this manga as the undisputed gold standard of the genderbender genre.

 

[Panino]

It's absurd that they don't know what a condom is.

Rumi getting jealous lol.

What Rumi got was TALL!