Couldn't you just invent a new accent? For example, take Scottish, and then remove some of the weirdness from it, (keep "Ye", remove "laddie/lassie/dinnae/etc"). It'd maintain the fact that she's speaking something different (all that non-Japanese readers really care about) while making it easy to understand. Using Scottish directly drags along all the connotations of being Scottish, not being Hakata, which does a disservice to the translation.

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It appears I underestimated the impact of changing a single verb... D:

Incidentally, my translation is less different from American English than her Japanese is from Standard Japanese. :/

I mean I was able to muddle through by just guessing what the word meaning was, but it definitely breaks up the reading flow. (Like I'd stop and say it out loud and try to guess what the original English word was and then translate it.)

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I saw the TL note, but it doesn't help if I can't read it....

Btw dinnae is "don't" and didnae is "didn't".

Thanks... As an American I've only heard Scottish accent once or twice and I've NEVER seen it written. I think there's going to get a lot more complaints when the US starts waking up... (6AM east coast 3 AM west coast at the moment)

Is there any possibility on lightening up on the weird english? Perhaps its easier to read for UK English people but this was really hard to read from an American English speaker. How do you even pronounce "didnae"/"dinnae" and what's it mean?

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This is one of those things I think would happen if Japanese-style bullying happened at US schools. It's why it doesn't happen here.

Well the plot of this just isn't good, regardless of all the other things people say about it. You don't need to insert personal baggage into this plot to see that it's not well done.

So many people in this forum get way too riled up way too easily. If you don't like it then don't read it.

(Oh and the idea that people at 17.999 years old can't consent and then suddenly once you're 18 you can consent and do literally anything is utter stupidity. "Able to consent" is a spectrum that's different for every person. Some people shouldn't be consenting even at 20 years old.)

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By the way, I actually can't understand how some guys can even try to make it without touching the girl before.

Why do you think a guy would know that you need to do that? From their point of view they think its always moist, it's inside someone's body after all. Also remember that in Japan non-censored pornography is illegal so you can't even see the vagina in most porn...

Translated title: "The Caged Girl Falls in Love"

I just stumbled upon a few chapter raws in Dengeki Daioh. It looks really good, but incredibly dark involving suicide and dispassionate love. It started in 2017 and it looks like there's 8 chapters now. Does anyone know if any group is working on translating it?

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Please don't add shitty "Norway" jokes. They're not funny and they're not in the manga. Translate, don't rewrite.

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That got deleted quickly, but thankfully someone backed it up
https://my.mixtape.moe/jgpahh.mp4

Wow....

Serenata posted:

Plus it's easier than saying homosexual and I think it sounds better, I don't feel "triggered" by the word gay so yeah... That's just like... your opinion.
If they were saying fag then it becomes a real issue.

It comes from fact that people used (or I guess some still do) word gay in context of it being like a insult. So when they said "it's so gay" they actually meant it like "it's so lame" etc. Unlike us who use it with it's intended meaning, they basically conflated gay with meaning something bad and/or weird, hence the bad connotation.

I don't think they're saying the word is offensive. Just cringe.
If so, I can understand it, actually. I too find some reactions being pretty cringe sometimes with people being all happy using certain words all the time (where I live mainly). But then I realize I'm the one being grumpy, so I just don't say anything.

What's wrong with the word lesbian? I also see the shortened version "lez".

I'm loving this so far, but...

Why are they sucking the aquarium water? Isn't a pail better suited than that?

Probably to bring up the water, when the hose is full they will release the suspended liquid onto the pail. The aquarium is placed in a higher ground so it will be impossible to get rid of the water unless they are allowed to use a dipper or actually tilt the aquarium.

Ooh that makes sense! Still gross though.

Actually the previous poster is wrong. You don't need to keep sucking, you only need to do it once. If you fill the tube partially and then put it into a bucket below it will keep flowing until the water tank is entirely empty because of the siphon effect. (For that matter the manga has it wrong too. https://youtu.be/H6E92hhiWf8?t=1m30s is how this actually works)

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I don't get everyone's issues with possessiveness. If you're in a relationship its right to be possessive at a healthy level. Just don't take it to an extreme (preventing them from going out with other people) and it's fine.

That was good until they started the sex. The boobs don't match the size they are when wearing normal clothes. Stop inflating boob size!

To be honest, I kinda want to see SHAFT animate it... They're often pretty unique with animation as a medium, and I think their willingness to focus on slow-paced dialogue without feeling the need to make it bombastic and ridiculous would serve this series well.

SHAFT would ruin this show. Absolutely not. The show would come out too dark or they would exaggerate scenes that shouldn't be exaggerated. After seeing what WIT Studio did with "Koi wa Ameagari no You ni", I would love to see their take on this manga.

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I like this manga - but one thing - You see quite often in anime/manga young kids living on their own (parents setting them up somewhere for school). These girls are in middle school - is that really a thing in Japan?

If it's not it seems weird to have some plot device that is unrealistic and if true, it seems irresponsible.

Here in the UK at least it would be totally illegal. At 14 you can leave a kid alone overnight - if they are not at any risk (i.e depends on assessment of your kids maturity). But say you naffed off on holiday for a week or 2 and left them with food and money at home with no adult- you'd get back to probably find the police waiting and your kids in custody! Let alone dumping them in some house alone in another city!

Just makes me wonder if Japan has much laxer laws in some areas of child welfare, or if it is just a manga trope thing to avoid drawing the rest of the family, or to provide an always empty house where they can do whatever they like etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/why-japanese-kids-can-walk-to-school-alone/408475/

This isn't an anime trope. It's incredibly common for kids to be on their own in Japan.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2017-01-16/.111067

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/2i79j5/are_underaged_students_living_alone_really_a_thing/

It's also not too uncommon for high schoolers to live on their own.

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The nosebleed thing seems like a weird Japanese urban legend/joke more than anything else because I've never seen this concept anywhere outside of gag manga.

It's a visual metaphor for blood flowing to your lower regions. For guys that's an erection and for girls that's engorging blood into the various locations it goes.

I could be wrong, but I believe it's a visual metaphor for ejaculation.

Nope. See above.

It was originally done as a visual way to show arousal without actually being lewd (because Japan has so many restrictions on that) and showing erections etc.

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Can someone give me the link to the raws, please :)

Try this http://www.dm5.com/manhua-shuangjiaoguanji/

That's not the raws. That's a Chinese translation of it.

I for one have been enjoying the developments in the series so far. I want to see their relationship develop further with maybe even a kiss on the lips? Either way these two are adorable. I want more chapters with just the two of them. I've bought all 4 Japanese manga volumes so far.

Can people not overreact to loli stuff? It's getting really tiresome having one line stupid comments from prudish people on every single loli book. If you don't like it then don't read it.

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Why are more people hating on the dude than liking the yuri? There's plenty of guys here who like yuri too, let's please not get sexist. Guys aren't evil for being guys.

This was really cute, they look like a great couple.

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It's a shame that those laws aren't really doing much, whatever that may be... I mean, say what you will about CENSORSHIP and whatnot, but I don't think any country wants to be known as a haven for pedophiles, even if the targets of their twisted lust are entirely fictional and even if complaints from Westerners really don't have much of an effect. It still sure doesn't present a great image to the rest of the world... certain people (like one in this thread...) notwithstanding. Oooor maybe Japan just doesn't care and is trying to sweep it under the rug... I don't know much about this topic, but it sure seems like an Asian thing to do.

I think people should re-examine one of the core facets of this manga we're reading. Namely that Mimika is a pedophile and successfully deals with her obsessions despite that (as many reputable studies have shown, pedophilia is a relatively common orientation compared to the number of offenses). So cool it people.

I love this story. I hope to see more and I hope it stays good. Chapter 3 was the best so far. "Look at this! You can lift them up! Wow!" Komaki confirmed for being flat?

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