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Here’s a thumbnail compilation of this week’s reading (top to bottom, right to left), in case it helps my fellow e-readers see where the stopping point is:
I haven’t finished reading the whole thing too… but I’m gonna ask questions about parts I’m not quite sure:
page 50
In here, how do I interpret 進級 ? Am I right that it means “I have known Fujimiya Kaori for about 4 months”?
page 53
On the right balloon, I have understood it as “Really, even as a man, I’m tearing up”
But I don’t understand what he means on the left balloon. I probably understand what he was saying as “Fujimiya’s crying face was hard to see, but I feel relieved” (the よかった part is really hard to translate within context ) I can’t comprehend what Hase wants to say by this ?
進級 = promotion (from whichever school grade they were before to what they are now). And it’s “since April” (i.e when the 進級 ocurred). “For four months” is ４ヶ月.
Don’t forget it’s past tense. Her crying face was better than what she’s got on now (i.e. nothing).
I feel like I messed up the breaks for each week quite a bit because I didn’t appreciate just how much more dense the 4-koma pages were. Week 2 was absolutely brutal and then Week 3 is a breeze in comparison.
Not sure you can do much for this chapter besides split it into three, and even then the middle third is mostly free-form panels. Counting each yonkoma strip as its own page, we’re reading 25 “pages” this week and 24 next week.
I had a wedding and holiday things this last week, so I didn’t have nearly as much time to read as normal, but I’m finally finished! It was indeed a lot of reading.
I’m finally finished! It was a lot of rereading. I had my phases of reading bits by bits during the week, and just completely forget it. So I reread the whole thing today
The furigana’s actually easier to read in this screenshot on my desktop computer than it is on my ereader. Looks like I’ll read this panel at the computer.
The panel before this one has a better example of unreadable furigana, but I didn’t screenshot that one. One day, all new digital manga will have clear furigana. This is my dream for the future. Otherwise, I’ll just have to learn more kanji (and that requires effort on my part).
Once I finish reading, I’ll be sure to read through all the topics here to see if anyone’s already covered anything I was unsure of =D
) I can’t comprehend what Hase wants to say by this ?
but I can’t understand the context where he’s coming from (do I need to reread the whole thing again…)
