houkago play? in the year of our lord 2024? wow. its been so long i forgot it was read left to right. thanks for the translation (heads up you missed an h on "wash" on page 10)
my biggest issue isn't quite that it removes specific beats or even that the internal monologue is gone. the thing that drives shuukura is largely a certain affect, a holding of breath as intimacy is heightened and an exhale as things either progress or recede.
this is predominantly done...
honestly the more i think about this chapter the more insufficient it feels. a lot of specifics are lost. the kiss on the finger not being there is bizarre. also miyagi didn't even get to stab her with a pencil!
very good faces in this chapter. it's cutting pretty quick through the novel, feels like the tone (eroticism) is lost cause of that unfortunately. fingers crossed we see some more stealth maika's soon.
there aren't too many jp tweets on most of yurihime series usually, just a few going "that chapter was nice" and the like, but namori's works get some real hot discussions. people are very playfully mad about yui's womanizing ways this month lol
i will say that the lack of a good translation (i was interested in the series before that group even started their wordpress) was one of my biggest motivators to practice japanese. the web novel is free and the nazeka web extension/add-on makes it a snap to look up kanji you dont know.
kind of smart for the magazine to use this expedited chapter as an ad for the web reader while also pushing past the most expository portion of the story. the sooner we get back to the bitting the better
its doing a good job at the pov switch tho, not only is sendai's facade totally removed for...