Watashi no Kokoro wa Oji-san de Aru - Ch. 28

[Porg]

This could have had the exact same words as the mtl chapters, and we still would've have preferred our because it would've had visible effort put in. The typesetting is substantially better, the text actually fits where it should, and you didn't include pages that were completely untranslated.

This issue we had with those chapters was that they were done with no actual regard for the quality of the work. The reason we read here is because what we read makes sense to is, and we want to show that we appreciate your effort.

the reason we read here is for the translator art at the end

 

[PhycoKrusk]

the reason we read here is for the translator art at the end

I mean, there's that too. I suppose we should include all the reasons, whether or not they're immediately relevant.

 

[AncientWatcher]

Why does the nun look like a delinquent and is smoking a cancer stick? She makes the Sisters of Battle and Rosette Christopher look Orthodox. And now she has a kanabo.

No menu at a restaurant? I have been to some restaurants on the pricier side, and they at least showed me the menu. At least one of them didn't show prices, which is always suspicious.

Yeah, I read the machine translated version of the previous chapter, and it wasn't good. I definitely prefer PersonalistX's version.

 

[Seinvolf]

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

 

[SageVonManga]

Just suffering a head injury is enough to change a person's personality. Your brain is really, really important, souls or not. (It's also worth noting that traditionally, reincarnation is supposed to be a reset button. The whole goddamn point is that you'll turn out differently.)

Did he? The Grace of the Gods kid? I vaguely recall them saying that his emotions were unstable but I can't actually remember a single fucking time that he didn't act like a 30+ workaholic. Weirdly enough, his music playing and other hobbies turned out to all be things he'd already been doing in his past life, he literally just worked himself to death because the God of earth is a malicious asshole.

Yes, reincarnation is a full reset button. If a story follows strict reincarnation then there is no reason to have it at all, because while the core of your soul is technically the same everything including your memories of your past life is erased. The only time you remember is once you escape the cycle at which point you aren't remembering one past life but all of them and that is a completely different kind of story.

 

[Zhangar]

Yes, reincarnation is a full reset button. If a story follows strict reincarnation then there is no reason to have it at all, because while the core of your soul is technically the same everything including your memories of your past life is erased. The only time you remember is once you escape the cycle at which point you aren't remembering one past life but all of them and that is a completely different kind of story.

In that sort of setting, everyone reincarnates as the norm, and having any memories at all of your past life would be an immediate plot hook.

And a common theme for those sorts of stories is needing to clean up the mess left behind by your prior self - an even more personal "Sins of the Father" plot.

Has me thinking of the reveal at the end of the classic Journey to the West.

Spoiler: Spoiler for a centuries-old story

At the very end, the monk Sanzang learns that he is the reincarnation of the Buddhist equivalent of Judas, and all of the insane shit he'd gone through was the penance for his past life's crimes.