Volume 3 just came out for her ongoing Young King Ours series, The Siren of Nocturn.

I haven't seen the raws but I guess "noble" is translated from 尊い in which case that's otaku slang and doesn't really mean "noble".

Going back to this, because I think I ought to have explained that what I mean about it being otaku slang is that in the last few years it has emerged as being a generic way to praise yuri stuff (and other otaku stuff, such as idols). To some extent it's like it has usurped "moe", which is dated now. And I don't think "moe" really fit all that well with yuri so it seems like it was especially easy for something else to take hold among yuri fans. So you could translate it as "precious" or something along those lines, but the word choice is more because it's a meme, rather than it being chosen for the word's real meaning.

schuyguy posted:

Oh, I thought she was saying "it's already obvious how this will turn out". I assumed that the she would've used 目に見える for something that will be obvious.

To be honest, you can probably interpret it the way you did as well. The phrase is very vague and the fact they assumed she means parents could be actually seen as taking some liberties already. I'm pretty sure I would rather go into direction of her saying "you can tell we are faking it from miles away" than specifically saying her parents would be the one to spot it.

She's talking about her being able to predict her parent's reaction. "I can see it now." As in "it" being what she described in the speech bubble.

Does anyone actually see this as comedy any more? For me personally, it fails both as a comedy, and as a work depicting a character suffering from anxiety. It is far too cringy to be funny, but it also does not make me sympathise with Neeko. For some reason, I find myself considering her to be quite obnoxious. I suspect the reason is not actually the character, but the way she is being presented. Her symptoms are highly realistic, but the whole thing is told form the perspective of "hey, it is funny, lol". This tone led me to believe she was just lazy and spiteful towards people who were actually doing something in the first chapters, and even now when it is blatantly obvious she has severe anxiety issues, it still fails to make me sympathise with her.

As the cover page of chapter 2 said: "...painful but fun(?) slice of life comedy of a cute and useless NEET girl." It just does not work like that. Who knows, perhaps such a premise could be pulled off, but this work is failing to do so.

I think it's succeeding well and is better for being how it is than a series that worried about people who find her obnoxious or the humor too cringey. The series feels confident that she is a character it's possible to be fond of, even with how flawed she is, and it's right to.

based on his reaction to the phone ringing it wasn't a simple "family trip" like he said it was.

What he said was that his half-estranged father called him out of the blue to demand he come see him. His reactions were consistent with that.

^ That seems unlikely given the way Kaoru offered to come to see the father as she thought it would be polite and Reiichi brushed it off as unnecessary and added that she only knew his family's public face. It probably wasn't something Kaoru was heavily involved with. It seems there was a period of several years when Kaoru wasn't close with Uta and something happened then, so she maybe just feels guilty about not being around.

When was the last time we even got a tiny hint that added to our understanding of those past events?

The second most recent chapter. We learned Reiichi's half-estranged from his father and Uta wouldn't want to see him.

Not that Moetron is untrustworthy, but I can't seem to find source other than them. Anyone knows?

This seems to be an accidental leak of an image from Dengeki's site. The proper announcement hasn't been made yet, but the next issue of Dengeki Daioh is out on the 27th and it's definitely featuring YagaKimi heavily (cover, bonus item, etc.). An announcement on the net might come slightly ahead of that.

Strawberry Fields Once Again
Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru

The one Futaribeya shows up but only barely.

I'm dubious as to whether this is actually autobiographical? Unless there's some external info that says so somewhere, couldn't this just be a story written from a first person perspective?

Tamamusi has tweeted that it's a true story (実話)
https://twitter.com/tama_64/status/961091552335581185

I haven't seen the raws but I guess "noble" is translated from 尊い in which case that's otaku slang and doesn't really mean "noble".

What Japanese thing is this?

Yumomi at Kusatsu onsen

Okay, it seems you have completely misunderstood the point of a Mukoyoshi.

Here's a relevant Japanese article: www.mukoyousi.info/index.php?家業を継ぐ娘の婚活

The story has the perspective of the protagonist but that's in contrast to what the story conveys. The attitude of the protagonist is being presented in the story as unfortunate and bad for her. Whereas you're putting a weird positive spin on it that I can say with certainty that Shuninta did not intend to be read into it.

^ You are incredibly off base. You're applying a curiously conservative perspective and somehow, thanks to a stereotyped view of the Japanese, you think Amano Shuninta writing for Galette would be supporting that way of seeing things.

So... what are you suggesting? That she'd throw all fetters to the wind and goes on a journey to find her inner young lesbian by having sex with all cute girls in sight?

Why would you think some kind of extreme is supposed to be the alternative?

There's plenty of things she could do instead of quitting her job and following her mother's wishes. The basics would be to allow herself to still feel youthful, her keep her nice hairstyle, and not feel guilty about having sex with Touma. Maybe she could have more sex with Touma. Maybe she could find romance elsewhere.

Fumi is just doing what her mother was pestering her to do because she thinks she's too old to allow herself to act youthful and do what she really wants to do. She won't even let herself wear her hair in a youthful style despite everyone thinking it's better (oh, I see the translation has got the mother's suggestion and Fumi's dismissive response wrong so that would obscure that point). Before her encounter with Touma she was already on that path, and could have got off it through Touma's encouragement, but went down it despite obviously being downcast about it.

If he is a chairman then there is an entire board of people who can replace him if Mei didnt want to do it.

She does want to do it and he wants her to do it. They want it kept with the Aihara's and their values.

If he lost trust in Mei he could choose someone else though.

Again, the entire point of a Mukoyoshi is for the husband to take over the position due to the patriarch need for male leadership. If this is a mukoyoshi then Mei isnt getting the chair position.

Not entirely true. He can marry Mei, become an Aihara instead of her joining his family, and she can still become the chairperson. The point of this is the position stays with the Aihara's but Mei gets the backing of his family because of the marriage. Her being young would make such connections valuable (for instance, without that she might look weak, lose the trust of the board and get replaced).

I just want to make it clear that mukoyoshis can be done without the daughter marrying the adopted man in order to keep the company in the family.

Unlike the marriage, that would only make sense if he were being chosen to take over the position. That's not what the grandfather chose him for.

The position is chairperson, not headmaster. And even if the husband joins the Aihara's, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be Mei who took over the position.

Matsuri apparently qualified for the school with the highest marks (though CT mistranslated it). Posh schools will normal offer scholarships for such students.

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Reejun posted:

Fumi not letting go of her inhibitions is a bad outcome.

No, it's a reality check.

I feel that's a big misreading of story.

Touma is a large than life fantasy boyish tachi who can offer something great to many people and is highly adapted to that role, especially in her naivety. Since she's not a realistic person, the teaching staff who see no reason to feel guilty about succumbing to her charms are right. Fumi not letting go of her inhibitions is a bad outcome.

Amano Shuninta loves that kind of characters anyway. See "The Feelings With All Must Endure"

Put Touma into that manga's world-view and she'd get led into sex work but just give a blank smile of incomprehension to anyone who tried to explain that she'd been exploited.

This is ending next week. Unless the last chapter does something out of the blue, the only romantic content in the series was Utsugi, the trans girl, wanting to ask out a boy she had been in love with from before she transitioned. When she goes to meet him, after having got Satsuki to help with shopping for clothes so she could look her best, she's devastated by finding out he already has a girlfriend.

I know what it means. But I wonder what word it's been translated from. Some gyaru word?

It was a dialect thing in the sentence ending. One aspect of the way Kaede speaks.

There's more explanation about it but that means "Girl's Friendship" and is popular totally not-gay genre in manga.

As far as I can tell, it was made up for Hanigare.

There's also a Girls Ship in One Piece but that's a very different matter.