Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit.

Kogasa is a blacksmith? What a surprise.

It was in the original design. Even the geta she wears are for this reason.

 

The single leg and eye makes it resemble a fiendish youkai called the Ippon Datara. It is said that this youkai kidnaps humans that are lost in the mountains, then does things like kill them or taking them into its group. The design of the umbrella is thought to have been modified to be based on this youkai(*3). Needless to say, it looks even more comical due to this.
3: It's presumed that her name is also derived from it.

 

 - Hieda no Akyuu, Symposium of Post-mysticism

Kogasa is a blacksmith? What a surprise.

Kogasa just can't catch a break.

Thank you for picking up this series. I love it so much!!!!

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Great a new chapter.... oh its event before.... wait i cant spoil it

Started reading Nature Deities and noticed Marisa DAZEing more often (nearly every time she appears) that here (almost never).

Is it because she changed her habits, because of translation or Kasen is to blame again?

Some translators pick work for other criteria than 'would it be popular'. Groups who translate because they like a genre, to practice their skills, to share a work they think should be known world-wide... those still exist.

The people who have some understanding about Japanese myths may be small in numbers in the western world, but it isn't wrong to assume that among touhou fans- the target audience of those mangas- their percentage is uncompromising.

So the fact that such works don't get much attention isn't due to overuse of cultural refs, but because the touhou boom has shrinked enough that there aren't enough translators that care to work on the mangas.

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Now for a personal question- what non-touhou jap refs ware there in the last few chapters? I couldn't spot that many (probably because I don't know enough of Japanese culture) but I'm curious.

Who said anything about 'popular'?

 

The fact that you're pulling in completely and utterly unrelated factors into the discussion shows how grossly idiotic your entire argument is. (The "Touhou boom"? What is THAT?)

Because translators can pick from dozens/hundreds of projects to choose from, while non-translators/non-Japanese readers can only pick from what translators have already chosen. 
 
Theres no point in translating a manga thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation, when they can pick an easier/better manga that isn't thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation.

Some translators pick work for other criteria than 'would it be popular'. Groups who translate because they like a genre, to practice their skills, to share a work they think should be known world-wide... those still exist.

The people who have some understanding about Japanese myths may be small in numbers in the western world, but it isn't wrong to assume that among touhou fans- the target audience of those mangas- their percentage is uncompromising.

So the fact that such works don't get much attention isn't due to overuse of cultural refs, but because the touhou boom has shrinked enough that there aren't enough translators that care to work on the mangas.

I don't get why " thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation" = "aren't very good".

 

The translators find it difficult to translate thus feeling reluctant, yes, I can see. But that's no reason to call them "not very good". 

Because translators can pick from dozens/hundreds of projects to choose from, while non-translators/non-Japanese readers can only pick from what translators have already chosen. 

 

Theres no point in translating a manga thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation, when they can pick an easier/better manga that isn't thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation.

I have a theory that Kasen's presence actively drains the intelligence of the people around her and inflates their negative traits. Everywhere she goes people are all completely negative like that one restaurant she visited. The only character who's dignity has survived so far is Yukari because she has boundry hax so she's immune to Kasen's idiot aura. Oh and Remilia because everything she does is filled to the brim with CHARISMA even hating setsubun.

 

 

Well ... we still don't know anything in particular about what her special abilities actually is ... or if she is suffering from things like curses and the like that might influence what she's able to do/that affects others around her ... there're several minor things she's able to do, but that might simply be stuff she learned or due to supernatural tools she acquired over however many the course of several hundred years; compared to several other characters, she keeps learning and collecting new things, after all, instead of fooling around ... I guess in terms of plot impact, she might be another take on all around plot breaking characters who're also walking the road of the sage (like, for example, Eirin), who're so skilled, knowledgeable, experienced and all-around powerful that they should be able to resolve most situations that don't involve high level hax.

Ya know this might just be a coincidence but the one time Kasen stops visiting the shrine for a significant portion of time Reimu is able to quickly and easily identify the problem and work to resolve the incident.

 

Every other chapter has shown Reimu to be excessively greedy, short sighted, and self centered to the point that it borders on parody. But the one incident where Kasen isn't nagging Reimu's ear off she's shown to be observant and cares about both her job and the safety of the human village (without the over the top zelousness of previous chapters).

 

I have a theory that Kasen's presence actively drains the intelligence of the people around her and inflates their negative traits. Everywhere she goes people are all completely negative like that one restaurant she visited. The only character who's dignity has survived so far is Yukari because she has boundry hax so she's immune to Kasen's idiot aura. Oh and Remilia because everything she does is filled to the brim with CHARISMA even hating setsubun.

To be fair, though, some of these "incidents" Kasen deals with (most of which are minor, anyway) simply boil down to Kasen cleaning up some kind of mess she caused herself, while when Reimu fails to get the job done it usually isn't directly connected to youkai extermination/isn't something that can be resolved through Youkai extermination (i.e. violence) or is either due lack of knowledge on Reimus part (although her knowledge in regard to youkai extermination is excellent, her grasp of some cultural, mythological, intellectual and technological concepts appears to be quite bad, i.e. she's somewhat ignorant of them ... which obviously isn't surprising at all) in general or because someone - like Kasen herself - is intentionally preventing information from leaking towards her ... or it's because Reimu is distracted by her own vices (greed and lazyness, among others).

 

As those "incidents" usually aren't something along the line of that Gensoukyou might face destruction, there's no need for Reimu to get serious, either.

 

In addition ...

 

The more I read this one, the more I find Reimu's incompetence odd. I mean yeah, Reimu being poor is a an on-going joke, but constantly having Kasen clear up her mess all the time over supernatural incidence (aka the thing Reimu is supposed ot be good at) is just so dame dame that she might as well be an honorary member of Milky Holmes.

 

Of the current official manga, I think I prefer Forbidden Scrollery more. 

Soooooooooo...

Is it done?

Like, no more chapters?

Oh Reimu...

"Moonlit night Miko Reimu,
even though you're weird,
Moonlit night Miko Reimu,
we all love you"

Because the official mangas aren't very good. They're thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation.

 

I don't get why " thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation" = "aren't very good".

 

The translators find it difficult to translate thus feeling reluctant, yes, I can see. But that's no reason to call them "not very good". 

She hides her horns in her hairbuns.

Isn't futomaki what Remilia ate in the section about setsubun in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red? 

So Kasen really is

 

Spoiler

an oni

 

Yeah. I guess it has finally been confirmed through this chapter.

 

Because the official mangas aren't very good. They're thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation.

 

Despite all that stuff that's been lost in translation, they're still either reasonably pleasant or at least decent to read.

D-do your job Meiling!

So Kasen really is

 

Why the hell there are people who translate a lot of doujins but no translate the oficial mangas!?

I want see the Cap 21 there a lot of time and no one have done it yet.

Because the official mangas aren't very good. They're thick with Japanese cultural/social references which makes them difficult to translate and not very fun to read since so much is lost in translation.

Why the hell there are people who translate a lot of doujins but no translate the oficial mangas!?

I want see the Cap 21 there a lot of time and no one have done it yet.