^Whoa slow down there! You might break your keyboard typing up all those words when it's not used to it! :P

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^And one word per comment at that :P

Hey, hey, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just repeating what I read lol. But I agree, you would think any way to bring more notice to the novel would be a good thing.

My bad. I promise my rant wasn't directed at you at all. I had to post it somewhere because I didn't want to be rude by showing up in someone else's server and immediately bitching at them.

I basically showed up and asked the same questions LOL Confused me as much as it confuses you.

Anyway, part 79 is on its way... tomorrow, heh.

Yeah but I imagine you were more diplomatic about it haha. I wouldn't be out to understand them or change hearts and minds with my bitching as much as I'd be trying my best to tear their views to shreds.

Well I suppose we'll live without an update for now. ;)
I'm having a lot of luck in Star Rail with my pulls so I've got that to occupy me in the meantime.

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Alright I'll do it:

Bocchi: "Kita...I really want to k-k-k..."
Kita: "Kiss me? Better come closer then!"

Sorawo wondering why Toriko is staring at her and then having a page-long internal monologue about Toriko's beauty will never not be funny to me.

Sorawo is a special kind of dense and we love her for it!

Hey, hey, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just repeating what I read lol. But I agree, you would think any way to bring more notice to the novel would be a good thing.

My bad. I promise my rant wasn't directed at you at all. I had to post it somewhere because I didn't want to be rude by showing up in someone else's server and immediately bitching at them.

Toriko isn't even trying to be subtle!

Ah I loved this chapter in the LN and this is great in the manga too!

Haha that made me giggle.

When there's no official translations available for something, unofficial ones are only a good thing. These translations bring eyeballs to a work from people who would otherwise not care about it. Some even buy merch that they'd otherwise have no interest in, putting money into the author's pocket that they wouldn't otherwise have.

It also shows there is a demand in a foreign language for a work, potentially increasing the likelihood that it could be officially licensed in that language.

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It just seems that the admin is being overly cautious of not wanting to step on the author's toes or run into any copyright problems.

What copyright problems could possibly arise for a discord server mentioning translations about a freely available web novel?
And what toes of the author are being stepped on?
"Oh no! I only want Japanese reading my freely available web novel! How dare those filthy gaijins translate it so others can enjoy it!"
Ha...fat chance!

It's hypocritical. Pretending to care about unofficial translations when just about everyone on there is reading a translation of some form, whether it's an automated translation via google translate or ChatGPT or an actual human TL.

I've never seen that attitude taken by anyone that follows a WN...because we all realize we're reading translations (except for a select few Japanese fluent).

The more I think about it the more annoyed I get. I won't be going there. Tis a silly place.

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Makes sense. I'm pretty sure I read a long analysis comment on Mangadex where she was called "Natsume" over and over again. I thought about saying something but it felt a bit rude to reply to such a high effort comment with "It's Nanase" :P

Now this makes me feel like I'm missing something too. It's still correct to refer to people by their surname right?

Is that her surname? Nobody ever addresses her by that so I don't even know it. I couldn't tell you Fuuko or Yuni's surnames either.

Edit: Fuuko was called "Taki" and Yuni "Asahina" in the most recent chapter, but I don't know when the last time Nanase was referred to by her surname.

It's her family name. You can search her up. Nanase Natsume.

Thanks for the info. It can be hard for me to remember the name of characters even when their names are constantly used because I'm reading a bunch of different ongoing manga.
Much less a name that's never used by characters in the manga. That's pretty much on the level of trivia.

The English spelling of her surname being so similar to the given name that the characters exclusively use to address her made me think the poster was just getting the name wrong since that's something I could easily do.
It seems both Gabinomicom and I both thought this was what was going on with the poster referring to her as "Natsume".

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Makes sense. I'm pretty sure I read a long analysis comment on Mangadex where she was called "Natsume" over and over again. I thought about saying something but it felt a bit rude to reply to such a high effort comment with "It's Nanase" :P

Now this makes me feel like I'm missing something too. It's still correct to refer to people by their surname right?

Is that her surname? Nobody ever addresses her by that so I don't even know it. I couldn't tell you Fuuko or Yuni's surnames either.

Edit: Fuuko was called "Taki" and Yuni "Asahina" in the most recent chapter, but I don't know when the last time Nanase was referred to by her surname.

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This chapter has cemented my belief that the only acceptable ending is a poly ending.

I love 1 on 1 romance and very rarely prefer poly, but this manga is just begging for a poly ending. I'll eat my shoe if it doesn't end in poly.

^It's one of the cutest fanarts I've seen in awhile. I just adore this one.

Natsume totally bumped into her on purpose. They should just break up.

I've seen her called Natsume a few times here and on Mangadex. Is there a joke I'm missing?

If you're reading a lot of different manga in parallel it can be easy to mix up names, I think. And when one person in the thread is confidently wrong, other people will start copying them assuming that person remembered correctly lol

Makes sense. I'm pretty sure I read a long analysis comment on Mangadex where she was called "Natsume" over and over again. I thought about saying something but it felt a bit rude to reply to such a high effort comment with "It's Nanase" :P
Oh and congrats on joining the avatar club!

So here's the Discord I mentioned. I just figured out tonight you have to read the rules and hit the little check mark to "unlock" the other channels. It's pretty active and seems like a fun community.

https://discord.gg/JyRtnma3

I perused it a bit and it seemed...weirdly hostile to translations? Idk what's up with that but I'll probably not post there much after seeing users talk about not wanting people to post links to translations for a freely available webnovel that has no official translation.
Do they only want people who understand Japanese in that server? Because being Japanese fluent is the only way for the English-speaking community to enjoy Shuukura without reading a translation.

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Natsume totally bumped into her on purpose. They should just break up.

I've seen her called Natsume a few times here and on Mangadex. Is there a joke I'm missing?

I just realized this is the Plains Bear Cub you can find near Lynx at the Snow Plains. Stelle will tell it jokes and feed it a hazelnut if you talk to it.

What's Bocchi trying to say to Kita in the top image? Wrong answers only.

Btw, methinks Diana will end up with the Prince, it fits.

mhm i don't see it. Iirc that's how it's originally supposed to go according to the game's story but so far neither of the two have shown romantic interest in the other (or any real interest for that matter) xD Diana has barely started not being hostile towards him

Could all be spun as romantic foreplay, the whole "you two get along so well" -> (in unison)"no we don't!"

Besides that part of the story isn't what natori is interested in changing

Boooo!! Get that het shipping out of my yuri manga!

Nina's so cute when she's sleeping. Just don't wake the gremlin before she's ready to get up.

^I've never even watched the anime other than a few clips here and there, but they seem like an absolutely adorable ship.

Madohomu is on the Mount Rushmore of yuri ships

So...should I put on some popcorn or are we gonna behave this time?

More Chisataki is always welcome.