A Cool Girl and a 12cm Promise - Ch. 1 - The Promise

[MangaDex]

 

[Dekker]

Oh cool, they got serialized! Thanks for the translation!

 

[Elhao]

Nice, I like the webcomic a lot.

 

[retrosupersayan]

no words
only ❤️❤️❤️

 

[Chareu]

I'm happy that they were serialized. I was worried for a moment that this was going a different route.

 

[Hicleric]

Nice, we can always use moar tall girl x short-ish love interest

 

[lesseffective]

Let's fucking goooooooooo!!

 

[TheManager]

Confused, Screaming inside

 

[silverpetricof]

If I'm being honest, I wish the author did just a LITTLE bit more to distinguish Ibuki as a girl (and I understand she's supposed to be boyish and cool in appearance and manner). But, to me, it really feels like the author just drew a tall high school boy and said "this is a girl." She's TOO boyish looking for me to believe she's actually a girl.

But whatever. It's just a nitpick.

Thanks for the translation.

 

[phantom95]

If I'm being honest, I wish the author did a just a LITTLE bit more to distinguish Ibuki as a girl (and I understand she's supposed to be boyish and cool in appearance and manner). But, to me, it really feels like the author just drew a tall high school boy and said "this is a girl." She's TOO boyish looking for me to believe she's actually a girl.

But whatever. It's just a nitpick.

Thanks for the translation.

Yeah... This is just yaoi with extra steps.

 

[Zasgan12]

I am glad this got a serialization. To the people complaining about Ibuki and her appearance, in Asia there is a lot more people with androgynous beauty and I feel like she fits in that category. It aint yaoi lmao but pop off i guess

 

[PigeonHater]

Thanks for the tl

 

[calvintanuki]

If I'm being honest, I wish the author did a just a LITTLE bit more to distinguish Ibuki as a girl (and I understand she's supposed to be boyish and cool in appearance and manner). But, to me, it really feels like the author just drew a tall high school boy and said "this is a girl." She's TOO boyish looking for me to believe she's actually a girl.

But whatever. It's just a nitpick.

Thanks for the translation.

boyish girls are perfect bro
shadap!!

 

[Nermie01]

I honestly can tell in her facial structure that she is female, plus it looks like the author might have given her a bit more of an obvious bust? Just hidden well under clothing.

 

[Seraph_Dalgon_]

I'm not gonna lie, this feels like a Yaoi with extra steps but let's see where this goes

 

[Hamdan07a]

I wish the author changed the promise they made, I found it corny.

 

[Sky_Ravager]

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

 

[Ultenth]

Good for the author! Hopefully they have a decent work schedule and don't risk burnout! Can't wait to see where the story progresses to now that it's serialized and they don't have to hold back on plot development like some do pre-serialization.

 

[altmaria]

If I'm being honest, I wish the author did a just a LITTLE bit more to distinguish Ibuki as a girl (and I understand she's supposed to be boyish and cool in appearance and manner). But, to me, it really feels like the author just drew a tall high school boy and said "this is a girl." She's TOO boyish looking for me to believe she's actually a girl.

But whatever. It's just a nitpick.

Thanks for the translation.

That's expected with highly stylized artworks in certain mangas that end up being very androgynous. That's why it's so easy to gender-bend and cross-dress manga characters...

Therefore it makes sense to rely on the author's information to understand what the characters are if gendered characteristics don't follow social conversion or there isn't the cop out of drawing big breasts or highly detailed eyes on women, for example.

Many manga authors readily play with this, and in my opinion, it's perfectly okay. Take a look at this example from Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out:

https://mangadex.org/chapter/d146c81d-8815-4cfc-9649-2b976a9f51d2/7

Mind you that this comes from Take, an author that exaggerates sexual characteristics on his characters a lot to convey gender.

On the other hand, this author is using their own artstyle to tell an unique story and mess with the expectation of the readers, and that's pretty refreshing.

 

[BayuAH]

Wow, finally it got serialization.

Side note though, why this serialization considered fast get MAL page and some not even today get one?¹

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¹ https://myanimelist.net/manga/162128