Itoshi Kingyo

Description

From An Endless Story:
7 years ago she received a goldfish at a summer festival. The goldfish is named after her beloved Jin. But Jin, her childhood friend, will be leaving home. At the time, those words were uttered unexpectedly...

From Simple Scans:
Volume consists of five separate story lines + sidestory:
愛し金魚
real intention
星のロマン
LIFE IS WHITE...?
YOUR VOICE
巻末描きおろしショ－ト (sidestory)

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

愛し金魚

Groups Scanlating

Simple Scans

Latest Release(s)

v.1 c.5 + Extra (end) by Simple Scans 12 years ago

c.4 by Simple Scans 12 years ago

c.3 by Simple Scans 12 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 6.4 / 10.0 (60 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.36 / 10.0

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Last Updated

September 4th, 2023 12:30pm PDT - 2 years ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Romance School Life Shoujo Tragedy
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

TAKANO Ichigo

Artist(s)

TAKANO Ichigo

Year

2006

Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Bessatsu Margaret (Shueisha)

Deluxe Margaret (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #774

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Monthly Pos #1752

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3 Month Pos #2310

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6 Month Pos #4719

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Year Pos #5722

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On 220 wish lists

On 273 completed lists

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I wanted more style.

by eternalight
11 years ago

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As expected from Takano sensei, this collection of oneshots has got major style! (≧u≦) Every page is drawn with a firm artistic hand of cool stylized taste totally unique of the average shoujo mangaka.

It's just that the oneshots are everything "hipster" (but they're Japanese hipsters), with girls who wear heavy make up hanging out and having whatever feelings with their hipster boyfriends. I actually like hipsters because they have attitude and i enjoy reading about them because they're just people living their lives (different from how mine is), but the oneshots were translated so poorly that the people sound like douches most of the time, which people think is why hipsters are bad (when they actually don't understand!). The English is uncreatively repetitive with its usage, a problem with most shoujo scanlations. It's easy to translate shoujo, it's hard to be ACTUAL GOOD at translating it.

The typesetting is lovely but word editors/checkers just made sure nothing is spelled wrong or sounds their definition of "awkward", which really means for the world: "use the shit out of hyperboles!"

There was this moment when the girl said to the guy "we should split up", the guy says "i don't understand", so then the girl says "I'm saying we should break up!"
Like "we should /split/ up" and "we should /break/ up" literally has ONE word difference, and it makes sense for a guy to say he "doesn't understand"?? Easily the dialogue could have been 10x better executed if she said "we should be apart" or "Let's split" in the beginning (so it doesn't sound as dumbing obvious about breaking up as that other one? Because it doesn't need to be so obvious since she makes it obvious the next flubbing thing she says?).

If making a "direct translation" ruins the context, then it's "badly worded direct translation". Maybe it wouldn't have been so noticeable if the art style and the hipsters were less "attitude" and tasteful, but I'm guessing it was why the translators were interested in the first place. Nothing personal on the translators of Simple Scans, but (some of) the English made all involving characters sound stupid etc. and the story just staled thanks to that.

This manga could have been way better overall if not for the poor word choices but it's a good book to look at if you ever want to look at something cool.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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