Fuck reading that ending note hurts
At least the author had the balls to keep the storytelling pace consistent instead of rushing into the true ending
I don't usually like cliffhangers but this arc really wrapped the manga up well for an axe
I think the chapter title is "whydunnit", a play on the genre trope "whodunnit", which was a subgenre of detective fiction. Whereas whodunnit deals with "who" did the crime, a whydunnit fiction deals with "why" the crime was perpetrated. It's usually a similar puzzle-based narration with clues...
Regarding the "I can't get it out" line, I'm pretty sure the original Japanese didn't use personal pronouns (I, you, we, they, etc.) in the sentence proper. Rather, it was only a word, if I'm guessing this correctly. Japanese has contextual sentences, so otherwise context is given, the sentenxe...
Little input, but looking at the katakana, I think Joanna's spell names are based on Latin or bastardized English, so they would probably be Aqua Lancia and Somnus Glacei, if I interpreted that correctly.
@Raudhbjorn yes, sakura means cherry blossom, and botan means peony flower. Horse meat was called sakura because of its pinkish color, and boar meat was called botan/peony in the same fashion of naming a meat after a flower for the color.
I'm so looking forward to see this, but self-publishing can be really challenging for the most part (been kinda there although for a different medium lol). This manga was a really good read so far and I want to see it continue, I just hope it doesn't burden the author too much.
Here's to...
Great job on the TL! That was really tricky. Impressed that you even reached out to Noyes directly to make sure you got it right. Thanks for your work!