おじさまと猫 (Ojisama to Neko) Volume 3 Discussion

(よろこ)んで (93) is just so wholesome

I appreciate that you can take 馬鹿(ばか) and just keep adding onto it for increasing levels of idiot 馬鹿者(ばかもの)(おお)バカ(もの)

Interesting first choice by my ime there…

I love how the friend’s advice is to hold Fukumaru

Does ネタ on page 101 mean proof or the Internet in this context??

I can’t believe the rival (?) pianist’s mom just dumped a cat on him…

Like, if it were me, I’d be overjoyed, but it’s well established that I love cats. She didn’t even ask him in advance though…

I hope that shop assistant makes commission because she’s good at getting these old 金持(かねも)ちおじさま to buy everything for their cats lol

ネタ always gives me trouble. I did land on the “proof” meaning for this one.

I can just picture her doing the same thing with her son when he was a little boy. “Sorry, we’re moving into an apartment that doesn’t allow children!”

I’m curious how she’ll be worked into later chapters. (I can’t imagine she’ll ever be off camera for too long at a time.)

Thank you :slight_smile:

Oh boy :joy:

I think if there’s any sort of cat problem, like one of the cats stops eating/playing with toys/acts depressed/etc, they’ll probably go ask her first :thinking: I should probably preview the rest of the series lol. I’ve gotten good enough at speedreading if I don’t care about full comprehension.

I’m really enjoying this series and have a tiny question if anyone stumble on it by any chance:

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What does つぶれてる means here? Is he, like, play fighting with the cat and winning? (from 潰れる)
I think I saw this word again on some other page in this volume, and if it’s a reoccurring situation I thought I’d better ask early.

And my favourite panel of this volume just because I like it too much

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I believe the word as it’s used here refers to Fukumaru being a “flat-face” cat breed. (I don’t know the proper term for it.)

Cats like as seen here:

See also: do a web image search for 「潰れてる 猫」 (no quotes).

Ahh, there was some talking about つぶれた鼻, I didn’t realise it was the case here. Thank you!