Kowloon Generic Romance - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[CCO812]

The art was incredible. Gotta say this manga really captured the feeling of old Hong Kong with those tight and crowded buildings. That zoom-out view of the title card tho. That was gorgeous.
Although Kowloon Walled City isn't here anymore, there are still many places in HK that has similar vibes, such as Shum Shui Po and Mongkok, to a lesser degree of course.

There aren't anyone who wears Chinese dresses anymore tho, we don't do that here

 

[Barnacles]

lol the author copy and pasted the main characters from her previous manga but removed the age gap that prevented them from having a successful romance

 

[Curseddraw]

the aparment style looks like those chinese cheap rent

 

[Rongmario]

Promising!

 

[Kellizer-Levvit]

Small nitpick, but I feel like having him say "you fool!" is way too serious for such a laid-back guy. "Idiot!" or even "Dumbass!" would work better for such a, well, dumbass of a dude. I assume this is translating "Baka!", yes? Unless it turns out that he's actually an arrogant kung-fu master in the next couple of chapters, "you fool!" feels out of character, at least from what character he's shown so far.

 

[Dirtbug]

I can smell that place from here. And man, it smelled like shit

 

[Tcof]

@Barnacles did we even read the same thing. you mean Koi wa Ameagari no You ni ?
I see nothing familiar between characters. In fact, they even somewhat opposite

 

[Xitel]

Kowloon has always fascinated me, I'm glad to see more people sharing the interest. It was basically a human hive, where every street is a shady back alley.

 

[kinosseur]

@givemersspls
they did so for kingdom (chinese warring states manga) too and its even more bizarre because its historical

 

[chusetto]

Glasses are ALWAYS better

Spoiler

 

[phoenix_eD]

@Barnacles So.. I'm getting a (seemingly major) spoiler of another manga here?? How about spoiler tagging it?

 

[walczyk]

What did she mean by "pong" ?

 

[Fairin]

Damn. The shots or art composition however you call it is damn nice. I feel like the anime version of this would look amazing

 

[lumpu]

Weird they are calling it "Kowloon" which refers to a region about the size of Manhattan, instead of what it actually is "Kowloon Walled City," which just happened to have been located in Kowloon and was about the size of 5 football fields.

 

[Tamerlane]

Wasn't into it at first but now I am. Really like her character, male lead I'm iffy on but I like where it's headed

 

[Big_Boss]

Thanks for translation art and setting looks neat!

 

[Shewy92]

@lumpu Why is it weird? They probably call it just Kowloon to preserve the fictionalization of it, or because no one calls things the full name.

I like how they used the Wikipedia picture https://imgur.com/2Sb9ZDe.

 

[balenol]

@Big_Boss just like one of my japanese anime...

 

[ghostkun]

What's that diamond in space a reference to on page 42?

 

[greatninja3]

Yeah the place was nice if you don't consider all the shady stuff that happened inside of it lol