Kakuzō Akutagawa’s Reviews > 阿修羅ガール > Status Update

Aaaand, done.
No big changes for kick-start my heart.

I had fun during my re-read, and all the changes between the Japanese and English were quite interesting to read.

It's a nice book.
The English translation is still great, and really, most of the changes are completely understandable. (Except for translating sanmon as "the gate" that "smoke soil or food" thing, and a name that was mistranslated.)

Finished "round-and-round devil" pretty crazy to see all the cut/censored content on the English translation.

The vibe is way more disturbing in the Japanese version, like holy shit the change is quite a lot.

The amount of cut content of this chapter on the English translation is crazy.

Holy shit, a lot of this chapter was censored, like, maybe 3 entire pages missing on the English translation. SO FAR.

Shit, kinda understandable, this shit is crazy disgusting.

Okay, first page of "round-and-round devil".

A reference to "Lupin the third" was completely removed in the eng translation. (Aka an entire paragraph just removed entirely).

And in the Japanese the convenience store is a "Family Mart" instead of "7-eleven".

Finished reading "the forest."
Not a single change between this and the translation besides formatting and the dialogue being in quotation marks in the English ver.

Also, this being a reread made me realize how amazing the forest is, and how much it connects to the next chapter. Like bruh, it's all connected. So cool.

Still at the start of "the forest" a big difference so far is that in the Japanese all dialogue is indirect. Aka, no quotation marks whenever a character is speaking.

The cliff was better than I remember, i really didn't like it that much on my first read.