About EP2: It appears that since Vol.1 of the manga released, LINE added a feature to add friends via scanning a QR Code, the anime got changed to show this instead since supposedly the feature to "put the phones together" became obsolete? It's fun to see the anime change to keep up with what's happening IRL.
Also, that QR Code on Yori's phone does work, it shows a text in Japanese that says "Thank you for watching Whisper Me a Love Song!" if you scan it.

RIP the Shakey Shake

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I heard that Seto Asami (Yori's VA) is not the one who sings SSGIRLS' songs. If that's true, then why doesn't the studio just let Asami sing instead of hiring more people (or hire a VA who can both voice and sing, many VAs meet those two conditions).

Might be the records company on the production committee wanting to promote their artist, or maybe there were some other circumstances meaning Asami couldn't do the singing parts.
For clarification, the singing voice for SSGIRLS (or SSGILRS as it is hilariously mispelled in ep1's credits) is Kana Sasakura (so maybe they chose her for the "sasayaku" wordplay).

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Why is the title of the manga "Whispering YOU a Love Song", but in the anime it becomes "Whispering ME a Love Song"?

JP manga: Translates Japanese title to "Whispering You a Love Song".
Kodansha: Licenses manga in English as "Whisper Me a Love Song".
Anime: Uses licensed English title cos international consistency.

Can we now add the Age gap tag? Mirai clearly comes from the future, meaning she's 100 years older than Kako

Being from a different era is not the same as having an age gap, Mirai hasn't been alive for those 100 years. they're presumably (about) the same age.

Time gap?

They did sing "Baby It's Cold Outside" that one time. "My sister will be suspcicious" was an understatement.

Now this is April 1st scanlation shitposting done right.

The new volume came out this week, hopefully we get the translated version soon.

We have that AND a special edition booklet AND this month's chapter in the works.

Just a heads up that there'll be no new chapter this month due to author's health.

Now there's a title I hadn't heard in a while.

pet peeve: someone translates スタイル as "style"

That... didn't happen this chapter?
For clarification: The use of "style" on p3 is Suuna pointing out that the clothes in the store doesn't seem to be what Ruka would wear. The actual use of スタイル on the next page is correctly translated as "figure".

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Oops; didn't realize another group already did this one

It's not even a different group. It's literally the same TL. Guess I forgot to take it off the archive.

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Chapter 4 Naori: "We're not living together. You're just lodging here."
Chapter 36 Naori: "The two of us are living together."

Progress. Gotta love it. (Also curse the Japanese language for having multiple words that all translate to "living together" in English but have wildly different implications).

What are the implications in this case?

To use a more stiff translation of what's on p17, Isuzu is asking Naori if she is spending her life living in this house with the next Shuten-doji in an implied "you seriously living like this?" kinda manner, whereas Naori responds by saying a more affirmitive "the two of us live in this house together", with the implication that this has become "their house" as opposed to just "Naori's house and also Hinata is there".

Chapter 4 Naori: "We're not living together. You're just lodging here."
Chapter 36 Naori: "The two of us are living together."

Progress. Gotta love it. (Also curse the Japanese language for having multiple words that all translate to "living together" in English but have wildly different implications).

For any Kson fans, here's what her appearance in Like a Dragon 8 is like (no spoilers for main story from what I can tell). Pretty cool she got to do both the JP and English dubs.

Should've called this chapter "Naked Cake and Kase-san".

Cakes don't wear clothes, silly.

It's ASMR tiem
https://youtu.be/4pezIaN9jFY?si=2Gr4hCaWOXRrJJjz

Which funnily enough coincides with the plot of the next chapter (the plot's completely different since it's current time anime Utena so no need to worry about manga spoilers).

Noruju is best girl. That is all.

We're now caught up with the serialization.

Lesbillion

This feels like a sequel?

There's another one with Yui and Funami which has an official translation which has, of course, can be found on Sadpanda

If you wish to learn more about the power of Tanuki ballsacks, I suggest the 1994 Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko It's got all the Tanuki balls you could ever wish for. (and stunning animation.)

I can't imagine why Disney didn't localize this one. Truly a mystery for the ages.

They did, actually. In the English dub, they call 'em "raccoon pouches".

I imagine the title is supposed to be written as "I Love You! (I Love You!)", based on how the JP title appears in the RAWs. But yeah, fun oneshot.

Now to wait for the volume extras.

More details about the anime. We're getting a TV version and an AT-X version, with the BDs including even less censoring. Also nipples confirmed.
New trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgF0D8Pcjs

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so are the last two chapters just going to stay in translation hell forever then? Kind of a bummer I really would have liked seeing this finish.

They were technically translated. It's just that the typesetter went MIA, as tends to happen on an anonymous board (the transient nature of public RAWs likely didn't help). I have no qualms with Gouma-Den picking it up though, since they've got a good track record.

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