i translated the new year comic kui-sensei made
i'm looking forward to the annyme very much.... translators note: falin and marcille use the character 龍 ('ryuu' or just "dragon") in the first panel, but laios uses 炎竜 ('enryuu' or "flame dragon") in the second, so he's a bit of a hardass in terminology too...
edit: i changed "real dragon pose" to "correct dragon pose" because that's what he actually says
late edit: i don't know why it escaped me, but 炎龍 is actually the term for "Red Dragon" that they use to describe the species of dragon that ate falin lol. so i probably should've just used that instead of "flame dragon"
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ok so i am THEEE firstborn japanese son Hater. AND at the same time god i feel for toshiro. the racism is so. like they dont even respect HIS NAME!!!!
like imagine the Most Annoying White Guy You Know just going around doing whatever the fuck he wants without caring about how his actions reflect on him and those around him. how nice it must be!!! how much less painful!!!!! but a few things: 1. this wont work for you. you are first and only ever a Foreigner. 2. you dont even want this, not really. you dont want to be the white man so much as you want the freedoms of a white man.
and at the same time, toshiro is so frustrating because he doesn't recognize that he is also doing this too!! the call is coming from inside the house!!!!! no 1 frustrating thing about asian men is that they dont realize their own privilege. like his retainers -- does he realize how much power he has over them? his family literally owns itsuzumi as a pet. its hard not to draw the conclusion that toshiro determines peoples value depending on how much he personally likes/feels attracted to them (and, much like laios, it doesnt seem like he has this self awareness). tade is right, he is incredibly immature. which, pretty on par for 26 :)
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Dungeon Meshi by Ryouko Kui
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Marcille is actually one of the biggest reasons it took so long to pinpoint which Chilchuck was the imposter in today’s episode.
The Senshi and Marcille imposters had their own reasons for being hard to decipher, but that was a joint effort on the party’s part. Chilchuck was the only example where a single member’s bias actually swayed the others so strongly that it made them all doubt themselves.
Ryouko Kui did an excellent job of giving us a rich background on how different races interact, and how they may descriminate against each other. Each of the races in this series struggles with these prejudices. Our main characters are not exempt from this, and we see it clearly in the way the shapeshifter manifested as each party member, showing us how the others percieve them.
Marcille knows Chilchuck well, and cares deeply for him as a friend. But she’s not immune to assumptions and biases that come from her elven background. The Chilchuck imposter we are faced with, when it’s down to two of them left, is Marcille’s memory of Chilchuck, Marcille’s perception of how he behaves.
One of the first manifestations of this bias occurs when shapeshifter Chilchuck can’t get a jar open.
The real Chilchuck knows that this would never happen—at least not in this way. Chilchuck is proud, yes, but he asks for Laios’ help all the time. Laios is actually one of the party members he is the most likely to ask help from, given how long they’ve known each other, and how much mutual trust exists between them.
However, the whole scenario isn’t right. Chilchuck wouldn’t give up so easily on opening something; his whole job is opening and unlocking things. He would never quit an attempt like this within 5 seconds, then run to Laios so that “big strong adult tall-man” can open it for him.
Marcille is the one who asks, “Huh? Why do you say that?” because Marcille is partially right. Chilchuck does rely on Laios, and Marcille knows this to be true. But she fails to realize how he relies on Laios.
Chilchuck respects many of Laios’ talents, but the most important ones are his combat skills, his emotional fortitude, and his quick thinking when delegating tasks. He trusts Laios as someone he is comfortable following (he literally said to him and Shuro in the last episode: “Laios!! Tell us what do!! Give us orders!!” when chimera Falin was quickly overpowering them).
So while Marcille almost understands Chilchuck’s confidence in Laios, she tends to accidentally infantilize him in the process.
She immediately believes that Chilchuck B (the imposter, who is specifically using her own memory as its base for Chilchuck’s personality) is the real one, and says so, because she’s blinded by her perception of him as being childlike and adorable because of the very common racial prejudices that half-foots deal with all the time.
She dotes on the imposter, and is open with her affections, as usual (again, her care for him is clear), but doubles down on that bias, on her own assumptions of Chilchuck’s behavior shown through her own lens.
And ultimately, Laios was able to tell the difference, but only because he watched how the Chilchucks handled other minute tasks. Marcille’s stance on which Chilchuck was real truly did throw the others for a loop, at least until the threat passed. And honestly, that’s part of what makes the shapeshifter so terrifying. Its strategy almost worked.
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