Kinou no Teki wa Kyou mo Teki - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[GoldenSpin]

i love it

 

[sanwichpicle]

thanks for the translations it was a good read

 

[EchoGirl]

it's tagged as doujinshi, is it based on an existing work or just more considered 'amateur' (tho the raw says it's published on a site rather than just pixiv lol), or maybe a contained one shot in an existing 'universe' /story series she drew before

oh hey it's that goddess of lingerie artist

 

[alanmfruiz]

Aye I was there on discord watching your stream while editing pg. 22. Thanks for translating. 🙏

 

[Unma]

Oh this is great, love it to bits. Thanks for the translation!

 

[WindMil]

That was fun. But what was the title about? I didn't see anyone being enemies

 

[dandalyn]

That was fun. But what was the title about? I didn't see anyone being enemies

Was getting a few questions about this on Dynasty so I gathered my thoughts. Apologies for wall of text!

The title (Kinou no Teki wa Kyou mo Teki, “yesterday’s enemy is also today’s enemy”) is a play on the expression Kinou no Teki wa Kyou no Tomo, “yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend”. It means something like, just because you’re at odds with someone today doesn’t mean you won’t be on their side someday. Yuni’s take on this is “sure, redemption arcs are fine, but more often, something giving you trouble today will actually keep giving you trouble the next day”. She likes to use these plays on expressions for titles.

As for how it relates to the story, I have a few ideas—just my own interpretation of the story.

Generally I think the theme is “if you don’t like something, asking you to come to like it might be unfair. Maybe you’re just right, and the best you can do is cope and eventually move on.”

They’re dealing with sexual harassment at work, but this isn’t a story about them addressing it per se. There’s no real confrontation, much less redemption for her boss(?). Instead they just find ways to cope with it because they have each other’s backs.

Throughout their relationship, Onose has never gotten used to Asahina’s smoking. That doesn’t change, but she does finally build up the courage to confront it. But no redemption for that, Asahina just acknowledges that it was never really good for her in the first place.

Onose tends to overcommit herself and be a people-pleaser. She doesn’t like this about herself (hence self-loathing mode). But Asahina doesn’t discourage this or try to change her, instead she supports her as it is—whatever stage of dealing with this Onose is in, Asahina has her back.

Asahina enters her new job thinking she’ll never see the nice lady she met at the info session again, but then turns out to be right with her all along. Pretty low-drama arc (of crush I met briefly) -> (follow after her) -> (relationship). There’s no “friends I made along the way” kind of story. Not so much “enemies” in this case, so maybe this is a stretch.

At the end, Onose has left her job. Maybe this was because of persistent sexual harassment, maybe because she found the culture of picking up other people’s slack too hard to avoid, we don’t know. But switching jobs is much less common in Japan. Reading between the lines, it could just be that she acknowledged that her situation was flawed, and couldn’t fix it, she could only leave it for somewhere better.

 

[Tcof]

it's tagged as doujinshi, is it based on an existing work or just more considered 'amateur' (tho the raw says it's published on a site rather than just pixiv lol), or maybe a contained one shot in an existing 'universe' /story series she drew before

oh hey it's that goddess of lingerie artist

Neither of what you ask would determine it is doujinshi, and work that have these element could be not a doujinshi at all as well.
Dounjinshi mean self polish. which mean it just simple not sell via a distributor/publisher

 

[Loner210]

Gives me the vibe of I Love You So Much, I Hate You, but without the cheating part xD

 

[dqvdqv]

Cute. Hopefully there'll be another one-shot with these characters.

 

[Aile]

it's tagged as doujinshi, is it based on an existing work or just more considered 'amateur' (tho the raw says it's published on a site rather than just pixiv lol), or maybe a contained one shot in an existing 'universe' /story series she drew before

oh hey it's that goddess of lingerie artist

Doujinshi literally means self-published work, it doesn't matter whether it is a parody of any existing work or an original, if you sold your work yourself, then that classified as doujinshi.

 

[recklessribbon]

Thanks for the translation!

I, too, love OL yuri

 

[SpencerSDH]

Doujinshi literally means self-published work, it doesn't matter whether it is a parody of any existing work or an original, if you sold your work yourself, then that classified as doujinshi.

Mangadex has this very confusing system where they have a doujinshi tag for self published works, but also put "doujinshi" in the title of doujins based on existing properties. There's no tag for it. You just have to search "doujinshi", specifically in the search bar, which will give you doujins based on existing IPs, but not stand alone doujins that are original, despite those also being doujins.