Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

The Ioka Wako manga (left) and the Toba Tsugaru manga (right) Happy weekend, everyone! I’m a few pages away from finishing the translation of Vol 7 Intermezzo 2 (about Byakuya), but I want to take a brief break for this post about the two versions of Kakuriyo manga. I found this article (written by a Kanagawa-based freelance writer Misaki) explains the two versions well, but I will summarise the article here. There’s also another article about the two manga from Misaki if you want to read further, but the content is very similar.  So, some of you would’ve noticed that there are two versions of the Kakuriyo manga, and you would ask why there are two versions. I also wondered about it, but only a few days ago I made time to google the answer in Japanese. The short answer is: to expand their readership.  So, the first manga started in 2016 as a serialization in KADOKAWA's "B's-LOG COMIC"  and is illustrated by Wako Ioka (Ioka Wako, 衣丘わこ). This version is translated by ...

The shrine where Aoi 'first' met Ōdanna-sama in Ep 1 of the anime ( source ) Within a few hours, I am going to post Vol 12 Ch 13 translation about the night when Ōdanna-sama spent the night at Aoi’s place. However, this chapter also has some interesting tidbits that may give clues to the location of Aoi’s house, such that I originally wrote a short paragraph in the footnote of my translation about it. However, the post ended up being several paragraphs long. というわけで, I decided to post it as a separate, short post. Vol 12 (p137) gave me the first hint that Aoi’s home is in Kitakyushu (North Kyushu) Japan. Back in Vol 9 Ch 2 , Aoi told Setsu that she studied the World Civilisation as a student of Literature Studies. Now, there is a university in Kitakyushu called (yep, you got it!) the University of Kitakyushu, complete with a Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Comparative Cultures . It sounds like what Aoi would study, so I think this is where she would study in the real world. The...