Mairimashita! Iruma-kun - Vol. 20 Ch. 177 - Together with a Friend

[illusyles]

Poly ship is sailing farther than I expected


(Also, grown up Iruma is kinda hot 😳)

 

[Le_Dokja]

Page 5
"You look good too, Iruma sama"
"Like a bad boy?!"
"Very evil!!"

That convo was so cutee 😭😍

 

[ThemBo]

Az expects Iruma to be tall and handsome man, lol. BUT ALSOO IM SCREAMING. SOUL MAAAATES

 

[Le_Dokja]

Demons are so stylish I love it!

 

[_stultus]

the harmonious union of bliss...a Bromate! heh...

 

[ProbablyWill]

Why does Irina's demon king look remind me of Lelounch from Code Geass

 

[rRemon]

It's not homosexual, it's homiesexual 😉

 

[Cat_Of_Culture]

It doesn't count if they say no homo

 

[Himecchi]

This chapter made me rethink my idea about platonic dates being a thing

 

[Munstr]

"Homie" route unlocked

 

[SummonerRufus]

We're hitting levels of comfort previously thought unimaginable.

 

[oofed22]

idk man seems yaG

 

[RaidenAyaka24]

hah gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[yoshiii]

Yup. Soulmates. YOU DAMN RIGHT IRUMA!

 

[Thrembs]

I want them to fuck, I want them all to fuck

Bonk, but kind of yes.
Not yet. nono LoSho.

 

[Tinker_OwO]

Fuuuuckkk I don't do much Yaoi, but I think... I think I ship it...

Like the panel where he says that they're "Soulmates" really made my heart skip a beat lmaooo

 

[Thrembs]

No. It means bestie.
soulmate is used in romantic context.

Language is complex, English in particular.
That is indeed the most common usage, but look at the context. LOOK AT THESE THREE.
”Bosom friend” fits better than either, given everything, but even in Anne of Green Gables people were like “say what?” it was so obscure.

Is this the term I would have used? 🤷‍♀️
Also, “bestie” has some pretty 😉 😏 connotations these days.
Especially considering the makeup of the fandom

Spoiler

what with the rampant queerness and such

So nitpicking a translation that is, at worst, “well, I guess, but…”

This is some kind of bi, poly bromance. The hell do you call that?! Is there a term? It’s gonna be pretty damned obscure…

 

[yourlocalfemboysfine]

I think it's a mistake to use soulmates as the translation there honestly.
Soulmates in english has a clear romantic implication to it, and using shinyuu doesn't imply the same in japanese.

But poly trio dude

 

[tetevmin]

girl theyre on a literal date i love this for me sm...

 

[Thrembs]

To the (hopefully few) people who were angsting about “soulmates” as a translation, there’s a great old Eikichi Yazawa tune called “Shinyuu” that’s about two male, bousouzoku “shinyuu” and things ending because one met a woman and it is a BREAKUP SONG. It’s heartbreaking, and beautiful (aside some of the mid-key misogyny because 1970s thug life social constructs, see also Shonan Junai Gumi).

It’s a bit more than “BFF”. We don’t have a word.

We have the same thing happen, of course.
My friend of approaching 30 years and I cannot remember who said what in conversations we can remember clearly, because we were basically the same person. We spoke so similarly that old recordings (we were a musical duo, so we have recordings of chatter) we speak exactly the same. You have to go by pitch and timbre because the inflection, phrasing, vocabulary etc were all the same. We still speak fairly similarly.