Ikoku Nikki - Vol. 5 Ch. 23 - page.23

[inpovin]

i wonder why asa doubts her mom's diary so much, it seems kind of out of character? i think what her mom wrote about her name is really beautiful so i'm just a bit confused.

 

[luckystars]

asa is still young and doesn't have enough life experience to process her current situation. i think her reaction was natural since she still a kid. maybe asa feels betrayed? her mom died before she could give asa the diary and there's that comment on death in her notebook...

 

[onthedot]

Fuck what a great chapter. This story just keeps getting better and better

 

[Sarsak]

Best case interpretation of Asa's name: I named you Asa in hopes that you can be loved by everyone and love your life in turn.
Worst case interpretation of Asa's name: I named you Asa in hopes that I could love you and bring my life to what I hoped it would be.

I'm honestly super confused about Asa's dad. I mean they were effectively in a legal marriage because that's how common law marriages work, right? He wouldn't have stayed otherwise if he hated them or something like that. Maybe he just has a trauma regarding marriage, but it's too early to tell.

 

[tickub]

@inpovin She's juxtaposing 14 years of a mother she did know against another side of her mother she never knew at the delicate age of 15. It's not unnatural to reject all this conflicting information.

 

[Otaku713]

Thanks for the translations, this is a gem of a story!
I'm sure more about her dad will be revealed in later chapters but for now its a bit......odd?!?! So he was ok being a father (did Asa not say in some early chapter that her parents were average or something like that- I mean it gave me the impression that she wasn't close to either parent or maybe I'm just not remembering it right) but not a husband in the legal sense? Was he married, was this bigamy? Did he have another family or some trauma of his own? Or he did not like Asa's mother- or just someone who did not believe in the institution of marriage??? The plot thickens.....

 

[themoobz]

feelsbadman the manga

 

[DPLBatoDex]

I didn't realize this in my initial read-through, but I am pretty sure pages 28-29 are supposed to be a 2-page spread. There's detail in the bottom half of page 29 that looks like it bleeds over from page 28. Setting the reader to "right-to-left," two pages and going to pages 28-29 definitely shows that is the case. @Kewl0210, when you can, please fix this.
Edit: It's been fixed. Many Thanks to you @Kewl0210 and your group.

 

[JeezyHungry]

This is so good