@Nightlilygirl- If you haven't already, Maika-san Chi no Makanai-san is just as comforting. It's all about Maiko in Kyoto, so there's definitely a lot of culture there (and I think Sol Cafe does a good job of explaining it every chapter). No romance though. ?
@freakofnature From what I gathered looking the proverb up, 枇杷は九年でなりかねる is one of the various phrases that follows. Think it depends on where in Japan we're talking as well.
@BCS @havelmom To the whole teenage girlfriend thing and to Nakatoka-sensei's defense - I'm not sure if the teenage romance dynamic applies here given the age gap and the teacher-student relationship. Also the fact that he's working on an off day - Sunday, given that he'll see her tomorrow -...
Side note: the whole "I want to spend time with" and "I want to play sugoroku" is Amai thinking "sugoshitai/過ごしたい" but instead blurting out "sugorokushitai/すごろくしたい".
@gda19 It ended then restarted is what I heard? Anyway, I try to stick to the script when in comes to translating stuff, even if it doesn't reflect the current situation, which is why all the stuff in the epilogue chapter that made it seem as if the manga had ended was still there.
@Acolytus...
btw, if anyone has any recommendations for manga/anime with a setting like that in the first page of this chapter, i.e. a *zombie age gap romance", feel free to comment here. ?
edit: btw, if you were wondering if the arm/lap thing was a japanese pun - don't think it is. I think she's just an...
@Killua Haven't caught up with that one yet (think three or so chapters were released this month), but I'd def recommend that as well. Think someone else also mentioned Koi wa Ameagari no You ni in another thread - that one I haven't caught up with either, nor have I finished the anime (I'll get...
@RedOnYellow Didn't know that. I kinda guessed that was the case given how foreboding the end message was (or the fact that there was one to begin with), but now that just means there's more of this to read. ?
@Acolytus It's all good. Doesn't help that the chapter said THE END, nor does it help...
@Danthefan They're available somewhere by unofficial means elsewhere on the internet. I'd rather not duplicate the effort, sorry. ?
Cute Madoromi pic, btw.
@LysandersTreason I like After The Rain too, though it isn't as lighthearted. (Maybe this one will get darker later on, too, bur I haven't read that far.)
@lightingcloud I think it was on here at some point (and I recall reading it on bato.to when it was still around), but you can probably...
@Jakeandhistoe Thanks for trying to get them back up. I swear they were there under KAGOPOII at some point. Don't know if @kago would know what happened to them.
@lightingcloud I don't know. Chapter counting isn't exactly a science.
Volumes 2-4 had beginning chapters that weren't explicit chapters, so that could be three?Volumes 2 and 3 had extra chapters at the end, so that's two more?
So at best 55 chapters? This is definitely the last chapter...
@ZdrytchX It's legit - here's their blog post announcing the final chapter: クロちゃん家の押入れが使えない理由。最終回です!
Here's the section about the manga ending in particular (the rest is thanking her editor, designer and us the readers):
which I (roughly, with translational flair) translate to