I just added 尖 to my kanji deck because I encounter it from time to time (it’s on page 55 this week) and it led me to making a connection I had missed: 尖 can be used to spell 尖る（とがる） which is a variant of とんがる – as in とんがり帽子, “pointed hat”. A big feature of the 大講堂 are those 尖塔 buildings which are spelled with the same kanji.
So I guess it means that the wizards decided to have pointed buildings to match their pointy hats, which is tacky as heck IMO.
Also the origin of this kanji is pretty fun: it’s 小 on top of 大. Something is sharp if it goes from “big” to “small”. And people say kanji are hard…
When I returned from last month’s vacation, I was 4 weeks behind, so I thought I’d catch up, grabbed the wrong volume and read the first half of volume 7. Thankfully, all I got spoilered for was K-dogs tragic backstory, so the damage wasn’t that bad. Now I’m finally caught up properly.
Volume 32
Yes, and given what we’ve learned about K-dog’s atelier so far, I’d honestly be surprised if Tetia didn’t have some sort of special reason why she couldn’t take on apprenticeship anywhere else, too. In chapter 32, we learned that most wizards prefer to stay in the underwater capital or local strongholds like Kaln, and that it’s unusual to live out in the middle of nowhere the way our atelier folks do. If you add the clues that K-dog is mistrusted by the police and has a reputation for rule-breaking, I doubt his atelier would be the first choice for parents who care about their children’s education. It looks like a dumping ground for kids no other atelier wants, who have already failed in other apprenticeships or who have reasons to want to get away from their families or wizarding society as a whole.
This one is a bit weak, it’s just Agathe and デレ (like in tsundere). I don’t think there’s anything else to it.
I found this sequence hard to understand but I interpreted it as a wizard getting an idea while bathing and not waiting until they got out to give it a try, eventually leaving it to linger there after they’re gone.
Enjoyed this chapter! Agreed that it looks like Qifrey is running a refugee’s atelier.
Was expecting to get a bit more from Agathe’s background but that was interesting enough.
And the cliffhanger, aaaaaaaah! I want to know! (I have no idea myself as to what it could be)
A month ago while I was unwell this was one of the only things I was motivated to read, so I read ahead by a whole volume. I’d probably have kept going, except I’m reading quite a few books and novels in clubs and am quite behind on some of them.
Ok, that was a great surprise. I even got a bit jealous at legchair dude.
That said, I didn’t get how on Earth Koko got this idea while listening to Agathe‘s story of getting accused of plagiarism by her family. Anyone?
Fixed it. The spoiler was actually about chapter 34. However, I couldn’t help myself and also read the next chapter, so now I ruined my chance to speculate about the cliffhanger .
I feel like I’m not great at getting everyone’s genders in this manga. “Legchair dude” I thought was female. On the other hand, I also thought “crummy wizard” was female, but I think I was wrong on that. And maybe it doesn’t matter
Yeah same. I went back to the “eureka” moment in the previous chapter and I don’t really get what triggered that. In fact based on the ensuing conversation it’s not clear that koco herself really had any concrete idea besides “friendship is magic”.
I wonder if there’s an explanation in the original publication schedule, maybe they absolutely needed a cliffhanger at this point? We even got a “previously on tongari boshi” section repeating the last interaction on the first page of this chapter.
Also why is coko blindly trusting the message of the 小袋? Are we supposed to believe that it’s from Agathe? I doubt it but at least it would explain why coko follows the instructions without hesitation.
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