I know that rapist is trash, but non-black authors don't have to make a character say the N-word just to solidify their character's fucked-up-ness.
GOOD on the translator for deciding to change it. That shit would've jumpscared me. Like... author puts a trigger warning for SA, but not racial slurs that could be very traumatizing and upsetting? I'ma keep reading, but they getting a side-eye from me.
It may not be this deep, but at this point in time, it makes me wonder why a dark skin character was designed. Was it solely to show the other char is racist, (used as props and character devices) or are they actual legit characters in this as well? Like "yeah we have black characters too..." then the black char is the first one killed off, or has shortest screentime. Like then don't even put them in there then if you gonna do foul. /// Anywho, that's my initial reaction to only reading up to CH 4. Honestly I rather just not see another POC, than see them existing only to be mistreated or the butt of jokes. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
thanks for pointing it out bc i was planning on reading the novel and reading this but now im not cause thats triggering as a black person. it feels like we can never get away from terrible portrayal of black characters in asian media
I understand your choice but I wanted to let you know that the English translated novel never uses the n word nor does this fan translation.
I don’t think the author intended to make POC the butt if jokes but I get what you’re saying. I also understand the issue I mean there’s literally a Korean manhwa that just completely steps on ancient indigenous Australian culture by making them white and gay (indigenous aussies identify as being blak and poc). But for this story I don’t think it’s like that.
Because firstly (SPOILERS FOR RECENT CHAPTER AHEAD) aren’t most of the characters so far POC? I mean an zhe and lu feng are Chinese so they are POC. And idk where dousay is from but she’s also not white. And it may seem like Dousay, who is so far another darker skin character, had really short screen time but in the novel her existence is very important. The manhua is speeding through the novel but she was one of an zhe’s only friend and through her he realised for the first time that people also can love the arbiter. Her story is really tragic in the novel and important. It’s the first bit of despair that sets the tone for the rest of the the novel and her ordering the lu Feng doll also impacts the story. She’s one of my favourite characters. Other than that tho we have no idea who else is POC apart from the Chinese people because afaik only the doctor, a later character, Lu Feng and An zhe were referred to in terms of skin appearance. That would be up to the artist I presume because their names are vague origin like Dousay and Hubbard.
Well the translator said that they used the translation of the word from the novel which is “scum.” So the novel itself should be fine. The n word is not actually typed out in the story since the translator didn’t put it in, the translator just made a note saying that it says the n word there.
Other explanations of the Chinese word says it translates to “black ghost” and one person went into detail:
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I wouldn't go so far as to say it's means the n word exactly, but it's not very polite. It's like if a Westerners went around calling Asian ppl "those yellow skinned ppl" kind of bad vibes. It's also very common to call white/Western ppl "鬼佬，白鬼，洋鬼子” vaguely offensive but not outright racist, it's more of a not politically correct way to say"foreigner"
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Anyways it may not be the true translation that it’s the n word since if you see there’s some Asian words that make it look like that when using google translate (aka machine translations), but it’s meant to be offensive by the character using it in the context.
The author did not use that word in the novel so I'm curious who decided to change it up for the manhua. Hopefully it wasn't the author.
I haven't continued reading after making my comment, but I'm not deleting this from my reading list in case I ever decide to return.
Yeahhhh, I have no idea why the team who made the manhua adaption decided to "spice things up" like that, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth (even after reading the break-down). And my reading list is already HUGE, so it's whatever, bc there's a lot of comics I need to catch up on. I may come back to this, might not... Beautiful art tho. They got that going for them.
That's the most BS chapter I think I've ever read in a manga/manwha. Like, if there needed to be a separation arc, why tf would someone write it like that? It just makes all of their main characters look like fuckin dinguses... Like they don't have a single competent cell in their whole body. Childish and braindead
Lmaooo I haven't heard the word disgusting in a long time. And now that you've mentioned it, these characters really did look like dinguses.
First off, I'm not reading that 2nd story, bc wtf.
And also, what happened to the dark nip guy in the 1st story? I thought they were gonna do a story on loving what you're born with, but they took it completely left field... And even shamed the fiance with darker lips (and nips) as being "disgusting, wrinkled, poisonous mushroom" lips.
I'm just surprised someone(s) actually sat down and created this. Like please be satire. But it's not quite ridiculous enough to be satire.
There are pages missing from CH 3. I came here to read this webcomic because of the screenshots someone posted on OtomeIsekai subreddit. And those pages are missing!!!!
Hernan asks what else she likes, she stares at his chest and blurts out "Your ches-".
So what other pages are missing from this and other chapters? The translation is a little bad... But damn, you can't be missing pages like that. It's already a choppy read, and now it's even more choppy with stuff missing. I'ma hold off on reading this here.
The FL has moments where its like she's operating on ONE braincell. I can see that annoying me in the future bc its kinda irking me now. But the concept of Caesar being able to see the visions when he touches her is interesting.
I think I'm still with it as the story progresses. I don't feel lost or anything, just the right amount of "in the dark" until the story unfolds some more. I really like it. Its pretty interesting and a good sprinkle of creepy.
I think I like it bc it's almost giving me I Am A Hero vibes. Not the weird "loser" MC, but the strangeness of the story progression where things are more than they initially seem. I would constantly binge read that back in the day.
Read until Ch 5.
This feels like some 14 year old's journal/Wattpad.
Also, forgot to mention how her dresses don't suit her at all. Maybe they'll get her a visionary tailor later on who will find/"invent" a style that doesn't fight her like that. She has NO shoulders or boobs, and these dresses do nothing for her.
The empire waist one did, which might make sense since apple-shaped plus size bodies tend to favor that silhouette. That's if you follow the five shape archetype.
But technically, her body shape is to "bell", part of the twelve shape archetype.
See: Hillary Clinton, Adele, Mindy Kaling.
this arc is the longest. It's not interesting as the mutated zombie island. Like what was up with that? But I'm guessing its working up to some important plot points about their world? Like how that priest knew this was going to happen and prepared for it all.
Anywho, I didn't mind that it jumped around to different situations bc I wasn't here for the plot anyway (not like the smut is even good... I just wanted to see the hot couple from the cover, and even THAT was a MAJOR disappointment and borderline nonexistent). It didn't stay in one place long enough to become too uninterested in it. But now that it's not jumping to a new set of chars, the uninterest in this strange plot and art-style is lingering more. There is no MC to care about or root for.
Like for real, its not even good smut. I'm just here for more info on the creepy zombies and possibly why some mutated. It actually helps that the CHs aren't long. An update is only a few secs to read.
Agree lol the only reason I click on this is bc of the cover yet this shit suck ass
but I'm curious how it ends [if there's even one], so I keep coming back for it