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Oh dear, the poor girl is in for a letdown.

@ MonsieurQuack Okeydokey. First off, it starts out with a classic Japanese pun -- a play on the homophones 恋 (koi, love) and 鯉 (koi, carp). The first person says "love" (panel 1 in the right 4-koma on page 3) and the second person misunderstands it as "carp" (panel 2). Normally you'd...

I absolutely love the translation metajoke on page 3. Two thumbs up!

Apparently, ancient Egyptians ate maize. Who knew? 🙄

This is the best one yet, I think.

That was... abrupt.

I definitely want more of this.

@traveling_chef You're right. They're confusing two different meanings of bouzu, 坊主. Technically, yes, it means a Buddhist priest or monk -- but, by analogy of the monk's shaven head with the short-cropped hair of a boy, it means "sonny" or "lad" in informal speech. When translating, a little...

@quagzlor Obviously, his field is "whatever the mangaka needs to make drama happen". But the mangaka can't have their cake and eat it, too. Either he's a masterful surgeon with skill in whatever-you-need, or his field is normal general surgery, and he might possibly be ignorant of techniques...

@quagzlor Kinda missing the point a little, there. It's been established that Dr. Koto is highly skilled and well-informed about his field. Don't you think he ought reasonably to be expected to be aware of the technique?

@First_Mate_Zoro That's a good point, and I had forgotten to account for the story being of relatively older vintage. Even so, I can't imagine a highly skilled surgeon from around 2000 being unaware of the existence of this method. Of course, the mangaka's level of knowledge is a different matter.

Hoshino's "brilliant idea" that Dr. Koto gets so excited about? That's literally how they do brain surgery on tumors near critical sites. I feel the mangaka dropped the ball on their research for this episode.

Deeply unsatisfactory ending.

Dark.

Well, this chapter really made me choke up a bit.

Page 5: "He remembered how to..." should be "He learned how to..." (the verb 覚える can mean both learn and remember).

"Wurston Craft" => [Mary] Wollstonecraft.

Must be hard work, writing all that text into Google Translate. 🙄

Good to have Bird back.

This is the silliest thing ever. I love it!