I hope "Miyagi" is on your short list for names if any other ornery stray cats that try to adopt you.

Ooh boy, you have no idea how ridiculous I am. I already have a plan of someday getting another black cat and a Maine Coon and naming them Miyagi and Sendai. I currently have two 3-year-old females, one who is ridiculously in love with me, so it will be about 10 years or so until I can implement this plan lol. And yes, I am a crazy cat person.

I sort of just see Adachi as a kinda sad cute puppy, but Miyagi has all these spiky edges

I think Sendai has the perfect view of Miyagi as a stray black cat. She takes a while to warm up to someone but even once she does she'll still bite them from time to time. I've dealt with a few stray cats at my house over the years, they seem drawn to my place because I have a few other cats. And I swear the one that took the longest to become friendly with me was the only black one that's ever come around. Even once it got to the point where he would let me pet him he would occasionally get ornery and claw or try to bite me.

I don't usually celebrate these things, but I got roped into attending a mid-autumn festival party

That sounds fun, have a good time. The thought of it being mid-autumn is funny to me as it's still in the 80s and 90s where I am.

I don't recall Shimamura seeing Adachi as a burden.

She loved her in her own way. Even admitting to herself at one point that she didn't think she could be with anybody else or that anyone else would put up with her.

Thankfully it's well written overall, because between the glaring absence of physical affection, the weird alien girl, and the side couple I don't care about at all, there's a lot of stuff about the series I'm not a fan of.

I know this isn't the place to talk about it but I just got to say real quick, between me and you, I really wish somebody would make an edited version of AdaShima that only included chapters of the two of them together. I really don't give a damn about any of the other stuff like you said.

Chapter 352 is up: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093084818755953

Awww that was sweet. Sendai told Miyagi she was happy because they're together and thanked Miyagi for being with her.

Moreover, today Miyagi is exceptionally cute because she is wearing the makeup I did, the hair I styled, and the clothes I picked. I didn’t want to let her out alone. I wanted to keep her confined in this house and watch the Miyagi I made.

Her throat moves, and the cider, which shouldn’t be visible, becomes visible.
If possible, I’d like to see inside her body.
I want to follow the path of the food we made together with my eyes."

And Sendai continues to be a bit crazy with her thoughts. Girl is down so bad that it's breaking her brain.

She wants to be inside Miyagi in more ways than one.

But yeah I do see parallels between Adachi/Miyagi and Sendai/Shimamura so my brain mixes them up every so often.

I very very very much prefer Shuukura though.

Same here. Thankfully Shuukura didn't take the same approach with physical romance. It was almost impressive that with as many volumes as AdaShima has we didn't even get one kiss scene. I guess the story always was more about their emotional connection rather than their physical one though.

I was thinking the other day about how similar Miyagi and Adachi are in respect to their home life. Both without any siblings living with a single parent that they never talk to. I just kind of assume Miyagi has the same type of relationship with her father that Adachi has with her mother as we've never seen the two interact. I may be wrong but that's the impression I get. It could also just be that the author has never found it relevant to show any interaction between them so we don't really know.

I think it's funny to imagine a meeting between the four girls. I can just see Miyagi and Adachi sitting there glaring daggers at each other thinking don't touch my woman, while Sendai and Shimamura sit there having a pleasant chat. Not that Shima is very social but she could at least hold a conversation.

But take your time and enjoy getting those gains...or polishing that cut at the gym. :D

Seriously, are you like one of my multiple personalities or something? I didn't even see your comment before I left mine. That's a little more than a coincidence lol.

Lmao we're just Miyagi-brained! I would say Sendai-brained but I don't think I'm smart enough for that. :D

I caught that before the edit and was going to say that Shima is on a whole different level.

But take your time and enjoy getting those gains... or polishing that cut at the gym. :D

Seriously, are you like one of my multiple personalities or something? I didn't even see your comment before I left mine. That's a little more than a coincidence lol.

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Lol, part 76 is pretty long. I decided to take a break and hit the gym, but I'm already sitting at 5 pages on Word (the other parts in this chapter are 6-7 pages long), but I'm guesstimating it'll end up at 9 or 10. It's not the longest one, but it sure is cute.

We love the cute long ones. Wait.....that sounded kind of weird. Anyways, take your time. Get them gains girl.

I PROMISE I'm not pandering for upvotes.

Sounds like something a karmawhore would say :P

Damn it, you found me out. I was so trying to use that reverse psychology.

For anyone who's not aware, Amawashi's translation has been compiled into an ebook. There are two volumes so far, here's the download link:

https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/2024/09/14/shuukura-web-novel-epubs-for-volumes-1-2/

If you want to help spread the word of our favorite translators work go to these Reddit posts I made and upvote and comment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/s/uhQpCCjFtd

https://www.reddit.com/r/yuri_manga/s/gwVobDgErJ

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shuukura/s/zFiO1AjrN0

I PROMISE I'm not pandering for upvotes. I don't give a shit about fake Internet points on reddit. All I care about is spreading Amawashi's great work and trying to raise the popularity of Shuukura so we hopefully get a physical English version someday.

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In chapter 75

Unlike with her tie, I couldn’t bring myself to wear Sendai-san’s blouse for some reason

I kind of think the reason she’s not wearing Sendai’s blouse is because she’s afraid of getting too attached to her. It definitely seems like a very personal thing to wear somebody else’s clothes. Kind of like the whole boyfriend shirt thing, just in this case it would be girlfriends blouse. It’s something a couple would do, not something non-friends would do.

I said the same thing in the comments section but figured I'd share my thoughts here as well. Don't know why I'm pointing that out, it just felt a little awkward lol.

But they're like not even that explicit (from what I remember)? Like maybe even PG-13 or just barely R rated? Definitely not near the level of pornography that Wordpress is actually trying to keep off their site.

Or am I misremembering and they're super spicy?

I'm pretty sure all the sex scenes have been PG-13 at most. None of them have ever even mentioned a specific body part that was being touched or what was being done to it. Some of them may have specified the chest but I'm pretty sure that's the most explicit they have been. All of them have been pretty heavily based on context so that the reader knows what's going on without any explicit explanation of what is physically happening.

I'm glad the days of Miyagi causing Sendai pain is far behind us in the Raws.

I think it was not too long ago, since they've been living together, that Miyagi absolutely bit the fuck out of her finger one time while they were hanging out in Sendai's room and she thought to herself how much it hurt. I remember specifically thinking that it would have been a great moment for Sendai to express some actual pain and discomfort in Miyagi hurting her. I really wish she would have stormed out of her room and run to the bathroom crying or something lol. I'd love to see how Miyagi reacts in a situation where Sendai actually gets upset at her for physically hurting her.

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I was rereading some earlier chapters looking for a particular part and ran across this beautiful thought, around chapter 320, from Sendai that I didn't remember reading before.

If I could wipe out everyone from this world except me and Miyagi, that would be the best way, but if I had that kind of power, I would have done it already.

Is she secretly an uber yandere? It's kind of crazy to see how drastically she has changed since the beginning of the story. Since way back when she was still trying to convince herself that she didn't really care about Miyagi.

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Did Ami ever meet up with with Miyagi and Maika again after they started college? I guess if she did it was fairly uneventful since I don't even remember it.

I think the only time she has shown up was during the video call after she found out Miyagi was living with Sendai. That must have been during a holiday when Maika went back home and they were hanging out . As far as I remember Miyagi has said something about Ami wanting her to come home and visit but she doesn't want to because she'd have to be alone in her old apartment, and also away from Sendai.

Here's a new translation that just started. I spoke with the translator and told them about the Amawashi translation but they said they just wanted to do it because they love the story. They said they're going to try to get caught up as soon as possible by doing a couple chapters a day but some of us know how that went with the other translation so we'll see how it goes. They even offered to translate the new chapters as they come out but I said they shouldn't put too much work on their plate and they should just focus on getting caught up. It's not as perfect as the Amawashi translation as they're not a native English speaker but it's definitely better than the MTL or chatGPT.

https://app.yoru.world/en/story/380

I wonder if the next chapter might have some sexy time. If so it might give us some insight on Miyagi's views on sex. I could totally see Sendai pushing for it as she's reminded Miyagi a few times recently that next time it's her turn to "have it done to her." She may be willing to offer herself up as another sort of birthday present for Sendai.

And I really love how Sendai continues to try and condition Miyagi into believing she is cute and pretty. Was very interesting that she allowed herself to be all dolled up to go out alone.

It was nice to see Miyagi admit that Sendai has turned birthday cakes into a good memory for her. She seems awfully worried about all the "baggage" she's accumulating with Sendai. Maybe if she'd just allow her to tell her how she really feels she could start to get over her fear of Sendai abandoning her.

1. Copy the Japanese text from the chapter.

2. Go to https://chatgpt.com/ and type "translate to English:[paste JP text here]"

Well that was easy. Awesome, thanks.

Ch. 349 is up: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093083486023290

Well it's nice that Miyagi finally relented and agreed to go to a festival with Sendai but I wish she'd also agree to renting yukatas too. That'd be super cute and Sendai would love it.

Do you have a link you can give me that explains how to do the whole translating with chat GPT thing? I don't want you to have to go through the trouble of typing it all out and explaining it so if there's just some site I could check out that would explain it that would be awesome. I'm still one of the dummies paying for chapters over on story seedling. And I also would love nothing more than to not have to see Sendai's dad randomly showing up in the story anymore. Btw, it's me ShulgisDisciple from reddit, in case you hadn't figured that out already.

https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/part-69-its-sendai-sans-fault-that-im-losing-sleep-iii/

another one

"―― The spot next to Sendai-san belongs to me."
Ooh, Miyagi is starting to get possessive.

How I would love to get Maika's pov of them bumping into each other in the hallway. I wonder if it looked as awkward to her and the others as it seemed while I was reading it because that was some seriously suspicious behavior from both of them. She obviously noticed something as she asked Miyagi if she had upset Sendai because of how she acted.

"I touch Miyagi’s hand holding the moon necklace.
In it is half of me.
The other half is in my heart, given to me by Miyagi."

This was so damn sweet. Thanks to an earlier comment this makes total sense now as one half of Hazuki's name is leaf and the other half is moon.

"Hazuki is one name with the leaf and the moon together.
It is not enough if only the leaves are with me. I cannot be me if Miyagi is not with me. I cannot live with the moon missing.
So, all the time, Miyagi must stay with me."

I wonder if Miyagi realizes this and it was meant to be the true implication of her taking the moon necklace from Sendai.

"I could finally say the words I wanted to say.
I thought so, but Miyagi’s hand covered my mouth."

Not sure what Miyagi was thinking here. Did she know what Sendai was about to say and isn't ready to face that yet? Or did she honestly think Sendai was about to say something about the necklace which she was too embarrassed to hear?

Also, I'm surprised Miyagi never questioned her as to why she was crying. Like did she understand it was tears of happiness and just didn't need to ask?

One thing that's interesting to see, though: Miyagi seems to have laid claim to Sendai's name. The moon and the leaf, marks of her possession of Sendai's very being, even down to her name

Well crap, guess I should have finished reading your entire comment before making my previous reply as you said pretty much the same thing I did. Oh well.

Oh have you met the Sendai that pops up in my daydreams from time to time? She's able to passionately express her feelings and Miyagi lovingly reciprocates them.

Holy shit, so I'm not the only one who does this? It's honestly nice knowing that haha. I sometimes spend an unhealthy amount of time imagining various happy scenarios for these two lovesick chickens. I'm sure it still means I'm a massive weirdo but at least I'm not the only one. No offense to you of course, not that I'm saying you're a weirdo. It's good seeing you and himi here, just found this forum today. Really annoying that the comment section over on the MTL hasn't been working in a while. Been looking for somewhere else to discuss the story. Also the subreddit you mentioned unfortunately isn't very active at all. It's usually just me and like one or two other people posting chapter discussions that never really go anywhere lol.

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Which is why she insisted on taking back the necklace from before: that was a sign of their promise to be .... whatever the hell they were back then, but it's now been superseded, and now that old necklace is meaningless.

I didn't take that as the meaning behind her taking it back. Miyagi said "Sendai-san’s name and everything belongs to me, so I’ll take this moon necklace." As somebody explained a little further up the second kanji of her name means moon. So I figured this was just one more little way of her expressing her ownership of Sendai.

Also, it's good to see you and the doctor here. I know I see you sometimes on the dex but I still miss y'alls comments after each chapter. Don't know what's going on with the comment section over there. I have like 15 comments saved on my phone for all the chapters where the comment section hasn't been working. It's going to be awkward once we're able to comment again and I go and post a whole bunch of rambling comments on the last 15 to 20 chapters in one day lol.