In my edition (kindle) it doesn’t look like a paragraph break. It’s just a new line.
The line after this is perhaps easier to find, it’s just
「まさか――」
on a line of its own.
I noticed it as well, and could guess the meaning from context, but I had no idea what dialect it came from, or whether it was slang. How did you guess/know? Or was it based on the setting?
From the setting. I could probably recognise 関西弁 or 津軽弁 if you hit me with it out of the blue, and maybe 広島弁, but for other dialects, I generally need some context clues.
I finally finished the section we’re on this week (definitely a bit harder for me than last week). It feels like there are a lot more descriptive words that I don’t know. More than I expected. But manageable with a lookup. More or less. There were a couple of moments where I was a bit confused as to what was going on.
The main character is way braver than I thought. The way she yelled out for the handsome guy she met by calling him handsome is not something I could ever manage XD. Good thing she realized how creepy that could be tho. And also, she immediately decided to head towards the dangerous-looking “hallucination”. And if I read that section correctly, she ran through the weird door whose other side didn’t match the surroundings.
The mysteries are introduced way earlier than I thought. I haven’t watched the movie so I don’t know anything about the plot, aside from the book summary. But there is the stone statuette (?) that seems to have been brought to life, the weird door she couldn’t pass through, the guy that was looking for it for some reason, and now she’s seeing things no one else can. It feels like the fact that she can see them might be connected to the fact that she walked through the door (if I understood that part correctly). Potentially the earthquakes as well.
last couple of days were super busy for me, but luckily i managed to complete this section pretty quickly, just before life pulled me under.
as for the story, i am mostly curious why suzume already had those dreams even before she saw what lies beyond the doorway. looking forward to finding that out!
speaking more language learning, 関西弁 is the only dialect where i feel somewhat confident. 宮崎弁 remains a mystery haha. but while どんげしたん was a bit of a curveball, the context allowed for an easy guess~ yay!
So, the book doesn’t mention it, but in the anime, the earthquake alert on their phones shows the expected intensity to be a 4 on the shindo scale, the indoor efffects of which are described as “Lamps swing noticeably, dishes rattle, and unstable items may fall.” And how does the book describe it? The ceiling lights swing, and a stick of chalk falls off a desk. Accurate.
For real world connections this week, the onsen resort is entirely fictional, but apparently design elements were taken from a number of different onsen towns in Kyushu, including Yunotsuru Onsen in Kumamoto Prefecture, and Yunohira Onsen in Oita Prefecture. None of them have a circular hotel in the centre, naturally, but fans noted its similarity to the Former Bungo-Mori Engine Sheds in Oita Prefecture, supposedly the only one remaining of its kind in Kyushu (though it’s not really all that similar, aside from being fairly round and somewhat decrepit). The local government got in on the action, of course, building a recreation of the door on the site in order to attract visitors. Near as I can tell, it’s still there now.
