Ikoku Nikki Ch. 45

Whew! Here’s 45, I’m beat. Ya know this series is seriously hard to translate and I hope reading this folks can kinda see why. It’s a lot of wading through a lot of conversations about abstract nebulous ideas and trying to make sense of them in a language that doesn’t require noting the subject or topic of the sentence. Especially with in-media-res conversations and when word bubbles are just stuck on a page with no clues as to who’s saying what. You need to a ton of careful parsing to find the common thread of the theme or the unsaid-ideas in order to be able to understand what’s actually going on in order to create anything like a coherent translation. Also this had nearly the most text of any chapter in this series. I’m exhausted! I hope ya’ll enjoy it because it’s definitely a good chapter. See ya same-ish time next month.

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Ikoku Nikki 45
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iso_cube

You guyssssss…. thank you so much for translating this manga ;_;

brc

Thank you so much for the chapter! And believe me, your translations are very much appreciated, I can feel how much of a pain this is to translate. Yamashita’s writing style is so different from your average manga.

Noob

Yep, another great chapter. I can only imagine the difficulty of translating it, so thanks again a lot for your implication!

anon

Thank you!

Lucas

Thank you for the chapter, your work is amazing every month!!