ホリミヤ Volume 8

Volume 8 Discussion Thread

Start Date: 2025-01-10T15:00:00Z

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Reading Schedule

Week Start Date Chapter
Week 1 Jan 11 Ch 51
Week 2 Jan 18 Ch 52
Week 3 Jan 25 Ch 53
Week 4 Jan 1 Ch 54
Week 5 Feb 8 Ch 55
Week 6 Feb 15 Ch 56

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page・51

Start Date: 2025-01-10T15:00:00Z

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I’ve never entirely understood these little flags they invariably hand out to place-getters in sports day episodes. Like, what do you do with the things? Just stand around awkwardly for a few minutes, and then… hand them back again, so they can be given for the next race? At my school athletics carnival, we just had someone at the start writing down the names of the people in each lane, and at the end there was a teacher with a stopwatch for each lane, and they’d write down the times on the same form, which would then be sent up to the scorekeeping booth (where I worked each year in lieu of having to run - I’m with Sengoku on that one) where we’d enter them into a computer program that’d generate the list of who made the finals.

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page・52

Start Date: 2025-01-17T15:00:00Z

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Ah, those English cheers. Gotta love 'em.

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page・53

Start Date: 2025-01-24T15:00:00Z

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The sports day arc continues.

The cavalry battle is kind of a curious idea. “Let’s make the boys form human pyramids… and then run at each other like that.”

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page・54

Start Date: 2025-01-31T15:00:00Z

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Oh, here’s Mizouchi’s “introductory” chapter, as it were.

Page 89, vending machine corn soup actually ain’t half bad.

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page・55

Start Date: 2025-02-07T15:00:00Z

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I don’t think I’m sufficiently interested in Tanihara to watch him having dreams about Miyamura being philosophical. Good thing it’s a pretty short, and apparently one-shot, chapter.

Also, he didn’t just bully Miyamura in school, he let the school rabbits die from neglect? He just got upgraded from “he can die in a ditch somewhere, for all I care” to “go die in a fire”.

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page・56 + おまけ

Start Date: 2025-02-14T15:00:00Z

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Ok, that was pure “plot that would be resolved immediately if any of the characters just said something”, my least favourite kind of plot, and the worst part was that it turns out there was zero reason for Miyamura to be acting so shifty most of the time. Making up excuses to avoid going home with her so that he could go shopping instead was one thing, but to be so pointedly avoiding her in school as well is something else altogether.

Fun fact: 手ぶら and 手ブラ are different words.

Omake remains weird as ever.

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I’m not even bothering with the omake.

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