#hyakujitsu no bara

[babyrubysoho-maiden]

Scanlation: Hyakujitsu no Bara Ch39(14)

My English scanlation of Hyakujitsu no Bara: Maiden Rose (new chapter 14, ihr HertZ September 2024).

In this chapter we continue the extended version of Rosa Alba, and find out more about Klaus’ traumatic final flight.

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For all my MR scanlations, see the master post at the top of the page. Enjoy! :)

[grumfield]

BARK LIKE YOU WANT IT!!! BARK LIKE YOU WANT IT, BABY!!!

[hyugakojiro]

[chongjuanjuan]

画了可爱的taki宝宝🥺❤️

[hatsumishinogu]

Hyakujitsu no Bara Maiden Rose IV

[venusdaze]

Drawing of this dog lolol

[myonlyrose]

It looks like Maiden Rose IV will be released in September!

[books-movies-anime-shows-games]

Cover: Happy times at Luckenwalde ❤️ Inside: Angsty times at Luckenwalde 😭 It's a new volume of Maiden Rose! 😍 bonus, the moment Klaus fell in love with Taki!!

[xiaolaoshu300]

Maiden Rose🥀

放一下之前買的1到3冊

好期待第4冊，太棒了

[bhobbiel]

I have been been reading the Maiden Rose Final Chapters fan fiction (very good read)

(i have not finished please don't spoil)

But it makes me want a true cannon MR conclusion/ story moving forward even more :((

I am really liking the new chapters of the past though

[babyrubysoho-maiden]

Eep! New tweet from sensei😍

This is a WIP for the cover of a special booklet!

[envy-and-pride]

Maiden Rose & Berserk - The Authors who just Couldn't Do It

I've been complaining ever since Inariya Fusanosuke went out of hiatus a couple years ago that her story is stagnating too much.

Before her hiatus the story was progressing at its own back and forth, "toying with it" pace. The whole point of the story was to get Taki to a place where he could move past his learned social inhibitions and enjoy his sex life and relationship with Klaus, someone who gives exactly 0 shit about the superbly and uselessly complex social expectations of Japan Taki's homeland.

So there's a lot of back and forth, we see first how Taki and Klaus even become entangled in the first place, we see them explore, we see Taki getting vaguely tempted and just indulging and discovering, then it's return to the homeland "back to being inhibited" mode, and we see Taki hiding big time and Klaus banging at the door trying to get him out.

This part of the story is pretty much the author's consciousness going around and toying with the idea of coming out, getting close to the idea, refusing (and thus being repelled away), and then getting back to the idea anyway. That's why she has Klaus always come back to Taki anyway.

But then, that's not the only story with the same back and forth "I just can't fucking commit" kind of dynamic. Berserk had the exact same problem, and that problem was so damn bad, the entire story got completely discontinued, until finally the author simply died.

In my opinion, Berserk was about a pretty similar process as in Maiden Rose: opening up, and transcending something that's holding you down. For Taki/the author, that's social sexual inhibitions. For Guts/Kentaro Miura, that was also his own sex issues and being able to open up and connect to someone from that level.

Berserk goes just a little farther than Maiden Rose, in that Kentaro Miura went and stared down what he was supposed to do right in the face.

In chapter 46 to 47, we have Guts enjoying a nice little flashback and nervous breakdown of his own traumas.

But I couldn't help but sense that there was a pulling away on his end when he did, specifically exactly at the moment Guts moved away from Casca after he ended up strangling her.

Guts had that one job of connecting to his chosen love interest, the female character created almost literally for that purpose, but when the time came for it, I feel like he just, backed away. Like he was just repelled away from the issue and he just ultimately couldn't do it.

Straight after that the entire story basically goes to shit and Casca is sidelined in the most disgusting, and my god unrealistic way possible, and she remains sidelined up until this day. With the author being dead, it's unlikely anything else will come out of it.

At the end of the day, these are and were two authors trying to approach seriously crippling and traumatic stuff. I'd be willing to bet the author of Maiden Rose went through some form of sexual trauma, and I'm fairly almost 100% sure Kentaro Miura also went through something even more straightforward. It doesn't surprise me that the author with the heaviest load died with the story unfinished, and that he couldn't approach the subject anymore after attempting it the first time.

That being said, it's seriously fucking frustrating from a story-telling and narrative point of view. Watching Casca getting grossly sidelined and treated the way she was all of the sake of not approaching the topic again I felt was disgusting. And waiting around while Inariya Fusanosuke keeps using violence to draw out her own desires is making me want to ask "well, I get it, but when will you be getting to it, then? When will you finally get to the point?"

Although, regarding Maiden Rose, with the latest chapter's showdown between Klaus and Suguri where Suguri asks Klaus to take Taki away if he ever was to lose himself in all of the politicking, I'm having hope for the story to finally be going somewhere—it seems even the author can sniff herself making a bad decision she doesn't want make, and already promising herself to take her self-insert away if it'd ever get to that.

While I completely get their inability to approach the very subject they created their story for: healing, I just also seriously wish they'd come to terms with what they need to face, and would finally put the matter to rest once and for all.

[taeminbogoshipda]

God I haven’t been on Tumblr in forever. I only logged in for MR updates lol

[chongjuanjuan]

pinch kitty taki🥺

[ichiharas-familiar]

[myonlyrose]

YAY!!! New Maiden Rose chapter in the May issue of Ihr Hertz (released in March 31) 🎉🎉🎉