2013-04-15, 12:45 | Link #24 |
どうだろうね。ふふ
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So, it's that time of the month where I fruitlessly spin around the net trying to search for the short story raws for this title and get nothing in return. At least I found some images, even though fan art for this is really scarce.
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Fortunately, thanks to that fruitless search I realized that now there is an actual appointed translator to the new side story, so we might seen some progress from time to time (the prolog is done). It actually is more interesting that it looks like at first glance. This isn't spoiler since the description of the prologue includes this much. Basically (if I'm reading this right), it's about a teacher showing "some interest" in Nonomiya. Nonomiya has no clue on why he is getting called out but I'm 100% certain that it's Yoko's fault After knowing that background, the title makes it sound like this short story is going to be a jealousy race but I don't know that much about it. The fact that vague terms such as "certain interest" is used makes me think that the teacher might not have a clear goal (Nonomiya) like what Yoko seems think.
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2013-04-30, 03:19 | Link #26 |
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Finished the LN. Well-conceived and written, though I think the twist where she knew about but didn't stop her mother from killing her father seemed slightly like a cop-out on the author's part. Then again, I didn't pay that much close attention to the case details so I can't even say if Tsukimori was supposed to be innocent or not (even if innocent she was totally negligent). The drama with the other female class officer seemed a bit superfluous since nothing really came of that plotline, but overall it was a good read. 8/10
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2013-04-30, 04:37 | Link #27 | |
どうだろうね。ふふ
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As you mentioned, since the novel mainly dealt with the "main issue", any could argue that the character interactions could be expanded and taken many step forward. Fortunately, the author has the habit of placing her original stories all in the same universe, so it's not like Yukimori & Nonomiya are going to be completely dropped (image from Hen Ai Psychedelic).
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2013-04-30, 04:55 | Link #29 | |
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I guess nobody else saw the title and thought the LN would have this in it?
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2013-04-30, 05:23 | Link #30 | |
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With her being less than even an accomplice but more than just an innocent bystander, she is neither completely "pure" nor "tainted". Tsukimori like any other real love interest is still just as appealing but at the same time does have some unwanted baggage that keeps her from being perfect, leaving you the choice of whether you want to deal with it to be with her in the end. In my opinion, multi-faceted shades of grey are what make any romance complete. |
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2013-04-30, 05:27 | Link #31 | |
どうだろうね。ふふ
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Oh, and the first thing I thought about Gekkou was.
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2013-04-30, 05:28 | Link #32 |
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Not denying the romance, which was well-done, just the "moral" parts. Though I guess there could be some of that if you do some extrapolation...
I have no concrete idea as to whether or not she did it because already I'm forgetting what details of the case I did understand and never quite understood the logic (or read carefully enough) to make an informed judgement to begin with. That being said, I think you're right and that it isn't the point of the story whether or not she did it. It works better from a "romantic happy ending" perspective if she was simply a negligent bystander who didn't do what she was supposed to, since it means she's normal and thus won't be doing things like killing off the MC after the end of the story "just because she feels like it". I think that it also makes more sense from the POV of her character that she be a bystander, since if her end goal was to attract Nonomiya's attention, she did not have to orchestrate murder to do it; as she said in the conversation about killing, it would be senseless and she's not set up by the author to be a senseless person. |
2013-08-24, 06:35 | Link #33 |
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Very interesting little piece. Nice, short, and simple.
For me, this was a story about deviance. I truly appreciated how morbid the whole thing was. It wasn't anything explicit, but you could tell that ever since Nonomiya picked up the recipe, all the events that followed had a veil of death looming over it, and he was drawn to it like a moth to a flame. The romantic comedy segments in the cafe were probably the worst of the lot since they didn't fit the tone of the story one bit, and they hardly added anything aside from adding a setting for the main couple to interact outside of school.
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2014-05-18, 16:23 | Link #35 |
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Eusthenopteron,i know it's taboo to ask a translator about progress on something he's working on,but...i hope you'll understand:are still working on the last short story(statut,19%);you know,as long as there's a chance to read more of gekkou material,i'll keep waiting:this story and its character are just that good!
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2014-06-09, 18:25 | Link #36 | |
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2014-06-10, 19:50 | Link #40 | |
どうだろうね。ふふ
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I have never gotten down to it, but I'm somewhat interesting on browsing through that volume, after all Hen-ai is more of a romance story compared to Gekkou, I wonder just what type of interactions Nonomiya and Youko have outside that "bloody air" that we see on Gekkou every now and then. Oh, and I think that Nonomiya's first name is still unrevealed I'm really hoping that it will only be revealed when Youko finally gets on first name basis with him.
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