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@Abetillo Never attribute to the author what can reasonably be attributed to scanlator stuipdity.

@ElJefe: It's Siddham. Many of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts that made their way into East Asia were written in the Siddham script, and it is still used to this day in esoteric schools of Buddhism in Japan, so there's a strong association between Sanskrit and the Siddham script in Japan.

@huntercheco Shin!! Otokojuku is a prequel to Sakigake!! Otokojuku and a sequel to Peerless: The Legend of Edajima Heihachi. Goku!! Otokojuku is a sequel to this and one other manga, with references to a bunch of other Miyashita manga, some of which haven't been translated by us yet. We'll be...

@Sarsak Pimiko (also spelled Himiko) was the shamaness-queen that ruled the pre-Yamato Japanese kingdom of Yamatai, whom we know about mainly through her diplomatic relations with the Chinese kingdom of Cao Wei which are recorded in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, which also says that she...

@Supa1 Second what?

Translator here, and this is why you really should read the manga before you critique the translation. The title "Peacock King" (孔雀王) is not used in the manga to exclusively refer to the Buddhist goddess Mahamayuri (孔雀明王), but also to draw a syncretism with the Yazidi deity Melek Taus (the...

Thought this might be relevant to The Discourse™

https://mangadex.org/chapter/845859

@nutjob Please stop pinging me about typos.

@spicypeppers We don't drop. The typesetter's just been busy.

I'm fairly certain that it's talking specifically about Japan, which has been rabies-free since the 50s thanks to vaccines, quarantines, and the fact that it's an island nation.

@Lithe He was promoted. In Asura his brothers were the Yokozuna but he was way down in the Juryo division. Meanwhile Sekiwake is the third-highest rank, after Ozeki and Yokozuna.

@x754 The original is rendered in the same kind of Japanese, but horizontally instead of vertically, which is how text in a different language is generally rendered in manga. I chose to render it in Middle English to provide a means of differentiation between the English translation which is...

@Xunder Fixed this and a couple other errors in this and the next chapter. That'll teach me to speed-translate while on vacation brain.

@Noir4241 Remember this? https://mangadex.org/chapter/4012/2 @vTool It's not even "keikaku" here, it's "omowaku".