Toutetsu Is Done! It's The Second To Last Story, And It's A Little Surreal To Think That We're Almost

Toutetsu is done! It's the second to last story, and it's a little surreal to think that we're almost done at this point (with Shu, anyway, god knows there's plenty of other Mononoke-adjacent translation things that are getting ready to come out too and I'm going to be grabbing them too because I have no chill lol)

As always, I don't own any rights to this book, I'm just translating...honestly for my own validation at this point and that's about it, please don't sue me

If you'd like to check out any of the previous stories, check the pinned post on my blog or hit the link at the bottom to get to the previous story, Fuguruma Youbi

Content warnings:

-Body horror (always with the body horror) -Death

Anyway, here's the link, I hope y'all enjoy as always :)

Google Docs

Mononoke Shu Translation: Fifth Story Toutetsu

Fifth Story ~Toutetsu~ Yamanaka Jinjirou His house was once considered part of the “three elders”; however, despite their feats on the b

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Thinking about Kayo's fear in Umi Bozu again and what it means for her character

How the fear of missing out she rattled off was an idealized version of the general life path that's open to her as a young peasant woman of her time, and that she is probably scared of missing out on that ideal, but not in the sense of not getting married at all, but in the sense of doing that whole song and dance but ending up trapped in a marriage to a terrible man, or giving birth to children who are going to get caught up in the cycles of violence she was abruptly made aware of with the fall of the Sakai clan (either as the one doing the violence or the one suffering under it, or both, creating a monster regardless)

How, if Kayo's meant to be taken as a character with her eyes to the future, that the bakeneko incident shook her certainty in it in a way that she had never had a reason to question before, having her beliefs of being a fairly ordinary person rattled to see what atrocities the "ordinary people" around her helped to commit, atrocities that very well might never have come to light without the divine intervention that was the mononoke and the medicine vendor coming to slay it

Anyway, just contemplating Kayo tonight

Another year, another Kusuriuri for my buddy's birthday. Measurable growth!

Alright, gonna be posting the translation stuff and other Mononoke-related stuff here going forward, anyway!

Got the second story from the Mononoke book translated and edited. Took me a while to get what this one was going for, and I think I still don't necessarily understand all of it even still, but is it really Mononoke if you're not sitting there staring at the screen like 'wtf' for at least some of it and going to need a few exposures before it really sinks in?

And if you haven't had a chance to check out the first story (Kamaitachi) and you would like to, you can find it here

So again, obligatory disclaimer that I don't own any of the rights to this book and this is just a fan translation done by someone making slow but steady progress in Japanese. You can buy a digital version of the raw version of the book on Bookwalker for $5 (i need to find the link for that again, but that's where I got it)

And then, for content warnings, let me know if I missed any big ones:

-Mentions of period-accurate pederasty -Graphic depictions of violence -Attempted ritual suicide -Body horror

With all that being said, here's link to the translation below:

Google Docs

Mononoke Book Translation Second Story: Kame-hime

I also just want to check in, is sharing through Google docs generally accessible for everyone or would there be a better format to share it in? If I knew more about OTW policies on fan translations I would rather stick it on ao3, but since I don't and since this isn't fan fiction I'm playing it safe and not going that route for now, but if anyone's got suggestions for a more convenient way to share, I'd appreciate it

That's it from me for now, hope y'all enjoy :)

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