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Anywhere is Possible 『Bloom Into You』 Regarding Episodes 41-44
This is a translation of 461’s entry.
※ This entry includes contents to 『Bloom Into You』 episode 44 (for sale August 27, 2019). Please be aware if you have yet to read it.
If 『Bloom Into You』 were a conventional romance manga, having the story end with episode 40 『The One Whom I Love』 would make sense. In a completely unknown state of what will be depicted in the remaining five episodes began the new relationship 「Touko and Yuu’s story」, and if I look back its contents are certainly to be admired.
Touko’s maturation
From episode 41 『The Sea Chart is Blank』, Yuu wanted to define the relationship between herself and Touko.
「We’re…… g- girlfriends, after all」 「Doesn’t this kind of thing feel like what lovers do?」
Yuu from the start was a girl with a longing for shoujo manga and love songs, and felt loneliness from being unable to fit with such role models. Now that she’s obtained special, it seems she also had a longing to settle into the seats called 「girlfriends」 and 「lovers」, and to be given those roles.
On the other hand, Touko is slow to respond to the word 「girlfriends」.
「I hadn’t given it much thought」 「We are, I guess?」
This reaction that seemed like she didn’t think about anything, and that Touko who Yuu said was 「weak when I have a go」 appeared awfully calm, had readers feeling just a little disquiet.
At seeing such a cute, bashful Yuu, she just smiles and says 「let’s go home」! You weren’t that kind of person before.
Touko’s thoughts about it are revealed in episode 44 『Evening and Morning』.
She says, she doesn’t feel like she can tie the relationship between herself and Yuu to the words 「lovers」 and 「going out」. The 「special」 they’re feeling now might eventually become 「ordinary」. With their relationship to be changing like that, there’s no need to tie it to existing terms and 「Yuu and me」 would be fine, right?
Volume 1 episode 1 「You’re fine the way you are」
Volume 1 episode 3 「You won’t come to love me, either. That’s fine」
Volume 2 episode 10 「Stay the way you are, okay」
Volume 6 episode 34 「Yuu… you have changed……」
From Touko, who wanted Yuu who 「doesn’t get special」 to remain unchanging, and never tried to change anything other than becoming a replacement for her older sister, comes affirmation that both of them are changing, and hope for it to continue. It recalls a certain important line said by Touko near the end of the stage 「Bloom Into You」, that isn’t in the original work. (BD will be out at the end of October)
That’s a certain sign that Touko herself has changed and matured over forty-four episodes.
When Yuu sees the photo with Mio and indirectly tells Touko 「you don’t look alike」, Touko’s response also frankly affirms it.
“Bloom Into You” is 『Yagate Kimi ni Naru』’s English title, which directly translates to 「mature and become yourself」.
It must be said that 「Touko’s story」 told in this volume is completed here.
Special to everyday
This conversation presents more than just that to the readers.
『Bloom Into You』 is a story about Yuu and Touko pursuing 「special」.
Because you’re special to me, Koito
I want to have a special relationship with you
This keyword first appeared in the classmate’s lines when he confessed to Yuu, and frequently appears in the story with various meanings.
That is not only in lines and monologues but also in the motifs of stars and light, impressively depicted from start to finish.
The cover of episode 43 『Essay Question, Continued』 also expressed that the two have finally obtained it.
Spending time at home. Cooking side by side. In episode 42 『Essay Question』, Yuu was thinking about 「more than a kiss or a date… something that’s more out of the ordinary」.
All of those experiences that can be thought of as special now, will eventually become ordinary as the months and years pass.
Special becomes more everyday, as they remain by each other’s side.
Touko’s words reassured Yuu, who had vague unease thinking about Touko’s future as she’s heading out into a radiant world.
By suggesting not only 「now」 but also such a future for them, the depiction lets the readers think that 「Yuu and Touko will be all right」, as Nakatani-sensei had said.
Nakatani: About romance, starting to go out with another is not the goal. It’s difficult to know what to end with, but I intend to end it in a way that gives the peace of mind where 「with this, Yuu and Touko will be all right now」. I would like to make the final volume 8 end with the peace of mind that 「what must be seen can be seen」 in their story. Will I be able to do it? I’ll try, so please look forward to it!
http://blog.livedoor.jp/geek/archives/51584383.html [TL note: please be aware that the site also displays NSFW images]
You & I
Touko said she didn’t want to give their relationship a name.
I think that giving names such as 「girlfriends」 or 「lovers」 to relationships also determines the roles and positions.
In contrast to Yuu who stands in front of the stove making the meat sauce, Touko’s position changes many times as she goes from making the salad, to taking the pot of boiled pasta, to draining the hot water into the sink.
By being illustrated like that, the readers can easily understand what Touko is saying.
The relationship between 「Yuu and me」, which can’t be expressed with words right now, will be changing even more as the years go by.
I don’t want us to have labels, I want us to stay as 「you and me」. That’s greedy of Touko and Touko-like, and seems to be a message from Nakatani-sensei that no one needs to be bound to existing values and roles.
Furthermore, if I do a Deep Reading Bookstore, the relationship between Yuu and Touko might not be a thing where one leads the other. Sometimes, Yuu leads Touko by the hand. Other times, Touko gives Yuu a push forward. This time, Yuu was depicted as top and Touko as bottom, but that isn’t a fixed thing either. That’s how I read it.
Summary of what I read from the cool-like things that Touko-senpai says
- Touko’s own maturation
- the future for them as special becomes more ordinary
- it’s fine if there’s you and me; we don’t have to fixate on roles
—
Senpai, you idiot
Touko said she doesn’t want to tie the relationship between 「you and me」 to words, but Touko bound herself to a word (role) as seen here.
Calm down… I have to act like a senpai from now on, right?
In accordance with this comment in episode 42, Touko wants to become like an older, reliable partner for Yuu, so she’s been holding back, unlike before when she expressed her feelings onto Yuu as she pleased. She was trying to behave like a senpai, reflecting that up to now she’s only given Yuu trouble and just relying on her help.
Knowing that, I can make sense of Touko appearing awfully calm in episode 41. When a good mood is about to get going, she breaks away and changes the conversation to 「things that must be done」 with 「let’s go home」, which is the same as this time’s 「all right, let’s go shopping for dinner」.
Choosing a horror movie to watch together was also to show off the appeal of a reliable senpai. So even though it’s clear that she’s more afraid, she wouldn’t hug just to flirt.
Touko is released from such overambitions by Yuu as expected.
Senpai, you idiot
Like a repeat of volume 4 episode 22 when Yuu begins to go against Touko’s thinking, Yuu’s impressive monologue removes one of Touko’s walls again.
I don’t need you to act like the older one. You don’t have to think about paying me back. You don’t have to hold back. As Yuu brings Touko’s hair that she’s often touched to her mouth, those words also release her own desires.
—
Did you get excited? I did.
Here are some cute Yuu and Touko.
Was there anyone who could expect those contents from this cover and announcement picture?
Before climbing to the top of the ridge
I want to go back a little to talk about episodes 42 and 43. Like when climbing Mount Fuji, it’s recommended to stay overnight at the 8th station. It also helps prevent altitude sickness.
The entries on this blog about the original work stopped at episode 40. I went to enjoy the student general meeting.
I thoroughly enjoyed the student general meeting. The stage reading had me laughing and crying. I’ll never forget Takada-san and Kotobuki-san’s live hectopascal. The flapjack octopus strap was sold out, so I couldn’t buy it.
In episode 42, the most striking thing was that Touko said she would’ve asked for a kiss as the bet’s prize if she won, to which Yuu replied 「isn’t that something you could do normally without using the winner’s right」.
Touko thinking that kissing and dating can’t be done without some reason gives the charming sense of her inexperience with going out. However, this depiction shows more than just that.
As written above, 『Bloom Into You』 is a story about Yuu who doesn’t get special, is given special from Touko which causes her to choose her own special.
Yuu who doesn’t get special is taught it by Touko. This time, Touko who doesn’t quite get 「normal for the special us」 is taught it by Yuu.
The two complement each other. They can grasp the stars that can’t be reached alone.
Continuing to episode 43, there is another depiction about 「special」. Standing on the stage put by the community theater troupe while bathed in light, Touko gives off a presence that captivates viewers even with her short turn, and Yuu who watches her from the dark seating is seized with a little uneasiness.
「Surely, from now on… even more people will find Nanami-senpai.」
However, Touko finds Yuu and gives her a broad smile. Touko might become special to many people, but the special she finds among the many is Yuu.
The summit’s scenery, Yuu’s maturation
I wonder if the depiction of Yuu knocking on the door and Touko inviting her in is a symbol of how Yuu kept knocking on Touko’s closed door has finally yielded results.
Touko’s heat, which Yuu wanted to feel but couldn’t back then. Touko’s heart is directly under her palm. There, the sound of a heart that feels too fast truly belongs to Touko this time, and at the same time belongs to Yuu.
「I love you」 「I’m happy」
This exchange is like a repeat of the conversation made four episodes ago. Yuu is on the side of conveying the feelings called love, and Touko is on the side of accepting it. Yuu and Touko are depicted as top and bottom, as if to show not only with words but also with actions of what each always wanted to do but couldn’t, of 「conveying the feelings called love」 and 「accepting the love towards herself」.
The act of meeting their bodies might eventually become an ordinary thing to them. However, I think what it means will remain special.
The composition of one of them placing herself over the other and speaking into her lips appeared in volume 4 episode 22 『Find Myself Unable to Breathe』.
Yuu, don’t come to love me, okay?
Conversely, the answer Yuu gives as she’s on Touko and kissing her are Yuu’s true feelings, which she wasn’t able to say back then, words of intent that she chose for herself.
Those fingers I touched by chance, I now held them
I want you to read the song lyrics of the anime’s opening theme 『Kimi ni Furete』 over the scenes of episode 40’s 「it was something I chose and reached out for myself」 and episode 44’s 「I can choose for myself from now on too」.
Yuu also matured throughout the story, and became a person who can choose what she wants and the future she wants for herself.
The words which express the roles of 「girlfriends」 and 「lovers」 are not only labels, but also words which bring a sense of security that such seats can be reserved in her partner.
And I think it would be difficult to continue the undefined 「Yuu and me」, with its lack of solid framework, if their wills aren’t strong.
However, Yuu said. My 『love』 is in the words of my wish, my intent.
If Yuu, who is a little irresolute and tended to choose based on what someone told her, is a partner who chose with her own intent.
If Touko has enough self to think positively about the changing 「Yuu and me」.
The readers will truly think that Touko and Yuu will be all right now.
Anywhere is possible
A soft light through the curtains illuminates them as they greet the morning.
The words that Yuu asks Touko perhaps correspond to Touko’s monologue in volume 5 episode 23 『To the Last Stop』
And then… where can I go…?
when she was feeling the impasse of acting like her sister.
The two are free to go anywhere. Whatever destination they choose, depends on their intent.
—
Next time, the finale at last.
As for how I’ll feel after I finish reading, I can’t imagine it at all.
Translation notes:
The episode titles 『気が付けば息もできない』, 『終着駅まで』, 『わたしの好きな人』, 『海図は白紙』, 『記述問題』, 『続・記述問題』, and 『夜と朝』 have multiple translations.
One fan translation calls them “Suddenly Suffocating”, “To the Final Destination”, “The Girl I Love”, “Uncharted Territory”, “Essay Question”, “Essay Question #2”, and “Night and Morning”.
Seven Seas Entertainment, who licensed the manga in English, calls them “Can’t Even Breathe”, “Until the Last Stop”, and “The Person I Love”, “Uncharted Waters” “Essay Question”, “Essay Question, Continued”, and “Dusk and Dawn”.
Sentai Filmworks, who licensed the anime in English, calls the first two “Suddenly Suffocating” and “To the Last Stop”.
Another fan translation calls the first two “Suddenly, I Can’t Even Breathe” and “To the Last Stop”.
Yet another fan translation calls the last five “The One I Love”, “The Sea Chart is a Blank Page”, “Essay Question”, “Essay Question (cont.)”, and “Night and Day”.
The various fan and licensed translations for each title are here.
I call them “Find Myself Unable to Breathe”, “To the Last Stop”, “The One Whom I Love”, “The Sea Chart is Blank”, “Essay Question”, “Essay Question, Continued”, and “Evening and Morning”.
深読み書店 is a phrase used by YagaKimi otaku to refer to excessive interpretation. It is from the interlude title between episodes 7 and 8. I translate it as “Deep Reading Bookstore”.
A translation of fan reports about the student general meeting is here: 1, 2, 3.
The Vectors of Yuu and Touko’s Love
This is a translation of 凛’s entry.
I thought about the reasons why Yuu loves and Touko is loved in episode 44. . .
After reading up to episode 44, I tried deeply writing some of my thoughts.
To start,
I thought about the 「reasons」 why Yuu loves and Touko is loved in episode 44.
Rather than viewing the two as naturally being 「uke or seme」,
I think about the direction that the vectors of their psychological 「troubles」 take.
Nio-sensei had once spoken that Yuu’s troubles are by no means dark, which is well understood when compared with Touko’s.
【Yuu’s case】
・ Wanting to come to love someone (the direction of Yuu sending out her feelings)
→ Loving Touko can be said as Yuu’s establishment of identity
【Touko’s case】
・ Sense of loss from losing her sister → denial of self, low self-affirmation
Perhaps,
「I should have died instead of Onee-chan」 ← there is a large possibility she thought as such.
・ She didn’t consider dying (didn’t get to that point) because she had the purpose called 『in her sister’s stead』. (Maybe she didn’t want to cause her parents further grief?)
So…
what if the Touko who lives in her sister’s stead, carries out the student council play that her sister couldn’t do?
→ There was plenty of danger that it would lead to Touko’s 「loss of reason to live」
・ By meeting Yuu, she could come to love someone… still, that doesn’t resolve her denial of self or her low feelings of self affirmation, but she was able to avoid 「loss of reason to live」 thanks to Yuu
・ What Touko really needed was to be heartfeltly loved by someone, and for Touko herself to become able to accept that love.
→ After many twists and turns, Yuu and Touko were able to communicate their feelings.
Given the positions of each other’s minds,
Yuu → to love
Touko → to be loved
for the two’s establishment of identity (the fundamental solution to their troubles) to happen,
the conclusion that 「Yuu makes love with Touko」 is an extremely natural form in episode 44.
Also, regarding what Touko says to Yuu during episode 44
「If what you want and what I want are the same, that’d be nice」
・ What Yuu wants → wanting to come to love someone (feelings of love for Touko, love for Touko)
・ What Touko wants → wanting to be loved by someone, wanting to accept that love (feelings of love from Yuu, love from Yuu)
it is clear that what the two want are in complete agreement.
… Nio-sensei’s logic is perfect. . .
And one more thing I’ve been thinking about earlier.
The start of volume 2, the first page of episode 6.
The scene where Touko puts on her uniform in front of the mirror.
As she recalls Yuu saying 「I want to help Nanami-senpai」,
Touko smiles in front of the mirror.
(In the anime, it depicts her somewhat minding herself like “… how do I look?” while looking at the mirror.)
At a glance, it looks like a very normal scene…
This Touko is 「Touko who came to love Yuu」.
No one else but 「Nanami Touko」 is looking at the mirror, and when doing student council activities today, how will she look in front of 「Koito Yuu」 whom she came to love? is why she minds herself.
When one falls in love, how do they look in front of the other party? is certainly why some start minding themselves, which is also the case with Touko here.
Before then, what kind of feelings did Touko have when she stood front of the mirror, that reflected her appearance.
For the sake of 『becoming like Onee-chan』, Touko mostly extinguished her own existence for seven years. I think that maybe she didn’t see her appearance reflected in the mirror, and had always seen her sister, Mio’s appearance, standing in front of the mirror.
When I see that scene with such thoughts… it’s considerably painful… ( ˃̣̣̥᷄_˂̣̣̥᷅ )
I think Yuu who rescued Touko from 「seven years of darkness」 is definitely a superhero.
Yuu-chan, thank you so much for having met Touko…!!!!! (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
Touko probably hasn’t broken free of everything yet, but with those two changing little by little, I have no worries!
Feel free to spend your life together! I’m full of such feelings.
The Na (七) of Nanami (七海) and seven years… are they related after all? was something I thought by accident.
Thoughts about Touko really never ends…. . .
Well anyway, excuse me for the night… lol
Translation notes:
アイデンティティの確立 (establishment of identity) probably refers to Erikson’s theory on psychological development.
「生きる理由の喪失」 and 「生きる理由の損失」 both translate to 「loss of reason to live」. The difference is 喪失 has a sense of finality (complete loss, lost forever), and 損失 is less serious (partial loss, recoverable losses).
Yagate Kimi ni Naru episode 44 commentary
This is a translation of entries made by はるはら and あさつ 1, 2. Please check them out for more details.
The last part of episode 44 concludes with 「Where shall we go today?」 and answers episode 41’s “I wonder where we’ll be heading from here on” with “Yuu and me”, which also suggests they have become the two who can go anywhere. If the sea chart is blank, look to the stars.
YagaKimi’s shapes of 「love」
a word that binds 「stay the way you are, okay」
a word of trust 「you will keep being the you I love」
a word of wish, intent 「I want to keep loving you」
YagaKimi that depicts the core of yuri.
Its panels aren’t limited to only beautiful moments, and clearly depicts the relationship of the bodies without stopping at just kisses. It showed the two’s relationship continuing beyond their student days. It’s very real.
Well, as a result, YagaKimi’s lewd scene was a tremendously beautiful, erotic, emotionally moving, direct hit to the tear glands.
There is a long-standing discussion of whether something is yuri if there’s lewd scenes. I’ve always been curious about what YagaKimi would do and how far it would depict. Episode 42 depicting the two’s fantasies is a shock. Episode 43 confirms an overnight stay. Restlessness over what this suggests. YagaKimi and its derivative works shift to amorously pink as a whole, then finally the fated episode 44. The hearts of every YagaKimi otaku pierced!
I love it, I love it, uhuhu, happy endings. Though YagaKimi isn’t ending there.
I think sex is easily connected to R18 content, making it difficult to handle. It might be because there is such a genre in adult videos called lesbian sex that gives it such an image so strongly.
While there are a variety of yuri, from works that only depict kisses to works that are mainly lewd scenes, YagaKimi unravels the characters’ emotions really carefully. I received the message that if you come to love someone, you want to get closer and touch them more, that it’s a natural feeling regardless of sexuality, and there’s nothing special about it.
I think that it is good to have various shapes of yuri. It’s fine if the world of yuri is separate from the real world. While YagaKimi maintains it creative beauty, I feel the illusion that those two are actually living somewhere in this world. Since time advances, it isn’t Sazae-san spacetime. The characters go through troubles, interact with others, grow, and change. For that reason, I’m glad to see it doesn’t end as 「a high school girl’s romance story」, I’m really relieved to know TouYuu will walk together into adulthood even after the series is over, and I think it’s a story that encourages teenage readers.
Translation notes:
“If the sea chart is blank, look to the stars.” This refers to episode 41 and 44’s titles. 『海図は白紙』 translates to “the sea chart is blank”. Stars can be seen in the “evening and morning”, or 『夜と朝』.
Bloom Into You: Regarding Seven Seas’ mistakes (2)
This is a review of the English version of Bloom Into You, licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Specifically, volume 2. Volume 1 was previously covered here.
The proofreaders are different for this volume.
Let’s see how that change affected the nuances.
Not a translation error but a layout(?) error.
The original page properly shows Sayaka and Maki.
He seems like he’d be bad at it.
絶対苦手なタイプ
Loss of details: 絶対 is gone. And now Doujima seems to be the subject.
Sayaka says she is not good with types like Doujima.
I do not deal well with this sort.
Sounds easy.
地味っすねー
Concerning 地味: now Doujima seems to be a pro at coordinating things.
The student council will be working behind the scenes and assigning jobs.
Sounds dull.
We’ve always had a lot of artistic clubs, like the art club and the crafts club… and they wanted to use the stage too, to show off their work. So they always helped with the plays before.
手芸部とか美術部とか…いくつかの文化部が 自分たちも展示だけじゃなくステージを使いたいって 共同で劇の企画を持ち込んだんだって
Loss of details: だけじゃなく is gone. Concerning 持ち込んだ: how could those clubs always helped with plays before if plays were not yet a tradition, and the school doesn’t have a drama club?
Several cultural clubs, like the art club and the crafts club… wanted to use the stage instead of just making an exhibition for their works… so they got together and planned a stage production.
Clothing Room
被服室
A clothing room at school?
This room is used by the club that makes clothes. It is more appropriately called Sewing Room, Tailoring Room, Dressmaking Room, or such.
You said you’d be content just being in love with me…
…好きでいるだけでいいって言ったくせに
Concerning 好きでいる: now Touko seems to have asked for permission to have feelings for Yuu.
As pointed out in the mistakes of volume 1, Touko asks for permission to express her love to Yuu.
…You said you would be fine with just loving me…
Anyway, I’d be lying… if I said I wasn’t interested, so…
それに興味がないって言ったら 噓だし
A retouch(?) error. The redrawn speech balloon still shows the tail of the original balloon.
This could have been avoided if the sentence was rearranged.
And if I said I wasn’t interested… I’d be lying.
Someone forgot their pencil box.
誰か筆箱忘れてる
How is that box-shaped?
Yuu uses a different, more appropriate term a few pages later.
Someone forgot their pencil bag.
I’m Not an Actress
役者じゃない
Concerning 役者: now Yuu seems to be the subject of this episode.
Only Maki uses the imagery of love stories as a stage.
Not an Actor
You’re more stubborn than I expected… I thought you’d be a bit of a pushover.
意外と頑張るわね… 押しには弱い子だと思ってたのに
Extraneous implication: now Sayaka seems rude.
You’re surprisingly tenacious… I thought you were the type who gives under pressure.
But I’m surprised. I didn’t expect both first-years to be against it.
一年生のうち二人も反対は読み誤ったわね…
Now Sayaka seems unable to count.
This is not correct English; the word ‘both’ cannot be used with three first-years.
But if two of the first-years are against it, we really miscalculated…
They haven’t. I don’t know where Touku gets that fondness from.
ええどこをそんなに気に入ったんでしょうね
Who is Touku?
Right. I wonder what she likes so much about her.
The Staff Room was previously translated as Faculty.
The same room should have the same name.
However, I prefer “staff room” and will treat it as the standard term henceforth.
Please don’t tell Nanami-senpai… what you saw.
七海先輩には言わないで 見ちゃったってこと
Concerning 見ちゃったってこと: now Yuu seems to be talking vaguely.
Maki says he saw them, and Yuu asks him not to tell.
Don’t tell Nanami-senpai… that you saw us.
I guess you were honest about seeing us.
見ちゃったこともわざわざ教えてくれたんだしね
Loss of details: わざわざ教えてくれたんだしね is gone. Now Yuu seems to have thought Maki lied about seeing them.
You did go out of your way to tell me that you saw us.
today’s new releases
今月の新刊
Wrong measurement of time. What bookstore is busy enough to display new releases of the day?
this month’s new releases
She buys paperbacks and literary criticism.
新書とか評論系
Concerning 新書: now Sayaka seems to exclusively buy paperbacks as opposed to hardcovers. Concerning 評論: now Sayaka seems to enjoy analyzing literature.
Nonfiction is usually printed in a certain size of paperback known as 新書. 評論 are critiques, reviews, commentaries, and such critical writings that cover topics beyond literature.
She’s into nonfiction and commentaries.
There are definitely bigger bookstores closer to her stop, Moyori Station…
先輩の最寄駅近くにはもっと大きな書店があるはず
Concerning 最寄駅: now the station is called Moyori.
Yuu refers to the station nearest to where Touko lives.
There should be bigger bookstores by her stop.
Additional commentary
Nakatani herself mentioned this mistake in an interview.
Also, 「moyori station」 made me laugh a little. I guess 「最寄り駅」 was translated under the misconception of having such a station name. (laughs)
Thur
火曜日
Wrong measurement of time. Why is the day of the week different?
Changing the setting causes complications when compared with other dates in the story.
Tues
The election took place on May 8.
If this story is set in 2016, May 8 would be on a Sunday.
Schools in Japan do not have classes on Sundays.
This part… in number one…
数Iの ここなんですけど
Concerning 数I: now the subject Yuu is having trouble with is called number one.
数I is short for 数学I, a high school math course.
It’s Math 1… this part here…
You take this formula…
Then you input it here, put everything together and… see?
こっちの式を いったん展開してからまとめ直せば ここに…ほら
Loss of details: 展開 is gone. Now Touko’s explanation is different.
One of the topics of Math 1 is polynomial expansion and factorization.
You take this equation…
Expand it first, then collect it again. Like so… see?
For example:
a2+(3b+1)a+(b+4)(2b-3)
expand it first
a2+3ab+a+2b2+5b-12
then collect it again
(a+b)(a+2b)+a+5b-12
like so
(a+b+4)(a+2b-3)
For the moment… I’m with Touko.
それでも今 一緒にいるのはこの人なわけで
Extraneous implication: now この人 is specified to be Touko.
Yuu does not refer to Touko by her first name.
But right now… the one I’m with is this person.
I guess I’ve been getting used to being with Nanami-senpai. Which led to this…
とにかく七海先輩と一緒にいる時間に慣れることだ と思ったので
Concerning 慣れることだ: now Yuu seems to invite Touko to her place because she realizes that she’s getting used to her.
Yuu sets her mind on getting used to being with Touko, which is why she invites her to her place.
In any case, I should get used to spending time with Nanami-senpai. With that in mind…
I kind of doubt anyone but you would ever do that…
先輩ならともかくわたし相手にそうそう…
Loss of details: そうそう is gone. Now Yuu seems to say she is unlovable to anyone but Touko.
Yuu says someone would not come to love her so quickly.
Setting you aside, who would love me that fast…
If only I could choose…
選んでくれたら…
Concerning くれたら: now Yuu seems to be unable to choose.
Yuu can and does choose. She just wants her heart to choose for her.
If only it would choose…
This is a continuation of her thoughts on the previous page.
This makes four that I know of since fall of our first year.
一年の秋にして私が知ってるだけでもう四人目よ
Wrong measurement of time. Now it seems like time has passed since that autumn.
This interlude is set during the said autumn.
This makes four that I know of, and it’s only the fall of our first year.
Yui
佐藤由香
Why is the name drastically different? Who would sign a letter with only their first name?
There is no confirmation about how the name is read, but one reading is:
Sato Yuka
The names of minor characters were previously translated as is.
That’s fine with me. Because as long as she stays like this… I can still be at her side, closer to her than anyone else.
それでいいそのままでいて そのままでいてくれる間は 私が一番そばにいられるんだから
Loss of details: そのままでいて is gone.
That’s fine. Stay that way. As long as you stay that way… I can keep being the closest one to you.
That last problem in Section A was just cruel, don’t you think?
数Aの最後の問題性格悪かったよなー
Concerning 数A: now the subject Doujima is commenting on is called Section A.
数A is short for 数学A, a high school math course. Generally, students take Math 1 and Math A concurrently.
That last problem for Math A was a real pain.
Touko always seems so happy when she looks at me… I want to feel the same way when I look at her.
わたしを見て嬉しそうにするこの人を 可愛いと思えるようになりたい
Extraneous implication: now この人 is specified to be Touko.
Yuu does not refer to Touko by her first name.
This person who looks happy to see me… I want to be able to think of her as lovely.
There are plenty of people out there… who’ll accept you just the way you are.
そのままの先輩の受け入れてくれる人は 先輩が思うよりいっぱいいるんじゃないかな
Loss of details: 先輩が思うより is gone.
There might be a lot more people than you think… who will accept you the way you are.
If I can’t fall in love with Senpai… then I don’t want to fall in love… with anyone.
先輩と一緒にいられないなら わたしに誰か好きになれるの いやだ
Now Yuu seems willing to give up on love entirely if she can’t fall in love with Touko.
Yuu doesn’t want to lose Touko, who is possibly her best chance to come to love someone.
If I can’t be with Senpai… who can I come to love? I don’t want that.
You don’t want anyone to accept your weak or perfect side… but you still want to be with someone.
弱い自分も完璧な自分も肯定されたくないくせに 誰かと一緒にいたいんだ
Concerning 肯定: now Yuu seems to say Touko doesn’t want to be accepted by others.
Touko doesn’t want either of her selves to be affirmed by others. Also, one of the reasons Touko likes Yuu is because she accepts her.
You don’t want anyone to affirm your weak self or perfect self… yet you want to be with someone.
Be with me. Don’t fall in love with anyone else.
Don’t grow cold or distant.
私といて ほかの人を好きにならないで
私のこと嫌いにならないで
Concerning 私といて: now Touko seems to want Yuu to be with her, as if she hasn’t been doing so already. Extraneous implication: now Touko seems dramatic.
If the request is quoted later in the story, this embellishment will cause awkwardness.
Stay with me. Don’t come to love anyone else.
Don’t come to hate me.
I was always being praised… just like my older sister before me.
姉がそうだったように たくさんの好意を向けられるようになった
Concerning たくさんの好意を向けられるようになった: now Touko seems to have been raised with praises and developed a complex towards praise.
Touko became able to receive a lot of affection when she mimicked her sister, and developed a complex towards affection.
Like my older sister… I started to receive a lot of affection.
“I love that about you”…
「こういうあなたが好き」って
Concerning こういうあなたが好き: now the statement seems more specific.
It is about loving some way the person is.
“I love that you’re like this”…
“I can’t fall in love with anyone.”
「わたしに好きは訪れない」
Loss of details: 訪れない is gone.
The missing key is that Yuu phrases herself passively, believing love is something beyond her control.
“Love won’t come to me.”
Tatsuya Kusunoki-san
楠達矢さん
Why is the translation of Japanese names reversed?
仲谷鳰 is translated as “Nakatani Nio”, so other Japanese names should be consistently translated as “last name first name”.
Kusunoki Tatsuya-san
Hopefully the adaptation quality will improve in the following volume.
Aletheia 