Tokubetsu na Chuutohanpa - Ch. 32 - I don't see girls like that

[MangaDex]

 

[eightrooks]

Hope you like melodrama hohohohoho

More seriously: this was the chapter where I started doing redraws - I went back and fixed or added a couple of things in previous chapters, but not all. No guarantees, but most panels from this point which only needed simple redraws should have them.

(Plus I managed to get some more of the background asides by handwriting them into Translate, so apparently my terrible chicken scratches are good enough the app can recognise them, at least. Still can't do kanji, mind.)

I also realised, re-checking this, I forgot to include the character profile pages from #29, partly since I didn't get round to translating them - it would have been quite a bit of work and they don't say anything absolutely essential. Should have at least put them up untranslated, though, so apologies. Anyway, FWIW, I don't think it got mentioned before this point...? So to clarify the T/N on page 1, her name is Hikari Joma - Asuna calls her "Jo", Shinako calls her "Hi-chan". Apologies if that confused anybody.

 

[Akaishishi]

The blonde friend is scary

 

[DrJamesFox]

Whoa that blonde hair girl is wild. She better be careful though, because Misono might kill her if she catches her acting flirty like that with Asuna.

 

[Joddascus]

God I love quiet onee-san types with rizz

No one can beat the coveted femme top

 

[MathMols]

I understood the first part of the chapter, but didnt understand what was happening in the last like 3 pages...

 

[eightrooks]

I understood the first part of the chapter, but didnt understand what was happening in the last like 3 pages...

Hey,

going by subsequent chapters I'm fairly sure I've got the broad strokes correct, but apologies, obviously, if my choice of words has made it confusing in any way.

The last three pages when it changes from them chit-chatting are essentially:

• Joma (dark hair) says to Shinako (blonde), "Why are you bugging me about my boyfriend anyway, everyone talks to boys, even the honours students" (i.e. meaning the smart girls, who are meant to be studying and not chasing guys)
• Shinako says, "Like who? There's lots of honour students"
• Joma says, "Like her who's always number one in the class" (i.e. Natsuki)
• Shinako says, "Oh, right, Sotaro's ex, didn't she get a confession a little while ago, even? Right after the ceremony on the first day, when we started the year?" (Sotaro being the guy Natsuki was dating to pretend she's not into girls)
• Asuna thinks, "Omg, how come they all know this and I don't, shouldn't Natsuki be telling me if we're going out?"
• The stress gets too much, and she staggers off to the infirmary

Hope that helps a bit...?

Joma and Shinako do not refer to Natsuki by name (either "Natsuki" or "Misono-san", since they're not friends, I guess) and Asuna's "What's going on?" phrases are maybe kinda unclear, but if there's anything else you can think of that's like "But why didn't you word it like this" or "I still don't get what that means" etc., please let me know.

(Or if anyone else knows for a fact I've got any of this wrong.)

 

[MathMols]

• Shinako says, "Oh, right, Sotaro's ex, didn't she get a confession a little while ago, even? Right after the ceremony on the first day, when we started the year?" (Sotaro being the guy Natsuki was dating to pretend she's not into girls)
• Asuna thinks, "Omg, how come they all know this and I don't, shouldn't Natsuki be telling me if we're going out?

Thanks for your answer, it cleared up everything other than this last part.

Like she literally know that she was dating him and all that, so why she acting like she didnt know it?

 

[eightrooks]

No, Joma and Shinako are saying that Natsuki is getting other guys at school approaching her after she broke up with her boyfriend, and Asuna is thinking "Who are these 'other guys', and how come Natsuki never told me about this".

Remember that nobody other than Asuna (and Kyoko, kinda) knows why Natsuki broke up with Sotaro, so presumably these "other guys" think they might have a chance of going out with her. Shinako is saying "Oh, yes, one of these 'other guys' even gave her a confession at the beginning of the current academic year". (i.e. this "other guy" who confessed to her is just some rando. It's nothing to do with her ex (Sotaro). We're not told anything about whoever this "other guy" was, not even his name.)

So Asuna is thinking "She still talks to other guys after she broke up with Sotaro and we started dating seriously, and one of these other guys even confessed to her, and yet she never told me anything about any of this, even though I'm supposed to be the one she's in love with, omg omg omg", etc.

Is that better?

 

[Kotori_fly]

Shinako knows 👀

 

[Roodypatooti]

I am 100% certain blond girl knows and is deliberately trying to mess with Asuna

 

[DrJamesFox]

I am 100% certain blond girl knows and is deliberately trying to mess with Asuna

This seems likely. Two chapters ago we did get this panel of her looking all smug and knowing when Asuna was crying and Misono hurried her out of the room: https://mangadex.org/chapter/a3d06cd0-7e56-4931-bcbe-c2d84a9db34e/7

 

[ScarletKomii]

Shinako 100% knows, also did she call Sotaro "sotaro-chan" in the original? Would that imply that she is/was friends with him or is she more so making fun of him or is adding -chan at the end of boy you don't know that well's name much less common that I assume?

On the side note, assuming I'm interpreting the last panel reaction correctly, a lot of manga characters are insanely insecure for no reason, hope those two don't end up like Yamada and Kase.

 

[KitRagnell]

Just binged this. Super cute. TY for TL