I’d forgotten this existed! Thanks, that saved some time on my dictionary read through.
@skymaiden
I reckon that the base idea is achievable in a way that doesn’t cause problems. No one’s going to spend the money without regulation though…it sucks that they’re so vague and unenforceable.
Oh boy, I really liked that chapter! The flying くじら was so cool! Especially when they landed on it and あんず told a bit about their history. It felt like Laputa or even Nausicaä syle of lore
I truly enjoy reading this. Just like 惡の華 this really feels more like I am reading. Sure, there’re still a lot of vocab I have to look up and the longer sentences are often a riddle (especially when new vocab and long sentences mash together), but it feels like actual progress.
Right?! I got such a strong Laputa vibe from this. The only thing that bothers me is that it’s not clear whether the whales were built, or are biological - the eyes and intelligence and way they’re talked about makes them seem biological, but they also look like they’re constructed from stone. But yeah, if I were a witch, I would definitely want to study them and try to work out how people used to live on them, direct them, etc.
Also agree that it’s a really lovely reading experience.
Finally read this week’s chapter, that flying whale is so 
@Kappa420 I have the same feeling, this series is so nice to read – it’s perfect for my level right now, so not too many dictionary lookups anymore! 
I’ve learnt a lot reading these
Welp, as with other things in the manga like the spells we’ll probably never know. 
The reason is always
Yeah, it’s great. I also feel like I learn a lot more from this than when I have to anaylze almost every sentence. Some new words/concepts every other speech bubble is a lot easier to remember and learn from than something new in almost every bubble.
9th May
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My last chapter 
Nooo!
We’ll remember you
I know 
the thing is that even if I changed my mind (which is very tempting!), I can’t buy physical books from Japan right now - and eBooks are out for many reasons. I might very well try to catch up later in the year 
Okay, outrageous double post!
I can feel a long-winded history lesson on hotcakes looming on the horizon, so I’m going to leave it there for this evening, haha 
Already have a couple of questions though:
Page 129 - the inevitable “what is their dad saying?” - めやぐ ?
Page 135 - あのくじらなんかも一人で世界中回って何十回って見に行って研究してんだから
My brain. Is this saying that Kenny has by himself, ten times, visited several places all around the world to see those flying whales to research them? I’m guessing the 何十回 adds a certain ambiguity to the number of times (so it’s about ten times, rather than definitely exactly ten times), and I just learnt that usage of 回る meaning “to visit several places”, so that’s nice. Hadn’t come across that before.
Why って after 何十回 specifically?
Page 141 - ふたして焼いたらかんせー
I’m guessing this is something like “if you fry it twice”, but is that right? You can write 2 as ふた, and use it as a する verb?
Page 129:
No idea what he is saying 
Page 135:
何十 means “several tens”, so in English one would probably say “dozens of times”.
Other than that, I think you got it right.
But I don’t know about って… maybe it adds something like “so to speak” to it? “dozens of times, so to speak” - to make it even more vague?
Page 141:
I read this as 蓋して - “when you cover it” or the like, because first he talks about making the donut, and then he flips the whole thing, so the bottom becomes the lid, so to speak.
(But I’m just guessing here…)
I’m assuming it’s an abbreviation, such as for という, but I’m not sure what exactly it should be.
I reckon it’s something like that. Ι get a “dozens of time, you could say” vibe.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that, I’m assuming that too.
From goo
めやぐだ (青森の方言)
感謝の言葉。ありがとう。
So, it’s a expression of gratitude, basically “Thank You” in his dialect.
Thanks all!
Ah, I saw that meaning of ふた but didn’t make the connection with “covering” the mixture.
Page 144 - 強いて違いがあるとしたら厚さくらいで
Jisho gives the meaning of 強いて as “by force”, but I really don’t see how that fits in context?
Page 146 - うち見つけにくいんで
I get what she’s saying, obviously, but what exactly does うち見つける mean? I found うち見る… is it closer to “see at a glance”? As in, not just glance at, but find by glancing?
I think…
I totally forgot it was her cafe they were talking about
I tried a web search for 「強いて違いが」, to see what I could find, and results included:
I think I see a pattern!
Looking at the various contexts these were used it, I get the gist of “If I were compelled to (say, indicate, provide) a difference…” But in English, rather than “If I were compelled to …”, we normally say “If I had to …” (Note that “to compel” is related to “to force”, and should be listed in Jisho as well.)
So, back to the line in the manga, I could be wrong, but I’m going with:
“If there has to be a difference, it’d be in the thickness.”
Nice detective work, thanks. I had only looked up 強いて, but 強いる does mean: “to force; to compel; to press”. I was thrown by 強いて meaning only “by force” and the separation from the conditional.
茜さんはやっぱりダメな大人｡｡｡
I can’t find it anymore, from one of the ealier threads - how much manga does the anime cover? I’m thinking about watching it for listening practice.
Isn’t the around the world part of the sentence refering to the whale as in “the whale, that’s circling around the world”? And Kenny gone off to investigate dozens of times.
The って really tripping me up even more so than usual.