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Volume 9 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 7th August
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Reading Schedule

Start Date                   Chapter                                                        Page Numbers   Page Count
August 7th 47 - 本日の晩ごはん! 3 - 26 24
August 14th 48 - 早起きしまりんの抜け駆け温泉 29 - 52 24
August 21st 49 - 海の道と空の道 55 - 78 24
August 28th 50 - バースデー! 81 - 104 24
September 4th 51 - 大空山はどんな色? 107 - 130 24
September 11th 52 - 旅の終わりに 133 - 156 24
September 18th 番外編 - へやキャン△ 159 - 176 20

Participants

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


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@Mods - please could you make the OP of this thread a wiki?

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Got it! It’s a wiki now.

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Thank you as always :blush:

The food chapters are always the hardest for me since I don’t know many food related vocab especially when it comes to stuff that is not really sold where I live.

Quick question

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A quick question about this part. Why are they giving the teacher the 伊勢エビの炭火焼き, I don’t quite understand the context

Well, she did pay for it. Also, it’s mentioned back in chapter 44 that they only needed the shells for stage two of エビ作戦, not the meat.

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Sorry I think I phrased the question poorly. I think my problem is more with this panel precisely I understand all the parts individually but I have no idea what they are snickering about.

Ah, then, they cooked it for her because if they let her cook it while drunk, she’ll burn the shells to a crisp (the て in Ena’s line is the start of a new clause)

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Thank you so much. Sometimes I get tunnel vision while reading, in this case I did not realize that they were talking about the cooking, but thought they were talking about the eating part and that obviously doesn’t fit which caused my confusion.

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Sooo, @Naphthalene. I’ve been waiting for you to post the participation poll so’s I can make my own post. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Oh god, what year is this? I completely lost track of time.

47 - 本日の晩ごはん!

Start date: August 7th

  • I’m reading along :books:
  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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This week’s chapter is… uh… the third to the fifth sixth of anime episode 11.


No motion in this chapter, so no real world locations to comment on. Don’t think they even get more than a hundred metres away from their particular site.


Page 9 and following, why are they eating with single skewers? Is this a thing they do in Japan with a particular kind of cuisine? I mean, you’d do it for fondue, but something nabe-based?

Page 14, the 甲斐 on Sensei’s wine bottle (that Nadeshiko is holding) means that it might be a product of Kai Winery, the main offices of which are in Yamanashi city not too far from Fuefuki Park, though none of the actual bottle labels on the website look anything like this one. Even if it’s not that specific a reference, it’s most likely from somewhere in Yamanashi Prefecture (i.e. the former 甲斐 province).

Page 19, in the anime, ゾンビぐらし looks like this. Think that reference is clear enough yet?

In the English manga, Nadeshiko’s screech of terror has been rearranged so that it reads horizontally instead of vertically - same symbols in the same order, just left-to-right now instead of top-to-bottom. Not sure it was entirely necessary to go to those lengths. (The anime renders it as アヒ~~~ instead, as a repeat of the earlier joke.)

Page 20, the 真夜中の紅茶 that Nadeshiko is drinking is a reference to 午後の紅茶. (For anyone wondering about the steam coming out of the can, you can buy hot canned drinks from vending machines in Japan.) Not sure what Ena is drinking - you can never see more than half the label.

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Posting on time for once! Still more than a book behind again but eeeeh that’s how I roll camp.

48 - 早起きしまりんの抜け駆け温泉

Start date: August 14th

  • I’m reading along :books:
  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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This week’s chapter is the last sixth of anime episode 11, and the first sixth of anime episode 12 (though the cold open is either anime-original, or comes from a chapter I haven’t read yet, and the episode also omits the last three pages of this chapter).


And we’re off again!

Geospot 6 (page 29-30): Koganezaki, all of 400 metres from their campsite. In particular, Horse Rock is here. “The best sunset in all Japan” is a big claim. I might have to go there and have a look.

Geospot 7 (pages 36-40): Sawada Park. The lighthouse is here, and the bath is here. Looking at the photos on Google, the bath costs 600 yen for adults, and tickets are purchased from that hut in the car park. And as usual for sites in this area, there’s pictures of the Yuru Camp girls all over.

Page 43, the place where they stop for breakfast… uh, lunch… uh, food, is Dogashima Shokudo. Bukkake don, Tokoroten (interestingly, the anime shows Akari eating from bowls of exactly this shape, but made from white porcelain, instead of the plate she’s using here in the manga).

Geospot 8 (pages 46-49): Dogashima. I admit to some uncertainty as to the specific locations of a few of these images. The sea cave skylight is here, though. Fun fact, that’s Sawada Park on the horizon of the big panel across the bottom of 46-47.

Geospot 9? Find out next week. That said, the lower car park Sensei finds is here. Looks like there’s only three spots and a wheelchair spot anyway.


Page 44-45, the disposable chopsticks that come with the bukkake-don on page 44 turn into spoons at the top of page 45…

Page 50, it annoys me just a tad that they go “well, it’s only 600 metres, let’s walk” and then when Sensei realises there’s parking, she just goes and gets the car anyway. And then does it again. 600 metres is well within walking distance, and there’s a perfectly good footpath to use.

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So, following the posts from @Belthazar (rather than the book), I’m starting to wonder if the anime covers all published books or something?

49 - 海の道と空の道

Start date: August 21st

  • I’m reading along :books:
  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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This week’s chapter is the second and third sixths of anime episode 12.


Geospot 9 (page 55-66): Sanshirojima and the Dogashima Tombolo.

Page 67, the Aoyagi supermarket is Food Store Aoki in Nishiizu proper.

Page 69-73, the Nishiizu Skyline road that Rin wants to ride is here.

Geospot 10 (page 74-76): Darumayama Kogen. Though the actual Darumayama seems to be all the way over here. Kinda interesting that the manga has a sign pointing to a 道の駅, because in the real world, it’s just 達磨山レストハウス.

Page 77-78, they camp at Darumayama Kogen Camping Ground.

As for which onsen they visit, who knows? It never gets shown on-screen. There’s an onsen at the Michi-no-Eki in Heda, though, a quarter-hour’s drive from the campsite, and (spoiler alert) they start off in Heda in the next chapter, sooo…


Page 62, up until this point, I honestly thought Akari was playing along with the tombolo/tonboro joke, but here, she seems genuinely surprised that Aoi was lying. Did she just keep it up for so long that she managed to convince herself that it was real?

Page 73, first panel, is Aki’s voice-over an attempt at poetry?

Page 76, I wonder if the 富士山 on the van’s number plate has been visible at any point before this page…

Page 78, love that coodinated reaction.


Proper nouns:

Page 62
像島=ぞうじま
伝兵衛島=でんべいじま
(Not sure why the island has two names. Everyone seems to write it exactly the same as it’s shown here in the book.)

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中ノ島=なかのしま

Not mentioned in the book, but the other two islands are
沖ノ瀬島=おきのせじま
高島=たかしま

Page 75
達磨=だるま

Up to the end of this volume. Last I checked, volume 11 has been released.

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Volume 12 as well. I only own the series up to volume 11 myself. I’ll probably buy volume 12 on paper, though. I’m still on the fence about just buying everything (or at least the volumes I haven’t read yet) on paper as well.

Yeah, I just discovered that. Also, volume 10 is coming out in English in ten days.

Shame it’s going to be at least until the end of September before I can visit Kinokuniya again…

Anybody watched the Yuru Camp live action? I finally finished season 1 and it was pretty decent.

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Yep. I’ve watched the first season and half the second season. It’s not bad, but I feel like a fair amount of Nadeshiko’s goofiness doesn’t really carry over, so she loses her appeal a bit.