Is it weird that I feel frustrated that noone besides Fuchuya ever finds out about his little escapade? Mikan sees it on the news, but doesn’t know Fuchuya well enough to recongise him, and because she never mentioned where the train was, Asumi, Kei and Marika don’t pick up on it either. And Fuchuya doesn’t tell them himself.
Yeah, me too. I was ready to see the girls shocked reactions when they heard the news…and then it never came!
The voice - I thought at first it was Lion, but by the end I was more thinking it was his own voice, the inner voice from all his training kicking in.
Short chapter! We squeeze 7 in this volume.
もっと強くていい。肋骨の2、3本は覚悟してもらえ。Page 9. I didn’t get the second sentence. I looked it up and the suggestion was that it means: ”be prepared to break 2 or 3 ribs”. The word “break” is not stated, but implied through the sense of the verb - 覚悟する meaning to be prepared for / resign oneself to / brace oneself for something unpleasant. Plus the context of the first sentence telling him to push harder.
Not much to say this week - it’s an unusually short chapter, the shortest we’ve had in a while. Maybe even the shortest of the whole series, though I’d have to check.
I did start thinking during my reading that it might have been nice if Kei had been living at the dorm for the whole series. Unlike the other four kids, we know almost nothing about Kei’s family - I think we saw her home once, several volumes ago when she was sick with a cold, but other than that it never comes up.
Despite the protagonists love of stars, I don’t feel like we often see recognisable constellations in the artwork. So the view of orion on page 51 seemed a bit of an exception, although I was expecting we were going to see the full constellation when they got to the roof, instead we got a sky full of stars where I didn’t recognise any constellations.
Proper cliffhanger! Like a reality TV show cutting to commercial just before announcing who is going home!
Mikan sees it on the news, but doesn’t know Fuchuya well enough to recongise him, and because she never mentioned where the train was, Asumi, Kei and Marika don’t pick up on it either. And Fuchuya doesn’t tell them himself.