ふらいんぐうぃっち Volume 14 🧹

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Volume 14 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 2025-06-13T15:00:00Z

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Reading Schedule

Week Start Date Chapter
Week 1 Jul 5 Ch 80 石と罠と拳
Week 2 Jul 12 Ch 81 火の神様は優柔不断
Week 3 Jul 19 Ch 82 とっちゃり
Week 4 Jul 26 Ch 83 ぶん投げはとっちゃりの見どころ
Week 5 Aug 2 Ch 84 食欲の秋、うまいのリズム
Week 6 Aug 9 Ch 85 師匠は写生派の祖

Discussion Rules

  • If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
  • Please mention the chapter and page number.
  • Please use spoiler tags for major events.
  • If you read ahead, please hold questions until during or after the appropriate week.
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What is your volume 14 status?

  • I have volume 14 in hand (physical or virtual).
  • I will buy in person or electronically.
  • I plan to buy online or am waiting for my copy in the mail.
  • I’m not getting this volume.
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Do you plan to read with the club?

  • Yes, I’d like to read with the club.
  • No, I plan to read on my own.
  • I won’t be reading this volume.
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Is that supposed to be Makoto? Something is wrong with her face, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Too round, maybe?

Or maybe it’s the sleeves seventeen sizes too big…

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I failed to post this last weekend, but when is everyone ready to start reading?

  • This weekend.
  • June 28th
  • July 5th
  • July 12th
  • I won’t be reading with the club, but clicking polls is fun.
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Just got my book today. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Looks like we begin in one more week!

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the art style is one of the few gripes i have with the series. Makoto in particular has drifted further and further away from her initial designs. Moefication

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I think I misread the poll and thought that “this weekend” meant 21st June. I couldn’t start last weekend but thought I was voting to start in the following two weeks.

What I’m saying is I’d be happy to start this weekend - i.e. now!

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Update:

I’m having massive computer issues at the moment.

I’m hoping to get them resolved before Friday so I can do book club postings, but at the moment I’m unable to safely access most of my data. (My data storage can lose two hard drives without data loss, and three of them gave out last Friday night. [SMART tests showed no issues on two of them, and almost no issues on the one that’s almost completely gone.])

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Chapter 80 石と罠と拳

Start Date: 2025-07-04T15:00:00Z

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I’ll have to skim the end of the last volume to remember what’s going on.

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Ah, it’s good to be back in this series.

Has the font in this always been so small, though?

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Page 7, Anzu comments that Akatsuki’s ringtone is the opening theme of 必殺仕事人, and a bit of Googling turned up this video, but I dunno if I can say that it matches the onomatopoeia given. I do like the song, though.

Page 18, what’s the door say? That’s definitely 罠 at the top, and I’m pretty sure it’s 屋 at the bottom, but there seems to be a mountain in the middle (is that on top of the 屋 charater?), and I can’t work out either of the side characters. Maybe the left one is の, but the right one looks like 音 plus the bottom half of 官, but that doesn’t seem to be a real character. (Also, I noticed the words on the floor the moment they walked in.)

Page 29, Makoto in full-armour mode definitely looks cool, but I don’t remember the cloth doing that when we first saw it being tested…

Page 31, Anzu is reading the words on the floor aloud, which definitely helps with deciphering the font, which seems to part shell-script-like, and part just straight-up character rotations (like that す). She doesn’t cover what’s written on the paddle, though, which I’m pretty sure is 掘り掘り.

Previously, on Flying Witch: Makoto has been campaigning for Aomori to host the Witch Olympics, despite attempted sabotage from the Bergen team. (I’m barracking for Sydney, though.) Also, Akane went on a mission to retrieve the Sacred Flame from Outer Tibet or somesuch. Anzu became an official witch association member offscreen at some point. And Papa-san fought a deer.

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was legit beginning to think i need a magnifying glass to read some of these pages…

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I thought the same. And straight into some new fun magical stuff. A new character - I swear I had to look at her picture about 5 times before I convinced myself she had trousers on. This week was like half Aquaman and half Frieren exploring dungeons.

I didn’t really follow what the hint was trying to say - too many hiragana and not enough kanji, at least when she read it out loud.

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My tip: use the hiragana she’s saying to work out what the kanji on the ground are. :slightly_smiling_face:

一歩目の過ちの喉を潤せ
さすれば宝を手にし罰は下されぬ

Some bits are mildly archaic, but it’s decipherable.

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Chapter 81 火の神様は優柔不断

Start Date: 2025-07-11T15:00:00Z

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We’ve all gotten a little bit older since the last volume.

My thought while reading on my lunch break at work: “Hopefully no one sees this and gets the wrong impression…”

Don’t forget 部 on the right, giving us: 罠部屋〇.

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So, don’t do what I did and miss the next chapter starting on page 65. The last page of this chapter is 64, with one big splash panel covering the whole page.

Speaking of page 64, that mountain in the background… I feel like I’ve seen that design before. Anyone out there who can refresh my memory?

Also, Sydney for the Great Sabbath! Go Sydney!

And oof, that solid wave of exposition on 43-44…

Akane buying a smartphone was a big thing last volume (or the one before?), so whose tablet are the cats playing with at the top of page 46?

Ah, I wondered if the right side was gonna be a 阝. That’d make the full text 罠の部屋. :slightly_smiling_face:

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And now I’m wondering how many volumes we are gonna have.

[quote=“Belthazar, post:11, topic:70404, full:true”] (Also, I noticed the words on the floor the moment they walked in.)
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Me too, but it was too difficult to read :sweat_smile:
So thank you, as always!

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…continue reading from page 44 on the bus.

Page 45 is not for public viewing.

I only hope the lady sitting in the seat behind mine didn’t catch sight of the screen before I turned the e-reader to the side and hit the back (previous page) button.

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Chapter 81

Akane’s speech was a bit like a beauty pageant contestant saying they want to save the whales. I’m glad the others called her out. I like my new vocab word for this section - ぐうたら - lazybones, good-for-nothing, idler, slacker, loafer

Pages 45 and 46 clearly designed to give some relief after slogging through the previous two pages. I also got caught out on public transport…

The doors were fun, reminded me of Monsters Inc.

I hate the way these scary overlord types always speak in that wobbly font that’s more tricky to read, and in some high level Japanese that’s difficult to follow. But this time was fun as the character decided it wasn’t easy speaking like this and got permission to just speak normally!

Love the Spirited Away style panel at the end of the chapter. I didn’t recognise the logo on the mountain - although looked a bit like the rhino guy from side?

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That’s the page where we’re all supposed to go ナイスバデー.

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