I really wanted to somehow fit the word "crepuscular" (describing an animal that is most active around dusk and dawn then rests all day and night) into this chapter. But it just wouldn't work, so I'll put the vocab lesson here instead.

It was in an earlier chapter!

Oh really? Either I'm completely losing my mind or that was one someone else translated.

The previous chapter, even. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_cute_little_kitten_ch20#14

So the answer is both. That was work by the previous translator. Also, I'm losing my mind. I just reread their work and I must've remembered it to recall "crepuscular", and yet completely forgot where I had seen it.

I really wanted to somehow fit the word "crepuscular" (describing an animal that is most active around dusk and dawn then rests all day and night) into this chapter. But it just wouldn't work, so I'll put the vocab lesson here instead.

It was in an earlier chapter!

Oh really? Either I'm completely losing my mind or that was one someone else translated.

I really wanted to somehow fit the word "crepuscular" (describing an animal that is most active around dusk and dawn then rests all day and night) into this chapter. But it just wouldn't work, so I'll put the vocab lesson here instead.

I used to sleep excessively as well, though not the same way as Yuna. When you've got a sleep disorder you can go through life so quickly that when you stop to look back at the past days or weeks you realize you've done nothing worth remembering.

Bro her "gf" is annoying as shit my god. She should NOT have shown her where she lives now the second she doesn't answer she's going to be pounding on her door demanding she tell her where she is.

The loop hole of not having to answer while at work... I guess that works when she's being a rental GF and banging randos huh?

I don't think she generally has sex with her clients. Looking back on the things she says she did for Sui that she wouldn't do for anyone else, it seems like she generally keeps her distance. She keeps making a disctintion between people she spends time with for money and people she actually dates and has sex with, so I don't think she's an actual prostitute, just a paid companion.

This is so fucking stupid. I'm sure I'm going to love it.

Also, didn't something like this happen in Sasameki Koto?

The character designs have so much personality! I think if I found out the art was AI generated, I would cry.

Side note, since the author keeps bringing it up in chapter notes, is Watamote actually good? I read I think 20-30 chapters and thought it was pretty mediocre; mildly funny but not particularly interesting.

This is good.

I started off going through the raws, but I got impatient near the end (I read Japanese very slowly) and switched to this for the last couple chapters. I should've just read this from the beginning, the translation and editing team did a great job.

As for the manga, it's pretty good. I didn't love the ending, but the absolutely adorable extra chapter makes up for that (I hope the team does that part as well so everyone else can see it).

It's kind of funny how often Shigisawa thinks Gotou is manipulating her. That part where she's trying to convince herself that Gotou's one moment of naked honesty was just part of her scam is immediately followed by Gotou offering to pay for groceries and utilities. The author did a great job showing how past betrayal has made Shigisawa paranoid, purely through implication.

Finally read this. It's really good! It's amazing comparing this to Sasameki Koto how much more expressive and natural the art is, you can tell the artist really mastered their craft over the years. Some really stunning panels in this.

One of the bubbles on the first page is translated incorrectly.
森本さん　仕事一筋で　男っ気ない　ですもんね
should be something like, "Morimoto-san, you're all about work, I bet you don't have a boyfriend." or something like that, not "Morimoto-san, you know I'm not that serious about work."

Wow, a story with the "lolicon" tag that actually takes the horrors of child sexual abuse seriously! I thought I would never see the day.

I hope we will get more of this one day. It's so good -

Me too. The author does have a collection of little side stories featuring these characters on her pixiv, but it's nothing like an actual continuation of the story. Most of them are one-page shorts, and she published them before even the second chapter. Can't find any updates for this story since July of 2021.

Kodama Naoko has the best afterwords in the business.

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Finally finished this one, what a nice story. I really liked the ending. I was thinking it was about how Mitsuki recognized Nanami couldn't love her the way she wanted to be loved and so she moved on. But the way their eyes met and both their smiles on those last pages changed the meaning for me. At the end, Mitsuki loves her current girlfriend, but she still loves Nanami as well. Regardless, she's happy about the way things turned out, because she ended up getting the kind of relationship she wanted.

I think it's very deliberate that Mitsuki's ambivalent about having a wedding herself until she admits that she wants to marry Tsuzuki, and that's what triggers her to reevaluate their relationship. She didn't break up with Nanami because she didn't feel like her love was reciprocated, but because she realized she wanted to be in a monogamous relationship, and Nanmi couldn't provide that for her. She wouldn't be happy being with a married woman, and she also wanted Nanmi to be happy, so stepping aside was her way of showing her love for Nanami, but also her way of caring for herself.

My interpretation is that the author is saying it's fairly common for someone to be in love with multiple people at the same time, but for most jealousy or personal preference make it more natural to be in a romantic relationship with just one person at a time. And I think that's probably true. There are people like Nanami and her husband who are fine with their partner having other relationships, or people who can be in one relationship with more than two people. But most of us prefer to choose one of the people we love and stick with them, or to at least break up with them before moving onto somebody else.

I think I ultimately prefer Octave over this, but they're both excellent, Akiyama Haru is a very interesting author.

I really like how Mao is being so obviously compared to a tomcat. Even their positioning on page 4 reflects the way cats mate haha.

This is a prequel to Cotton Candy.

Not that it really matters, but I’m unclear how these quizzes generate their answers.

For some of the questions it seems like (in US school-test terms) a fill-in-the-blanks test, like the “lint off the shoulder” one, but for others the quiz itself seems to be generating the answers, which may or may not fit the person answering.

I was very confused while translating this. I remember seeing silly personality quizzes that used to be popular on facebook or whatever, but I don't think they worked like the ones in this chapter. So I looked up some real examples in Japanese, and there are multiple kinds. Just from the top hits on google, this one is like the "who's behind you" one where it gives you some questions about walking in a forest and then reinterprets your answers to be about your love life or whatever.

This one is a series of multiple-choice questions where depending on which choice you go with, it spits out some nonsense. "You move to a new place and start a new life, who do you contact first?" If you go with 1: your father, then apparently it means that you like equal relationships and don't like to be pampered by your lover. I assume that the first question in this chapter was that kind, since it seems to have generated answers for them.

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Why was she peeved, she is 2nd, so the answer being "two" is great news for her.

Does she know she's second? I can't remember if Chidori ever told her about her previous love.

IIRC she never did tell Nanoha about it.

Chapters 45 and 46, we had a minor dilemma with Igarashi; culminating in Nanhona boldly declaring herself "[Chidori's] current girlfriend." In 47, Nanoha also recalls that Chidori had a cute gift bag on the Valentine's before they started dating and deduced it was for Igarashi. She may not know the specifics of what went down with Igarashi, but she does know that there's some kind of history.

Yeah. On this page Chidori basically comes out and tells Nanoha that she was in love with Igarashi.

I think they get annoyed in this chapter just because it's a little awkward reminder.

some cute stuff owo
even though some words did sting abit as a transbian

You know, I didn't even think about that when reading it, but now that I do, I totally see what you mean.

I guess one way to look at it is that these are the words that these characters needed to hear, not some broad truth for everyone. Makes me wonder if the author ever thought about transwomen though.

I was actually hoping someone could clarify asexuality for me as I am a sexual person,

The prefix 'a-' can mean "on, in, at", "in such state or condition", "in the manner of", or "not or without" depending on conext. Therefore, the word asexual can mean to be without or to not have sex or to be in the state or condition of sex. Asexuality can be no sex and can be having sex.

However, if one derives some form of fulfillment from sex, isn't that just being sexual regardless of importance and or prevalence or rate of occurrence?

I would have to assume that asexuality is ultimately defined by a state of absence of sex that is innately sustained without any desire for sex and any derived fulfillment from sex. Rather, an asexual person may have sex, or otherwise be exposed to sex, but they won't miss or desire sex after a time of not having it and or when never having had sex?

Not asexual, but I do know how to use google:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality

I read a lot of novels, mostly fantasy and sci-fi, often with gay characters. Recently I found the Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones, and it was just so good I couldn't put it down. The conceit is that it's sort of a Regency Romance type story, except lesbian, and with a little bit of magic. The first one is about a young bourgeois woman just at the age of seeking suitors who unexpectedly inherits a large fortune, which comes with a trained swordswoman who isn't what she seems. The two of them navigate the complex social mores of their society, study the philosophy and practice of religious miracles, get involved in a political conspiracy, and of course fall in love. The sequels continue to follow the original characters while adding in new people to explore different types of relationships and different perspectives on this society.

Unfortunately, I read it too fast, and the author hasn't even announced the release date for the next book. I've been desperately seeking stories like this one, but haven't found any quite as good. Anyone else read this series? Or know of anything like it?

Super cute chapter!

Maybe it's because i'm reading at 3 AM, but I feel like I missed something on the bottom right panels of this page. Like there was some sort of realization.

Initially, my head went that: there were some doodles/important/compromising info in the books that Minami may have seen. But then it never came to that point. So what do you folks think the reason is she went from normal sipping face to sweaty O_O face?

I couldn't figure that out either. I kept looking for something in that particular panel to cause the reaction, but I guess it's just her delayed reaction to this girl bursting in and calling her "Naa-tan"?

Huh... Whenever I see the angst tag I expect something far worse.

I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING I was on page 16 thinking "Well, only 2 pages left, either one of them ends up with a man, with another woman, leaves the country or dies" neither of that happens

So, the reason I tagged it with angst is because to me, hiding in your room thinking about how much you hate yourself seems to fit the definition pretty well haha.

My favorite part of this story is the way it's almost like O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi", where a man pawns his watch to buy a lovely hair brush for his wife, who cuts off and sells her hair to buy a watch chain for her husband, and both are very pleased by their gifts even though they no longer have any use for them.

We've seen some hints of her past family life, and it looks like Yuna's had this issue with poor self image and feelings of inadequacy for a long time. Though it seems to have gotten worse over the course of the manga.

For me her "you're an adult, pull yourself together" routine before answering the phone was super relatable haha.