I know I'm posting this late October, quite a bit later, but I saw on Wakaki's blog that he started a manuscript for a new chapter of JKMG and decided to check back and look at how things were going.
Very cool. Personally I'm not particularly invested in DPI, but it's your call as the person scanning and translating. Interesting to compare your old version and this new version.
Sidenote: I'm not super confident in my Japanese, but a part of me suspects that the 「カラーン コローン / カラ～ン カラ～ン」 sound...
I was wondering how things were turning out with JK MG when I saw Wakaki tweet about there being enough chapters for a tankoubon. Pleasantly surprised about this chapter that I slipped past me since you posted it.
As a personal fan of Wakaki's works (to the point of scanlating several of his...
Hey everyone. Sorry that it's been three months since the last batch for this weekly series. Things got super busy in our offline lives, and this chapter was a major roadblock because of typesetting the song. Trust me, I know it sucks for the reading experience, and it frustrates me as well...
Amazing work as always. I'm glad that someone as dedicated and with knowledge in both Japanese and model-making has decided to tackle this series, and you did a bang-up job with the typesetting. Thanks for the interview translation.
Right. And that's a totally valid translation choice as well.
I pushed for it, because in Japanese, all phobia names follow that pattern of [very literal kanji]-[phobia kanji].
Claustrophobia is "closed space + phobia". If someone is a "zoophobe" Japanese says they have "animal + phobia"...
Interesting. I tried looking up the Zoids thing myself, but yeah, no dice here either. Interestingly, looking into Zoids, while I never saw the show, I now realized I had some of these toys as a kid. No idea why or what relative bought them for me, but it's interesting to be reminded of them.
Wow! I really appreciate you coming back to scanlate more of this.
Don't really have much to say about this chapter, but I'm always to see more of Wakaki's works.
No, the author never mentioned it as far as I know. I learned about it from a Japanese reaction blogger... 3 years ago? And made the image to share the information 3 years ago as well. There are a handful of different TWGOK easter eggs in this manga (e.g. Sammy and Kiki).
There actually is, technically. Saitou and Akiko (Rika and Takuya's coworkers on page 4 who say "Hmmm! It's so good!" and "Maybe I should've married him.") are actually from TWGOK, where they were Minami's two friends.