main character - a dinosaur who Kaede finds in her apartment
大家さん
Oyasan (Landlord)
Kaede’s Landlord
山田
Yamada
Kaede’s Friend
翔太
Shōta
Kaede’s Ex Boyfriend
先パイ
Senpai
Kaede’s work senpai
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Hmmm I feel like this chapter would have been more fitting a few months ago. Oh well, here are my translation attempts.
Page 83
Chapter 9 Merry Christmas
Kaede-chan!
We’re together for today’s shift!
…Ha?
Eh? Sorry!! Did I trick you? (Trick?)
No…
That…
Aaah Just because it’s Christmas Eve
The Store Manager (The Store Manager is having us wear this for Christmas Eve?)
I’ll act like I didn’t see that
Pi
Eh?
I have it? Kaede-chan’s outfit
…..
Page 84
Pa
This text will be hidden
Page 85
This is the worst…
Eh?
Welcome
Kaede!! Merry-
Oh? You’re doing cosplay, so cute!
Annoying
Some amazing people have come…
Welcome…
Page 86
Please indicate that you’re of age
Is that person working?
Ah… yes I suppose so
Hey, don’t harass my Senpai
She’s clearly bothered isn’t she?
Ah, is she your Senpai?
Please give Kaede a stern scolding!
Y-yes
He’s an idiot
Page 87
Were you and Shouta close?
No, not really
I just happened to run into him and Dino in front of the station
Oden? I’ll give you some
One thing led to another and they started drinking
Are they on good terms?
I have no idea
Only egg and radish?! That’s too basic!
And you call yourself a dinosaur
Where are they drinking?
…..eh?
Eh?
Um…..
Page 88
It was at your home…
Hah!?
Dinosaur said it was okay to come in…
Dinosaur!!
Page 89
I want Oden too! With stuffed cabbage and spicy sausage!!
With Yuzu Kosho!!
See you
Yes
Please come again
Thank you very much (The same typo???)
Those people just now were interesting
Were they your friends?
Um
Page 90
That was my friend my ex and a dinosaur
Your friend, your ex and a dinosaur
That’s chaos
What was Chaos again?
Hmm… well… they were interesting
Eh….
Well then Senpai, you’re coming too
We’ll all drink together
Eh?
Me too?
Yup
Because…
Isn’t that more of a chaos?
I guess that’s true
Had a couple of recently learned kanji in this chapter, so that was nice ^^
Is Kaede scanning her own nametag at the bottom of page 83? Maybe that’s how she clocks on. Or logs in to the register. (Any experts in kombini POS systems around here? )
Page 87, it amuses me that Shota also judges Dino’s oden tastes as 普通
The previous bubble ends in って, which marks it as a quotation. In this bubble, sempai is clarifying who she’s quoting. So it’s like “the manager said”.
Page 84
Ya skipped page 84.
Page 86
More “please touch the age confirmation [button]”. They look somewhat like this:
Nah, that’s definitely a り. In many fonts - including handwritten - it’s split into two strokes. You can tell the difference from い because the right-hand stroke is longer than the left one.
Late today because of reasons, but this was a fun chapter. I love when characters that have been separated so far get thrown together and I like watching the dynamics that emerge, and now I’m excited for Kaede’s Senpai to get to know everyone else more, supposing that’s what’s coming…
face that compels you to forgive all transgressions he could have killed someone and kaede would be like DINO WHAT DID YOU DO and he’d look at her like that and she’d be like well i’m sure u had ur reasons
I like how visually, Dino’s taken position here as the party master. You have the host’s okay to join the party. It may be your own apartment, Kaede, but don’t forget who’s really in charge… (this is cat energy)
Translation
P83
Senpai: “Kaede-chan!
We’re together for today’s shift!”
Kaede: “…huh?”
Senpai: “Eh!? I’m sorry!! Was I too familiar!?”
Kaede: “No…
That…”
Senpai: “Ohh, it’s because it’s Christmas Eve
The manager said…”
Kaede: “I’ll pretend I didn’t see it”
Senpai: “Huh?
But I have it here? Yours”
Kaede: …
P84
Kaede: “Welcome~”
Senpai: “It suits you”
Kaede: “I really don’t like it
But I couldn’t be the only one not wearing one!!”
Senpai: “You matched with me
Thanks!”
Kaede: “…don’t you hate it, Senpai?”
Senpai: “Nope. Though it would definitely suck if someone I knew saw me liked this, I guess.”
P85
Kaede: “This really sucks…”
Senpai: “Huh?” PIN-PAN
Shouta: “KAEDE~!! MERRY CHRISTMAS~”
Yamada: “Oho~? You’re in cosplay~ Cuuute~”
Kaede: “Annoying”
Senpai: Some really strange people came…
“Welcome…”
P86
Senpai: “Please touch to verify your age”
Shouta: “Is she a hard worker?”
Senpai: “Um… yes, she is.”
Kaede: “Hey!! Don’t bug Senpai
You’re annoying her”
Shouta: “Oh, this is your Senpai? Go hard on her, please!!”
Senpai: “Y…yes”
Yamada: “What an idiot”
P87
Kaede: “Were you always close with Shouta?”
Yamada: “No, not at all
I just happened to run into him and Dino at the station
And we’ve gotten carried away drinking”
Shouta: “Oden? It’s my treat~”
Kaede: “Those two are close
It’s really a mystery”
Shouta: “Just eggs and daikon!? Huh!? That’s too plain~
Are you even a dinosaur~”
Kaede: “Where have you been drinking?”
Yamada: “…mm?”
Kaede: “Hm?”
Yamada: “Um…”
P88
Yamada: “Your place…”
Kaede: “What!?”
Yamada: “Well, Dino said we could come in…”
Kaede: “DINO!!”
P89
Kaede: “I’m getting oden too!! With cabbage rolls and spicy sausage!!
And yuzukoshou!!”
Dino: [thumbs up]
Kaede: “Okay, later”
Yamada: “Yuup”
Senpai: “Please come again”
Shouta: “Thank you~”
Senpai: “Those people just now were funny
Your friends?”
Kaede: “Uuuuhm”
P90
Kaede: “My friend and my ex-boyfriend and a dinosaur”
Senpai: “'‘My friend and my ex-boyfriend and a dinosaur’
That’s chaos…”
Kaede: “What’s chaos?”
Senpai: “Mm… umm… it’s kinda like ‘fun’ I guess…”
Kaede: “Oh…
Then will you come and drink with us after this too?”
Senpai: “Huh?
Me!? Is that okay?”
Kaede: “Yup. Besides…
That would be more chaos, right?”
Senpai: “…It sure would be”
Hooray, the best part of my weekend! This chapter started off slowly in terms of reading, but I quickly picked up pace and finished pretty smoothly. Daily reading is paying off!
Found a few new grammatical structures like ～た + ことにする. I think what’s holding me back is a lack of understanding of the passive tense, which I’ve just been kind of winging until I get to the proper grammar lesson for it.
Some of my favorite details
Iconic holiday retail shot. I even cropped out the panels to the left because I like this one so much
I’ve got this as “Our shift was together today!”, but why is this in the past tense? Is it some kind of implied usage of shift, like “our shift was scheduled”, perhaps?
p84, panel 3 - わけにはいかない
でもアタシだけ
着ないわけには
いかないし！！
This one’s got me a little confused. わけ seems to be for stating a reason, so roughly I have this broken down to:
But // only I // reason to not wear // doesn’t go // (this statement is a reason)
I’m guessing いかない functions in the same way that negative + てはいけない
Okay, I found the grammar point for わけにはいかない, hah. So this is one of those double negative points, right? So, “But I’m only wearing it because I have no choice!” or something of the like?
Agreed! I love how 先パイ goes from judgy when she first sees the crew to like “hey they’re cool, I could hang” when 楓 invites her!
Excited to see how the friend group dynamic changes. Dino seems to be connecting worlds, hah!
So the way I interpreted this one was:
[but [i only [not wear]] [possibility can’t go]]
translating it a little:
[but [only me not wearing] [isn’t possible]]
so:
“I can’t be the only one not wearing it”
i.e. the two main halves are “アタシだけ
着ない”, i.e. “only I don’t wear” and “わけには
いかない” which in this usage I would interpret as describing a kind of (im)possibility (sorta like わけがない), surrounded by でも and し
Which is to say that I’m pretty sure this is a double negative, yes, but one where it’s important that the first negative is about Kaede being the only one not wearing the costume, and the second negative being that that isn’t a possibility (emotionally, even if it’s logically possible)
I think that Japanese doesn’t use past and present tense as strictly English does. I can’t exactly tell you why it was used this way, just that sometimes past/present get used in places your English brain will object, but its perfectly good Japanese.
Just linking the Bunpro grammar point for anyone else with this same question.
I wasn’t really sure whether Kaede knew the girl that came in until the end when she called her a friend to senpai. Was I just being a bit thick and supposed to recognise her from the prev chapter where she visited? The アンタ used on page 87 was v familiar but couldn’t tell at the time if that was just gal being gal.
Page 83 馴れ馴れしかった - explanations above make sense! Was struggling to find this in my dictionary for some reason.
Pg 87 中良かった - is there an implication in this question of her being… close with shouta?
ope, is it 山田? I totally missed that if so… That makes way more sense. Based on the conversation, I misinterpreted it like she ran into 翔太 at the station for the first time and somehow was down to hang out at a rando woman and her dino’s apartment? hahahahaha
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he could have killed someone and kaede would be like DINO WHAT DID YOU DO and he’d look at her like that and she’d be like well i’m sure u had ur reasons
