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[dirtbra1n]

[scanlation] sasaki to miyano, ch 53 (part 1)

happy saturday Here's this now. google drive link here--thanks specifically to @pinkdoozyxoxo for providing us all with the raws we used to do this :) the rest of the pages are below the cut

I'll probably get to my usual unfettered chatter in a separate reblog, but thank you @sunnfish and @aranarumei for Helping me make the translation into something feasibly readable and also All of the everything, forever

[dirtbra1n]

This is a story about Hanzawa senpai’s older brother. (I chatted a lot during the stream, so I’ll note things down…) In chapter 29’s flashback, Masaomi made coming out to his family at the dining table sound like an easy and light thing but, at that time, he planned to leave home if his family rejected him. He consulted his friends on the what-ifs beforehand, resolving himself, and went into that lighthearted conversation prepared for the worst. He thought staying at home wouldn’t be anything but a source of trouble, and figured that leaving home would be a tidy solution. However, his youngest brother said he’s the same and also came out, which made Masaomi worry that just leaving the house wouldn’t settle things after all. That was when Masato-kun said, “I’m not like that,” reassuring their parents and, for the time being, settling the fear Masaomi had felt. From that point forward, seeing their parents’ expectations of him and him alone from the other side, Masaomi was grateful for Masato-kun while, at the same time, placing him at the very top of his list of worries. After a little while Masaomi started to wonder if maybe Masato had simply been reading the atmosphere at that time. He has a lot of female friends but no girlfriend,  goes to an all-boys’ school, and, on top of it all, hasn’t been coming home very often since he moved into the school’s dorms. He was worried about him because he really felt they were in the same boat. Having met Miyano by chance in chapter 29, Masaomi had the opportunity to hear Masato’s true feelings, and he was relieved to hear that he hadn’t been forcing Masato to lie or put up with anything. Thanks to Masato-kun, Masaomi is able to get along with their family, and the current environment is important to him. Masaomi thinks he has a tendency towards bottoming, but he’d be satisfied so long as Masato-kun and everyone else approved of the person he brings home, even if he isn’t bottoming. That’s an unnecessary bonus… Masato-kun’s side of the issue will be covered someday.

—Harusono Shou, March 27, 2020. an anon sent me the link to this blog post and I translated it in a fit of days-long fervor. original text below the cut.

半澤先輩のお兄ちゃんの話。（配信でだら～っと喋ったのでめもめも…）

お兄ちゃんは２９話の回想で家族の食卓でさらっと軽く聞こえるようにカミングアウトをしたのですが、あのときにもし家族が拒絶するなら家を出ていくつもりでした。友達にもしもの相談をして覚悟を持って軽く話しました。 家にいては問題の種にしかならないかもしれないと思っていて、自分が家を出れば解決する程度だろうとも思っていました。でも、一番下の弟が俺も同じ、とカミングアウトしたので、自分が家を出ればいいというだけで済まないと焦りました。

そのときに雅人くんが「自分は違う」と言ったため、親も安心し、その場でお兄ちゃんの恐怖はひとまず収まりました。 それ以来、お兄ちゃんは雅人くんに感謝していて、且つ親の期待が一人に向いてしまったので、一番心配して気にかけています。

しばらくして、もしかして雅人はあの時に空気を読んだだけだったのかもとお兄ちゃんは思いました。女の子の友達は多いけど恋人は作らないし、男子校に行って、さらには寮にも入って、あまり帰省もしてこなくて。本当は自分と一緒だったのかもしれないとずっと悩んでいました。

２９話の宮野と遭遇したことがきっかけで、本心を聞く機会を得て、その点で嘘をつかせたり我慢をさせていたわけではないと知って、お兄ちゃんは安心しました。

お兄ちゃんは雅人くんのおかげで、家族とも暮らせていると思っていて、今の環境が大事です。 自分のことをネコ寄りだと考えていますが、自分が納得できて、雅人くんやみんなにも受け入れられる人なら、ネコじゃなくてもいいと考えています。

という蛇足…

雅人くん側の問題はまたいつか。

[dirtbra1n]

it's so cool that you know japanese! Did you self study?

hi anon! thank you! let’s not give me too much credit though. I took japanese for two years in college but following that haven’t took more. because japanese is a demanding language to learn and I needed to give myself enough time to do all the shit that . I’m actually getting my degree in. since then basically I’ve been practicing by reading what I can and keeping up with what I’ve always kept up with (including ssmyhrkg), but I don’t have the discipline to properly self study so my knowledge has for suuure atrophied. but I’m hoping I can get my ass in gear to make up for lost time. like sometime

on this note I can tell you what we did In class for those two years, if you feel like trying to learn yourself! maybe that’s something we all do together. I also ended up doing an impromptu read of one of chapter 52's panels at the end, so if you've seen the pages for it already, but don't really care about pdfs of japanese textbooks, you can skip the middle part under the cut to where I put a spoiler disclaimer in big big big text

for the sake of responsible sharing a) ask isn't going to be rebloggable and b) Telling you plainly in case you haven't used the site before Just press the GET at the top of the screen. it will download a pdf of each of the respective books I link. you don't need to worry about any of the other stuff happening on screen, pinky promise.

the GENKI books are kind of a staple of academic japanese learning, if nothing else they're pretty good at giving you your first building blocks.

this is a link to genki vol. 1 (and its workbook)

this is a link to genki vol. 2 (and its workbook)

and this is a link to kanji look and learn (and its workbook Even though the kll workbook was always a pain in my ass). nobody's getting graded here. so min-max kanji if you want

in any case there are a lot of resources out in the world, so if the textbook approach doesn't feel right there's always other pathways forward. and if you Fairly don't feel like pressing unknown links I present you let me know and I'll screenshot some things, I don't mind

anyway I was going to demonstrate what it looks like comprehending a page with あのさ　駅まで… but I have been made weak. on account of the Being shot by shirahama. maybe some other time. so instead I'll use a different panel to do with shirahama

this next panel is from the most recent chapter 52 of sasamiya. I don't know if you've read it yet anon. if not please read it at your soonest convenience. nothing but a read of this particular panel is gonna come after this disclaimer you won't be missing anything else I don't wanna spoil you okay thanks

shirahama just realized he was talking to miyano normally in front of miyano's boyfriend (sasaki) and also realized sasaki was staring at him (じー．．．) (<- the staring sound effect) in normal sasaki fashion, which is to say With a passive expression. but shirahama is going through horrible horrible things recently re: miyano and Miyano's boyfriend, so he panics and jolts (はっ). that leads us into this panel, where sasaki says, あ、and then thinks, そういえば保健室前に会ったかも。

aa, sou-i-e-ba, ho-kenn-shi-tsu ma-e ni a-tta ka-mo

in essence, "Oh," Come to think of it, (we) met in front of the nurse's office, I think...

そういえば is a common phrase, so I have it memorized. 保健室 was contextual, because I didn't remember the kanji but did obviously remember shirahama and sasaki's interaction there. to be really honest with you 前に was also halfway contextual because I'm always forgetting direction words. 会った is a word I've memorized, the kanji for meet (会う) in the past tense. and かも short for かもしれない, I think.

altogether, while shirahama is five seconds from digging himself an unnecessary pit to hide himself away in, on account of the aforementioned Horrible horrible things, sasaki is just harmlessly connecting some dots in his head about who shirahama is and where he met him earlier. by repeating this process I get a passable gist of untranslated chapters, which gets me by until the good proper and polished chapters drop to finish me off. This concludes today's lesson, happy friday