#sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku

[sparklyjojos]

My mother-in-law said she would dry the laundry and headed to the second floor. I helped her. We both came out on the balcony. “With such fine weather six hours should be enough to dry them,” she said. “It would feel plain bad to leave dirty laundry behind at the end of the world.”

Just really sincerely like this part. It has such a feeling to it that I can’t describe. Just hanging the laundry as the world is about to end.

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[sparklyjojos]

“It was a success.”

The Japanese here is 事は成就しました, which might or might not be a Bible quote from Jeremiah 32:24:

あなたの告げられた事は成就しました

Which means “what you spoke has come to pass”, “what you said has happened” etc., the “you” being God.

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[sparklyjojos]

Finished reading. If you need me, I will be taking a mental health break now.

#horrible book. 10/10 #sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku #maijo and jdc stuff #the translation was really good! thank you all for this

[sparklyjojos]

Maybe the miracle from earlier in Sengawa was a natural occurrence that was bound to happen from the very start, and (...) although I acted like I was responsible for all of it, I was under a terrible misunderstanding; I was merely one of the many pawns manipulated to make this predestined miracle occur.

Or maybe there was an actual God out there who was making me act like one?

*chanting louder this time* Beyond, Beyond, BEYOND

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[sparklyjojos]

at the seven letters part now, also known as: the translator’s will to live slowly eroding in the face of the kanji hell

#I feel like it's handled well #don't think you could do this part any other way than just explaining what the kanji mean #sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku #maijo and jdc stuff

[sparklyjojos]

“I came here to save you. Don’t you remember? I said I would come to save you when I become an adult. That’s now.”

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[sparklyjojos]

oh man we’re at the Cross House already. I am not prepared

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[sparklyjojos]

I screamed, “Tsutomu! Believe in me! Our God is the same! He’s not Seiryouin Ryuusui!”

*chanting quietly* Beyond, Beyond, Beyond

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[sparklyjojos]

we can be sure this isn’t the real JDC Ajiro, because if the real JDC Ajiro saw a child getting hurt in front of him he would go berserk

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[sparklyjojos]

Fake-Juuku subscribes to the “Maijo is Seriyoin” theory, I see. Which is an actual theory some people have

#not me though. because 1) completely different style and topics and 2) seiryoin considers women to be people #sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku #maijo and jdc stuff

[sparklyjojos]

 [Hikimiya] went around the castle with a measuring tape and a birdwatch counter to figure out all sorts of numbers he was gleefully reporting, like that adding the numbers of chairs and beds on the castle’s first floor gave the exact page number of Seiryouin Ryuusui’s first Kodansha Novels book, Cosmic, that there were as many windows as there were occurrences of ‘Tsukumo Juuku’ in Joker, his second work, or that the total surface area covered by carpets was equal to the number obtained by adding the page counts from the Carnival trilogy books, which counted as the third entry in the series, with the advertisement pages included but not the illustrations, tables of contents, or appendixes. ‘The Castle of Illusions really is full of nods to Seiryouin Ryuusui’s novels,’ he would say.

I’m losing it over this. CANON

#hikimiya would do this. he absolutely WOULD #he does statistics for fun in his head #sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku #maijo and jdc stuff

[sparklyjojos]

“Thank you, thank you, thank you. I could never thank you enough. We’re all from a talent agency called the Angel Bunnies, what’s your name?”

THERE THEY ARE

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[sparklyjojos]

Kudos to whoever did the image editing for the Geneijo mitate, amazing job!

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[sparklyjojos]

something incredibly fucked up: *happens*

Tsukumojuuku, deadpan: Huh, weird.

#how many layers of dissociation are you on? haha watch this #sparkly reads english tsukumojuuku #maijo and jdc stuff

[sparklyjojos]

Being unable to enjoy the last cherries that would blossom during one’s lifetime... If I were in their shoes, I would be bitter. I loved cherry blossoms. Especially when they just start falling.

This reminded me of the sakura thing with Juuku in Carnival Day. I am not okay.

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[sparklyjojos]

I hugged Rie, Tolerant, Sincere, Honest, and my mother-in-law. I had a family. I had things I wanted. No matter what camility may befall us, I would protect this family.

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