Little Cooking Saint weird chapter jumps, lol, wut author-san?
Alright, a little explanation from Gumihou re this special announcement page.
So.
I use the webnovel to translate, and sometimes the author changes their minds midway through their writing… If you had read the earlier chapters, you might have encountered a very short, barely A4 size page worth of content. I expect that the author must have deleted a whole bunch of stuff there because after that the there was a weird name typo and there was a sudden jump in character development.
Like, wut?
Whatever, let’s get on with the translation. Then, I encountered this beauty below. And yes, the chapters went from 44, 45 to 33??
I would have taken the much simpler step of cutting away the Matsutake Meatroll Arc if it were not for 1 very crucial thing. Character Development. I am very, very sensitive to Plot and Character Development. Part of the reason why I hated Here Comes the Lady Chef, ugh!
It would be spoiler-y for me to explain why stuff was deleted from the Matsutake Meatroll Arc, but I promise to explain if anyone is interested when we reach the Sashimi Arc, because the repercussions from the MM Arc reached all the way to the S Arc.
Original | Adjusted | Details | ||
39 | Matsutake Meatroll (1) | 37.1 | Matsutake Meatroll (a) | Posted |
40 | Matsutake Meatroll (2) | 37.2 | Matsutake Meatroll (b) | Reposted – Adjusted for plot |
41 | Matsutake Meatroll (3) | (3) too short after adjustment, absorbed into the next chapter | ||
42 | Matsutake Meatroll (4) | 37.4 | Matsutake Meatroll (c) | |
43 | Matsutake Meatroll (5) | 37.5 | Matsutake Meatroll (d) | Some details from (e) went into (d) and vice-versa |
44 | Matsutake Meatroll (6) | 37.6 | Matsutake Meatroll (e) | |
Things deleted & Adjusted for Plot – A lot | ||||
45 | Vermillion Meat (1) | 38.1 | Vermillion Meat (a) | Yes, it went from (1) to (3) |
33 | Vermillion Meat (3) | 38.2 | Vermillion Meat (b) | |
34 | Vermillion Meat (4) | 38.3 | Vermillion Meat (c) | |
35 | Vermillion Meat (5) | 38.4 | Vermillion Meat (d) | |
Things deleted or Adjusted – None, unless you count sentence adjustments | ||||
36 | Sashimi (1) | 39.1 | Sashimi (a) | Just a bit more… |
37 | Sashimi (2) | 39.2 | Sashimi (b) | |
38 | Sashimi (3) | 39.3 | Sashimi (c) | |
39 | Sashimi (4) | 39.4 | Sashimi (d) | |
40 | Sashimi (5) | 40 | Sashimi (e) | We are now back to normal! |
41 | Sashimi (6) | 41 | Sashimi (f) | |
42 | Sashimi (7) | 42 | Sashimi (g) | |
43 | Sashimi (8) | 43 | Sashimi (h) | |
44 | Sashimi (9) | 44 | Sashimi (i) | |
45 | Sashimi (10) | 45 | Sashimi (j) | |
46 | Sashimi (11) | 46 | Sashimi (k) | |
47 | Sashimi (12) | 47 | Sashimi (l) | |
48 | Sashimi (13) | 48 | Sashimi (m) | |
49 | Sashimi (14) | 49 | Sashimi (n) | |
50 | Sashimi (15) | 50 | Sashimi (o) |
By the way, among the stuff deleted, arranged in no particular order or sequence, were as listed:
(Not really) spoiler alert!
- Encounter with Male Character
- Received bad news from Male Character – Lao Er died, Xiao Qi was kidnapped?!!
- A high-status character was introduced
- A special good draw undue interest to our MC
- A Very Important Society
These were all deleted, by the way, lol. Oh, the Society remained, but I demoted it from Very Important to Important-ish.
It pains me as a writer to see the potential of a novel cut short, whenever possible, I like to fix it so that the message within the novel shines the brightest. As readers of The Feast knows, I often rearrange sentence structures, split dialogues or even add details in places where I think is appropriate.
Whenever I add stuff, it’s always indicated with a footnote, as I did in Chapter 205 of The Feast.
I mean, the potential is just there! How could I just let it go?!
I’m not Elsa, lol!
Thus ends the explanation for the weird chapter adjustment, lolz!