Vivarium de Choushoku o - Vol. 4 Ch. 57 - Breakfast At The Vivarium

[punpunpun]

thanks for the translations.

i really enjoyed this one but i hope we can get another work like melancholia and nickelodeon soon.

 

[Breadude]

How did raimon become a ghost though? I thought a 'ghost' is an organic being in this world, so did raimon get a flesh body? Oh well idc as long as yoki is reunited with raimon, been a fun ride wish it was a bit longer

 

[Greedygreen]

And then everyone died, the end

 

[tamarakko]

It was an enjoyable ride from beginning to end. Mysterious but comfy. I personally think the quality stayed consistent to Dowman's good works but agree this could've gone for a little longer.

 

[ShiitakeCat]

Thanks for all the TL work!
That was a perfect bittersweet ending!

 

[caliche9700]

Thank you for the translation, this wasa fun manga.

 

[BoilingWarlock]

Many thanks for the TL ⸜( ´ ꒳ ` )⸝

 

[isaperv]

Thank you for your translation. This was my first Dowman, so I'll be curious to read some of his better stuff. Anyone want to recommend their favorite?

 

[Plutonia]

Thank you for your translation. This was my first Dowman, so I'll be curious to read some of his better stuff. Anyone want to recommend their favorite?

Sort of depends what you liked about Vivarium, Douman has produced ALOT.

The Voynich Hotel is his most popular, and accessible. Has the same strong character charm of Vivarium. It's short and sweet, while a little dated (in the chuck norris joke way.) If you can, I'd go for the original translations, the SS one is absolutely OK but they censor the one of the funniest jokes, which you've probably seen isolated if you've ever been around the internet. The joke edit of Raimi I posted randomly in the MD forum was the girl from Voynich.

Melancholia is my favourite, if you like the way things weave together and lots of the little stories/details on a re-read then go for this. Go into it as unspoiled and raw as possible, it's just a master of story craftsmanship.
It's was also published in Ultra Jump when UJ was at it's peak (it also means some of his //tastes// are calmed down a little)

If you want Vivarium but more complete/full story then go for How Many Light-Years to Babylon?. It's about a similar length but is a complete story. Also if you like the sci-fi scrapings of Vivari, mit's good for that too.

Nickelodeon is on my 3x3 for personal reasons, it's 3 volumes of short vignettes and is closer to a gekiga. If Memory Poppy was one of your favorite chapters, then this is closer to it for you.

Also if you like zombie movies or have specific games you've liked he always does very funny tributes to them. His zombie rant about Shaun of the Dead lives rent free.

 

[isaperv]

Sort of depends what you liked about Vivarium, Douman has produced ALOT.

The Voynich Hotel is his most popular, and accessible. Has the same strong character charm of Vivarium. It's short and sweet, while a little dated (in the chuck norris joke way.) If you can, I'd go for the original translations, the SS one is absolutely OK but they censor the one of the funniest jokes, which you've probably seen isolated if you've ever been around the internet. The joke edit of Raimi I posted randomly in the MD forum was the girl from Voynich.

Melancholia is my favourite, if you like the way things weave together and lots of the little stories/details on a re-read then go for this. Go into it as unspoiled and raw as possible, it's just a master of story craftsmanship.
It's was also published in Ultra Jump when UJ was at it's peak (it also means some of his //tastes// are calmed down a little)

If you want Vivarium but more complete/full story then go for How Many Light-Years to Babylon?. It's about a similar length but is a complete story. Also if you like the sci-fi scrapings of Vivari, mit's good for that too.

Nickelodeon is on my 3x3 for personal reasons, it's 3 volumes of short vignettes and is closer to a gekiga. If Memory Poppy was one of your favorite chapters, then this is closer to it for you.

Also if you like zombie movies or have specific games you've liked he always does very funny tributes to them. His zombie rant about Shaun of the Dead lives rent free.

Thanks for the detailed response! How Many Light-Years and Voynich Hotel seem the most appealing, at first glance.

 

[ckckckck]

Thanks for translating this series start to finish! The end feels a bit rushed, but at least we got a proper ending.

 

[Luke_chase]

Thanks for sticking it out to the end, I overall enjoyed this one. It’s nice to follow a work for its entire (translated) life

 

[temaccgdx]

That was a good ride, felt like Stella and Nagi could have had a yuri arc.

@Plutonia thank you for the work on this, are you planning to upload the volume versions (if they have any substantial differences) here on mangadex? Easier to track than mega or torrent. And btw, do you have plans for any other works of his? If I recall a bunch of his long-form works haven't been finished, like Paraizo or Seihonno to Suibakusen

P.S. the cockroach eyepatch was creepy

 

[Plutonia]

That was a good ride, felt like Stella and Nagi could have had a yuri arc.

@Plutonia thank you for the work on this, are you planning to upload the volume versions (if they have any substantial differences) here on mangadex? Easier to track than mega or torrent. And btw, do you have plans for any other works of his? If I recall a bunch of his long-form works haven't been finished, like Paraizo or Seihonno to Suibakusen

P.S. the cockroach eyepatch was creepy

Yeah I will, I want a nice typoless/consistent/clean version of Vivarium to be the go to more than a bonus for going to the mega. Champion has changed a lot over Vivarium's run and RED got the brunt of the weird changes like simulpub digitals. So it would be nice to have it all consistent. For once, that's not on TLer being slow (although he still hasn't fixed volume 1).

As for other Douman? Not at the moment, but I would like too.
We're working on Goldfish Kingdom by IC (Chapter Ebi has been cleaned and transcribed,), Gibbet Room by Shida (Shida is Tler's oshie so that gets highest priority) and Suika, which we have some chapters for but TLer is umming and arring on how he handles the kansai accent so wants to read the first full volume first.
So maybe after GK (why did it have to have 100 page chapters....). No promises though, we also have a lot of IRL stuff happening, so it's kinda a miracle we've kept up with Gibbet Room.

 

[74HC595]

Hmm, reminds me of Shimeji Simulation. Good story, rushed ending.