The first thing you'll notice about this chapter is that it has quite a few non-inked, no-tone panels. Nothing that we haven't seen before but it's been ages since we had such an unfinished chapter. Ritz must have been at the limit here.
About the chapter's title. Enma is the Japanese name for the King of Hell in Buddhist mythology, also known as King Yama. We could localize the chapter and replace Enma with "King of Hell" but I thought it was better to leave it like that.
Finally, there is one confusing, ambiguous line in page 11 so let's clarify it here. Rinkai's coach says that in semifinals, Myeonghwa got the top score in that "section".
Hmm, okay but what is that "section"? Does it mean the lieutenant match?
But no, that can't be because the top scorer in the
lieutenant match of semifinals was Hisa. Myeongwha was merely 3rd and
she didn't "pull ahead of the others", rather both Hisa and Hiroe
shortened the point gap with her.
Well, it turns out Myeonghwa was the
winner of the first hanchan of semifinals. That's what that "section"
must mean here. This is not easy to figure out because the mid-game scores were not given (this was in chapter 123) and it needs to be calculated manually.
Thx for translations!
ReplyDeleteWow, Hisa got 3 tsumo on bad waits in a row? That's something. Thanks for the translation.
ReplyDeleteRitz must have spent a whole week on just that one page with Awai, that's why rest of the chapter is so rough.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insightful commentary and chapter.
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAll these tsumos, poor Achiga, hopefully Shizu has chance to play. x.x
ReplyDeleteWell if Shizu doesn't get to play then Saki doesn't get to play and that would be veeery strange... so I wouldn't worry about that.
DeleteThanks for the chapter. ^^
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