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(Pretty much all of the recent comments mention this manga, I notice.)
Page 135 first panel, what exactly is the reading for ✕２? エックス? タイムズ? にばい?
In Digimon Xros Wars (the only other place I can immediately recall seeing something like that written), it’d pronounced “クロスツー”, though considering デジクロス is also the power-up activation phrase, that reading might just be thematic rather than typical.
Done with this week’s reading. It felt easier than last week, the situations were a bit more straightforward.
Story thoughts:
I’m glad that we’ve moved into a new phase of the story, where the two girls are together again (and being somewhat awkward about it). The top half is p.122 is a drawing style that we haven’t seen in a while, I’ve missed it.
The interaction on p. 129 was hilarious, with Aya’s “I was into her first” attitude.
p. 131
Why is Koga-san so startled here? Are they late for PE class because they were listening to music together? Koga-san says あっち側に行くとこだった (I was just about to go over there), and Aya says あぶない. Not sure how to place all this in the proper context.
Also, I can’t quite make out the handwritten text at the bottom of the page:
なにこの○○?
Them being so absorbed in the music they forgot about PE class is how I interpreted it, yes.
The handwritten text I’m not too sure about, it looks like 空向 to me, but the only thing I can find is there are some people who use that as an online handle, so I doubt that’s it
Neither of them cared about PE. The problem was that the music was so good they almost died. あっち側 = the other side, in the figurative sense. The other side of the River Sanzu, the afterlife, sort of thing.
空間. The 冂 with a line through it is a 略字 form for the 門 radical.
Ah, I see. They’re really into their music, aren’t they?
Oh, thanks for that. I think I knew about the use of these types of simplified characters, but I don’t think I’d ever seen them in the wild like this (except for 才 instead of 歳, I suppose).
Whaaat? That’s the least amount of awkward interaction we had since the beginning! I’m so glad they are just casually hanging out in the CD shop, sitting on the floor and talking, and doing stuff together in school. It’s such a major step up from before
actually, looks like warner music have just announced a soundtrack LP release
I would say the chances of an anime are pretty high tbh
Tracklist:
Heart shaped box / Nirvana
Walk this way / Aerosmith
Higher Ground / Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Loser / Beck
Black Hole Sun / Soundgarden
You Give Love A Bad Name / Bon Jovi
Coping Mechanism / Willow
Say It Ain’t So / Weezer
Shine / Collective Soul
Mister Brightside / The Killers
Phoar, what a list! No Smashing Pumpkins or Radiohead though. Also honestly, I prefer the Run DMC/Aerosmith version of Walk This Way, but that might break Mitsuki’s brain
