一週間フレンズ | Week 8 Discussion

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Week 8 Discussion | Pages 117 - 130

Chapter 3: 友達の友達

Start Date: 28th September
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Last dialogue bubble of page 130 for eBook readers:
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After seeing that, I knew something good was coming :wink: Really good cliffhanger-ish spot to end on for the week! (I actually couldn’t stop and read the next page anyway.)

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#3

I actually couldn’t stop and read the rest of the book anyway :joy:

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#4

I was very pleased when I saw what needed to go under the ‘last dialogue bubble’ :grin:

To check in (super near the end, oops) on my own reading… obviously I haven’t really been participating for many weeks, and at this point it’s unlikely I’ll catch up. I definitely struggle with the dense 4-koma parts of this manga, and unfortunately this pick has coincided pretty perfectly with my moving house (and the icing on the cake is that it’s an old house in need of various bits of repair, so it’s been pretty full-on).

I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far, though like the anime I haven’t found it very impactful. Mind you, I’m not exactly far into it yet :sweat_smile:

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#5

Earlier this week:

In my reading this morning, on page 121:

This of course isn’t new for anyone who’s learned a substantial amount of vocabulary. But since I only started reading manga in Japanese recently, it’s really standing out just how often it’s happening for me. (Now to go watch this part in the anime to see if it used that line. *Checks.* Ah, nope, that line’s not in there.)

I was uncertain about the last line in the right-side strip on page 122 (titled 正直(しょうじき)すぎる):

What I learned looking into this is that when よかった follows a conditional, it expresses regret over something that didn’t happen: “It would have been good if [conditional] happened”, or “I wish [conditional] happened”.

Since this line is a negative conditional, I take it it’d be regret over something that did happen. Thus, I would read this as “Geez, I wish I didn’t bring you!!” Checking the English release of the manga, it looks like that’s about right, as it goes with “Argh, I shouldn’t have brought you!!” (which is a lot smoother English than what I had come up with).

I have a lot of reading to do Thursday!

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