Shinigami Hime no Saikon [Light Novel] - Volume 1, Prologue

Today I'm releasing the first "chapter" of the first Shinigami Hime no Saikon light novel! The light novels are much more difficult and time-consuming to translate, so please don't expect I'll be able to release them at the same speed as the manga. Luckily, I got a lot of help with this chapter from Nanaga, an experienced translator who I've looked up to for a long time <3 Please make sure to thank her for keeping my translations true to the original, and coherent in English.

I'd like to hear any comments you might have about formatting, font size, file type, etc. Also, let me know how you feel it compares to the manga, although there isn't much to judge by so far!

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Dengeki Daisy Chapter 71 RAWs and Summary

Got preview pictures for this chapter because I made a new, non-bandwidth-busted account and uploaded the picture there :D
I can continue to bring you RAWs and Summaries of Dengeki Daisy only because of the help of my friend Asahi, who provided these RAWs to me! Thanks a lot!
This chapter didn't seem to have much actual development, but rather, got everyone into place for what looks to be an exciting next chapter. Also, pretty much every character got a chance to look cool this chapter.

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The tagline for this chapter is “In the chaos surrounding “The Will of M,” Teru was abducted…!! Kurosaki and his friends will turn all of their effort to recovering her, but…?!”

The first page starts off with a picture of unconscious Teru and a repeat of the information discovered at the end of the last chapter: Teru’s being held on the uninhabited island, base G77, where The Will of M is set to unfold. The guys from the Ministry seem mystified by this news, but Kurosaki is angry and incredulous, and asks Kouno what the hell he was thinking, storing his hostage there if his intent was to keep Kurosaki and co. away from The Will of M. Kouno says that it was a mistake putting her there, that they had no intention of using it this time, but according to the original plan Kurosaki’s group would all have been prevented from doing anything (by all the Ministry assholes).  Master gets confused (actually I’m confused too) and says “Weren’t you the ones urging us on in the first place to search for the location of The Will of M?” Kouno then provides some chilling information about The Will of M: when the final seal is removed from “The Will of M’s system” (the way he says it makes it sound like a computer program that needs to be cracked) an explosion will be detonated, destroying the entire island and killing anyone on it. He also reveals that the plan was for everyone who knows about Akira’s existence to be on the island at that time. Riko asks what will happen to Teru and Kouno answers nonchalantly that it’s really too bad, but she’ll probably die. He says it wasn’t his intention for her to die, but he guesses it’s unavoidable. Then Kouno tells them he’s told them everything so in return they need to uphold their promise to protect him. Instead, Riko punches Kouno in the face, so hard he goes flying.  She then says daintily that everyone needs to restrain themselves; she punched Kouno on all of their behalf because a wuss like Kouno would die if he was punched with all the strength of a man. Then she starts to tell them to not despair yet, that they can still save Teru, but Kouno cuts in saying it’s already too late, Akira’s probably arriving on the island right now, which mean’s its Teru’s sad fate to die. Kurosaki grabs Kouno by the face and with a really scary expression on his face says “Teru belongs to me. Scum like you should not dare to speak her name without honorifics.”  (Kouno had not used “-san” or “-chan” or anything, just said “Teru.”) Kurosaki releases Kouno (who looks kind of like a corpse that has had its life/soul sucked out in the movie The Mummy) and addresses Nishida and Shibayama, asking them to help him get to the island as soon as possible so he can intercept Akira and destroy The Will of M.  Kurosaki valiantly says that he knows he’ll die if he fails but he isn’t afraid because there is nothing more important than saving Teru.

As the scene changes to where Teru is, Kurosaki narrates “Teru, I’m coming to save you. I’ll be there soon, so wait for me.” This leads into Teru’s dream about Kurosaki, in which he’s telling her to wait for him to come save her…  “Wait for me, with no clothes on!” This jolts Teru awake immediately, shouting “It’s a little early for that, isn’t it, Kurosaki-san?!” Teru realizes she’s alone in a room, and after chiding herself for having such a lewd dream, realizes that she’s actually really hot and sweating, so she removes her sweater. When she looks out the window, she finds she’s in a jungle-like location (thus the hot climate) and starts to get really afraid, thinking that there’s got to be no one here and no one will ever find her here. As she’s about to lose it and start crying, Teru remembers her brother’s advice to her:  When she’s sad or feels like panicking, she should count her blessings and remember all of her happy memories; those happy memories are a protection charm for her heart, to protect her from despair.  Teru follows this advice, recalling her brother, her friends, and last of all Kurosaki telling her he loves her, and although there are still tears falling Teru is able to remain calm and smiles peacefully.  Teru’s brother’s next advice to her was to pick a word or phrase and keep repeating it over and over to herself, in order to calm herself down. Teru picks the word “DAISY” and starts repeating it over and over, sometimes adding some other words to form short sentences ("I love DAISY." / "DAISY, this is Teru, I’m OK." etc) As she does this, Teru picks up a lantern that she suspects Antora left behind, and begins exploring the building she’s in, looking for a way to contact Kurosaki and the others, even though she’s still weak from the drugs she was injected with earlier. Teru comes to a really big door and when she enters through it finds herself in a huge room that appears to be cathedral. The pews are all old and covered in dust, lending to the impression that no one’s been here for a long time. Suddenly Teru hears a voice, saying “There’s someone here…? Who are you?” and when she turns around she comes face-to-face with Akira! Teru asks him what he’s doing there but he gets mad and tells her he’s the one who should be asking her that. Akira is furious, accusing her of always interfering and demands to know where Daisy is, and if he’s already gone ahead (to find The Will of M). Teru suddenly realizes that this is the facility on the abandoned island where The Will of M will unfold, and gets a terrified look on her face. When she explains to Akira that she was kidnapped and was already here by the time she woke up, Akira starts laughing gleefully and concludes that Daisy isn’t here. He punches Teru in the stomach to immobilize her (he still seems to think she wants to get The Will of M and steal it from him) and approaches the pulpit (where a priest once stood to preach) and opens the top revealing a computer in a secret compartment inside. He concludes that Teru alone can’t do anything and tells her to sit quietly and watch. He is still giggling insanely and talking strange (slurring words and so on.) Akira announces that the computer code on the screen is an attempt to test him, but he cracks it right away and opens "the Entrance to the Will of M." A huge noise resounds through the hall and an elevator is revealed behind the altar. As Akira goes to get in he turns back to Teru and tells her, grinning wildly, to tell Kurosaki that HE was the victor, he obtained The Will of M first. Teru calls out to Akira desperately, telling him not to go, and telling him that The Will of M is a trap to lure Akira out of hiding and kill him, using Professor Midorikawa’s name. Akira doesn’t believe her and accuses her of making it all up in order to steal the treasure while he’s not looking. Teru can barely move because of the residual effects of the drugs and Akira’s punch, but she still keeps trying to get him to believe her. She tells him it was Professor Midorikawa himself who told her that The Will of M was a trap, and asked her to save Akira. She tells Akira Professor Midorikawa and many others were always searching for him, and had beseeched Kurosaki to find him. Akira calls her a liar again, and says that there’s no one who wants to save him; people have always been disgusted by him and no one ever treated him like a human, they all wished secretly that he’d hurry up and die already. He tells Teru that a beloved child with a happy life like her would ever understand, and that even if there were someone who really wanted to help him, he doesn’t care, in fact he’d be irritated. Then Akira tells Teru that even if it is as she said, then he’ll soon die and make all those people happy, he doesn’t have a single happy memory in his entire life and so he doesn’t care anymore whether he lives or dies. This time Teru calls Akira out on being a liar, and insists he must have some happy memories with Professor Midorikawa, right? Akira’s face really looks insane as he responds that he doesn’t even remember “gramps” ‘s face anymore, all he remembers is “the promise.” Akira says cryptically that if that’s also a lie, then he has absolutely nothing. Then Akira gets into the elevator and it sinks out of sight while Teru shouts after him to wait.

Back in Japan, Kurosaki and Master are in the car, and Kurosaki is just finishing a final check of the computer equipment he brought with him. Master is fussing over Kurosaki not even stopping to change his clothes and Kurosaki is telling him here was no time, he was focused on preparing the equipment. Master tells Kurosaki to at least change his shoes, as Master packed extra shoes for him, and Kurosaki agrees. In the bag with his extra shoes, Kurosaki finds Teru’s busted cellphone. Master explains that Andy glued the pieces back together for Kurosaki to take with him for good luck, as the item symbolic of his and Teru’s connection. Kurosaki says that even if it’s broken he feels that Souichiro’s spirit is still attached to it, blessing him and Teru. Master remarks that Teru really is Souchiro’s little sister; she’s got guts just like he had, and so even if the phone is broken, she will surely be fine. Master says he believes in them, and he’ll be waiting for their safe return. Kurosaki smiles and pictures Teru’s smiling face, thinking to himself that even in times like this, picturing her smiling face gives him strength.  Kurosaki makes a pained, but still smiling face, and remembers how Teru agreed to kiss him once more before he left on the mission to save Akira, only if he’d kiss her once more when they got back safely. Finally, Master and Kurosaki arrive at the meeting point, where a helicopter is waiting. Master and Kiyoshi prepared the rest of the luggage and loaded it onto the helicopter. Master apologizes to Nishida about the request for use of the helicopter on such short notice, and Nishida tells him to think nothing of it, as he’s taking responsibility for Kouno’s actions. Kurosaki says goodbye to Andy and Kiyoshi, who wish him good luck and tell him to bring Teru back safely. Riko also comes to see him off, and stuffs Kurosaki’s arms full with provisions: coffee, onigiri and chocolate. Finally Riko gives Kurosaki a touching pep talk and tells him the Souichiro picked him and had faith him him, so she knows that he’ll be able to save Teru and Akira and stop The Will of M. She tells him he’s grown up a lot and that he’s weathered so much suffering and made it out alive; at this stage of the game, that’s the kind of man they need.  Kurosaki hugs Riko and thanks her, calling her “nee-san” (big sister).  Kurosaki tells them all “I’ll be going now” and then gets in the chopper, alone except for the pilot and whomever else the ministry sent along. Watching them go, Riko prays to Souichiro to keep Kurosaki and Teru safe. In the helicopter, Kurosaki observes that dawn is about to break. At the same time, Teru is still pounding on the doors of the elevator Akira disappeared into, and says “What should I do…? Kurosaki, help me…!” On the last page there are 3 panels, showing Kurosaki, Teru and Akira each in their respective locations, and Kurosaki’s narration that “Our fateful day is about to begin.”

The next chapter will be release 7/13.

Shinigami Hime no Saikon - Final Chapter [Joint with Antisense Scanslations]

At long last we've reached the final chapter of Fujiwara Ryou's manga adaption of Shinigami Hime no Saikon. It's been such a pleasure working on this series, thank you all for reading it! Please remember to purchase the books should they ever become licensed in your country, this series is definitely worth it! Also, if you'd like to purchase the volumes in Japanese, you can buy them on Amazon Japan or Honto.jp, both reputable sites that ship internationally. 

If you liked this series, please stay tuned for the sequel, "Shinigami Hime no Saikon: Baraen no Tokei Koushaku." The sequel is adapted to manga by a different mangaka, and serialized erratically on Hana to Yume Online. Antisense Scanslations and I will be collaborating on the sequel as well, starting from a re-release of Chapter 1, which was previously scanlated by Aqua Scans. However, we'll be taking a few months off to catch up on other things, so expect Chapter 1 sometime in the early Fall. 

I'd also like to take this opportunity to announce that I *will* be translating the Shinigami Hime no Saikon light novels, very slowly. I have the prologue almost ready for you guys, just need to work through the incredible proofreading Nanaga did for me. Check back in a few days, I'll get to this right after I finish up the Himegoto Asobi summary and Dengeki Daisy Chapter 71.

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You can also find full volume downloads on my main Shinigami Hime no Saikon page.

PS: Yes, I know that all the pictures on my site are not working T_T;; I was kind of an idiot and uploaded the RAWs of Dengeki Daisy Chapter 70 on my photobucket for online reading, and my monthly bandwidth limit was decimated in just over a week. I won't be doing that again! All the pictures should be back up in a few weeks when the month restarts. If anyone has any suggestions for *free* sites I can use to host online reading, please let me know. The one Antisense Scanslation uses to host Shinigami Hime no Saikon actually feeds off her own personal website's (paid) bandwidth. 

Himegoto Asobi Chapter 11 Japanese RAWs and Summary

After a long wait, Himegoto Asobi is finally back, with a 2-page color intro, no less! And I was quite pleased that I got the magazine in the mail only 6 days after it came out in Japan. We'll see how my other subscriptions go, but so far I'm very happy with Asahiya USA 's magazine subscription service. They contacted me directly and even wrote to me in English, asking which issue numbers I wanted to start my subscription from.
Anyways, onto the chapter! I'll apologize in advance; I'm back to using the flatbed scanner (because at almost 20$ per issue including shipping, I really don't want to destroy the magazines by debinding them) and as a result the image is a big grainier and there is some blurring at the binding, despite my best efforts. Thanks for you understanding.

Warning!! This series is a BL (homo-sexual love) manga, and contains a lot of sex. 
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The tagline on the opening page says “Yeah, I know, I know. You want me to take the next step.” Actually rather than ‘next step,’ the word used means more like ‘to step over (some kind of obstruction).’

As the chapter opens Tanihara is having sex with Sensei and mentally recounting about all the not-so-upstanding things he’s done in his life and the fact of having a failed marriage already at his age, and then says that, even so, he’d never have believed he’d one day be seriously dating a man. Then he backtracks and says that it’s not that regrets dating a man, but that there is a huge problem: cuddling. After the sex, Sensei is holding Tanihara in his arms and appears to be about to drift off to sleep when Tanihara starts to complain about the position of their bodies. Sensei acknowledges that Tanihara has said the same thing many times before but asks why he doesn’t like sleeping like this. Sensei offers to put a pillow between them, if the problem is that his arm is too hard and uncomfortable to lay on but Tanihara says that’s not it, it’s just hard to sleep face-to-face with someone else. Sensei pragmatically uses this opportunity to change to a spooning position and wraps his arms around Tanihara from behind.  Tanihara protests again, this time giving the excuse that it’s too hot to sleep so close together, but when Sensei goes to turn on the A/C, Tanihara won’t let him, saying it’s a waste of electricity. In his thoughts, Tanihara narrates that Sensei loves to cuddle after sex, but he can’t stand it, and so they’ve been having this kind of exchange often. Sensei then goes on to ask teasingly if they can just hold hands, then, or if he can simply touch Tanihara’s hair, or even if he could just watch his sleeping face, but Tanihara won’t look at him and tells him to give it up already. Then Tanihara realizes Sensei was teasing him and confronts Sensei and Sensei apologizes sheepishly and says that Tanihara’s reaction was amusing. Then Sensei gets serious again and asks if he can at least kiss him, and Tanihara replies dryly that it’s not something people generally ask permission for in advance. As they kiss Tanihara thinks that he prefers the times when they’re actually doing something physical, [opposed to the awkwardness he feels when they are cuddling, etc.] Sensei tells Tanihara he’s amusing because when they’re actually having sex he’s bold and proactive, but afterwards he gets shy and starts acting like a virgin. Tanihara is somewhat stunned by this description and decides he’s reached his limits, and announces that he’ll be going home tonight, after all.

The next day at the candy shop, Tanihara is feeling depressed and guilty for blowing up at Sensei  and making too big a deal out of it, when he gets a text from Sensei apologizing for going too far [teasing him too much] the night before. Tanihara makes some quick reconciliatory response then goes back to bemoaning the hot weather and Sensei’s lack of common sense in wanting to cuddle during the hottest part of the summer. Then he acknowledges that neither Sensei nor the season are the real problem, he is. Just then RYOUMEI <3 shows up, looking to buy a carton of cigarettes, and announces that he can all the way to Tanihara’s shop in order to help boost sales. Tanihara tells Ryoumei to have a seat while he goes to get some more cigarettes in the back. When he returns he serves Ryoumei some free mugicha (barley tea) and they make some small talk. Ryoumei remarks on how there never seem to be any customers at Tanihara’s shop and Tanihara responds that Ryoumei just always comes by during the slowest part of the day, and that when school lets out for the summer his shop will have its “busy season.” Tanihara helps himself to some icecream and tells Ryoumei that Chii-chan has been saying lately that she wants to go to the beach. Then Ryoumei brings the conversation back to the fate of Tanihara’s shop. He asks Tanihara to tell him frankly, is the shop going to be able to stay in business (I think that’s what he said, he used some serious men’s-slang in this sentence.) Tanihara admits that the kids coming in to buy candy were an unexpected boost to sales, but both cigarette and magazine sales have dropped drastically. Ryoumei asks him again if he’s going to be okay and Tanihara responds “Yeah, maybe.” Ryoumei does a face-palm and tells Tanihara that it’s this kind of useless attitude of his that made his wife run off on him, but Tanihara doesn’t seem concerned and says something like “As if I haven’t heard that one before.” Ryoumei asks how his ex-wife is doing and Tanihara responds that unlike him she’s been really successful and is busy all the time. Ryoumei tells him drying not to talk about his troubles as if they belong to someone else; that he should have more of a sense of urgency about the shop’s situation, but once again Tanihara more-or-less deflects the topic. Finally he says that he’ll figure something out, because he doesn’t want to lose the shop. Then Ryoumei remarks that Tanihara never changes; since long ago he’s always been the type to never give up on something he’s gotten interested in, no matter how difficult it becomes. In fact, he seems to make a habit of choosing to get involved with the most troublesome projects that will take a lot of work, his old motorbike, for example.  But, he’s always had an almost mystical skill of making it work, so Ryoumei says he figures the shop will also make it by somehow or another. After Ryoumei leaves, Tanihara is reflecting on Ryoumei’s assessment of him as a person who never gives up something he’s set his mind on, and thinks to himself that he’s known the feeling of loss that comes from giving up on something precious to you all too well. He also admits to himself that that’s why he held out for so long on letting Sensei become important to him.  He follows this train of thought to the time he tried to break up with Sensei, and, recalling how sad Sensei looks, he re-avows his promise to himself that he won’t make Sensei make such a face again. This scene ends with Tanihara saying that, for that sake, he’s going to have to get creative.

The next scene opens with Tanihara reaching up with arms wide open and asking Sensei (in a really girly way) to give him a big huggie. Sensei, of course is confused and Tanihara says “Just a hug, please.” (Non-sexual.) Sensei is still puzzled but concedes and gives it a try. After only a few seconds, though, Tanihara can’t stand it anymore and shouts “I give, I give!” like he’s a wrestler or something. After Sensei gets off of him, Tanihara rolls to the side, blushing, and apologizes, explaining that he thought maybe if he tried a bit harder he’d be able to cuddle. Sensei starts to make a sad face and says “You have to “try hard”…?” but Tanihara immediately tells him not to get depressed, it’s only his personal inability to bear it, not that there’s anything wrong with Sensei. Tanihara goes on to say that the positions are so opposite what he’s used to (in heterosexual relationships) that it unconsciously creeps him out. Sensei admits pensively that he’d forgotten that Tanihara wasn’t originally gay because of how smoothly he got used to the sex. Tanihara sheepishly says he’s also a bit surprised/impressed that he was able to get use to it so easily. Tanihara gets serious again and tells Sensei that, as he’s his “first guy” (an expression Sensei finds amusing) things like falling asleep while being hugged or being sweet-talked give him a strange feeling of being out of balance. Sensei thinks about this a moment and asks Tanihara how he usually does it. Tanihara doesn’t quite follow, and Sensei has to say more clearly “when you were with women.” Tanihara is a bit incredulous that Sensei is asking him about his relationships with women, but Sensei explains that he also doesn’t really enjoy imagining that (Tanihara with women/other people) but he wants to get a sense of what’s the “normal situation” according to Tanihara’s standards. Tanihara’s a bit shy and insists it’s “just the normal stuff,” he’d let the girl use his arm as a pillow and sweet-talk her and so on. Hearing this, Sensei makes a sad face again and surmises “So it’s not that you don’t like cuddling, you just don’t like cuddling with me.” Tanihara is taken-aback and can’t follow how Sensei came to this conclusion, and Sensei tells Tanihara that he won’t insist on cuddling if it’s really that unpleasant for him, and he’ll make sure to keep a distance between them when they’re sleeping as they always used to. But, hearing this, Tanihara is somehow disappointed and feels that it’s “not enough.” Sensei starts to apologize for getting full of himself just because Tanihara agreed to officially date him, and this alarms Tanihara. While Sensei starts asking what Tanihara wants to do today, and speculates that he’s probably not in the mood anymore, Tanihara is protesting in his thoughts, saying that the problem is something else entirely, and that his intention for bringing this up again was never to upset Sensei or make him depressed. Then he thinks that this is the time, most of all, when he needs that “creativity” he was talking about earlier. Then Tanihara suddenly removes Sensei’s glasses and pulls him into his arms. Sensei is confused but Tanihara tells him it’s not that he doesn’t want to do these kinds of things with him, simply that he’s not used to it. Tanihara asks him if it’s okay, until he gets used to it, to do it the way he’s used to, and Sensei smiles and agrees that he’s happy as long as he can hug Tanihara. Sensei muses with an evil look on his face that he’s getting to use Tanihara’s arm as a pillow, and then asks Tanihara will also sweet-talk him as well. Tanihara asks incredulously “You want that too?!” but when Sensei says that if Tanihara won’t do the sweet talking, he’ll have to do it himself, Tanihara tells him to hold on a minute, and finally says, while blushing, “I… love you, Sensei… A lot…” Sensei is shocked at first but thanks him for these words. Then they kiss, with Tanihara on top for once. Then Sensei gropes Tanihara’s butt and asks him if it’s okay if they do it now, explaining that he’d been holding back, but… Tanihara dryly observes “You can’t keep it in your pants, can you, Sensei…” but agrees. And so the chapter ends.

Shinigami Hime no Saikon Chapter 12 [Joint with Antisense Scanslations]

Finally we've reached the last chapter! Expect one more release in two weeks, a side story about Alicia and Kashburn <3 

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Love So Life Chapter 75 RAWs and Summary

After a long wait, here at last are the RAWs for Chapter 75 of Love So Life! Happy Valentines Day (3 months late) everyone! I will post the summary for this chapter after I finish Dengeki Daisy. Thank you for your patience.

Unfortunately, there will be yet another 1-month break for this series. The next chapter will be published July 5th, and I'll receive the magazine about 3 weeks later, so expect the next chapter around the end of July.

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The chapter opens with an announcement over the intercom welcoming guests to the park and thanking them for their patronage, and explaining that the ferris wheel is set at 14 minutes per ride. Inside the ferris wheel carriage, Shiharu is blushing and panicking internally about being trapped in this tiny enclosed space alone with Matsunaga-san for 14 minutes. She muses out loud about how unusual Rio and Takeru’s behavior just now was and wonders if it was some kind of weird prank. Just then they get to a point where Shiharu can see Rio, Takeru and the twins’ carriage out the window behind her, and the twins are both holding new toy. Shiharu exclaims that they really do have toys in that carriage! While she’s somewhat frantically wondering what’s going on, Matsunaga-san suggests they ask when they get off. He takes of his hat, not needing the disguise in here, and runs his hand through his hair. Shiharu stares and blushes, then tells Matsunaga-san that his hair is disheveled from wearing the hat. She asks if the hat and glasses are part of his disguise and when he confirms that they are, Shiharu observes that working in television must be difficult, having so many people know your face that you can’t truly relax even when you’re off of work. Matsunaga-san thinks it over for a moment and says that at least when he’s at home or with Shiharu he can be totally unguarded, so he doesn’t really mind. Shiharu blushes again and suddenly a text message comes in from Rio, urging Shiharu to give Matsunaga-san the chocolate she made while they’re alone together. Shiharu apparently completely forgot about it because she seems to think it’s a great idea. However she suddenly realizes that this is why Rio acted so weird, to arrange for Shiharu and Matsunaga-san to be alone together so she’d have the chance to give him the valentine’s day chocolate. Shiharu blushes, calls out Matsunaga-san’s name to get his attention, and then when she’s got it she blushes again. After a bit of beating around the bush, Shiharu gives him the chocolate, and Matsunaga-san accepts it with a smile, remarking that this is the second time she’s given him chocolate on Valentine’s Day. He asks if it’s home made again this year and she apologizes and admits that it is. But Matsunaga-san tells her it’s not something to apologize for, because her homemade chocolate was very delicious last year [and will probably be delicious this year too.] Shiharu suddenly starts feeling guilty for feeling so happy when she heard Matsunaga-san wasn’t dating anyone currently, when she knows she should be wishing for his happiness above all else. Matsunaga-san remarks that he only just got a Christmas present from her as well, and there sure are a lot of holidays in the winter, which leads Shiharu to say that his birthday is coming up as well, and ask him what he’d like for a present. Of course he tells her she doesn’t need to get him anything and she ignores him completely and asks him if he won’t even give her some kind of hint, with her notepad and pencil out ready to write it down. (This is SO Japanese! Before going to Japan I couldn’t figure out if some of the odd behaviors I noticed in manga were because the characters were Japanese or because they were non-fictional characters in a manga, but taking copious hand-written notes about things one could probably remember easily without is a Japanese thing. ) Matsunaga-san tells her there’s not really a “right answer” but when pressed admits that, when he thinks of “something [he] want[s]” what comes to mind is “a medicine to make him young again.” Shiharu pictures an evil witch brewing up a potion but dismisses it quickly.  She tells him that he’s still pretty young but Matsunaga-san tells her that seeing Rio and Takeru playing around earlier, he felt that they were really free and without worry, and he felt jealous. Finally the ferris wheel ride ends and Matsunaga-san puts his disguise back on. Shiharu blushes again because she lost track of time while enjoying talking with Matsunaga-san, and after he gets out he reaches back into the carriage to help her out. Shiharu stares at his outstretched hand, stammers a bit, blushes, wonders if she’s being overly-conscious of him and finally turns her eyes away and takes his hand, letting him help her out of the carriage. As she jumps down, Shiharu admits in her thoughts that she’s afraid “it’s going to be transmitted through her fingertips,” talking about her feelings for Matsunaga-san, I assume. When they all regroup, the twins confirm that they got the toys from Rio and Takeru-kun. Rio apologizes for doing their own thing then in whispers to Shiharu explains that if she and Takeru-kun hadn’t done this, she worried Shiharu and Matsunaga-san wouldn’t have a moment alone together for her to give him the chocolate. Takeru-kun grins lecherously(?) at Matsunaga-san and asks him if this was a good Valentine’s Day,  and Matsunaga-san secretly touches the bag of chocolates in his pocket and replies “…Thanks to you.” The chapter ends with Shiharu’s narration that although they’d gone to the amusement park in the very middle of coldest month of February (this is also true, at least where I was, February is the coldest month in Japan) her cheeks were hot the whole time.

Next Chapter 7/5/2013.

Android to Hikikomori [Japanese]

I'm working hard to get Love So Life out ASAP, but in the meantime enjoy these unedited Japanese RAWs of a cute story about a robot who teaches a shut-in a bit about what it means to be human.

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