Watashi no Kokoro wa Oji-san de Aru - Ch. 36

[sailorarashi]

Geez, Haruka. Where do you think this manga is from? Europe? In Japan, it's not a vampire if its not blonde.

Ah, but this also runs into the isekai trope of "Everybody in Fantasy Europe has blond, brown, or red hair unless they're a reincarnator or other special person". East is noted in the novel as being only the second person with black hair the characters other than Haruka have ever seen (the other being Yuri, the baby they found earlier). It's one of those weird ideas Japanese writers have about fantasy with Western-style settings. Other common ones being "Nobody has ever tried domesticating chickens", "Everyone thinks potatoes are deadly", and the most common "Rice doesn't exist outside of Fantasy Japan".

 

[Lunkli]

Ah, but this also runs into the isekai trope of "Everybody in Fantasy Europe has blond, brown, or red hair unless they're a reincarnator or other special person". East is noted in the novel as being only the second person with black hair the characters other than Haruka have ever seen (the other being Yuri, the baby they found earlier). It's one of those weird ideas Japanese writers have about fantasy with Western-style settings. Other common ones being "Nobody has ever tried domesticating chickens", "Everyone thinks potatoes are deadly", and the most common "Rice doesn't exist outside of Fantasy Japan".

All true, though I think that this and Japan's blonde vampires are really just part of the same weird perception Japan has of westerners. Vampires have blonde hair because their image of all non-Asian people is that they have blonde hair, even if they know conceptually that that's not true.

On the rice point, though, to be fair, western rice tastes pretty different from eastern rice, and the ways they prepare it are pretty different as well. My Chinese heritage says that I can't accept it as "real rice," so I can understand where they're coming from in those cases.

 

[DumFck]

you know what? i ship it, i'd post page 15 but "Image cannot be loaded from the passed link"

kiss, goddammit

 

[Crov]

Good to see you back to work on this and saved us.

Honestly not putting any hope for romance on this series but the author do know how to tease their reader lol.

 

[sailorarashi]

Good to see you back to work on this and saved us.

Honestly not putting any hope for romance on this series but the author do know how to tease their reader lol.

Spoiler: Romance and the use of Gender Bending as a narrative device

Yeah, there's no romance in this one, really. They tease East/Haruka a little, but they're really just friends. This is one of those where the author is using the gender-bender aspect as an easy-out to have a female main character without having to write an actual woman. The author is definitely from the "women are strange aliens with unknowable thought processes" school (Haruka even thinks that to herself in the novel version), so they made sure their female MC had a male brain. So Haruka can't be attracted to men, because that'd be gay! But she can't be attracted to women, because lesbians are predatory sex pests (Viche who forces herself on Haruka every time they meet in the novel, but who hasn't really appeared in the manga version except to give her underwear). So Haruka just stays away from romance entirely.

 

[LEGENDARYGARY]

Return of the king

 

[joeymcclane]

That kids life ruined forevermore and he doesn't even know he doesn't have any shot here.

 

[sailorarashi]

On the rice point, though, to be fair, western rice tastes pretty different from eastern rice, and the ways they prepare it are pretty different as well. My Chinese heritage says that I can't accept it as "real rice," so I can understand where they're coming from in those cases.

That's certainly true. And to the author's credit, the novel version does have Haruka find a vendor selling rice at the tournament here, but it's weird rice that doesn't taste right and is prepared differently, exactly as you said. Most other stories of this type that I've read don't make that allowance, though, and have even the concept of rice be completely unknown to everyone but the MC (I remember one had a character think it was a bowl full of maggots when they saw rice for the first time )

 

[Porg]

Got another snipe lmao!

Kinda break my heart a little💔

 

[Dust_pile]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[PersonalistX]

Might wanna fix that page where he has her in a Kabedon as you put it as
“I actually pretty strong”
instead of
“I’m actually pretty strong”

Error check!

Page 3, panel 1, the first word in that speech balloon isn't capitalized.
Page 4, panel 5, the same issue.
Page 14, panel 5, maybe substitute "your" for "this" here?
Panel 6, CrimsonNanashi pointed this out earlier.
Page 16, panel 1, it doesn't look like the first word is capitalized, thought it might be just the font.
Page 20, the word balloon is lacking a period at the end.

Thanks as always!

Just some quicky feedback of some bits that I noticed:

3.1 - first bubble here is a little wonky / missing punctuation + capitals
6.2 - East's reasoning here still feels a bit strange to say out loud? something about 'travelling, chasing' makes for an odd combo in English because you're kind of repeating two words for 'movement' back-to-back. I'd probably try to split it up a bit - 'As part of my travels, I've been chasing that person for a while now' maybe
7.1 - 'They sometimes subjugate' or 'they're known to subjugate' imo
9.1 - s h o u g a n a i -> I think the same advice applies where I'd turn this into something like 'I'm the best person for the job' since that's the context it's being said in

Aye!
will be fixed immediately!

 

[HiddenArmy]

If your device get worst with times passing means it gonna die soon, better start backup your data before too late. If software side a reset may help but if hardware, may need to replace something.

 

[ninjasaiyan777]

So glad to see the Easton kabedon battle play out