This is good. Especially effective because Yokoe isn't dumb. There's how she behaves and what actually goes on in her mind, as well as what others expect from her because that how she shows herself to be.
Honestly yeah, that's some kind of defensive countermeasure I'd find useful too. If she's...
The twins thing is that one twin still gets the role, expectations and responsibilities of being the "older sibling", even if only minutes separate their birth. You see it a lot in other series with twins, there's definitely still an onee-chan/onii-chan, one told to look after and take care of...
Isn't the author of that series someone else? They may have been the artist for it, but according to mangaupdates it was adapted from a novel by someone else. Someone let me know if I'm misunderstanding anything.
Compared some pages to check the differences in translation and daaamn, no wonder this got picked up by another translator. The dialogue makes a lot more sense and is smoother now.
I understand that TLs overlapping is pretty awkward territory but to me, the quality of the translation should be...
@3RDp
From what I can recall, postpartum depression most commonly occurs soon after childbirth. Did your friend's mom have another child around when he was that age?
Ah...
He couldn't see her face and so shouldn't be able tell whether Seiko was smiling or not when she pushed Shigeru off, but if he thinks that she was, it's likely because Seiichi has seen her smile in the same situation before.