How many chapters are untranslated?

I was expecting this to be kind of insidious with the editor just wanting one of them and basically working to break them up, but thisbwas a cute and uplifting chapter!

I like how frank the editor is with them. As for Shimizu's writing not being on the same level as Ren's art, I am fully expecting the situation to reverse before long. When you are not yet great at something but have a mentor, it usually is pretty clear how to improve, and if you keep going, you'll eventually get good. But when you are a natural talent like Ren, how do you improve? Where do you need to go? A regular mentor will not be able to answer that kind of question, so many talented folks just hit a wall in their craft and slide right back into depression...

Cute chapter. Glad to see something uplifting in the midst of all the (well-written) depression.

Ugh, extroverts...

But they did have a great time after all.

And a promising meeting with their editor as well. ^_^

I apologize in advance for (possibly) contributing to a debate that has stopped some time ago, but I have something to say.

Then they could discuss it, they don't need someone jumping in to defend them, they can do it themselves.

In theory, this argument is good. The practical problem is, many work that feature gender/sexual minority characters are just satisfied with playing it vague and never make the said character come out in dialogue or monologue, not even thinking to themselves "oh so that's why. I like girls / I'm not a boy as they say I am / etc". So, how should readers discuss this kind of characters? Should they treat them as [some gender/sexual minority]? Say, the one character that behaves like transgender in every aspect (even suffered from someone outing them) except they didn't proclaim it themselves?

And then we have societal and cultural differences. For example, I heard that in Japan, the people that's socially accepted as transgender (the ones that would be met with "ah okay you're indeed trans" instead of "no you haven't done xxx you can't be") are those that have completed bottom surgery. So characters that have not met the additional bars in their societal context (but otherwise met the definition of LGBT+ in western culture) would be even less likely to come out to people/themselves. What now?

And then we have societal and cultural differences. For example, I heard that in Japan, the people that's socially accepted as transgender (the ones that would be met with "ah okay you're indeed trans" instead of "no you haven't done xxx you can't be") are those that have completed bottom surgery.

That's because in Japan you can only legally change your gender if you have bottom surgery and get sterilized. The goverment is deeply conservative and backwards.

ninryu posted:

And then we have societal and cultural differences. For example, I heard that in Japan, the people that's socially accepted as transgender (the ones that would be met with "ah okay you're indeed trans" instead of "no you haven't done xxx you can't be") are those that have completed bottom surgery.

That's because in Japan you can only legally change your gender if you have bottom surgery and get sterilized. The goverment is deeply conservative and backwards.

Not really the case anymore https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/29/japan-court-drops-key-legal-hurdle-for-transgender-people