Vignette Witch! ~Joshi-ka no Mahou to Isekai Seikatsu~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 7 - The Call of the Skirt

[MangaDex]

 

[NinjaGoemon]

Trans Rights btw

 

[Dredcor]

Trans girl! Trans girl! Trans girl!

 

[blublab123]

Ooooh, this was a great one! Thanks for the TL! And really hope We'll see so MC accepting their inner femininity as a result of this!

 

[bc524]

Remember, dreaming about becoming a girl is absolutely cis behavior. As well as getting envious of girls wearing skirts.

 

[Elizviel]

sensei's GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT

 

[Shiden]

Would have been better if it were a jock-type coming forward with this admission, because especially when there's so little difference in outer appearance, the only real hurdle is self-confidence. A buff guy saying they were envious of cuteness, on the other hand, can lean into a more radical change in appearance or self-image.

That said, even without TS magic, skirts and the rest of the options that women's fashion offers are great. Men's clothes are just so... bland.

 

[xyzzy]

I know that Rin has trans rights now, but honestly she should also have some trans wrongs. I suggest that she have the freedom to commit one (1) crime of her choosing.

 

[MidnighTea]

Wow, I got goosebumps reading this. What a truly magical moment by an author that seems to deeply understand such feelings. And it's really cool we now understand what a witch's potential comes from -- whether femininity is something that clicks with them. That's honestly super on point with some real life Wicca practices.

Thank you much for the translation. I was already having a pretty darn good day so far and this like the strawberry on top of the shortcake.

 

[AccForManga]

Good for Rin. Gets the body she dreamed of, the clothes she longed for AND a pet dragon.

Also maybe the change was so small, in comparison to the rest, because that was already who she was anyways. There was no need for the magic to go overboard or anything to better help fit a new reality for the person this time.

 

[Monstrengo]

Well, now I know why there's a dragon sleeping on the school roof in the sample of the next chapter...
Let's just hope that the dragon isn't the sort to turn into a horny dude, like in this one comic I read (and by horny I mean oversexed, not covered in horns).
Regarding the revelation of other humans, it is possible that Lovenarock wasn't the only one to be sent into the Vignette (remember how the boys got caught up in the Witches infighting?). An eleventh century city may have also been transported away. I'm putting my bets on a town under the authority of St. Henry, or any land under the rule of Canute.

 

[explo-Fey]

Sorry Chad, this is real life, the trans girl gets the pet dragon :3

 

[NinjaGoemon]

I know that Rin has trans rights now, but honestly she should also have some trans wrongs. I suggest that she have the freedom to commit one (1) crime of her choosing.

Rin should be allowed to direct insane inferno destruction with her new dragon friend. Just a little. As a treat.

 

[MidnighTea]

Also want to say that it's actually extremely sensible to stay one chapter behind of official releases. That way it's less likely you accidentally make more work for yourself if something is completely recontextualized, requiring you to go back and fix the previous chapter so it's not misleading or off-tone.

Also please avoid burnout, absolutely. I'm grateful for the translations but I don't want the spark of joy I got from today's to be at the expense of anyone else's joy.

 

[phoenixir]

Rin-chan! Oh! I smell another egg!

 

[Lunkli]

So magic in this world is literally derived from being trans. Very accurate to real life, I'd say! Or at least to how real life should be.

 

[MidnighTea]

I can't believe I'm saying this but I do kind of lowkey hope that Konpachi can eventually help anyone for whom this "witch" thing isn't clicking in the longterm. Though I'd be kind of surprised if the story went in that direction, Ninja Goemon might've been onto something with the idea that the feminization magic can effectively make eggs. Which is actually lowkey pretty unsettling, but I'd say that description can apply to a lot of elements in this story so far so I'm not complaining.

Which yeah, explains a lot if Rin-chan didn't need the extra push. She already blossomed in her heart and just needed Konpachi's help to bring it outwards. Still super happy for her. And Sensei is so unbelievably valid as well.

 

[SplitterTriplets]

Also please avoid burnout, absolutely. I'm grateful for the translations but I don't want the spark of joy I got from today's to be at the expense of anyone else's joy.

Oh, don't worry on that front. I'm doing just fine. The one chapter delay plan has been in place for a bit now, I just didn't announce it officially until now.

 

[bc524]

Would have been better if it were a jock-type coming forward with this admission, because especially when there's so little difference in outer appearance, the only real hurdle is self-confidence. A buff guy saying they were envious of cuteness, on the other hand, can lean into a more radical change in appearance or self-image.

That said, even without TS magic, skirts and the rest of the options that women's fashion offers are great. Men's clothes are just so... bland.

I disagree. I think Rin getting minimal changes reflects the concept that she was already a girl all along. All she really needed was the affirmation.

A jock type doing the change can be more impactful but they might require more drastic changes for them to be comfortable with the transition. If their appearance is the same as before, they might not feel they are "allowed" to be with cute things.

It's a different message.

 

[PvtRyan96]

I don't mean to be that guy but I think if Rin was an out and out transsexual then they'd have had an inner monologue about wanting to be a girl outright, not an inner monologue about wanting to wear a skirt. I think it's perfectly valid to have the stance of "ultimately I don't really care about being either a boy or a girl, but functionally being a girl is more conducive to the self-image I want to have that caters to my tastes," and I think that better describes Rin's feelings rather than calling them "trans" in the typical gender-identity sense.

The fact that they didn't really undergo a particularly drastic transformation also gels well with the idea they don't care all that much about the body aspect of it. If anything, the transformation was highly concentrated in the thighs, which would be the most relevant part of "showing off with a cute skirt."

Let me put it this way. You can want to be a girl because you care a whole whole whole lot about your sex, or you can want to be a girl because you don't really care that much about your sex, and I think Rin seems to fit more in the second category. If they grew up in a world that did not have skirts, I'm not sure they would sign up for witchification. That doesn't stop them from being properly "trans" pending further revelation, but I don't think it's basis to definitively call them that as of yet. It's important to not jump the gun and see what you want to see, rather than what is.

But that is simply my analysis.