Same here. I was telling JQ that doing this oneshot together was particularly exciting for me, because it was specifically reading JQ’s lovely notes over the last few years that made me appreciate fan translations so much, and in turn made me want to take up fan translation myself (for sheepD’s ongoing historical yuri series at first). Fast forward a year and now I get the honor of co-writing historical notes with JQ <3

Yeah it’s quite funny because it’s remarkably consistent and detailed about the specific decade if not exact year it takes place in, but the Russo-Japanese War reference is so concrete and so incompatible that it’s kinda hard to make sense of lol. I did consider the time skip angle, but it definitely stretches believability that Iku has been at the mill for 30 years by the time she encounters Mitsu at the restaurant, both because she doesn’t appear to have aged at all (at least not until the montage of her rising the ranks, which is after the Russo-Japanese War mention), and because most people only worked at Tomioka Mill for a couple years before going back home to a closer mill to teach others. Personally I find anachronisms/human error always a little funny and endearing! Or maybe it’s an easter egg sheepD-sensei put in to make us history nerds scratch our heads :)

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There are a few more details that point to the 1870s that I didn’t think to squeeze into the first page, namely:

• The declaration of mass recruitment of samurai family girls for Tomioka Mill so they could learn skills to take back home (and the rumors of foreigners drinking the factory girls' blood) began in 1872 and lasted only 10 or so years. The blood-drinking rumors specifically lasted only a short while before recruitment really took off. This puts the core setting of the story in the early to mid 1870s. [1]
• The foreigners at the mill (French silk spinners like the woman we see in this comic / equipment experts) were only present at Tomioka until 1875. After that, teachers & management were all Japanese folks. [1]
• The time period is also important as starting in the late 1880s until past the end of the Meiji era, labor disputes and far more oppressive working hours (up to 20 hours a day) clouded over the lives of silk workers [2], while in the 1870s working conditions were very reasonable (8-hour work days and Sundays off) [1] which aligns better with Ikuko's activities in the comic (going out on weekends and evenings)
• Ikuko’s father was a samurai, which suggests he was at least an adult by the early 1860s, and doesn't look very old. Ikuko also she seems to have a clear awareness of the change in her family’s status, so it’s likely Ikuko was even born before the Meiji Restoration (1868), somewhere in the 1850s-60s, making her the right age for the large scale recruitment for silk mills in the early 1870s. [3]

[1] https://kousin242.sakura.ne.jp/nakamata/%E5%BB%BA%E7%AF%89%E3%81%AE%E9%83%A8/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC/97-2/
[2] https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/hermes/ir/re/11807/annals0010201810.pdf
[3] https://www.jobu-kinunomichi.jp/en/special/koujyo.html

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I mean, all we know about the sister so far is she’s a divorcee who frequently (at least as far back as the flashback in chapter 7) has threesomes with a female prostitute and a baron’s wife, so I’d be a little surprised. …But it is manga…

I much prefer the interpretation that he’s a himedanshi. He saw his gay sister’s marriage fall apart and wants to be sure he supports both her and his gay wife the best that society allows. But he gives off some bad vibes so I’m not sure it’ll work out quite that cleanly. Especially since there seem to be several women fighting for Tsubaki’s attention. The sister may well see Ayano as a rival.

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Amazing, I didn't think to check if the characters lined up with the lyrics.

Title: "In fact, she's the excessively incredibly obsessive type"

Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is an aquarium / amusement park, so that means this qualifies as implied aquarium yuri.

It was just released today. I am out of town for a few days starting this weekend, so hopefully translation next weekend! Although, sheepD-sensei did say it was gonna be longer, so maybe I shouldn’t set that expectation until I actually read it and see how long it is.

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Short comic that the author wrote about these characters about a year and a half before this one: https://dynasty-scans.com/images/34515

Description from the author:

Senpai and Kouhai-chan. I like drawing them, so I'll keep on drawing more. I might like to do a story about senpai and her girlfriend too.

About a year and a half later, the author released a full-length doujin about senpai and her girlfriend, here: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/yesterdays_enemy_is_still_an_enemy_today

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Did Yuni actually make a Nichijou doujin in 2025 or am I still in a dream, snake eater?

That would be amazing lol. I just like looking through older works by mangaka I like. Yuni posted this in 2017, but even when she posted it, she said it was something she did a while ago.

You can often click the “Release Post” link at the top of the reader page to see when the original comic was actually released!

(Although I personally wouldn’t mind it continuing on as an episodic series like Assorted Entanglements with some more occasional character development)

Words cannot describe how much I want this for this series………………

I probably forgot something from a previous chapter, but what is that hopping shower thing she’s scared of?

Sorry that means it's time to reread the whole series from the beginning

yeah you're totally right i overthought that line. fixed!

Title: "The heartbroken young lady and her kind maids"

Autobiographical

The artist, Yuni, often depicts herself as a tanuki. I’m not quite sure what animal her wife is supposed to be, though. Maybe just a hairball, since she looks a lot like how her messy hair is drawn when she’s drawn as a human?

https://x.com/negi_tanu/status/1194614585661124609

https://x.com/negi_tanu/status/1245329541867819009

https://x.com/negi_tanu/status/1730131469807607837

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Title: "Illustrator Yuri"

Notes:
The artist she's pining after is named "Namae Naiko", which literally means "without a name" + "ko", a common suffix for female names.

"if i draw her, she will come, if i draw her, she will come..." is a translation of "kakeba deru", a phrase used by Kantai Collection fans when they post art of characters they're trying to get in gacha rolls.

"now we just need the wedding rings" is a translation of "koko ni kyoukai wo tateyou", literally "let's build a church here", a hashtag that basically means "just get married already".

Also, the fan's tablet appears to be a Huion Kamvas.

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Thanks for the work scanlators, but I don't think nobody gonna upset if you drop it.

We talked about dropping it, but for my part I still think it’s looking like it’ll be a nice series with gorgeous art and fun character/outfit designs. Nothing wrong with a good platonic female friendship series every now and then! But a bummer about the misleading expectations to be sure.

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Since they’re in a writing circle together, have they ever released any project? I’d love to read it,I bet it would be really well-written! :)

Yes! There's only one work they actually all participated in together [1], which I've been scheming to translate the other 3 untranslated comics from (when I get around to it...). Tamifull's comic for that anthology (the only one translated) was a bit much for me, but the other 3 are a little more toned down and I recall really liking them. I have all the CLRDs done, I just need to actually sit down and do the TL/TS...

Beyond that, Tamifull and Yuni wrote a few Love Live doujins together (also on Dynasty), and even used to share a booth at Comitia! [2] [3]. Meanwhile, Sal Jiang and Kuwabara were more "guest stars" on the toxic yuri anthology that Yuni organized and never actually co-authored any stories as far as I know. Though, I see a Sal Jiang doujin in the second Comitia picture linked below, so maybe she also split the Comitia booth sometimes.

[1] https://dynasty-scans.com/anthologies/i_dont_love_her_but_i_love_her
[2] https://x.com/_tmfly_/status/1127390605103861760
[3] https://x.com/_tmfly_/status/1198417717612564480

Great reaction. Suika is becoming my fave yuri author.
Also, why is it censored? The original on pixiv isn't, and it's free.

Omg I don’t use pixiv enough, I had no idea it was filtering out a bunch of her comics as “potentially sensitive”. I was using the censored version posted on Twitter for raws and didn’t know about the original. Thank you!

Now I need to go back and see what other stuff pixiv has been silently hiding from me :(

This was super cute and interesting, if only Amazaki Suika made a sequel or a part two (But we all know, given that it's Sukia-sensei, that's never gonna happen.)

She has a number of short Twitter comics that randomly got a sequel comic a year or two later. This one was posted less than a year ago, so it's totally possible :)

I would say the sequel one-shots definitely drive home that point. In one of the other one-shots they are good friends and one even offers relationship advice to the other about another girl.

The series adaptation definitely gets heavier but ultimately still keeps a pretty hopeful outlook on things in the end.

"Office Lady Yuri"
Not yuri

Which is it???

I'm going with the author's intent on this one. It was cute. Another Tamifull post. Keep them coming. With "How Do We Relationship," ending next chapter, I welcome it!

The way I see it, Mr. Cat makes it clear he is male, he just doesn't know what male humans look like so he looks female. Shrugs.

And yes, I'm trying to translate as much of her original Twitter comics as possible these few weeks leading up to the HDWR finale! Still a handful more coming this week.

does that mean we'll get more from that their Pixiv?

Yup, planning to do a mini tmfly translating binge over the next few weeks as her serialization, How Do We Relationship? a.k.a So, Do You Wanna Go Out, Or? approaches its finale.

Although, if you mean these characters specifically, not exactly. The comics are pretty unrelated to each other. A few of her 1-page comics (which I’ll be uploading as images) have characters that look like Mamiya and Kuzawa, but they have different uniforms, so it’s probably just a visual resemblance, since we know from this comic that they didn’t go to middle school together.

This starts with page 5? 5 through 8? Is there something missing? :0

Fixed. It was pages 5-8 of a collection of tmfly’s Twitter comics on her Pixiv that I was working from.

Prequel of https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/an_undesirable_relationship?

Thanks for pointing this out, I didn’t even think to check! I try not to think about that comic……

Edit: also, confirmation from the author: https://x.com/_tmfly_/status/1026442468122750977

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