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@sotovka During WW2, Japanese government restricted the amount of train tickets for the sake of smooth military transport. After the very touching sequence where Suzu drew Hiroshima, she found out that she spent too much time. She should have hurried to the station to get a ticket.

@infiniteinterface the original word is リア充. I guess it's a bit more popular than normalfag, but it's a 2ch slang. It's usually translated as "normies"

@Agario I'm not sure if the TL note already mentioned this or not, but the title is probably a reference to Zhuang Zhou's quote, "Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground". "人性之善也，猶水之就下也"

This chapter has little mistranslations. pp.5: "You don't need to thank her" pp.16: Kasamachi wanted his mother to say something. He suddenly remembered that she actually said "I think you're great". She subtly put her anger into words at that moment. Again, that part contains the first person...

@Northern @Laparoscopic it's aka-kabu in the original langugage. In daily-conversations, aka-kabu includes red turnip, raddish, and beetroot. This is very confusing, but that pickles can be any of them.

I love to see how each of Makio's friends lives a different type of life story. When they talked about it, they'd already gotten through the hard parts. They already got their conclusion, but complicated emotion is behind them. Asa still doesn't know that kind of things. Emiri started to realize...

@DPLBatoDex @areticentreader I have only a physical copy

Asa's lyrics are probably something that shows teenager's unsophisticated but charming imagination. Makio is a professional writer, so she already knows the technical aspect of writing. Asa's lyrics probably reminded her of the primitive desire for creation.

Thank you for translating this! I really love this manga

the reason why the father didn't want legal marriage is intentionally hidden. There can be several reasons, and I personally don't think they're in a loveless relationship. At least, the author didn't put that kind of scenes so far. The main focus is that Minori couldn't tell the fact to others...

I suppose Daigo's line in Page.6 is "Even being called BFF is... ew"

@Purplelibraryguy That's true to some extent, but some people don't like saying or hearing "sb's mom", especially these days. The cultural background makes that custom comparatively acceptable, but it still sounds weird enough even in Japan. Considering this manga's theme and the author's...

@Glimmung The co-worker said that Kasamachi is acting like a hipster or snob. 意識高い/ highly aware is a normal term, but 意識高い系/ high-awareness-y is a sarcastic jargon

If I rephrase it, Asa's mom was bad, but not evil-hearted. She was wrong on many points in a very human way. Any one of us could behave in the same way if the environment or education was different. And the author shows that even Makio sometimes falls in the same trap. We can be both Makio and...

I've read 90% of Tomoko Yamashita's works including BL ones and have followed her twitter account. She has consistently, if not always, depicted sexuality and feminism in her manga. She also showed how stressful to live in the homogeneous society. She often talks about politics and social issues...