My personal contributions to the Hisa x Mihoko fandom:
And then to the H.G. x Myka Warehouse 13 fandom (also HxM! :D):
Amai Okashi to
(With Sweet Confections)
A big thank you to Kuro, Saluki, and WeatheredPeach from Yuri Project for networking with 百度天才麻将少女吧 and making this release possible!
Okay, so this is the last untranslated Hakka-ya (Bucap) raw that I have on hand. I haven’t been in contact with Yuri Project per se for a while, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to continue translating Hakka-ya stuff, or if someone else will be getting the raws to work on (or if they’ve been translated already), and so on. But I will keep you all abreast when I know.
(As you can probably tell from my last two releases — surroundings and Amai Okashi to, I kind of left them last since they’re relatively speaking, low on the Bucap factor. And I’m not too fond of Nodobewbs, so. 8D)
With that said, please enjoy this Hakka-ya doujin, whether you’re a Bucap fan or if you ship KajuMomo or whomever.
P.S. With the huge overlap between Bucap fans/yuri fans/Shizuru x Natsuki fans, I’m assuming you all know what ‘kaichou’ means, which is why I left it untranslated in the doujin. ‘Kaichou’ in a school setting usually just means the student council (congress!) president.
Well, that only took forever. I’ve been waiting since the day the last episode aired for a raw episode in 720p that wasn’t like… 2GB or oh, better yet, 7.41 GB. Yeah, you read that right. 7.41 GB for one bloody episode. You effing kidding me? Even I could encode better than that, and I’m like a Mihoko in terms of techonlogy.
Anyway, onward, with le screenshots.
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Oh my goodness, what?
Urobuchi really does love lesbians. <3
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Unfortunately, I think this picture suggests their relationship is more sexual than romantic. But Screw The Canon, I Have Fangirl.
I’m guessing that’s Karanomori’s room? It’s too classy and elegant to be Kunizuka’s. And what, Kunizuka with her gorgeous hair down? Post-coital smoke? YES.
Can this get any gayer? Apparently not. Karanomori and Kunizuka are so gay that I think they outgay about ten of me. I bow before their superior and unrivalled gayness.
And haha, that’s so cute. *waves* Hi Sakura Ayane! So random, so lovely. (I like her getting paid for another episode.) I wonder how many of the English-speaking audiences caught that? Continue reading
Wow, okay, I was terrified when Kunizuka said she’d go with Akane. D:
Change-ups to the usual combinations of Inspector/Enforcer ought to make you wary. *coughKagaricough*
But well, I was Genre Savvy in the wrong direction again — but who cares, right? I don’t think I really feel that bad about Masaoka and Ginoza though — well, I did, and I was kind of really teary up till the end until Ginoza’s seiyuu started screaming when his dad died, and I was like, “Wut… =__=” Half makes you wish seiyuu weren’t a hobby of yours, but…. uh… yeah…. …. It’s probably like if you were an animation buff and had to watch SP! or something.
And Urobuchi really is milking it for all it’s worth — Masaoka unable to hear his son calling him ‘father’ for the last time? Check. Ginoza sustaining the same injury as his father did by losing his hand — and on the same side, to boot? Double check. Yuuup. Dramalicious, without the -licious part.
Ever wonder how a guy would look like as a tsundere? Here you go.
I feel like I was playing a horrible visual novel (but with the inability to mute undesirable people) instead of watching anime.
Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk
*still picture changes to something else*
Talk talk talk talk talk some more.
And this is coming from someone who thinks “pointless cool action scenes” are, well, pointless.
And that’s about all I have to say on this episode from a “story” perspective, because, lolwut, nothing really happened this episode. So you can probably stop reading now unless you like seiyuu.
surroundings
A big thanks to Kuro, Saluki, and WeatheredPeach from Yuri Project for networking with 百度天才麻将少女吧 and making this release possible!
So okay, let’s get this out of the way — Mihoko doesn’t actually appear in the doujin itself, but it’s so much about Bucap that you won’t believe it.
As the title “surroundings” suggests, it’s about people around Hisa (namely, Irrelevant Male Character (don’t worry, nothing happens :D), Fujita Yasuko (Katsudon-san), and Yumi). It’s quite well-written, and I really like how Hakka-ya approached it?
I didn’t translate the one with the guy in it (it’s only a few pages long), but you can read more on it in the Notes attached to this release if you’re interested.
I think it’s adorable how lovey-dovey Hisa is even when Mihoko isn’t around. She’s so silly and adorable!
Hope you’ll enjoy this, since I know it’s been *cough* awhile since the last release!
P.S. Again, I’m having trouble with yet another file hosting site that is not MediaFire… isn’t there anyone out there who knows of one that allows files to be kept on even after 30 days of inactivity? I need two good file hosting sites at any given time. I hate the shitty ones that are thinly disguised attempts to get your e-mail address so they can spam you. The best I can find so far that isn’t MF is Data File Host, which will keep files on for up to 60 days of inactivity, or so it says. Still, I would appreciate any other recommendations for future reference — ones that require the least amount of effort for people to download stuff (e.g. no wait periods or CAPTCHAs).
Screw you Urobuchi, for making it interesting again!
… or maybe this is just my seiyuu bias speaking, because I was inordinately excited when Hidaka Noriko got real lines?!
Haha, okay, back to the story for a moment.
So.
Isn’t it impossibly convenient for Masaoka to have what appears to be a brand-spanking-new motorcycle for Kougami to use, that also goes super well with his cymatic-scan-avoiding, gamebreaking helmet? To the point where it makes me think, “Oh, so this is why they designed it as a clunky helmet…”
And I’m no good with vehicles, but I would think they’d, you know, KIND OF STOP WORKING PROPERLY if you leave one just sitting around for decades.
So okay, on a more serious note — I think what got me interested again was, actually, for the first time, seeing Japan in relation to the rest of the world. It’s Japan’s xenophobia taken to its logical extreme, really. If Japan could be completely self-sufficient even now, it would probably happily block off all contact with other countries. I guess any sufficiently homogenous society that’s also historically been geographically isolated is bound to be like this somehow? Who knows.
Sherlock Holmes, Psycho-Pass style. Where’s Lucy Liu? D:
I feel like the story is kind of not very focussed and all over the place, though. Just because some things were mentioned earlier (cyborgs, Professor Saiga) doesn’t necessarily mean randomly pulling them out later on makes them any less… well, random. It feels more like a montage than a coherent, flowing storyline, if you know what I mean?
I don’t usually post anything that can be remotely construed as NSFW, but there’s a screenshot of a naked lady (kind of tame and not particularly ero, though) later on in this post. You have been warned. :D
So… I really like visual novels as a medium. It’s very versatile, and I inevitably compare every single visual novel I come across to Aoishiro, probably the first real visual novel I played, and probably the best. So it’s slightly disappointing that way when you think about it — you’ve already seen the best of the best, and nothing else really measures up.
That doesn’t stop me from looking, though — so when I saw that there was a new (yuri) VN coming out on this Japanese yuri blog, I felt kind of compelled to check it out, at least.
Seisai no Resonance is the newest work from Yatagarasu, and if their previous (sort of) yuri title (Yamiyo ni Odore -Witch wishes to commit the Night-) is anything to go by, the folks at Yatagarasu kind of really like yuri and combat-type stories (with an in-game real-time combat sort of thing). (Er, and they seem to be into doing other, more ‘hardcore’ niches as well, but I haven’t played those and they seem not to have any bearing on these two works, so we’ll leave it as is. From what I’ve seen, the two yuri titles are more on the vanilla side of things.)
Anyway, back to SnR — the story basically goes like this.
Synopsis:
Takadou Kanae (the redhead pictured above) travels to an isolated (fictional) Japanese island called Otofuse in order to search for her mother. Her mother mysteriously disappeared after returning to her hometown island, and is now considered legally dead as seven years have passed without anyone hearing from her. Unable to accept her death, Kanae heads off to the island by herself to search for the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, convinced her mother would not willingly leave her behind.
Even before she reaches the island proper, an attempt is made on her life by a mysterious blue-haired girl (below) who refuses to divulge or explain anything beyond the fact that Kanae is not welcome to Otofuse-jima.
Their struggle escalates, and the blue (purple?)-haired girl throws her off the ferry to leave her to drown:
Kanae is then rescued from certain death by a blonde woman who not only seems to know her despite being the first time they’ve met, but who earnestly goes out of her way to help Kanae. Kanae herself feels a strange connection to the blonde woman, as the woman eeriely reminds her of her mother.
The woman, Katakura Mirai, tells Kanae that she is an acquaintance of her mother’s — and in order to find and meet her, Kanae must become a miko by participating in a battle/competition with seven or eight other girls, also candidates as being chosen as one of two mikos that year to take part in an annual ritual to cleanse the island of Impurities.
