ふらいんぐうぃっち Vol. 4 🧹

[Radish8]

Volume 4 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 16th May
Previous: Volume 3
Following: Volume 5

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Vocabulary List

Flying Witch Vocab

Please read the editing guidelines in the first sheet before adding any words!

Reading Schedule

Start Date	Chapter	Page Numbers	Page Count
May 16th	19 - 魔女のローブは十人十色	3 - 26	24
May 23rd	20 - 魔女の爪はアーモンド	29 - 52	24
May 30th	21 - 魔女蜂合わず	55 - 78	24
June 6th	22 - 煙草とオイルとコーヒーの香り	81 - 104	24
June 13th	23 - 春の日に兎を釣るように	106 - 130	25
June 20th	24 - 兎の逆立ち	133 - 156	24

Participants

There will be participation polls throughout this discussion thread as we reach each chapter

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[skymaiden]

Chapter 19: 魔女のローブは十人十色

2020-05-15T15:00:00Z

• I’m reading along
• I’ll catch up later
• I’m dropping out

[skymaiden]

No idea if I did that right sorry, I’ve never posted a poll before

Happy to be reading this volume!

[NicoleRauch]

Looks good to me and works

EDIT: Quick remark for @skymaiden: I’ve edited the link you inserted into the weeks table. Please have a look at the format and use it for the next links; it makes them robust against topic renamings (otherwise they stop working). Thx!

[skymaiden]

Oh thank you! Noted for next time

(I naively thought the links would have automatic redirection to keep working based on the ID)

[NicoleRauch]

Unfortunately Discourse is not that intelligent

(Plus, now you can look at the table without your eyes rolling around in your head from all the escaped Japanese characters )

[Radish8]

I like the time stamp!

Have fun reading this volume, guys looks like we’ve gained a number of new readers.

[davids68]

Glad to be joining you

[windupbird]

Today I learned that 鶴の恩返し is a Japanese fairytale Seems like there might be a few different versions of the story running around, but this one seems to line up pretty well with the one they’re referencing on pg 21-22.

【絵本読み聞かせ】鶴の恩返し（つるのおんがえし）／童話・日本昔話・紙芝居・絵本の読み聞かせ朗読動画シリーズ【おはなしランド】

(Here’s an English version if you’re not in the mood for Japanese listening practice at the moment xD)

【絵本読み聞かせ英語朗読：字幕付き】鶴の恩返し／The Crane of Gratitude【Japanese Fairy Tales in English】

[2OC3aOdKgwSGlxfz]

Really happy that we got a lot of scenes with Chito-san in this chapter =^.^=

ニャー

[crbarrio]

Thanks for the link to the video. I didn’t understand anything about 千夏ちゃん answer on page 22 until I watched it.

[Kappa421]

I really hope Makoto makes Chito-san a ローブ out of the fabric he chose.

The Crane thing was really confusing for me, too. I thought I just didn’t understand the language instead of missing a reference.

[NicoleRauch]

I was hoping for a robe too But judging from the last page it is a nice cushion instead!

[ChristopherFritz]

@windupbird

Today I learned that 鶴の恩返し is a Japanese fairytale

I feel an unjustified sense of pride for having learned this story in Japanese class back in high school =D

Soon after, I was at a grocery store that focused on Japanese food items, which had a book store where I picked up this:

(This version of the story replaces the old couple with a young man.)

At the time, I liked that it was mostly hiragana, but I didn’t know most of the words, and Japanese class in high school didn’t really cover grammar in any substantial way.

Maybe I should try reading it now and see how far I get before I run into words I don’t know or can’t figure out without kanji. (Edit: First sentence in, and I already need to look up two words. Scratch that, one word. The other word turned out to be a name.)

[Kyasurin]

Cute chapter! I loved the ending. Poor Kei!
I love fabric stores, wish I could sew as well as Makoto! I only make small things like placemats, not clothing. I would love glow in the dark cat fabric. It reminds me of the fabric I used to sew a book cover for my daughter.

[NicoleRauch]

Hehe yes, Kei got quite the shock

[skymaiden]

I only had time to read the chapter today, but it’s cute!

Now that I’m going back through it again now to add a few words to the vocab sheet (hopefully I didn’t add any mistakes), I have a couple of questions:

Page 7

車で乗っけてこうか？
I understand this as something like “should I give you a ride?”, but what exactly is the こうか? Is it 効果 or maybe 請う + か?

Pages 9-11

I thought there was something about not being too conspicuous in the earlier volumes – but it seems that she’s gradually just started flying around and parking the broom wherever, without any problem of people seeing her doing witchy things. Am I just remembering wrong?

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@windupbird oh I didn’t even realise it was a reference to a folktale, I thought it was just some kind of expression – thank you!

@2OC3aOdKgwSGlxfz me too, and I love the way he she talks with まこと! (Actually is Chito a he or a she?)

@Kappa420 I loved that Chito even chose any But he she does look very happy with his her cushion…

@Kyasurin I loved the the fabric shop scenes in this chapter!
Your cat fabric looks

[denzo]

Page 7: I completely missed the け and just read it as 乗ってこうか ＝ 乗って行こうか. Pretty sure it means the same though.

[NicoleRauch]

@skymaiden

Actually is Chito a he or a she ?

According to Jisho, it’s a female name.

[skymaiden]

I didn’t even think to look up a name in the dictionary! (Old habit, names weren’t in any dictionary I ever had)

Thank you