why isn't more of Nekojiru's manga translated
cattes
red pilled alt right cattes
These remind me of that John K comic where Jimmy is a turtle food collector and ll the insects ask him to spare their pathetic lives
The tone of the works and the fact that the mangaka committed suicide is probably related to each other.
>>144086257
I wonder what the Youtube autists who chimped out over Ren Seeks Help's animal abuse would think of this manga
Skipping to a really funny chapter
>>144086297
I expected the tone to be the same as the OVA but it's radically different
OVA = weird surreal art film thing
Manga = no-fucks-given dark comedy
It is pretty disturbing. I can understand if people don't like translating it.
Recently bought Nekojiru Manjuu. Might consider scanning if it's not already available.
>>144086391
I think it's fucking hilarious but maybe the fact that I'm as brokebrained as the author herself probably helps
>>144086484
I don't personally have a problem but I can see why people wouldn't like translating it.
>>144086443
I googled and some fat tumblr user said they would scanlate it http://translatingnekojiru.tumblr.com/ but the post is over a year old so it's not gonna happen
So... do it.
>>144086582
Nice. Haven't gone through it but if it's too fragile I'll probably have to break in first. Also, I can't translate.
Volume 2 is translated, awaiting editing.
>>144086691
Maybe you should dig a bit for a bit to see if the raw is anywhere, I fucking suck at finding raws
>>144086744
What group?
The author must've had a pretty shitty childhood.
storytiming is too much trouble so I'm gonna link this http://translatingnekojiru.tumblr.com/post/126945068798/heres-nekojiru-udon-volume-2-chapter-13-again#notes
>>144087241
I bet she enjoyed abusing animals as much as Shotaro Ishinomori
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.08_[2016.07.12_17.29.14].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/d4nWs55.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.08_[2016.07.12_17.29.14].jpg")
the TV show is neat but I wish it wasn't so low budget
a TV series with the kind of art & animation the OVA had would be insane
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.10_[2016.07.12_17.29.18].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5deJNVc.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.10_[2016.07.12_17.29.18].jpg")
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.12_[2016.07.12_17.29.21].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KkMWx7z.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.12_[2016.07.12_17.29.21].jpg")
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.13_[2016.07.12_17.29.23].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/v0AnEoR.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.13_[2016.07.12_17.29.23].jpg")
>>144087201
>>144087240
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>>144087317
>>144087367
>>144087406
>>144087670
You'd be wrong.
>>144086768
So, you are not the same anon who posted a lot of Nekojirou raws few years ago? I don't know if desustorage kept all the old threads.
>>144086824
Habanero
>>144086372
>watched the cat soup OVA
>not the Nekojiru short anime
Hmm
>>144087964
She did treat her cat pretty badly.
>>144088368
You can easily find raws by googleing ねこぢる rar.
>>144087964
Literally whipped her cat into obedience, you dumb fuck.
>>144088726
I don't recall reading that. Do you have a source?
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_07-09[XviD_AC3][82C258E1].avi_snapshot_01.12_[2016.07.12_17.45.48].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qDUskQx.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_07-09[XviD_AC3][82C258E1].avi_snapshot_01.12_[2016.07.12_17.45.48].jpg")
>>144088726
How so?
>>144088826
>>144088890
>Nekojiru had a cat. Her way of training her cat was a bit hard to stomach. When he did something he wasn't supposed to do, she lashed him with a whip. She sometimes used an amount of force with her cat that was clearly animal abuse. As a result, the cat didn't listen to Yamano or I, but never failed to follow Nekojiru's instructions.
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/yoshiaki_yoshinaga_on_nekojiru
>>144088948
Thanks. Forgot all about that.
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.41_[2016.07.12_17.26.25].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/j1Bd74B.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_04-06[XviD_AC3][0DB35714].avi_snapshot_03.41_[2016.07.12_17.26.25].jpg")
>>144088368
Nope, I only got into this today.
>>144088568
I watched it when I was 14 and just getting into anime, I didn't know to look this up back then. But I may have liked the TV anime more back then.
>>144089039
That fucking episode
Actually, like half the fucking episodes
But that one in particular
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_07-09[XviD_AC3][82C258E1].avi_snapshot_03.17_[2016.07.12_23.07.43].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wVWIAn8.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_07-09[XviD_AC3][82C258E1].avi_snapshot_03.17_[2016.07.12_23.07.43].jpg")
>>144088948
>Once we were eating with a friend at a sushi bar that we frequented because we often came up with interesting ideas there. As we sat quietly eating, suddenly Nekojiru blurted out, "This roe is disgusting. I bet it's fake!"
>The noisy restaurant went dead silent. The cook stood rooted to the spot in front of us, knife hovering in the air in mid-chop. Taken aback and uncertain what to do, I froze up.
>Once the initial shock had worn off, the cook was able to respond, "I can assure you it's real..."
>To try to save the situation, I gave it a good laugh to try to pass it off as a joke.
>Nekojiru was always honest - sometimes to the point of rudeness.
>Once she called up the editor of a major magazine in the middle of the night to make the following request: "I want a different liaison."
>"Why?" the editor asked.
>"Because he's fat."
Hahahaha holy fuck I figured Nyako was a self-insert but not THAT much of a self insert. She really was just as much of a sociopath.
>>144089642
>To be continued. Translated from Jisatsu Sarechatta Boku 自殺されちゃった僕 by Yoshinaga Yoshiaki 吉永嘉明 (11/25/2004, Asuka Shinsha), a book describing in simple, direct words three of the author's acquaintances who commited suicide within the last seven years: Nekojiru, Masaaki Aoyama, and his wife.
Now I want that book.
>>144086243
I love stuff like this, takes me back to being a kid doing cruel things to insects and pretending they have feelings.
Translators dont want to die of mental issues.
holy shit, this chick is actually crazy
>When my wife committed suicide six years later in the fall of 2003, I found a pillar of support in another person who had lost his wife to suicide: Yamano. He understood my feelings of instability at the time. As I was teetering on the edge of mental exhaustion, he pushed me in the right direction.
Three women committed suicide... I don't know why this is so unsettling.
>>144089642
To me, it seems a little strange because I get the sense that the black humour in Nekojiru's manga relies on the creator being self-aware of its weird creepiness and poking fun, but these anecdotes makes it seem like she's the type of person to be oblivious of it all. I honestly wonder if she found the jokes in her manga funny for the same reason I find it funny.
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_02.29_[2016.07.12_23.35.36].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GOz5Wyq.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_02.29_[2016.07.12_23.35.36].jpg")
>>144090650
As a sadbrained sociopath I can confirm that it's very possible to be self-aware that you're acting horrible and laugh at yourself but still find yourself unable to control it. It's pretty obvious the cats are supposed to be awful and that's where the comedy comes from; she was probably self-hating about her own behavior but knew how to harness comedy out of it.
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_02.46_[2016.07.12_23.44.11].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XOetPz5.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_02.46_[2016.07.12_23.44.11].jpg")
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>>144090650
I mean, it's a dark comedy series about the characters doing messed up things; she wouldn't have dedicated chapters to the cats acting rude and shitty if she thought acting rude and shitty was totally normal every day behavior. She likely realized she was abnormal.
>>144090957
>I started to get dizzy and thought, "It would be better if I could just spend my whole life in isolation."
>>144091033
also lol
>>144091079
Kek.
These translation are so sad.
>How could you have done something like that to yourself when you could be so caring about others?
>I ask Nekojiru and I ask my wife.
>How could you leave behind the people you cared for?
Part of me doesn't want to accept the selfishness of their act.
>>144091079
did she make this shit up or do dogs actually go around with dead children's body parts in their mouths in India
>>144091168
Just take a look at the Ganges. Is a shithole.
>>144091168
I'm surprised you haven't seen that one infamous gif with the pigs going around fighting over a dead fetus. It gets posted every now and then on 4chan. Rural India is pretty shocking by first world standards.
Video I'm talking about: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shock-pigs-caught-camera-fighting-5265559
>>144091168
Don't they throw all the dead bodies in the river? Dogs could easily pick something up.
![[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_01.55_[2016.07.13_00.01.24].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nZmVICq.jpg "[JR&st-LAW]Nekojiru_Gekijou_01-03[XviD_AC3][9764774A].avi_snapshot_01.55_[2016.07.13_00.01.24].jpg")
>>144091292
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=855_1425380286 this does look like something out of a Nekojiru story
lol
>>144089642
apparently she was also really into aphex twin
>>144092113
yep
http://enjoynekojiru.tumblr.com/ here's the source by the way
I'm gonna go to sleep and stop bumping this thread so it'll probably die soon, but check out Nekojiru's work since it's good shit
>>144091949
Holy crap, author really is a psychopath.
This shit is really fascinating, thanks OP.
Yeesh
>>144092550
I'll have to rewatch the OVA tomorrow 10 years later; I'll probably like it more now as some grand tribute to Nekojiru's life work than as a weird contextless Yuasa cartoon. I don't recall taking away much from it as an early teen beyond "yeah this is pretty weird and well animated, moving on" (later that year I saw Mind Game and liked it much more) but now that I know the backstory & what they were really trying to get across through it, it seems more interesting.
(why the fuck am I not asleep yet)
>>144093108
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/6876/animated-background_animation-cat_soup-yuichiro_su and as charming as the manga looks, it's interesting to see it executed with so much technical drawing & animation skill (even ex-Gainax/LWA man Yoshinori worked on this). It makes me wish ghosts or the afterlife existed just so she could have seen her work animated so fucking well with such high production values.
>>144093108
If I recall, the husband commissioned the OVA as a way to cope with her death.
>>144093283
Seriously?
>>144093482
It's an expanded adaptation of one Nekojiru's early stories about death's journey.
![cat_soup[h264.ac3][niizk].mkv_snapshot_15.19_[2016.07.13_01.09.42].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xhTyGOs.jpg "cat_soup[h264.ac3][niizk].mkv_snapshot_15.19_[2016.07.13_01.09.42].jpg")
>>144093532
Yeah the story where she loses half her soul. In the original her brother just finds the other half of her soul in a flower (the guy earlier said he'll "reincarnate it as a plant or something"). Nyako stopped being retarded and it was all ok.
Meanwhile in the OVA they go through an epic journey of life and death, And it makes sense since Nyako pretty much IS Nekojiru, and thus Nyako's soul is Nekojiru's soul.
Honestly Nyako became one of my favorite anime/manga characters and possibly my favorite self-insert right this moment. The way she acknowledged her insanity and harnessed it into into dark, surreal comedy that's fucking hysterical to others in a similar mental state... this type of shit is what truly great, honest manga is made of.
Yeah she quickly became one of my favorite figures in the industry. A totally crazy person but crazy in a fun way (when you're not the target at least) and really, really good at comedic delivery. No dumb Japanese redundancy, just dry humor that lets the craziness speak for itself.
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