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In Japan, Valentine's Day is when girls gift chocolates and other presents to boys they like. A month later, on March 14th, called White Day, boys return the favor by giving gifts to the girls who bought them chocolates on Valentine's Day.
Valentine’s Day in Japan ~ Giving Honmei Choco
Happy Valentine's Day, my penguin. [UPDATED]
DIY Honmei Choco Tutorial »
Saw this on my FB newsfeed...so shook. I literally screamed. 😂
darkmus - Ordinary Chocolate
Inspired by (x) and (x)
For reference, honmei choco is “true feeling” chocolate (more info here) and giri choco is “friend/obligation” chocolate (more info here)
Biiiig thank you to @alectoperdita for beta/Japan-picking <3
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By the time classes let out on Valentine’s Day, Jounouchi had only received one chocolate gift, a giri choco from Anzu. It was kind of expected; after all, he wasn’t as popular as Bakura.
He wasn’t expecting to get any more chocolate, and least of all from Kaiba.
“Jounouchi.”
He turned to see Kaiba nodding at him to follow him out the classroom. Curious, he followed.
Kaiba ended up taking him to a secluded section at the back of the school before handing him a fancy white box tied with a blue ribbon.
“G…giri choco??”
He felt his cheeks burn and whipped his head around to see if anyone was watching. There wasn’t.
“Something like that. Open it.”
Jounouchi pulled at the luxe ribbon and took off the lid to reveal sixteen seemingly handcrafted chocolates with a message of elegantly written characters on each piece: “You’re not worth my time, Bonkotsu.”
“What… the…?”
Kaiba smirked at his confusion before pivoting on his heel and walking away.
Totally bewildered, he stood there for several long moments trying to figure out why the hell Kaiba would give him this… whatever this was… obviously not honmei choco but not giri choco either.
He returned to the classroom to gather his things in a confused haze.
“What did Kaiba want?” asked Honda, as they all went to change their shoes.
Jounouchi could feel himself blushing again.
“He, uh… he got me chocolate…” he admitted and his friends’ jaws dropped. “Did he… did he give you guys any?”
Anzu regarded him thoughtfully. “I don’t think he gave anyone chocolate… was it honmei choco?”
Jounouchi’s face just got hotter.
“I don’t think so,” he said, opening the box to show them.
Honda tsk-ed. “He’s just messing with you!”
“It is very strange,” agreed Yuugi.
“And totally contradictory. These look homemade. Unless… he had a servant make it?” questioned Anzu. “Does it even taste good?”
“I don’t know,” Jounouchi said, putting one in his mouth.
“Wait, it might be poisoned!” cautioned Honda belatedly.
“Honda-kun, he wouldn’t do that!” Yuugi said as Jounouchi swallowed the chocolate nervously.
“But would he?” a skeptical Honda countered.
“Well, Jounouchi isn’t dead, so it must be fine,” said Anzu. “How does it taste?”
Jounouchi blinked owlishly.
“Really… good, actually,” he admitted, kind of wanting to eat another.
Honda grimaced and Yuugi scratched his head, puzzled.
“Maybe it’s secretly honmei choco,” giggled Anzu.
Jounouchi turned red.
“Then why would he write such a rude message?” he groused.
“Who knows,” Anzu replied, amused.
They were making it out the door when Anzu stopped them.
“Hey, Jounouchi… I guess this means you have to get him something for White Day…”
Jounouchi balked and Honda slung his arm around his shoulder.
“See, messin’ with you,” Honda shrugged. “Maybe you should put laxatives in his cookies.”
“That means I actually have to make him cookies!" argued Jounouchi.
His three friends good-naturedly laughed at his predicament, walking ahead, while Jounouchi grumbled for a moment before sneaking another chocolate into his mouth.
gotta admit i’m pretty hype about making valentines day chocolates here in Japan
I’m gonna give them to my dorm’s otou-san and okaa-san plus the three RAs (one of which is a very cute boy ehehehe)
JAKWOW-J #2 - White Day Special! [ホワイトデー]
JAKWOW-J #2 – White Day Special! [ホワイトデー]
こんにちは皆さん！今日はホワイトデー 。。準備してる？[Konniciwa, minna-san! Kyou ha howaitode-.. junbi shiteru?]
Hi everyone! Today’s White Day.. are you ready?
As it’s White Day in Japan today, it’s time for a special JAKWOW-J where we’ll learn some useful phrases connected to it!
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