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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 3 - Fuyou
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“The reason why I started hating women”   (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)  PART THREE
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
“Though, you know, you’re really eating a whole lot.” [Tasuki observed]
“Am I?”
Miaka had been looking at the pork manjuu fixedly, and she got to her feet, turning her back on him for a moment.
“What are you doing? Going to get more?”
“I got it! This! Tasuki, you are, after all, a guy. What about a super sexy kind of a girl? Then you’d have no complaints, right?”
Tasuki, as though he had remembered something, clutched at his hair suddenly.
“There was one of those, too! A completely shameless one…”
---- “Shun’u! The hot water’s more like lukewarm! What are you doing? Get some more firewood!”
While puffing and blowing, Shun’u had just managed to return to the fireplace. He stood and yelled in a loud voice up towards the bathroom.
“I’ve just finished chasing away neighbours from the perimeter fence!”
The third daughter, Fuyou, had such a nice physique that, when she took a bath, it had become customary for the neighbourhood youths to gather furtively, trying to get a glimpse of her.
“Hmm,”
Fuyou’s responding murmur sounded as though she wasn’t entirely unsatisfied with this state of affairs, and she gave a mocking laugh, speaking in a sing-song voice.
“Shun’u. Come here for a minute. Wash my back for me.”
“Huh!?”
“Quickly!”
“But…but neechan, that’s a bit…I mean…I’m already twelve now…”
“What? Do you think you’re now a fully grown upstanding mature guy?”
“I…that is…”
“You’ll wash Dad’s back and Mum’s back, right? We’re family, aren’t we? No discrimination.”
“…….”
“If you’re worried about getting wet, you can take your clothes off too!”
Shun’u was extremely troubled by this, but he didn’t see anything for it but to obey, and so, in very bad temper, he stomped his way upstairs with a hand towel, and entered into the bathroom.
The delicate back of his sister, pale as though she came from the country to the West (translator’s note, it says West in katakana, but I am going to assume here Sairou?) was fully visible before him.
“Well, come wash me.”
Nervous and on edge, Shun’u tentatively began to wash Fuyou’s back.
“Ah, that feels good.”
For a while, Fuyou sat quietly, allowing Shun’u to wash her back, then, after a little while, she began to laugh, turning around suddenly to face him.
“Gyah!”
Right in front of Shun’u’s eyes were two large pork manjuu-like objects, suddenly trembling in front of him.
“Shun’u,” Fuyou suddenly embraced her younger brother with this voluptuous body. “You’re so adorable.”
Fuyou always had the habit of being more over the top than she needed to be in playing around with and babying Shun’u, often taking things to extremes. When Shun’u had been a small boy, she had dressed him up in girl’s kimonos, and it had greatly delighted her to see the result.
This playful Fuyou glanced down towards the area of Shun’u’s groin.
“What’s this? There’s nothing much there, is there! Hrm, maybe I should let you breastfeed from me!”
Shun’u was all over the place, frantically trying to get free, but, trapped in by his sister’s ample bosom, it was impossible to escape.
“Wouldn’t that be nice? It would be soft, and warm, don’t you think?”
Feeling pleased with herself, Fuyou gently patted Shun’u on the head as the young boy opened his mouth to scream.
(Translator’s note: Fuyou has problems).
*****
At Tasuki’s side, Miaka was rolling around the floor laughing.
(Translator’s note: Apparently so does Miaka).
“Don’t you get it now?” [he demanded]. “The female body is the greatest source of abject terror for me!”
Miaka wiped away her tears of laughter, and asked,
“So is that what you call a breast-attack?!”
“It’s exactly that!” Tasuki nodded firmly. “The truth is, my mother’s breasts were at least double the size of my sister Fuyou’s, too…”
(Translator’s note: Perhaps they all have problems.)
“Double?”
“Yep. Each time she had a kid they got bigger. She had enough trouble when she was feeding the older kids, but, by the time she got to me, they were as big as her head and sometimes she’d smother me by accident. I’d stop breathing.”
“Hah..”
“And when we used to sit down at the dinner table, when Ma would put the plates out for us all, her breasts would hit me on the head then as well. I was an inch away from having it snap my neck.”
“Tasuki, you’ve really been through some trouble, haven’t you?”
To be continued….
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cleaetpauline60 · 3 years
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♡ Heroine Otome Game ♡
❥ Kobayashi Mariko [ Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden Gaiden: Kagami no Miko ]
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anise05 · 3 years
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My Anime List
P.S. Sorry in advance to those who disagree with me>_<
Favorite
One Piece, Gintama, Kimi no Nawa, Soul Eater, Hunter X Hunter, Natsume Yuujinchou, Code Geass, Osomatsu-san, Haven't You Heard I'm Sakamoto, Saint Onii-san, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure(all parts), Yakitate Japan, Working!, Saiki Kusuo Psi Nan, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, My Neighbor Totoro, Black Lagoon, Asobi Asobase, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Wotakoi, Tsurezure Children, D. Gray-man, D. Gray-man Hallow, Durarara!, Violet Evergarden, Violet Evergarden Gaiden, One Punch Man, Fate/Zero, Dr. Stone, Diamond no Ace, Maquia:When the Promised Flower Blooms, Run With the Wind, A3! Act! Addict! Actors!, Pandora Hearts, Vanitas no Carte, Bungo Stray Dogs, Bungo Stray Dogs Wan, Daily Lives of Highschool Boys, Magi, Monster, The Millionaire Detective, Tower of God, K Project, Obey Me Anime, Lupin the 3rd, Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita, Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan o, Our Love is Always 10 Centimeters Apart, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Nana, Record of Ragnarok, Twisted Wonderland, Heroines Run the Show, Spy × Family
Like
Fushigi Yuugi, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Golden Time, Shakugan no Shana, Hotarubi no Mori e, Kyoukai no Kanata, Sword Art Online, Ao Haru Ride, Assassination Classroom, Amnesia: Memories, Hakuouki Shinsengumi, The File of Young Kindaichi, The File of Young Kindaichi R, Detroit Metal City, Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns, The Boy and the Beast, Koe no Katachi, Shiki, 5 Centimeters per Second, The Secret World of Arriety, Only Yesterday, Cells at Work, WWW. Working!, Summer Wars, Princess Mononoke, Parasyte the Maxim, Ano Hana, Magic Kaito 1412, Barakamon, Death Note, Mirai Nikki, Jormungand, Danganronpa, Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge, No Game No Life, Ni No Kuni, Demon Slayer, KonoSuba, Overlord, Toilet Bound Hanako-kun, The Promised Neverland, Dororo, Tenki no Ko, Erased, Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Stay Night:Unlimited Bladeworks, Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel, Fate/Apocrypha, Fate/Extra, Gakuen Babysitters, Fruits Basket, Carole and Tuesday, Kaiji, Kaguya-sama:Love is War, Isekai Quartet, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Toriko, Psycho Pass, Detective Conan, Hypnosis Mic, Kiki's Delivery Service, Iroduku:The World in Colors, Orange, Special A, Space Brothers, Mob Psycho, Yamato Nadeshiko, Servant X Service, Japan Sinks, Libra of Nil Admirari, Code:Realize-Guardian of Rebirth, Moriarty the Patriot, Magi:Sinbad no Bouken, Haikara-san ga Tooru, The Way of the Househusband, Laputa:Castle in the Sky, Paradise Kiss, Tokyo Revengers, A Letter to Momo, Belle, Hetalia, Hyouka, In This Corner of the World
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Ayashi no Ceres, Rokudenashi: Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records, Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits, Love and Lies, Nijiiro Days, Shingeki no Kyojin, Shingeki no Kyojin Junior High, Haikyuu!!, Nisekoi, Cardcaptor Sakura, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, Rewrite, Guilty Crown, Date Alive, Tamako Market, Tamako Love Story, Diabolik Lovers, Kamisama Kiss, Gurren Lagann, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Hanebado, Tales of the Abyss, Tears to Tiara, Angel Beats, Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing, Princess Principal, Charlotte, Sankarea: Undying Love, The Tower of Druaga, Kiss Him Not Me, My Little Monster, Noragami, Noragami Aragoto, Servamp, Pokémon, Digimon, Inuyasha, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, Clannad, Plastic Memories, Hayate the Combat Butler, Free!, Rurouni Kenshin, Anonymous Noise, Machine Doll wa Kizutsukanai, Ao no Exorcist, Cardfight Vanguard, Nura Rise of the Yokai Clan, Hello World, A Whisker Away, Baby Steps, Kuroko's Basketball, Slam Dunk, Your Lie in April, Hitorijime My Hero, Soul Eater Not, Clean Freak Aoyama-kun, The Garden of Sinners, Corpse Party, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Yu-gi-oh, Relife, Sugar Sugar Rune, Alice Academy, Brothers Conflict, Kiba, Chihayafuru, Love me Love me not, Yumeiro Patissiere, Snow White with the Red Hair, Kimi ni Todoke, Romeo X Juliet, Jujutsu Kaisen, The King's Avatar, Wonder Egg Priority, Kaze no Stigma, A Place Further than the Universe, Rental Magica, Twin Star Exorcists, Animal Crossing Anime, It's Disgusting to Call this Love, Chrome Shelled Regios, The World God Only Knows, Horimiya, My Hero Academia, Inuyasha, Mermaid Melody, Takt Op. Destiny, My Next Life as a Villainess, Ousama Ranking
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Nanatsu no Taizai, School Days, The Irregular at Magic Highschool, Fairy Tail, Highschool of the Dead, A Lull in the Sea, Classroom of the Elite,
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koholint · 3 years
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todays playlist. i've watched most of these but not all of them… maybe someday…
UNDER17 - Mouse CHU Mouse (Mouse)
Hitomi Shimatani - Angelus (Inuyasha)
Surface - Saa (Mamotte Shugogetten)
Penicillin - Romance (Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san)
Kumi Akiyama - Persona (Mahou Shoujo Pretty Sammy)
Eurox - Galient World (Panzer World Galient)
Date of Birth - Omoide no Hitomi (Tobira wo Akete)
Yoko Obata - Fushigi-iro Happiness (Magical Emi)
Taeko Kawata - Baby Pink na Asa (Seraphim Call)
Yuko Goto - Koi no Mikuru Densetsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Ai Tokunaga - Pa-Pa-Do-Wa (Mahou Yuugi)
Angel Tai - Horoscope Rhapsody (Galaxy Angel)
Yuko Mizutani & Etsuko Kozakura - Nemureru Engawa no Bijo (Galaxy Police Mihoshi Space Adventure)
Mami Kawata - Asu he no Namida (Onegai Twins)
Prizzmy☆ - Love Trooper (Pripara)
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natsunoomoi · 3 years
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I’m not a fan of the series as it didn’t really interest me and it’s kind of triggering for some like unhealthy habits I had when I was younger. If you like it, you do you. But around the middle of the video he talks about the problems with serialized fiction which in Western society is only via fanfiction mainly, but as we can see from manga in Japan and Chinese web novels like MXTX’s work, it’s a big thing. His comments about how hard it is to keep plot threads consistent and to continue to be motivated are really striking to me. The things he says about how serialization issues would often be fixed by an editor are of particular import because it’s kind of amazing how good MXTX was without it. Her work isn’t perfect, because I still have some questions remaining about how her work fits exactly juxtaposed to the legends and folklore from which they draw from as well as there are clearly a couple of plot threads she decided against expanding on later (probably for the best), but that her plot is so tight despite the obvious issues with trying to make a work in that kind of format is amazing. There’s no 100% guaranteed way to keep it tight when you’re on your own and self-publishing, but that she did so well is a testament to her skill. Format of a publication is a huge influencer in how it comes out in the end, and for works like manga and web novels, they’re kind of on hard mode. Manga and even Western comics are probably slightly less difficult because if you’re at a larger publishing company you have an editor technically, but you have a good amount of freedom to make some whoopsidoodle inconsistencies. The only kind of blockage I heard of a big company ever doing was like putting a stop to like a different Batgirl being revived and then that vote in call thing for killing Jason Todd because people hated him so much back in the day. (Seriously, you know a character is pretty well hated when someone puts in the effort to make a callbot to robocall a number to kill a character several times with each call costing 50 cents. Some baller really hated him.) Manga-side it’s usually publishing companies putting a bit of pressure to end a series that got bad or unpopular (Bleach, wtf was the hot mess of the later part of the series) or like to continue a really popular series (like Fushigi Yuugi having the whole OVA arc and gaiden add-ons and Watase Yuu still writing about the world from the POV of the earlier mikos).
Also, the snippets of the book trickled through this video, are very cringe and actually I think the Ghost Husband work that I was complaining about is better. I am shocked because I find some of Xue Can’s antics to be a bit disturbing and uncomfortable, but he still seems better than Christian Grey? An Su is also less judgey and more even minded even though I’m endlessly frustrated by how dumb she is sometimes. It also abruptly stops at one point maybe because the author gave up or something.
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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women...Translated sections so far.
Part One: Eimin
Part Two: Rin’an
Part Three: Fuyou
Part Four: Manka
Part Five: Aidou
Part Six...To come. ((I still have the very last section of this to translate, it’s currently top of my ‘to translate’ list, but I’ve had a bunch of stuff lately. Here are the existing parts for anyone who’s lost track of them...final part to come hopefully soon...))
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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 6 (Final) - Miaka
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“The reason why I started hating women” 
(Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART SIX (Final)
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels. Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine.
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
At the end of part 5, Tasuki’s sister Aidou had just noticed something...
“Shun’u. By the way, what’s that?” Aidou asked.
“Huh?”
“There. That thing on your right arm that looks like a character.”
Everyone turned to stare at the place on Shun’u’s arm.
“……For real.”
“It says ‘wing’.”
“Huuuh?”
“Hey, is that the thing that you mentioned that time way back, Ma?”
“No way…”
“It can’t be…Shun’u is…”
Everyone was speaking at once.
“Are you…the Suzaku Stellar Warrior, Tasuki?!”
Shun’u himself stared at the character on his arm with wide eyes of disbelief.
When the country was on the brink of destruction, a priestess would come from another world, and, along with seven stellar warriors, would save the nation. Was he really one of these individuals?
In the blink of an eye he realised that he would be released from his way of life up until then.
“Right, because I’m Suzaku’s…”
“The Seven Stellar Warriors can die in battle, though, right?”
“Even if he isn’t killed, up till the time Suzaku is summoned, he could be taken away.”
“No way. This is a problem…”
“It’s a real bother, honestly. How can someone become a stellar warrior just because they can run a bit fast?”
“Are you sure you didn’t just write it on your arm yourself for a joke?”
One by one everyone examined Shun’u’s arm.
His mother and his sisters were making a hysterical fuss about it all, but eventually, they came to a collective decision.
“Until such time as he’s called away to be a Stellar Warrior, we should make Shun’u work even harder!”
“Wh…Why?”
Crestfallen, Tasuki poked at his arm.
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“...It was at that moment that I decided to run away from home.”
“So that’s what happened.” Miaka said to Tasuki, who, by this time, had begun to get fed up.
“But Tasuki, your older sisters are healthy and pretty cool, really. And your mother’s a really good cook.”
“My older four sisters are all married now and have left home. They just come back when they get hungry for sukiyaki.”
“In that case, I like the hunger bug!” (NB This seems to be a play on words with suki and sukiyaki. It fails in English – it’s also joking on Japanese vocabulary knowledge).
Miaka sat up proud, answering like a proper examination entry student.
“That reminds me, Tasuki, do you not have a father?”
“I do. Now you mention it, he hasn’t come up in any of my stories so far, has he? He’s the kind who fades into the background so much that I never know what he’s doing.”
Tasuki continued.
“Apparently, though, in the past, my father had an active physique and a muscular body. But as the number of daughters increased, he had the life force sucked out of him by his womenfolk. I absolutely didn’t want to turn out like him. Although, the day that I left home, my father was the only one who covertly followed me in order to see me off.”
“Heeh.”
“I had the feeling that Dad was saying to me, you’re the only boy, go and live your life however you want to.”
“I see. So then you joined the mountain bandits..?”
“Mm.”
Miaka gave a small laugh.
“Tasuki, the first time we met, you lied to me and didn’t tell me who you really were.”
“Yeah. Because Reikaku-zan was more important to me than being a Stellar Warrior.”
“Because you hated women, you thought, like hell I’m gonna obey some priestess, right?”
“Something like that.”
“And yet, you’re here anyway. Well done.”
Tasuki stretched his body out.
“I wonder why I felt that way. I think it’s a bit mysterious even now.”
“I think that in the meantime, Tasuki, you’ve become able to find a woman you like now. Honestly, I don’t think it matters what your perfect type might be. If you fall in love with her, you’ll suddenly love everything about her anyway.”
“……Is that how it works?”
Grinning, Miaka nodded her head, and Tasuki stared at her intently.
“On the other hand, you really can eat a lot, can’t you, for a woman? Leave some for me!”
Tasuki reached out a hand to take one of the butaman, but Miaka pulled it out of his reach.
“Nope. That one’s the last one, after all.”
“What are you talking about? It’s fine, let me eat it!”
“No way, no way!”
They both climbed up onto the sideboard and the last butaman rolled around and around as they fought over it.
“But Tasuki, I thought that you were seasick!”
“Huh?” Tasuki stood still for a moment, then said, “now you mention it, I feel better.”
“That’s good. In that case, I’m gonna take lunch to Tamahome.”
With a big smile on her face, Miaka waved her hands in a wave, then turned, hurrying away in the direction of the ship’s main chamber.
 Hating women, huh…
Tasuki allowed a rueful smile.
With Mum and five sisters, I really had enough of women.  
And my dream is to become a man amongst men, like Hakurou had been. So why exactly am I here like this? Even though I had absolutely no interest in the Suzaku legend.
Tasuki’s gaze fell in the direction that Miaka had gone.
Maybe because you’re a kind of woman that, until now, I’ve not had around me?
That was it.
Idiotically direct.
Someone who doesn’t make a fuss about herself.
Clumsy, but always hard working.
Although carrying the burden of being Suzaku’s priestess, always trying her best.
Maybe it’s because that priestess is you.
It’s not as though I’ve stopped hating women.
But the priestess…no, Miaka…I’ll protect you and you alone.
No matter what happens, I’ll gamble this life and protect you, so don’t worry about a thing.
 On board the boat heading for Hokkan, and through all the hardships they would face ahead, Tasuki felt a different wind beginning to blow.
 The End 😊
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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 4 - Manka
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“The reason why I started hating women”   (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART FOUR
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
“I have it!” Miaka snapped her fingers. “Till now I’ve been thinking about girly-esque types, but maybe that’s the problem. So, what about this? What about a girl who’s more manly than you are right now, Tasuki? A tomboyish girl!”
When he heard this, Tasuki’s shoulders sank in resignation.
“There was one of those as well,” he said gloomily. “The fourth sister, Manka.”
******
On seeing the completely filthy appearance of Shun’u as he crawled up towards the house, the youngest sister, Aidou, exclaimed, “What on earth happened to you?”
Shun’u groaned. He flopped over onto his back, gazing up at the sky, unable to speak, and Aidou asked,
“Did you get beaten up?”
Shun’u nodded wearily.
“Oneechan! Everyone! Come quickly! Shun’u got beaten up!” Aidou raised her voice, and at the sound of her cry, the other four older sisters hurried out into the yard.
“Who beat you up?”
From the midst of the group, the hotblooded fourth daughter, Manka, demanded forcefully as she glared at Shun’u. If you overlooked the length of her hair, she could easily have been mistaken for a young boy. “Was it the Ken family’s boy and his hangers on again?”
Shun’u nodded again. The Ken boy was sixteen, while Shun’u was still only thirteen. The Ken son and his followers were the thugs of the village and known to everyone.
“You went up against the six of them on your own again, didn’t you?”
Manka was demanding the details one by one.
“What was your reason?”
Shun’u tried to respond but, for some reason, he couldn’t get the words out.
“Doubtless they said stuff about you being used by your sisters and being only a weak little coward, right?”
Shun’u gave a tiny nod. At his response, Manka nodded her head decidedly.
“Right. Then I’ve got the message. Shun’u is entirely blameless. Even though he’s been working hard for the household, it’s strange for those guys to be picking fault over it. Plus, for six guys to go up against one, it’s hardly what a real man ought to do.”
Manka normally held herself with a sense of calm, but, when there was a fight on the horizon, she was always full of enthusiasm and eagerness.
“And, now that’s settled, I obviously have to go and avenge Shun’u. It would be great if Aidou and the rest of you came as well!”
“Right!”
This was the only time this group of calm, attractive and poised sisters appeared like a military detachment.
“The job of taking the lead is mine. So, while I’m putting the Ken boy in his place, nobody else get involved, right?” Manka said decidedly, forming her military band of five. “We’ll definitely go and avenge Shun’u!”
“Right!”
And, still bare-handed, the five sisters hurried out of the gate of the farm.
“Good luck!”
From the doorway, their mother watched them go, a wide smile on her face.
******
“Your sisters are really cool, Tasuki.” [Miaka observed].
“Well…maybe.”
“So what happened after that?”
“Well, off course, they kicked those guy’s butts.”
“When you say that, you don’t mean they drew blood…?”
Tasuki spread out both his arms.
“Even now, Manka is stronger than I am.  But…you know…that’s kinda dispiriting for a guy to handle.”
“Hrm. I see.”
To be continued…
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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women...(Fushigi Yuugi Special Story - Translation) Part 1: Eimin
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“The reason why I started hating women”   (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART ONE
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
“Hey, Tasuki, are you feeling better now?” Miaka squatted down beside the pallet bed where Tasuki lay, letting out her breath in a rush. 
“Yeah, more or less. More importantly, how’s Tamahome doing?”
“Mmm. Right now he’s fast asleep. Nuriko and the palace cooks are currently preparing him something to eat.”
“I see…”
Tasuki gazed at his reflection in the splashes and flow of the running river surface.
Having failed to summon Suzaku, the Suzaku Seishi had to set out on a new quest to find the shinzahou. Hotohori had commissioned a boat to take them, and they were now taking a break on their journey to the northern climes of Hokkan. Tasuki, as a mountain bandit, didn’t get on well with water, and, to make matters worse, was also prone to getting seasick.
“I think this might be the first time I’ve had a chance to chat alone with you like this, Tasuki.”
“Huh? Mm, now you say that, maybe you’re right. Since I’ve known you you’ve always been flitting here and there all over the place, generally looking for something to eat…”
“Do you want to eat this?”
Miaka pulled a pork manjuu from her pocket, holding it out, and at the sight of it Tasuki blanched, looking like he might throw up.
“Idiot! I’m still seasick! You eat it yourself! Seriously…”
“What? To think I took the trouble of bringing it to you, thinking you’d be hungry…”
Miaka took the manjuu that she had produced from her school uniform and added it to the growing pile she had been hiding beneath her skirt.
“You…”
Tasuki covered his mouth.
“Hey, hey, Tasuki, while we’re at it, tell me – why do you hate girls so much?”
Miaka asked, paying no attention to Tasuki’s nausea and starting to eat through her manjuu.
“Hrm…well…you see…”
Tasuki clutched at his head.
“That’s the fault of my older sisters.”
“Ahh, Tasuki, you have older sisters? One? Two?”
“Five of them.”
“Huh?” Miaka almost choked on her manjuu. “But being the youngest brother, I bet they spoiled you rotten, right?”
Tasuki shook his head, suddenly lacking in strength.
“Noo. From morning to night, I had to fetch water, cut wood, clean and do laundry. They worked me to the bone. And then on top of that, hard work in the fields. I was just a skinny little boy, but they still worked me mercilessly anyway.”
“Hrmm.”
“So, because of that, I basically got fed up with women.”
But, Miaka, her mouth full of manjuu, replied,
“Tasuki. Half of the world’s population are women, you know. Don’t you think that making up your mind after meeting just your five older sisters is rushing it a bit?”
Tasuki stared up at her with wide, apprehensive eyes.
“I decided, I’m going to find the perfect girl for you.”
“Huuh?!”
Miaka looked at Tasuki again, and tapped him lightly on the hand.
“You’re always quick to get into a fight, and you never really calm down. That means you need a girl who will just agree and be calm and gentle with you.”
Tasuki raised his gaze to the heavens.
“There was one like that…you know. The oldest sister…Eimin…”
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“Hey, Shun’u!”
(Note, Shun’u is Tasuki’s real name with its Japanese reading. I think Sinified it was Shun Yu or something like that, but I always keep to the Japanese for consistency).
“Stop trying to escape!”
“Hey, we should corner him from four sides, all at once!”
“Grab his legs! Start with his legs and we’ve got him!”
The still only ten year old Kou Shun’u was suddenly surrounded by four of his older sisters, and captured.
“Right, now we have to give him the lecture.”
The four older girls, with a firm grip on the arms and legs of their younger brother, carried him forcibly into the main living area.
“Eimin-neesan! Shun’u was skiving off his chores again!”
“Hrmmm, I see.”
Seated in state in the main living area was the eldest of the family, the firstborn sister Eimin. She had already surpassed 20 years of age, and there were already many rumours in the neighbourhood that she was not going to marry and would become an old maid.
“Shun’u, you…”
Eimin spoke in a more slow and measured way than most other people.
“Have you forgotten that, one day, we’ll all be gone to be brides in other families?”
From somewhere there came the sudden sound of someone stifling a snort. Eimin shot the youngest daughter, Aidou, a dark glare, then continued [to lecture her brother].
“That means that one day you’ll have to inherit this farm. Not just the house, but the fields as well. You need to learn how to do that now. We’re hardening our hearts and being strict on you because it’s for your own sake – for your future.”
(That’s a lie. You’re doing it because you enjoy it).
Shun’u swallowed the words in his throat before he could speak them out loud. Even though they were women, it was one against five.
“You get it? You’re not learning anything like this. Your body’s still really feeble, and you’re not that bright. Your face…you have those staring mean eyes and those fang teeth. There’s literally no point in sending you out into the world. You should work your hardest here in this village…you don’t have any other path than that, going forward.”
The four younger sisters all nodded their agreement to these words.
For Shun’u, just listening to his eldest sister’s words made all the fight seep out of his body. Being endlessly ranted at, and being lectured with precise wisdom had completely the opposite effect from each other. There was no way of finding a trigger from which to launch a rebellion when Eimin put all her points so eloquently…her words had greater impact than a physical punch.
“So, take on board all that I’ve said, and go and do your tasks out in the fields like a good boy.”
“Yeah, and do it quickly!”
Four sets of sisterly arms wrapped themselves around Shun’u’s body.
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“And so that’s how it was. A calm, reasoned woman can basically make me completely depressed.”
“Huh. And I thought it would be just right for you as well.”
Miaka looked disappointed, shoving the remaining manjuu into her mouth.
To be continued....
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tracingdreams · 4 years
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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 5 - Aidou
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“The reason why I started hating women” 
 (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART FIVE
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
“Hrm. I see.” Miaka murmured quietly to herself, then raised her gaze once more. “Ah! Now, I mustn’t forget the orthodox type…”
Tasuki looked at his companion with a fed up expression on his face.
“You know, the type that has a bit of an airheaded demeanour, who might be a little bit clumsy, that might be a bit of trouble to handle.”
“You pretty much nailed number five!” Tasuki raised his index finger as if to indicate Miaka had hit the jackpot. “To be more specific, I mean my fifth sister, Aidou.”
When youngest of Tasuki’s older sisters, Aidou, was just sixteen years old, she really loved to go out and about – as might be expected of someone at that age.
“Hey, sisters! Let’s go to the matsuri in the next village!”
“What are you talking about? We went yesterday and the day before! Seriously.” The oldest sister Eimin reproached.
“You don’t have any pocket money left. And you got Shun’u wound up in it as well, didn’t you?” The second sister, Rin’an, bent her neck to look at Aidou.
“And there were no handsome guys there anyway, An-An.” The third sister, Fuyou, tossed her hair as though she was bored with the whole subject.
“If there was a fight going on there, I’d be the first out of the door, mind you,” the fourth sister Manka yawned.
“Fine. Then I’ll take Shun’u with me.” At Aidou’s statement, all the sisters began to protest at once.
“That’s no good! Shun’u has a whole lot of household chores to be getting on with!”
Aidou glanced out of the corner of her eye at Shun’u who, for a brief moment had had the hopes of going to the festival, and was now looking glum.
“Well, then I’ll go on my own,” she decided.
“Do as you like,” her sisters replied. So, in the end, Aidou went out of the house on her own. It was a two hour walk to the next village via the main streets.
“Make sure you come home by evening!” Her mother warned, but Aidou didn’t reply, and set off up the path purposefully. However, even when night began to fall, Aidou did not return home. And, at the same time, it began to rain heavily.
“What’s going on?”
The mother, who was normally not easy to shake, started to worry and fluster about.
“I’ll go look for her,” Shun’u volunteered. Putting on his raincloak, he went charging out of the house like a fleeing rabbit. The truth was that, that morning, Aidou had had a bit of a cough, and Shun’u realised this now.
Fifteen year old Shun’u had one thing that he took particular pride in. His skinny body had grown, so he no longer needed to rely on his sisters in a fight situation, but the thing he excelled at most was the fleetness of foot with which he ran from his house. Over the past couple of years, Shun’u’s speed had got quicker and quicker. At this rate, he wouldn’t lose, even to a mountain wolf.
Shun’u ran through the torrential rain coming down with such ferociousness. It was as though he was parting the shards of water as they fell. As he came within reach of the next town, he caught sight of a small building standing on the side of the road. Maybe it was his imagination, but he had the sense that he could hear a moaning voice within that building. Shun’u flung back the heavy door.
“Neechan!”
Aidou was inside, shivering violently, and he carefully drew nearer to her. She had a tremendous fever.
“Sh…Shun’u!”
Shun’u was lost, not knowing what he should do now. Should he leave Aidou here and go for a doctor? But he felt that there was no time for that.
“Neechan, put this on.”
He gave his sister the raincloak to wear, and then hoisted her body up onto his shoulders.
“I’ll take you to a doctor right now.”
Hurrying out into the rain, which was falling more ferociously with every passing moment, Shun’u set off running a second time. From somewhere inside of that lean body was hidden a strength, the origins of which one might wonder, and Shun’u was able to make good progress.
“You did well, bringing her back in all that rain.”
As the doctor treated Aidou, he reflected that it was a good thing the youngest child of the family had quick wits and strong muscles. “If you had left it much longer, it could have become serious.”
Once the doctor had gone, for a while the whole of the Kou family gathered around Shun’u in celebratory mood. It was the moment of Shun’u’s birth as a full grown man of the Kou family.
“I guess you are a boy, after all! When it comes to the crunch, you’re different!”
“The speed of those legs is a real surprise.  Is there no way we can market them?”
“If you weren’t my little brother, I could easily fall in love with you!”
“Today I can see the whites of your eyes and your fangs for the first time!”
“Aidou, it doesn’t matter how, but you need to say thank you to Shun’u.” This last was the mother, speaking to the youngest sister, who lay on the bed in the middle.
“If only it hadn’t been Shun’u ,but some other handsome guy, though.” Aidou said.
“Aidou!” Everyone scolded Aidou at one go, but, then she caught sight of Shun’u’s forearm and stared, her eyes widening in surprise.
To be continued....
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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 2 - Rin’an
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“The reason why I started hating women”   (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART TWO
~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005
(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)
Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 
Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).
Scene:
The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)
This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.
“Well, then, [Miaka said], “Tasuki, you’re the kind of person who gets easily carried away, so maybe a serious girl with her head screwed on right would be a better fit…how about it?”
Tasuki arched his eyebrows slightly at this suggestion.
“If we’re talking about a straight talking kind of girl, then that would be my next sister, Rin’an.”
And, with a tut tut, he shook his head in despair.
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Shun’u had a treasure. During his childhood, he had picked up a very pretty gemstone from the streets outside. When you turned it every which way, it reflected different colours, and sparkled brightly in the light.
His older sisters secretly wanted the treasure, but Shun’u was determined not to let it go.
One day, the second daughter, Rin’an, was struck down with a bad fever and was confined to bed. Shun’u, as usual, at the beck and call of his other sisters, but, with one less pair of hands after him, it felt like everything was somehow out of sync. This was especially the case because Rin’an was the sister who did things properly and in the correct order.
“Oneechan.”
Shun’u slipped into the room in which Rin’an was sleeping.
“What? Shun’u, huh?”
“Are you still feeling ill?”
Rin’an tried to lift her body from the futon, coughing.
“You’re a kid kid, Shun’u. But I’m afraid I’m still pretty bad…maybe I’m done for.”
“What are you saying..?”
Shun’u was a little panicked.
“Well, there’s one thing that might work. One possible good method.”
“What? What’s that? What is this method!?”
Shun’u leaned his body forward, and Rin’an whispered the method into his ear.
“That’s for real, right? That’s really a way to cure this illness?”
Shun’u darted out of the room at lightning speed, and Rin’an poked out her tongue at his retreating back. Her fever had long since gone down.
Rin’an, who never gave up unless everything went exactly the way she had planned it, easily obtained possession of her eleven year old brother’s sole special treasure.
Of course, not just that.
“Shun’u! You can’t eat that! You’re the precious heir to the family! I’ll check to make sure it’s safe to eat for you first!”
By this method, Rin’an made sure she got the first and best places and snacks, and with her tiny attention to detail, she managed to steal away Shun’u’s things as well. This happened more times than he was able to count.
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“Hahaha! Tasuki, that just proves you’re a real idiot!”
“What are you talking about? I was just naïve, that’s all!”
Tasuki let out a heavy sigh.
“Though more than having her head screwed on right, that was pretty much just straight up fraud, really.” He let out a groan of frustration.
“That kind of serious focused girl is also out.”
“I see…”
To be continued
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