Ane no Tomodachi - Ch. 14

[Sinussi]

Damn, she looks way better with her new hairstyle, hope the author keeps it around.

This is a kind of frustrating translation.
Stan is not directly equivalent to Oshi: the oshi is the target of affection, while the stan is the source. You can stan someone, which makes you their stan, and them your oshi. Saying that someone is your stan indicates that they are an obsessive fan of you.

Totally, thought the same thing.
Like, it's not difficult to understand the translation, but it just takes that millisecond too long for me to get it.

 

[Ferreas]

I have no idea what "stan" mean, I guess I am boomer. Well...
Yeah, the idea of combining chapters was bull's-eye. It's much better to see chapter as a whole, instead of reading only parts of it.

I've seen somewhere that the term is combination of STalker + fAN - implying a really obsessive fan of someone.


Sarssol also gave an important detail

This is a kind of frustrating translation.
Stan is not directly equivalent to Oshi: the oshi is the target of affection, while the stan is the source. You can stan someone, which makes you their stan, and them your oshi. Saying that someone is your stan indicates that they are an obsessive fan of you.

 

[Shmeep]

Stan/Oshi/Idolatry culture makes me cringe, but I can still remember a version of myself that used the term "husbando" in earnest to describe an anime character so I hope everyone keeps having fun however they please.

 

[ciera]

Thank you for the scanlation

 

[Kaarme]

Why is there an unnecessary side-girl in my Gyaru manga?

Unnecessary? She just said the most meaningful and significant thing to Hinako anyone has ever said during this whole series.

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

won't end in romance?

Not at the rate she's going, it won't.

 

[coyote_vdb]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[DeOneChester]

A stan is parasocial, so it never ends in romance. They are beyond that.

 

[mangafan3000]

isn't saying "he's my stan" about a celebrity like saying "he's my fan" when they don't even know you in the first place ?

 

[habla]

have the zoomers really flipped the meaning of "stan"? it's very confusing to read when the viewers keep calling themselves an idol's oshi

 

[Selfisch]

I don't get why people are saying she needed to hear that, because there was romantic feelings the whole time, the only thing this did was make her doubt anything on his part was romantic

She wasn't like complacent the whole time either, considering she literally asked him on what is essentially a date a second before that. This doesn't feel like some driving force that makes her try harder, more like the new possibility for her to think that everything he has done is because she is his oshi and definitely not because he has feelings for her

 

[GreC_89]

Wanted to say that she needed to stop be ambiguous if she jealous. But 'rival said some thing better.

Shoulda dragged him to karaoke and snapped him out of stan-brain the good old fashioned way

Don’t worry girl you are going to definitely be on top of him later on

Bruh just kiss him or something, he will folded fast.

 

[cgr]

This manga taking the direction of putting stans on a pedestal is so weird to me. This is like putting idol otakus who buy multiple CDs and gacha whales as some sort of special and better breed of otakus.

? nothing about it is put on a pedestal, it's literally described as a nerd hobby that MC is embarrassed to show Hinako the normie

 

[Quonk]

Lock tf in, Hinako

 

[Erbakhan]

She's so pretty in this chapter

 

[Doutorfunga]

Actually... this is such an amusing predicament! I love that she's having to grapple with fandom culture as a normie since it's almost always the other way around. I also really enjoy how Seira misconstrues his feelings for Hinako because I guess she doesn't see them as romantically involved. The idea of having to grapple with the difference between "stans" (a form of idolatry in my mind) and romantic love just feels pretty new for things I've read at least

Seira's brainrot runs deep

 

[Sky_Ravager]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Derksy]

No... Just jump on him and I'm pretty sure you would have a fait accompli in less than 10 minutes.
Or in 10 hours who knows.

 

[grumbles]

...Was that Scarle Yonaguni on the last page?

 

[wallsg]

Hii-chan you have 10000 attack power, you just have to break his shield! 😤

Canon: It's over 9000.