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Let’s put some japanese talk in this japanese club.
Page 38
この辺は破壊が少ないし人も住んでなさげだし荒らされてなさそうな家見付けたらね
This sentence got me a bit cross-eyed so I want to be sure I have it broken down correctly:
Basically all the first part is describing a type of 家, listing (with し) three characteristics of the house.
“If you find (this kind of house described in the sentence)…”
この辺は破壊が少ない
“In this area the destruction/damage is small”
人も住んでなさげだ
“Not giving the impression that even people live (there)”
荒らされてなさそうな
“Is not damaged/broken into”(?)
So something like “If you find a house in a area with little destruction, without people living in it, and not broken into, right?”
Since the guy is looking for “treasure” inside homes, the girl answers that he can only steal stuff in houses that fit this description. (And so he proposes to head further inside)
My head twisted off, so I cheated and stuck it into MT, which broke it down into the sections, but interpreted the し’s as separate sentence sections describing characteristics of the sentence topic この辺 this area, instead of separating 3 ways to describe 家 (the subject of the 3rd subclause)…
Thus:
この辺は As for this area:
(1) 破壊が少ないし
(2) 人も住んでなさげだし
(3) 荒らされてなさそうな家見付けたらね。
…(1) 破壊が少ないthere is little destructionしand,
…(2) 人も住んでなさげだし ; なさげ means "seemingly notない*; もis for emphasis, as in “not even” andしseemingly nobody even lives (in the area)
…(3) 見付けたらねIF you notice荒らされてなさそうな家a house that seems as though it has not been ransacked*… 荒らす (あらす to devastate; to break into; passive form) As for this area, there is little destruction, and seemingly nobody even living (here), if you notice a house that doesn’t seem as though it has been broken into…
Thanks for bringing that up because I was also baffled by the same line.
Week 2
This chapter grabbed me way more than the first one. Still no clue how they fit together though, it felt like a totally different manga. Obviously this is the 外の外 we heard about last week. I shouldn’t have read it right before bed because that freaky mutated bird thing might haunt my dreams.
Oh interesting - getting to see the outside world was cool and the brought a bit more action to contrast with the more contemplative first chapter. Still curious to see how those two halves link - perhaps the complex is the 天国 the two are searching for?
Those confrontation with the bandits was fun, though their intentions were a bit uncomfortable. But the two looking through the abandoned houses was my favourite thing in this chapter. Really enjoyed the moment where they found the corpses and decided it would be better to look elsewhere
Response to Sisthra
Shannon’s MT is more or less how I understood it
To give an attempt at an explanation
この辺は破壊が少ないし - “this area has little destruction”
人も住んでなさげだし - “and it seems like there’s no one living here”. Note なさげ is ない combine with 気 (read げ when used as a suffix like this). You could broadly think of it as similar to なさそう. You can refer to this bunpro article for more info げ (JLPT N2) | Bunpro
荒らされてなさそうな家見付けたらね - “so if you find a house that looks like it hasn’t been looted…”. This bit is omitting an implied ending of something along the lines of “let me know”
The しs are here to connect clauses and are being used to list reasons (as to why they should look in this area).
I also have some language discussion to add for more fun:
I was at a bit of a loss on this one at first, but I think I understand it now. If we look at the kanji without the readings it’s 俺達の命は弾丸以下だってよ which I believe is something like “Our lives aren’t worth a bullet”. But it uses different readings たま as in 魂 and たま as in 玉 so that “lives” and “bullet” are the same
Enjoyed this chapter a lot, the temptation to keep reading on is strong but I will refrain as it’s nice to have something to look forward to at the weekends!
Reading this a few years after watching the anime is reminding me why I enjoyed it so much in the first place. I absolutely love the settings, and just the general mystery vibe of the whole thing.
(btw! If anyone has any recommendations for good dystopian type manga, similar to this or No.6, then please let me know
I also had to read that sentence a few times before I could wrap my head around it.
I think she’s just explaining her thought process as to why it’s worth investigating this particular neighborhood. The houses look like they haven’t been looted yet.
As far as I can tell you parsed the sentence correctly, so I’m not sure what confused you?
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While we’re discussing grammar, there’s one sentence that puzzled me, when she uses the toilet:
By the way I have no idea if it’s significant but looking at the calendar on the wall (and assuming that the leftmost day of the week is Sunday since that’s what Japanese people do I think) then we can see that on the year of the apocalypse August 4 was a Sunday. Assuming that it’s in the near future from when this manga was released (2018) then it could be 2019, 2024 or 2030.
