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Finished adding this week’s words (thanks for the pickup Belth) and added a few pages of next week’s as well. This is such a fun manga to revisit, I’ll have to put a physical preorder for v2 in at Kino - though maybe it’s on shelves already?
I thought the same thing! And it’s so far from the truth as well. In the UK lots of teenage girls are discovering and loving music that their dads listened to 25 years ago.
あなたのたねにかわいくありたい chapter
This chapter was so funny. After managing to tame her hair the rain scene was hilarious! Especially her ジーザス reaction.
Page 50 - it turned out that arriving soaking wet was a much sexier look anyway…
Not sure if I understood the last panel of that page correctly. I think キャパオーバー means “capacity overload” i.e. the thought of wearing Mitsuki’s hoodie is too exhilarating for her to cope with (むりです).
Mitsuki misinterprets her reaction - turning away and covering her face with her hand. I think Mitsuki says におう?! meaning “does it smell?!” Presumably Mitsuki worries that it smells because it’s wet, not that they wear smelly clothes!
(It’s such a misinterpretation - to Aya the rain that has fallen on Mitsuki is like holy water!)
Only week 4? It seems much longer! Still, that means we have a lot of the book still to go. Yay!.
Couple of questions, I’m 3/4 done with this week’s reading.
p.47
湿気なんかに恋心ジャマさせてたまるかっつの
This probably means something like “[I’m not going to?] let something like humidity be an obstacle for my love.” But I have no idea how to parse the latter half in particular. Any help with たまるかっつの?
p.50, related to post right above
キャパオーバー
Literal translation would be “over capacity”? Agree with Micki that it’s probably something like “That’s too much [to be wearing their sweater]”.
推しにかかれば雨も盛衰
What does かかれば mean in this context?
((Edit: typo above. Should be 聖水 instead of 盛衰))
I think it’s probably just the common かかる with a million definitions. One of them means “to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)”, so covered in water. I guess.
I actually think this is a really good ‘step-up’ book because it gets you used to a lot of casual slang used by at least manga teens, if not actual teens (I don’t really remember, but I only ever really was around middle schoolers, so who knows) but the vocab is relatively small-ish and the chapters are all popcorn sized. Honestly it’s fun to just add like four page’s worth of vocab and sail on by, too. Speaking of which, I should add a few more of next week’s words…
