Wandering Senior, Don Quixote

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>>143901590
RIP fire extinguisher demon. You did nothing wrong.

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>>143901637
Silent guardian, watchful protector, etc.

>>143901854
The absolute madman

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>>143901947
It's kind of hard to say if he really did more good than harm in this chapter. Looks like quite a few people definitely died when the apartment crumbled partly because of him.

Ha ha, I remember Elemhunter sharing this with me a while back. Thanks for translating it.

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>>143902211
Yeah, it's a real good read. Fun, but with enough biting social commentary that it's not the shallow-type of fun either.

>>143902386
Jesus

>>143902421
I need that water

>>143902976
Fuck this hit close to home

>>143900803
Rurouni Qixote?

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>Emergence final chapter

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>>143903068
Not quite.

>>143901165
Oh, man, first/last time I read Don Quixote was sophomore year of high school.
This'll be fun.

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In case you aren't familiar with Shibuya, or never played TWEWY, Hachiko is the name of the famous dog statue in Shibuya, which you also see in >>143903070

I think there was even a live action movie about that dog a couple years back, starring Richard Gere.

>>143902813
Literally Jesus.

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>>143903398
Pretty much.

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>>143903573
I didnt ask for this feels

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>the author criticizes heartless individualism and indifference in modern Japan, as seen through the eyes of an old man, who, although childish with age, sees the truth of things.
>heartless individualism
Is this some kind of collectivist, worker ant propaganda? Because I don't like that theme in anime and manga and it's pretty common although not always very strong.

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>>143904046
It's more a critique against modern consumerist mentality. It has nothing to do with any socialist or communist values. The heartless individualism is referring to things like the bystander apathy effect or how modern-day urban cities are full of faceless strangers, so not really "individualist" as in the way you're thinking.

>>143904275
How much of this is left?

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>>143904301
It ends at page 204. If you'd prefer a dl link instead: https://mega.nz/#!J0lHhIgK!eNKlFOi-mAmVfhdefpJm_pmifSn4iO8bRkR_po4RmQQ

>>143904335
I just wanted to know so i can get comfortable and grab something to drink

>>143904629
Why

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>>143904671
Jesus

>>143905136
This is getting way darker than I expected.

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>>143905346
Woah, I feel like I've been in a couple of these situations before.

>>143904335

thanks Hox, you're always the truest gentleman

Fuck, I expected comedy and got something a lot more deep and insightful. Thank you for sharing.

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The End. Hope you enjoyed the storytime.

If you don't know who I am, check out my site for mostly short seinen manga kinda like this, but not always.

http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.com

I had this downloaded and ready to read, I swear. Thanks Hox.

>>143907603
Thanks for the dump.

>>143907603
i didn't expect this feels, thanks for sharing Hox-senpai

>>143907603
Thanks Hox.

>>143907603
Thanks Hox.

>>143907647
>feels

>>143907603
I hoped to read something like a feudal japan Don Quixote sort of thing, it was actually better than that, thanks for posting the whole thing

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Thou art a true knight, original poster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow

>>143907603
Stupid question maybe, but what has this manga to do with Don Quixote? Haven't read the book so would I miss out on things?

Either way, thank you for all your hard work Hox, as always.

>>143907884
You don't need to know anything about the actual Don Quixote tale. It's a very loose modern-take on Don Quixote that happens to share a similar main character who's insane and believes himself to be a knight. The actual Don Quixote tale is quite different, as it's meant to be a parody of medieval chivalric romance.

But in a way, they also do share some social critique. Obviously, Cervantes did not criticize capitalist consumerist society like in this manga because that didn't exist in 17th century Castile, but he did critique societal aspects of his own time which he didn't like. Even the very character of Don Quixote, a man obsessed with being a knight, while being a parody of medieval chivalric romance, also draws inspiration from Castile's nobility-obsessed culture.

>>143907884
A Don Quixote is An impractical idealist bent on righting incorrigible wrongs.

>>143905438
Hasn't everyone? Isn't that the point?

>>143908043
One of the main problems with the Spain during its decline was that there were less and less people actually working, while the nobility simply engaged in rent-seeking behaviour that caused the Spanish to further stagnate. Now because Spain, due to its history of the re-conquista (fighting off Muslim spain) had given many of its citizens lesser nobility titles (ex. caballero, hidalgo). And these nobles were, by any economic measures, were much closer to the poor peasants, but because of the enormous cultural prestige that nobility carried in Spain and the fact that their status exempted from taxes unlike peasants, these poorer nobles preferred to identify themselves with the actually rich nobles and also failed to engage in productive economic behaviour.

In short, you had quite a large, visible class of poor people who also deluded themselves into the fact that they were "knights" and refused to see the reality behind their own socioeconomic status as well as the decline of their empire.

/history lesson.

>>143907603
This manga was a toilet paper roll. You're pulling for a little bit and you're not really noticing it shrinking, then suddenly it unravels all at once. I sort of wish it was longer and more elaborate. Fun nonetheless.

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>>143908153
Who knew 4chan could be educational. Thanks to the both of you.

>>143908153
As a side-note, the % of nobility in Castile (the core Spanish kingdom) was around 10% in this early modern period. This is ridiculously high compared to England, France, or Germany where it ranged between 1 and 5%.

Nobility % in Japan was actually similar to Castile, with estimates of 7~10% for the samurai class. Similarly, this also led to most samurai living very modest means, or basically being broke. Those who were too proud refused to work "base" jobs, while others swallowed their pride and worked just to make ends meet for their family.

>>143908311
Of course, Japan's economic history was a very different one compared to Spain's from the 1600s. Unlike in Spain, where you had a demographic decline combined with imperial overreach, low literacy not touched by the Anglo-Protestant passion for Bible reading, and no development of the manufacturing sector, Japan actually went through rapid population growth, increase in literacy, trade, and urbanization. So on the whole, the samurai were still economically better off than the Castillian hidalgo, but still it was really the Japanese merchants who were raking in all the money.

>>143908267
I was expecting it to go full meta at the end like the original Don Quixote.

>>143908267
Yeah, that's quite an appropriate though unexpected analogy. Never would've thought of it myself.

>>143908153
>less and less people actually working
This isn't any less true today. The entire working force is becoming a more elaborate Rube Goldberg machine every day. Mostly because machines do a lot of the work that people actually need to do. People a hundred years ago were theorizing the end of all work, but the reality is that people aren't spending any less time doing work, and are frankly getting less productive. There's more bullshit managerial jobs and jobs which produce nothing besides the wages to the employee. Technology has eliminated all the heavy lifting and now we're in the strange pickle of high unemployment and high vacancies (Spain coincidentally being one of the worst).

>>143908474
Yeah, there is a somewhat similar cycle happening today, with the elite in pretty much every country, whether 1st world or 3rd world, engaging in really corrupt practices that aren't really healthy for the economy, while most of the jobs traditionally reserved for the middle class simply being outsourced to poor countries.

But I'd argue it's a fundamentally different type of economic stagnation.

>>143908153

I always thought that one of the main reasons for the Spanish decline was their over reliance on foreign gold.
With their treasure galleons running all those trips, inflation probably spiraled out of control.

With prices soaring, these "knights" would've had to cut back on their standard of living to the level of the poor.

>>143908593
Probably quite true but the same beast in different clothing. In some ways I guess it's worse, because people are working in a non-working way. A way that's superseded, undercut or done better by a lot of technology. Allegedly a lot of people admit to doing worthless jobs, so worker's happiness goes down the crapper.

>>143908789
That was certainly one reason, and actually the simplistic reason offered in traditional historiography of the Spanish decline. But nowadays, historians would argue it's only one aspect, though a biggie, that fed into all sorts of negative feedback-loops.

Spain was hardly the only country affected by inflation as a result of New World's precious metals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution). But places like Englands and the Netherlands had a productive urban class, as well as much more fiscally sound expenses and not-retarded taxation system to deal with it.

If you want a good, easily approachable book on the Spanish golden age that covers reasons for its decline, read J.H. Elliot's Imperial Spain, 1469-1716.

>>143908985
Additionally, most of the gold and silver that arrived in Spain didn't really stay in its domestic economy. The vast majority went to creditors and merchants in foreign countries, as well as China since they were starved as fuck for silver, which their entire tax collection was based on after the single whip reform in the 16th century.