Tonikaku Kawaii - Vol. 20 Ch. 180 - Memories of life
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Splash art spread's text by Tsukasa appears to read, according to Lens: "blooms in winter / graceful flowers" ... Was kinda worried how scattered they were would cause issues, but Lens figured it out well enough. Really impressive tech, honestly, and glad I don't need a Google phone to do it, just their app. Can also just plug it into Google image search on a computer and then swap it to translate mode, but using a phone camera I can sort of finagle angles and such to get various different renderings, and sometimes it gives something far more coherent than just the flat image plugged into image translate. I can also see the common word meanings and themes popping out, so I know it's not just an illusion of a bad image read.
Maybe I would have some competency at some phase of translation, but I wouldn't certainly bank on such notions.
So... are these the markers of people Tsukasa grew close to during her life? Did she know Shizuka, or possibly was it an identity she went by at one point? If the latter, I can't imagine she actually was pregnant, as is claimed on her wikipedia entry, for the reasons I've already stated on why she shouldn't have 'night exercises', as Kurenai calls it, while still 'gifted' with the elixir's power.
To be honest, I'd lean towards the former to preserve as much of the details we know as possible, but the wiki still claims the records about Shizuka are full of ambiguous details, outright saying 'it is difficult to separate fact from fiction' with respect to her story. So there might be fudge-room for Hata to do whatever he wants with her place in history.
It would certainly make sense to me that Tsukasa might have helped the real Shizuka to disappear after the events of her tale transpired. But she did also make mention of a 'taiga drama' about one of the people who confessed to her over her long life in the Vol.16 Extra chapter, 148.5... Not sure if that ties to this specifically, but still...
Anyway, it'll probably get revealed soon enough. But I like to make with the idle speculation. I don't have any way to believe one way or another on this, unlike my earlier assertions that Tsukasa had to be tied to the elixir before it was even revealed, instead of all the people thinking she was Kaguya (who we now have as an actual separate character reborn and living in tandem with Tsukasa and the rest of the cast).
Maybe I would have some competency at some phase of translation, but I wouldn't certainly bank on such notions.
So... are these the markers of people Tsukasa grew close to during her life? Did she know Shizuka, or possibly was it an identity she went by at one point? If the latter, I can't imagine she actually was pregnant, as is claimed on her wikipedia entry, for the reasons I've already stated on why she shouldn't have 'night exercises', as Kurenai calls it, while still 'gifted' with the elixir's power.
To be honest, I'd lean towards the former to preserve as much of the details we know as possible, but the wiki still claims the records about Shizuka are full of ambiguous details, outright saying 'it is difficult to separate fact from fiction' with respect to her story. So there might be fudge-room for Hata to do whatever he wants with her place in history.
It would certainly make sense to me that Tsukasa might have helped the real Shizuka to disappear after the events of her tale transpired. But she did also make mention of a 'taiga drama' about one of the people who confessed to her over her long life in the Vol.16 Extra chapter, 148.5... Not sure if that ties to this specifically, but still...
Anyway, it'll probably get revealed soon enough. But I like to make with the idle speculation. I don't have any way to believe one way or another on this, unlike my earlier assertions that Tsukasa had to be tied to the elixir before it was even revealed, instead of all the people thinking she was Kaguya (who we now have as an actual separate character reborn and living in tandem with Tsukasa and the rest of the cast).
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