Drops of Dreams, The Golden Birdcage

A fan blog for Shinohara Chie's 夢の雫、黄金の鳥籠 (Yume no Shizuku, Kin no Torikago).

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Vol. 20 ch.76

Final volume, first delivery!

Find it on our scan group's reader, or get the DDL link from our site.

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With the latest chapter I'm convinced Shinohara sensei simply wants us to believe Ibrahim is in love with Suleiman lol

wdym, of course İbrahim was in love with Suleiman :P

My little fujo heart can't help but see another sort of love triangle going on, but alas... Shinohara didn't go all the way :( An İbrahim x Suleiman love story would 2000% more tragic than anything Hürrem is involved in.

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Vol. 19 ch.75

Let's go!

You can read it on Decadence Reader, and get the DDLs on our group's site.

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Hiii! Thank you for your hard work <3 I wanted to ask how many chapters are there in total? I looked everywhere online but I can't find the total amount and I just wanna update all the logging websites because it says they are 73 and doesn't let me log more :sob: Sorry for the silly ask but i thought if someone knows it must be you >:) Thank you and I hope all is good with you :)))

Hi!

DoD has 79 chapters in total. Our latest release is chapter 74, which you can find on Decadence's website.

After the recent MangaDex take-downs, we have decided not to upload there for a while. So you will only find the new releases on my group's website, and I will also keep updates on tumblr when there is one ;)

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How often are scans released? I just found this manga and devoured what was available and I am itching for ch 75. Thanks!

Hi! I'm happy to know that you have enjoyed this story!

As a rule, we aim for monthly releases, but sometimes real life doesn't agree with us... But I can at least say that chapter 75 is in the quality checking process, and it shouldn't take too long.

Trivia: DoD was a bi-monthly series when it ran in AnePetit.

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Red River by Chie Shinohara 天は赤い河のほとり

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Vol. 19 ch.74

Dirty talk: Süleyman edition

Because of that new box you need to tick before uploading on MD, we are only uploading on our own reader for the time being.

Decadence Reader

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Vol. 19 ch.73

I can't believe I forgot to post the previous chapters, but this is not the only thing real life™ made me forget... So here you go!

Decadence Reader MangaDex

Thank you, Deca fam!

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This was pretty much the first manga series I worked on, and what got me into the scanlation world. So I will allow myself to get emotional after typing these words on a .docx file.

I have finished my very first DoD script on September 25, 2020. And 4,5 years later, today, I have finished my final one. I still remember myself clumsily trying to translate chapter 45, and tonight, I was trying to find the words that'd have the best emotional impact in chapter 79. I've realized that much has changed in my life in these past 4,5 years, except for how much I suck at translating XD

This manga connected me to people from all over the world. I'm glad to know more people can appreciate the effort Shinohara-sensei put into creating this story. I'm also happy that I could help other people enjoy themselves (or more likely, have rage fits because of İbo).

I will one day gather my courage to write Shinohara-sensei an awkward fan letter to tell her she has a fan of her manga in Turkey. For now, I can only thank everyone who worked on the scanlation of DoD before me, and who read along with me.

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I can't believe we are getting closer to the end, fam. I am making progress on the translation.

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Hello!! Have the final chapters of the manga come out? / been translated yet? I binged the entire manga last night after starting it in 2018, it was so nice getting caught up with a manga I wanted to finish so long ago!! Thank you for your hard work of scanning

Hi! The final volume's been out since, uh, October 2024... And I have only translated 25% of it so far. This is completely on me, because RL hasn't been going too well. I have motivational problems. But rest assured that I will see this to the end! I might be slow in translating, but I won't let go of this story that is dear to my heart.

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The world shall suffer my bad memes...

But that's exactly what her face says to me.

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Do you think Ibrahim is in love with Suleiman? Because I legitimately cannot think of any other reason to justify how loyal he is. Plus Hatice's comment in the latest chapter about how what ibrahim holds most dear in the world / his top priority is Suleiman... how else are we meant to be taking this

Glad you asked!

I have always been of the opinion that this story needed a touch of more explicit BL-"explicit" in the sense that İbrahim admits that what he feels for Suleiman is more than "loyalty," and his actions are also fueled by jealousy towards Hürrem for stealing Suleiman's affection from him. Because that's how his characters reads to me. Theirs is the worst romance the Ottoman history has ever saw, and Shinohara didn't go full throttle there. The power dynamics between the two men is begging for some more homoeroticism, sensei! There are so many emotions involved in that relationship!

I'm sure that if İbrahim ever shared the same bed with Hatice, he'd have called her "Suleiman-sama." Bro is so obvious.

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parga

© 2024 Yiannis Krikis

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The final volume is out!

Go get the final volume!

I can't believe it's over now....

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If you don't mind asks regarding your thoughts on the latest chapter of DoD, why do you think Suleiman is accepting Ibrahim's answer that he supports Mustafa as the eldest prince despite clearly not believing that's all there is to it, and warns him not to err in his judgment of the matter of Mustafa and Mehmed? Do you think it's possible that he knows about Ibrahim and Hurrem's night together and is testing Ibrahim to see if he'll answer truthfully, or something like that?

Hi!

No, I don't mind at all! I think as things stand at the end of our latest release, Suleiman suspects that something is going on between Hürrem and İbrahim, and that something is more than simply politics. Because obviously, one would expect İbrahim to back Mehmed.

But I also feel that Suleiman legit doesn't care if his former boyfriend loyal retainer fucked his waifu or not, and he's genuinely enjoying this "game of thrones." In one of the chapters, he said that he was fine with any of his sons succeeding him provided that he manages to overcome his brothers. That really was how the Ottoman succession worked: there was no heir apparent, and the princes almost always went to war or proceeded to kill each other when their father died. Suleiman's ascension to the throne was an odd case as he didn't have any brothers when his father died, so I feel like manga Suleiman wants to see how the brotherly competition would go, and he finds it amusing.

So, becoming the sultan was a matter of capacity: the prince who could come to the capital first to claim the throne without being toppled by other princes on the road "deserved" the throne. Suleiman wants to keep that tradition, and warns İbrahim not to do petty things like trying to support Mustafa without actually believing him to be the most fit to rule. Anyone can tell that İbrahim is not a huge Mustafa fan. He comes off as anti-Mehmed more than anything.

Like you said, Suleiman is kind of pushing İbrahim to come clean about his motives so that they move on with the tedious state affairs. He wants İbrahim to know he's not buying his fake Mustafa fanboy-ism. He's not a jealous man, but he wants honesty. I don't want to give spoilers, but I just want to say that you'll LOVE chapter 74. ;)

Sorry, I'm just rambling and being incoherent because it's too damn hot here...

tl;dr: Suleiman want İbrahim to know that he knows, and to stop trying to take him for a fool.

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Hi I've recently read the manga and it is interesting fr however i cant seem to find chapter 71, did they stopped translating it?

Hi anon!

It's great to hear Hürrem is gaining new readers! Thank you for picking DoD up. I hope you enjoy the two final volumes.

"They", in this case, happens to be me! And no, I have not stopped translating it. I have finished translating ch. 71 fairly recently, and I'm almost done with ch. 72. So, as long as my lovely team, Decadence Scans, stick with me, we'll continue pumping out new chapters.

I would have finished translating the whole volume 19, but welp, real life got really busy for me. Like, really busy. So busy that I still haven't read the whole thing... #pleasesaveme