ロジカとラッカセイ ・ Rojica and Rakkasei 🥜 Week 6

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Week 6 June 10 2023
Pages 91-118
Chapter 5
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Home Thread ロジカとラッカセイ ・ Rojica and Rakkasei

We’re reading volume 1 of this manga as part of the Beginner Book Club.

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Laughed way too hard at かうふぁーむ and かうべる

This chapter kinda reminded me of that cow adventure time episode for obvious reasons. That ending tho.

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Page 93

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Not sure if this is read 本日 休業 or 日業 本休? :sweat_smile: While typing it I realize that only the first one makes sense, but it threw me off a bit while reading, also because 本日 is not a familiar word for me, unlike 日本

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Page 93

The characters are also close vertically, while there is a much bigger gap horizontally, so yeah, it’s pretty confusing. I guess the farm name being left-to-right might be a good indicator though.

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That ending… I got more questions than have been answered up until now this chapter.
To name a few: why did the cow follow them? What kind of “thing” is かうべる? What kind of switch was Isaac looking for?
But most importantly: Why do most animals in this world have a human-like appearance (e.g. standing on two legs), but the stories about the “human ancient time” make believe that things were normal back then?

I don’t expect an answer since I suppose it will be answered at some point. Just cannot wait for it to be answered :slight_smile:

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かうふぁーむ = Cow farm?
かうべる=Cow bell? Because (s)he puts a basket on the head that looks like a bell?

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Pg. 97

Yes, Cow Farm. As far as Cowbell goes, that’s the name, but a cowbell is also just a normal thing for free-roaming livestock to help track them down. Or well, it was in the days before tagging and such became widespread. I imagine it still sees some use, but none of my neighbors back where I grew up used cowbells anymore last time I went back to visit.

Nowadays, cowbell has a bit more of an association with SNL. :joy:

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I think it is an actual bell (not a basket), like one of those traditional Swiss cow bells. It’s also constantly making a loud カラーん noise :smile:

All those panels with the cow just standing there were great :joy:

Edit: Oh, and apparently シチュウ refers to a stew with a creamy sauce? Image search

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Me looking back to this panel after the end of the chapter :skull_and_crossbones: yikes.

But yeah, feeling the same as @marciska , so many unanswered questions… really curious why the cow was following them (I wonder if it will ever be brought up again - as for Isaac, I can imagine we will see him again though)

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page 97

Struggling with this sentence a bit, I can’t quite figure out what it means. Can somebody break it down for me?
にこ牧と同じくらいいい牛だ

I hope we will get some more answers and not only dark endings :smiley: (also referring to the earlier chapter with the husband) I really like Rojika and Rakkasei and their interactions, but I wish they’d be a bit more curious and question more things haha.

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page 97

I read it as:
にこ牧 = name of other farm (see p. 93) - shortened like the note says - which is a great touch because adding the note just adds more text than was saved :joy: - “the smiling pasture” or something like that
と同じ = same as
くらい = approximately
いい牛だ = it’s a good cow

So loosely translated something like “he seems a good cow like the cows at nikoniko”

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Page 97

Aahh thank you, I didn’t realize it’s the name of the other farm!

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No problem, I thought that might have been it :slightly_smiling_face:

I found this chapter to be quite heavy on the abbreviations and slurred speech, so I also found it quite tricky in places.

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Spoilers

Ahahaha honestly that ending made me laugh XD pretty dark but I admit I enjoy dark humour lol.

Though these past 2 chapters made me wonder about some of the lore behind the world, what kind of future they’re living in and the events that led up to it.

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Everything about this chapter gave me the creeps :grimacing:. I feel like we’re going to revisit this story in the future and the reveal is going to be super fucked up with more background information.

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I was pretty surprised by what the cows looked like, but I thought they were really cute in a doofy sort of way. And I thought cow 2556 was spooky but cute too!

So the ending made me feel so sad. It was probably cow 2556, right? :sob: And poor Rakkasei doesn’t even know…

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The eyes in this panel cracked me up

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Time for our longest part in one week yet - after that, it’ll all be a walk in the park!

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