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I’m actually so upset at this translator

I mourn the loss of the original story’s poetics. Ugh this could’ve been so good.

This reads as though someone vaguely watched a manga and tried to write it down from memory. Why would they not choose a Japanese translator to keep the poetic language? It reads so stilted and the cultural nuances are poorly represented.

This is so painfully reading as a translation