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Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting! But please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week
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That’s true about Mikoto (also the 山田 part, when she’s from the mountains). I don’t really see any direct connection with any of the kanji in 猫崎’s name. But maybe someone else will?
Which digital editions are ppl using? I’m using Bookwalker, but finding some of the furigana (like for 椿) are pretty unclear
Already thoroughly enjoying this. I instantly fell for 実古都.
第１話
猫崎 is a bit harder to like. She’s not unlikable, but her hypocrisy when she told the other girls that they absolutely had to have 4 people for their clubs rubbed me the wrong way. I get that she made an exception for 実古都 because she likes her, but the absolute disdain in her face when she said it was a bit too much.
I’m sure I’ll grow to like her more, but at the moment I’m a little torn. I am adoring her when she is interacting with 実古都, but not much liking her the rest of the time.
I didn’t mind it so far. It is the first chapter after all. If it keeps happening throughout the story, then I will definitely get frustrated at some point.
Given that the story is graded L22, I was expecting to be able to understand it fairly well. And I was, until I got to this narration near the end:
The main character has an actual reason for being a loner, that isn’t being a gloomy 陰キャ or extreme 人見知り type
The way the author utilizes misunderstanding and mistaken perceptions
the 4 side characters are hilarious
the vibe between the two leads is really sweet
Mikoto’s Kansai-ben isn’t just a random quirk, but actually has story relevance
Nekozaki is definitely a bit messed up rn… It adds an interesting complexity/believability tho, imo
I’m definitely really curious to see people’s impressions of the difficulty as we read. I found myself having to look up more words than I was expecting. Thankfully the Kansai-ben is much easier for me this time around
It seems to partially be my tablet (sigh), but the vol 2-3 physical editions are much clearer than my phone or tablet. I’m really hoping the vol 1 shows up on Suruga-ya or Cdjapan in the next week or two.
Same here. I was able to follow along pretty well, but, at least early in the chapter, there were more words that I didn’t know than I expected given the level. It felt like it got easier later in the chapter, but that could just be because I was absorbed into the characters and didn’t realize that I was missing words (Always a good sign for a story!).
I think it’s an intensifier. As in do ド Prefix - Meaning | Japanese Hobby though I usually see it with katakana and mostly with specific words, such as some of those used in the article.
Like @bbo said, it’s being used as an intensifier here. Not sure how often I see it hiragana vs. katakana; it’s a more informal intensifier iirc, so afaik it’s just whatever the author feels like that day.
ど忘れ; ド忘れ; 度忘れ 【どわすれ(ど忘れ,度忘れ); ドわすれ(ド忘れ)】 (n,vs,vt,vi) lapse of memory; (something) slipping one’s mind; forgetting for a moment something one knows well
so this particular use of the ど prefix is presumably pretty common. (It also has an entry for ど真ん中; I didn’t go looking for any others.)
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