The Blue Flowers, and the Ceramic Forest - Vol. 10 Ch. 48 - Final Chapter

[earlbay]

A beautiful manga with some great moments. Cute overall. 8.5/10 from me.

Thanks for all the hard work on the translation. It is really appreciated!

I appreciate you for reading and your kind compliment!

 

[earlbay]

Definitely the shallowest of KODAMA Yuki's stories, despite carrying all her hallmarks. The wrap up at the end helped its cause but this is never going to break a solid "fine" from me.
As always, loved the carefully researched setting. But never got over the two dimensional MC's and their actions that seemed to exist to only move the weak romance plot. Even a few side characters had more believable character arcs.
I care more about regional wares now, so in that aspect the manga was successful, just don't think this one will ever get a reread.
Look forward to seeing more of earlbay's translations, but I'm glad this one is over.

It's unfortunate that this manga didn't impact you like it did so many others. Regardless of that, I'm glad it inspired you to take notice of more pottery! And I appreciate your reading my translation and I hope I can translate other works in the future that you would enjoy more! <3

 

[earlbay]

Solid manga, thank you so much for your work over the past few years Earlbay! Gonna miss tuning in to this every week 😭

I appreciate you reading! And luckily if you every miss it too much, it's always there for a reread

 

[earlbay]

Thank you for your hardwork scanlating this series!! There were some pretty dramatic ups and downs with this series, but overall a pretty solid work from this mangaka :') Was so cute and bittersweet seeing the two of them as elders too aaa

I appreciate you reading and sticking along with us all this time!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you earlbay and lore!!
(Lore those plates are so pretty.)

I loved the attention to pottery production and the artistry of it, and the international connection to a place not often in manga/anime. The translation notes, especially early on, really helped with increasing my interest there.
I wish some of the drama had been focused on the pottery instead of the romance. That would have really shown off the attention to detail and research that was clearly done in order to create this story.

(See y'all in the Ookami no Musume comments section.)

Thank you for being a faithful reader! We appreciate your support!

Little spoiler for Ookami no Musume: it's taking a while because I'll be releasing Vol 5 all at once! Coming soon

 

[earlbay]

Ahhh what a ride this was. Thanks so much for your hard work ❤️ this is some treasure

Thank you for reading! I appreciate your kind words!

 

[earlbay]

That was a beautiful story! With wonderful attention to details and care in how the pottery was presented, not just as a background for the romance, but as a rightful part of the story. It was such a good read overall, despite being frustrated with the characters at times.
Thank you for your work on scanlating the series. And thank you especially for all the notes in every chapter, it really enhanced the experience and helped me learn more about pottery. Got me to appreciate the art even more.

Thank you for reading and I'm so glad you enjoyed the story! I can understand the frustration as sometimes we get frustrated with peoples decisions in real life!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you so much for the translations and honestly, very heartwarming to hear y'alls personal ties with it. Add a bit something special to the translation and story itself. I'll probably think more of yalls ending sentiments than the story (or at least, some of the happenings in the story) haha

I appreciate you reading! and thank you for the kind words!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you earlbay for all these years T_T

Thank you for reading all these years! We appreciate it so much!!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you so much, earlbay. This is easily among my favorite manga of all time and I can't help but think that I never would have gotten the chance to read it without your hard work. Thank you again so much.

I am going to miss this manga, but I'm happy knowing that they're happy and that they're just a reread away.

Thank you for sticking with us jonny! I always looked forward to your comments in the discussions!

 

[earlbay]

Congratulations to earlbay and lore for finishing this manga on a perfect note!!! Dang, that choice to publish the last chapter after the extras was truly the perfect choice, I am feeling alllllll the feels now. Their house with their gallery!!! Shinobu and Kou-chan having two beautiful kids with another baby on the way!!!! The vase having pride of place on their workshop!!!!!! THE DREAMS OF THEM AS OLD ARTISANS TOGETHER AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

I’m with Dingo777 and jonnywarlock and all the other lovely commenters that made up this little community—I’m truly blessed that you put in all this time and effort to translate a truly beautiful manga that I would never have gotten to read otherwise. Thank you so much for sharing that serendipitous story! Imagine finding a gosu bowl right when contemplating whether to continue this story! It’s straight out of this manga!! 💜💜💜

Really I am truly grateful for all the thought and care you put into this scanlation, and I’m lucky to be one of the latecomers who got to come along this ride, and we’re all lucky for the journey that piece of lovely pottery took to inspire you to continue this project. Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations + thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! 🎉🎉🎉💜💜💜

Thank you for reading all this time! I cannot say enough of my appreciation for you!

 

[earlbay]

thanks for all your work getting this series out for us!

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a lovely ending to an amazing series. didnt see that drastic a timeskip coming, but made for fleshed out farewell. that dream sequence almost had me crying, thought kids were gonna be aoko's but shinobu having huge family was cute, and love love the enshrined shooting star bud vase

Thank you for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it

 

[earlbay]

The ending left me emotional. I enjoyed this glimpse of their future and I'm gonna miss this manga. I was losing a bit of the enthusiasm at the end (funnily enough, not because of the breaking up, but because of the getting back together), but I still think it was a lovely read overall.

Thank you so much earlbay for the translation and lore_likes_cats for the notes. I'm glad that bowl was there, just waiting to inspire you

Thanks for reading! Glad you didn't lose the enthusiasm in the end! lol

 

[earlbay]

I am not crying... you're crying! Oh my goodness thank you so much for this moving chapter. It made me reflect so deeply on my own personal relationship with my partner here at the end and what it will be like to grow old together thank you for your dedication and commitment and for sharing your personal journey with us as well.

Thank you for reading and being on these journeys with us!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you for translating! I really appreciated all the extra notes about pottery, too. (I also appreciated having the extra chapters posted first. It did make the ending feel just a little more special.)

This was such a lovely series.

I agree! indeed VERY lovely! Thank you so much for reading!

 

[earlbay]

I'm glad you posted the chapters out of order, what a lovely finish to an amazing story.

Thank you so much earlbay for all your hard work over the years, I loved this series so, so much and always eagerly looked forward to updates. I'm glad you found that blue gosu bowl in NC, what a serendipitous find, as others have mentioned.

Thank you so much for reading with us! I appreciate your support and even happier that you loved this series so much!

 

[earlbay]

Thank you earlbay and lore for translating! When I saw that this had been dropped from the original scan group I was pretty devastated. Thank you for picking it up and seeing it through.

Thank you for reading! From the sounds of it, I'm so happy I was able to fulfill your desire to read this series and I'm thankful you stuck with us!

 

[earlbay]

wow, the end of an era - tysm for all ur care and hard work - so glad to have seen, if only from the outside, u 2 form an incredible partnership!

may u find ur way back to a beloved artform in whatever way u wish lore!

and wow there really is such thing as divine timing - ty always earl 🙏🏼✨

Thank you for reading tenzout! You've been with us for a long time and we appreciate you so much!

 

[earlbay]

@earlbay
Did you buy the plate?

Of course! It's now like my own talisman

 

[earlbay]

thank you for all the hard work and for bringing us this beautiful story 🤍

Thank you for reading! We appreciate your support through all this time! <3