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One word, last name.
There is no first or last name with the single character 「院」.
There are compound last names with 「院」 (清条院、四十九院)But I have never seen it in a first name.
usually when 「院」 is seen in a last name, it indicates they are of a "higher class"...
PLEASE post a copy of the original manga.
Some of them need to be in context to be correctly translated.
The ones I didnt translate, look at the poster before me.
我が必要とする間はせいぜい生き永らえておれ!!
Stay alive as long as [you] need me!
そういえば召喚者が死んだから自己崩壊した
Which reminds me the Summoner died so...
>具体的には教師の雑用係だな。。。
Your main job is to be the gofers for the teachers.
>力仕事とかそういった類の雑用をこなすのが観察処分者だ
The duty of the "Disposable Observationist" is to perform jobs like heavy labor.
>いいか
Understand this.
>明久の召還獣は唯一物に触れることができるんだ。。。
Akihisa's Summoned monster is the only that can...
口べらし
What the others have wrote before me is correct.
It means to reduce mouths to feed. In the past it usually only applies to girls. When a girl reaches 7 or 8, (poor rural farming communities) family would send them off to who knows what.
Nowadays, it seems to be applied more to older...
Re: Looking for the right Kanji character(s).
自家改善 makes no sense unless your talking home improvement.
Some similar phrases to to [自己の向上]
自己を高める(jiko-wo-takameru)
自分を磨く(jibun-wo-migaku)
自己研鑽(Jiko-kensan)
「まもっち」is a slang for 「守る(まもる)」
So I believe it means;
休みを守ってくれてありがとう。
Thank you for keeping things in order while I was gone.
Without reading the original source, I cant say for sure though.
This song is original.
Most Torioi uta (Bird chasing songs) are not depressing so to speak.
Torioi uta is originally a song sung in the new years in villages as sort of an enchantment to prevent the birds from messing up the crops. These songs are unique to the village. So it may be a song...