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Julious's Young Memories Pt. 2 translation added
As noted below, but there were so many announcements since the second part of the manga itself was revealed, and such a short window between the translation posting and the manga pulldown (sorry), that I thought a double post was worth it. The manga itself will be gone at June 5th 10:00 a.m. Japan time (which most likely is sometime June 4th in your neck of the woods).
(Oh, and the Part One translation is here, of course.)
I see they gave up more or less completely on Julious speaking even remotely like an actual five-year-old, even a genius one, in this installment. I do like, though, that they don't resort to casting Julious as wrong wrong wrong but instead him have him find the first way actually to use his powers, or at least his Sacrea "temperament" or however you want to put it, as the resolution. I also liked how, as Julious initially storms away, they have the montage underlining how Julious is doing his best to fulfill the expectations put on him (and in fact is doing so), but no one treats him as anything but a, well, freak for doing so - the various characters throughout the story (the maid, the tutor, the parent in the woods, Sion, Clavis) each in their own way react to him as something horrible & wrong. That's actually quite fascinating, and that's obviously Julious's big source of frustration in his not-breakdown - and the manga quite doesn't overplay it but instead lets it speak for itself quite well. It's also nice how Julious's response to this internal tension, and his solution to the Clavis issue, is not to continue (not entirely, at least) to embody expectations impressed upon him by others, but to figure out his own way of embodying his Sacrea, and to set an example for others instead of merely following outside dictates. He hasn't worked through this perfectly, of course - he still has to develop some in the games, of course, and he's still five. "If I am not perfect, my life has no value" is an absolutely chilling line. But it's a really good bit of subtle character conflict & development, and I'm more impressed with it the more I look at it.
Clavis, as both a five-year-old and in the brief glimpse we get of him as an adult, seems a bit...dopey. I don't expect much out of a five-year-old, but it's a bit of a surprise in his adult self. I do have to wonder if his sarcastic edge will be present in Retour - Hideyuki Tanaka doesn't really have that in his performance, so maybe it was written out for the reboot.
Yes, Clavis does call his Mom "Maman." The ur-Meursault.
(Oh, and the Part One translation is here, of course.)
I see they gave up more or less completely on Julious speaking even remotely like an actual five-year-old, even a genius one, in this installment. I do like, though, that they don't resort to casting Julious as wrong wrong wrong but instead him have him find the first way actually to use his powers, or at least his Sacrea "temperament" or however you want to put it, as the resolution. I also liked how, as Julious initially storms away, they have the montage underlining how Julious is doing his best to fulfill the expectations put on him (and in fact is doing so), but no one treats him as anything but a, well, freak for doing so - the various characters throughout the story (the maid, the tutor, the parent in the woods, Sion, Clavis) each in their own way react to him as something horrible & wrong. That's actually quite fascinating, and that's obviously Julious's big source of frustration in his not-breakdown - and the manga quite doesn't overplay it but instead lets it speak for itself quite well. It's also nice how Julious's response to this internal tension, and his solution to the Clavis issue, is not to continue (not entirely, at least) to embody expectations impressed upon him by others, but to figure out his own way of embodying his Sacrea, and to set an example for others instead of merely following outside dictates. He hasn't worked through this perfectly, of course - he still has to develop some in the games, of course, and he's still five. "If I am not perfect, my life has no value" is an absolutely chilling line. But it's a really good bit of subtle character conflict & development, and I'm more impressed with it the more I look at it.
Clavis, as both a five-year-old and in the brief glimpse we get of him as an adult, seems a bit...dopey. I don't expect much out of a five-year-old, but it's a bit of a surprise in his adult self. I do have to wonder if his sarcastic edge will be present in Retour - Hideyuki Tanaka doesn't really have that in his performance, so maybe it was written out for the reboot.
Yes, Clavis does call his Mom "Maman." The ur-Meursault.