Welcome to the discussion for chapter 2 of 幸色のワンルーム volume 1!
Schedule
| Start Date |
Chapter |
Page Numbers |
Page Count |
| June 4 |
Chp 1 pt 1 |
4 to 18 |
15 |
| June 11 |
Chp 1 pt 2 |
19 to 34 |
16 |
| June 18 |
Chp 2 pt 1 |
36 to 45 |
10 |
| June 25 |
Chp 2 pt 2 |
46 to 56 |
11 |
| July 2 |
Chp 3 pt 1 |
58 to 70 |
13 |
| July 9 |
Chp 3 pt 2 |
71 to 83 |
13 |
| July 16 |
Chp 4 pt 1 |
86 to 101 |
16 |
| July 23 |
Chp 4 pt 2 |
102 to 118 |
17 |
| July 30 |
Chp 5 pt 1 |
120 to 134 |
15 |
| Aug 6 |
Chp 5 pt 2 |
135 to 150 |
16 |
| Aug 13 |
Chp 6 pt 1 |
152 to 162 |
11 |
| Aug 20 |
Chp 6 pt 2 |
163 to 174 |
12 |
Vocab Sheet
Discussion Rules
Please hide spoilers and any content which may be further along in the chapter than what’s on the reading schedule. Feel free to ask any questions you have or just discuss the book overall! I’m really interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts. 
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I’m having trouble with this sentence on page 45
それを聞かないのは本心なんてものが私たちの関係には必要ないから
My best attempt at a very liberal translation for now would be something like “It’s not necessary to our relationship that I know her true, unspoken feelings”.
Edit: Except I just realized these are Sachi’s thoughts, so now I’m even more confused.
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I haven’t started reading yet, so I’m going by just the quoted line.
The は…が…には has me unsure, as I’m not yet used to seeing its usage. So I can’t quite fit it all together. But I can look at it in parts:
「それを聞かないのは」
“unable to won’t ask about that” (edit: mistakenly had potential form in here)
「本心なんてものが」
“something like true feelings”
私たちの関係には必要ない
“for our relationship, it is unnecessary”
All together, maybe it’s something like this? “Regarding not asking about that. It’s because something like true feelings is unnecessary in our relationship.”
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I actually completely forgot 聞く could mean “to ask”. 
That makes a lot more sense than “to hear” in this case.
Thanks for giving it a shot. Your reading makes sense to me but let me know if you change your mind once you’ve seen it in context.
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I have access to the English translation and how @ChristopherFritz translated it is pretty close to what they have. I’ll post a picture of the page below. I’m sure it’s been localized so it might be a bit different than a direct translation.
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And this is where context clarifies things, such as who’s who and all that =D
I see now that I mistook 聞かない as having a potential in it (oops). That’s why I went with “unable to” rather than “won’t”. (Yet when I tried putting it altogether in the end, I left that out.)
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Ooh, this directly relates to the panel before, in which she imagines a question he’s not asking, 「それは幸の本心なの？」
The reason he doesn’t ask that is that something like true feelings isn’t necessary for/in our relationship.
And a lot happened while I was reading the chapter. 
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I feel like this is something I’m still getting used to when reading manga in Japanese. It seems stuff from previous panels and pages tends to carry over more than in English translations. 
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I didn’t realize there was an official translation. That’s really helpful, thanks for sharing. I like referencing the official translation even if it’s not a literal translation. Knowing what the sentence is supposed to communicate helps me go back and figure out why it means what it means.
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I hate when they do that. 
Fortunately, I have a friend who shares his Crunchyroll account with me so I actually already have it. I guess that works out in my favor?
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That is for sure a bonus! But yeah I’m not a fan of when stuff is exclusively crunchyroll either. I remember they had a series once that I wanted to read and then something must have happened to their license, so now there is no longer an official/ legal English version.
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The state of digital manga seems a bit lacking in general, to be honest. Seems like there’s no legitimate way to get DRM free digital manga, so I’ve just committed to buying physical copies whenever possible.
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Yeah 
it really does seem to be a pretty big problem. I wasn’t actually familiar with DRM until I stumbled across it on the forum here, but I get why people have an issue with it.
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Here are the chapter two discussion questions! Also, feel free to add any questions that you are curious about!
Summary
Q1. What are your opinions on 幸 getting her name and do you think it reveals anything about the characters?
Q2. What did you observe about the characters interactions this week and has how you view of the characters changed?
Q3. Any hypothesis on what tragic event happened during the sunset taken in the picture?
I’ll be posting my responses tomorrow and look forward to reading everybody’s!
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Here are my answers
Summary
Q1. I thought the reasoning behind the name was a bit cheesy, but in a good way. I do honestly think he wants her to be happy, and this was his way of expressing it. I also thought the general interaction was nice. I think Sachi deciding to change her name will be really good for her mentally. It also shows her commitment to making her current situation work. I do wonder when we will learn his name though.
Q2. My general opinion of the male lead didn’t really change this week. I still see him as a bit awkward/ not used to being around girls, but caring/ nurturing. I appreciated that he gave Sachi an appropriate type of affection (headpats). As for Sachi, I think her inner monologue is really showing her maturity and realism, but her actions and words are more childish. I’m kind of reading it as a coping mechanism and also her way of making her current situation work, since if she vocalized her thoughts it could effect the relationship she’s developing. They’re still walking on glass around each other, but are very slowly making some progress.
Q3. Based on his flashback from chapter one, I think he must have been walking up to a scene of a crime or an accident, so I think the sunset is from that day. I just realized my answer was based on something I saw when I flipped through the book to get page numbers for the schedule and not something that’s shown up in the reading yet, so I’m just going to remove it. My bad
I’ll have the chapter 3 thread up tomorrow!
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