三ツ星カラーズ Volume 2

@ChristopherFritz I was going to fill in the vocab sheet for Chapter 12, but it seems to be set to view only at the moment.

Agreed!
And with the way they usually hassle poor Saitou, I really can’t blame him for taking any chance to get a break from it :smiley:

4 Likes

I thought for certain I had it set to editor. It’s updated now!

4 Likes

Thanks!
I’ve gone back and filled in vocab for Chapter 12 :slight_smile:

4 Likes

Alrighty, finally read this week’s reading!

Chapter 11, the girls park themselves here, and yeah, it’s pretty much in the centre of the park.

I admit I’m not too sure where you searched to find that, because it’s not coming up for anything here. That said, it’s here. Complete with sakura in bloom. :slightly_smiling_face:

Bottom of page 32, the garbage bins look like this. How convenient for this chapter that the street view images of Ueno Park were made during the hanami festival.


Page 20, what’s with the 四角ん written on the… robot-thing’s leg? Is that like a pun? Shika-kun?

Page 25, I’ve honestly never understood the Japanese fascination with castella. I’m yet to try one that’s not unpleasantly dry (though to be fair, I’ve never tried it fresh-fresh either…)

6 Likes

That’s my best guess.

4 Likes

I just searched Google images, though, interestingly, repeating the search this morning, I can’t find that exact image anymore. I can still find a different one that comes from a news article talking about how empty the park was during Covid if I scroll a short ways.

1 Like

Castella is nice, I feel it’s very much like an angel food cake, its main appeal is the fluffiness, but doesn’t have much taste to it. I feel like it’s good with tea, or with a jam or something, just not that good on its own or as dessert

3 Likes
This line keeps reminding me of that one chapter in Yotsuba...

2 Likes

Baby castella, mind. They look like this:

4 Likes

Clearly I don’t know anything about these things =P

2 Likes

Whew! Just finished an intense 三ツ星カラーズ marathon. All caught up now.

Zeroing in on reading like that made me understand just how much I adore this manga, moments when I giggle on some pun which I understood for once! are so precious and some panes really do strike things deep inside of me.

Also managed to get hold of paperbacks of 2nd and 3rd volumes, so I ought to continue reading. Please refer to this line when I decide to put my reading on hold again for no particular reason.

Page 33, panel 3

もっと酔っ払ってたら売れると思う ダイヤ
ダイヤは諦めよう
I’m so lost here. Does ダイヤ mean diamonds here? If so why are they abandoning the idea of selling diamonds they never had or discussed?

3 Likes

They discussed diamonds. Back on page 31. 今ならダイヤも売れる気がする

(But yeah, they never had them, hence the “just give up on that”.)

3 Likes

第13話 モノクロ大佐の日常

Start Date: 2022-03-25T15:00:00Z

(Rumor is that some people have a different cover for this chapter.)

Participation

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll.
(You can change your answer later if you’d like.)

  • I’m reading along.
  • I have finished this part.

0 voters

6 Likes

Page 40, they start at Hanazono Inari Shrine. Page 44, they’re here, but I’m not sure why the Colonel is going upstairs rather than down. Bottom of the same page, they’re here. I’m fairly confident they’re walking down this road in subsequent pages. By the bottom of page 47, they’ve managed to reach here, which is a good eight minutes walk from where they were before (here is the brick building in the second-to-last panel, and I kinda want to know what it is.) Page 48 might be here, but I’m not completely certain.

At the top of page 50, they’re back here again. It’s a bit tricky to count the stairs in Street View, but something in the 75-76 range does seem reasonable. (Though, I’ve walked down this staircase, and looking at the photos I took of it, I’m counting something more like 67. Though it’s still tricky to count. Actually, I had to find a lot of these locations by checking my own photos.)

Not too clear how the Colonel got Yui’s hair tie. He was in front of them when she lost it between pages…

6 Likes

That cat really manages to get around.

2 Likes

Indeed he does - I finally worked out where they went between 44 and 50. Reason I couldn’t find it is because I wasn’t looking far away enough. I’ve edited my earlier post. :slightly_smiling_face:

4 Likes

You have no idea what a sense of completion it is for me to finally see this actual location!

3 Likes

Yah, you’ve got that right - I really have no idea. :stuck_out_tongue:

Why?

2 Likes

Back when I originally read this chapter, I was really struggling with understanding 意味(いみ) and its usages, such as here. So I spent a lot of time on that page. And between reading web pages talking about 意味(いみ), I would loaf away by comparing the location between the two pages and different angles it’s shown at.

Also, I always wondered about the manhole cover changing locations between angles, even though I could match up other items. Now I see why. (One isn’t a manhole cover, and it and the cover aren’t ever seen at the same time.)

So, yeah, that location and I kind of have some history.

4 Likes

Think she’s just omitting a ない.

The way there’s one by the kerb and one in the middle of the road? :slightly_smiling_face:

5 Likes