海はいかない by 田沼 朝 (たぬま あさ)
Ahh, isn’t it though? This is the story I liked enough to translate to share with friends who I thought would like it too.
If you like artfully composed conversation-heavy manga with this kind of tone that’s difficult to understand 100%, you can certainly look forward eventually to monthly doses of Iyahaya, Atami-kun’s kansai-ben when it starts up!
shortshort 星降る夜に by 岩宗 治生 (いわむね はるお)
I was wondering why she says “is justice” here. Any ideas?
I didn’t go back and look at the context, but “○○は正義”/“X is justice” is a common slangy/nerd kind of… cliche thing to say, I guess, in Japanese from what I’ve gathered over time. It’s basically like… saying (in a sort of meaningless/fun way) that X is the best / you’re all about X and want more of it to exist, I’d say.
Apparently it may ultimately derive from a (sorta meaningless but cool sounding) line in the theme song to Kamen Rider Black: 信じる奴がジャスティス but I get the impression that its permeated at least internet/otaku vocabulary enough that you see “X is justice” fairly sometimes in English-speaking communities adjacent to those.
… Anyway, so here she’s just further extolling the sensation she’s describing! In a cute/fun way.
猫のまにまに by 宇島 葉 (うのしま よ)
Haha, I’d say nekosuke is just a stock name for a cat! In that sequence, she’s watching all sorts of people spontaneously come up with all sorts of cat names.すけ and たろう are both generic boy name suffixes, so 猫介 and 猫太郎 are natural quick names to address a cat you just met (if you happen to assume it’s a boy, as those two apparently did). Similarly みけ子 is just 三毛 (“calico”) made into a girl’s name with the generic female name suffix 子/こ
The portraits earlier on though are definitely famous author references!
Funnily enough - I actually remember (or at any rate, remembered after hunting down what it was I was trying to recall) asking who the non-Soseki one was when I read it! So that panel floated right into my mind’s eye when I read your comment!