Watashi no Kokoro wa Ojisan de Aru

[MaltAve]

Enjoying the sweet and slow direction this is going. A pretty nice story so far, I like the character dynamics and vibes.

 

[Renedemi]

I appreciate it's world-building and themes of self-reflection to find purpose and meaning in living your life. The art is also good in my opinion but that's just subjective. The thing is though, I feel like there's just too many things wrong with the story.

There's honestly just too many characters. I'm having a hard time trying to keep up with all of them, and I can't really decide if they're going to be important to the story or just another extra. Like who am I supposed to be attached to? All of them? None of them? A lot of them are introduced as someone important but the next thing you know they're just gone. It's possibly just because they're going to come back at some point but who knows when that's happening. I might have already forgotten about them by the time they came back.

The conflicts are just... too unmemorable to me as well. That time with the Tyrant Oar, that time with Sara and the duel, it doesn't feel like there's any tension. I will give credit to when they fought with the bandits though, it actually had some kind of meaning.

I would not recommend it personally but I would still give it a try. Maybe it would have gotten better in the future after I posted this.

 

[RobertusIII]

I really like this story. It doesnt end up sexualizing or fetishising the genderswap and you also dont end up with the usual heteronormativity. My only criticism is that this story ends up getting my hopes up that I will find more good genderswap stories like this only to be met with a mountain of slop

 

[MaltAve]

I really like this story. It doesnt end up sexualizing or fetishising the genderswap and you also dont end up with the usual heteronormativity. My only criticism is that this story ends up getting my hopes up that I will find more good genderswap stories like this only to be met with a mountain of slop

no fr T-T

 

[DEXdimon]

I get that sometimes people are tired of waiting for releases, and get to do it themselves, often time via machine translations, but the "no group" that translated chapters 27 and 28 need to be tried for crimes against literacy.
It's so bad it makes the reading experience worse. I'd rather just wait for the competent people to do it.

 

[leviadragon]

the translation for chapters 27 and 28 is... Notably Atrocious, not the worst I have seen, but that is damning with faint praise.

 

[DeltaBladeX]

I'm with DEXdimon here. I reached the first chapter they did and couldn't even stand to finish it.

 

[Blazer947]

no shoujou ai tag?
blessed

 

[mgRdr]

The old man is cute

 

[DumFck]

it's really pleasant to read

 

[DumFck]

the stolen glasses story killed me

 

[Julius_Light]

I don't know what the rules are for linking to other sites, but I went and found the light novels and have been reading those ever since finding this manga here.

I've also ordered both of the physical releases of the light novels that are out so far, because I've enjoyed them enough to want to own them and to support the author. And I seem to have made the author's day by letting him know this.

I enjoy it quite a bit. It's probably that I see a lot of myself in the main character of one of these for once and it's a fun read seeing how he (or she) would handle things in this new world. I'm sure to many people, it's just a boiler plate isekai, but I love how much more focused it is on the characters thoughts and motivations and their insecurities and interactions with one another and not all just action for action's sake (but it has some of that, too).

You know, while the world seems boilerplate, there's a fair bit of thought put into it. Like how the different races have different versions of the twin goddess creation myth, there are multiple countries mentioned, and a holy academy. The emphasis on character relationships and growth. An adopted beastman-dwarf, never thought I'd see that in an isekai. And still, consistently, MC thinks about his former life.

Honestly I'm quite impressed. This is one of the best isekai I've ever seen.

 

[sclu95]

I have not read the over thousand webnovel chapters of this story so I can’t know but I imagine that Haruka somehow got the body of one of the twin goddesses of this world. I guess we will find out if there ever is a scenario where she meets the high elf looking goddess and is recognized by her as the dark elf looking one. Haruka has so much base power it’s making every fight ridiculously in her favor and only legendary skilled opponents can even match her. When the time comes that she raises her skill level somewhat higher then she should easily become world strongest at that point and only god level threats should be an issue I suppose.

Can someone that read the webnovel in japanese up to the latest chapter spoil me why Haruka came to this world and what he really is now?

 

[BottomHeavy]

Lovely story + old man sleeps hugging his dragon tail +2 points

 

[DEXdimon]

Hey @PersonalistX , thanks for your work.
Just a thing on the latest chapter (41). On page 4, you've put something as "this'll be happened", which sounds weird and I'm not entirely sure is gramatically correct. "this'll happen" "this'll be happening" or in past tense "this would have happened" make more sense to me, given the context.
I don't want to sound like I'm nitpicking, but you do ask to let you know if there are errors, so there you go.

 

[electro_neanderthal]

I have not read the over thousand webnovel chapters of this story so I can’t know but I imagine that Haruka somehow got the body of one of the twin goddesses of this world. I guess we will find out if there ever is a scenario where she meets the high elf looking goddess and is recognized by her as the dark elf looking one. Haruka has so much base power it’s making every fight ridiculously in her favor and only legendary skilled opponents can even match her. When the time comes that she raises her skill level somewhat higher then she should easily become world strongest at that point and only god level threats should be an issue I suppose.

Can someone that read the webnovel in japanese up to the latest chapter spoil me why Haruka came to this world and what he really is now?

The English translation of the WN is closing in on 500, with chapter releases every few days so far. With that said, Haruka's body's background is revealed between chapters 1700 and 1751 (called "Just A Talkative God" according to the browser translator.

As I thought, reading it was torture. But here you go (and please understand that I'm working from something extremely flawed, like once a proper translation is made, it will read entirely differently).

Spoiler

Zest, the "goddess of destruction" created Haruka's body, and as far as I can tell, the body was made because (huge grains of salt here please)Haruka's original body got lost, and a new body was made for him... but the goddess did a little too good of a job and if she kept going would have lost her own, so she kind of just threw Haruka into it before she was finished and hoped everything would sort itself out? There's no special purpose behind Haruka getting her body.

Uh, I'll just copy/paste the browser translation of the relevant segment. Just to let you know, it will make enough sense that you can get a rough idea, but a proper translation will be so different that you'll be shocked at how nothing except the terms of a few concepts will be recognizable between the two translations.

For example, if the browser translates "Two elephants had tea." You will see a proper translation say, "It was like watching an elephant with how gracefully the trunk moved the saucer." It's that different. Without further ado:
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"That's right. Use your body and the shape of the magic element as a reference to make it, and your heart inside?　 I kind of put something like that in and adjusted it, but... I was like, if I try my best, my body will disappear, and I'm like, wow, what am I going to do."



　He speaks in an unconventional way, but from what I've heard, it's clear that this person is indeed the god Zest, and that he 『created』 Haruka's current body.

　Ultimately, this body is not Zest's own body.



"I've lost my body...?"

"That's right. My body was originally made to manifest with magic. I don't know if that's the reason, but that's how it is. Moreover, it seems to have been done too well, so even when I try to contact him while he's sleeping, he always ends up playing the ball. Well, I'm good at making everything. Being strong is important after all. Oracle is a bit noisy about balance and stuff... but oh well, it doesn't matter. I mean, that makes it hard to find. So he used a lot of magic tricks, and when the location became easier to understand and his body became a little more vulnerable, he would talk to me like this, but at first I couldn't get the words out of it, so I was really worried about what to do. You really get the idea of making it yourself and then having this. Well, that's what you mean by doing something for the first time... ah."

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Edit: Re-reading it, I'm thinking Haruka's male body got lost, and the goddess used her own body (substance) and the magic coming from Haruka... or Haruka's soul? (Shape) as a reference point. And then put Haruka's soul in the newly created body in a rush once the goddess realized her own power to manifest was running out, and just hoped the merger would complete on its own.

I guess?????? I mean, it really is a broken translation. If any of that is correct, then I guess that means the species was from the goddess, the gender was from Haruka's "magic" (soul?) and thus Haruka is growing into her body successfully?

Okay, I have a headache now. Good luck.

 

[olwyd]

Why was the attempted rapist on ch5 forgiven!??

 

[DaBoiOfBois]

Ive enjoyed this manga so far. Can't wait for more.

 

[LordCBoD]

I think it's neat that Yuri is reincarnated as well.

 

[DaBoiOfBois]

I've been looking for a isekai manga with this kind of plot for a while cus I've already read most others, and I can't wait for next chapter. Also I'm betting on montana cosplay next