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Soul Eater Not! Chapter 9.5: Every plot point is solved by puppies.
First of all, thank God that I only have to recap this series for two more months before Yen Plus catches up with the Japanese chapters. Thank God.
Because Kurt Hassler has some words for y'all. (In a good way.)
THE ANNOUNCEMENT screencapped from this month's issue of YEN PLUS:
(Please forgive the crap quality and small size of this screenshot, but I wanted to make myself feel a liiiiiittle bit less guilty about screencapping a page from a digital magazine that y'all are supposed to pay to be able to read. Er, it's only one page and it's basically just a news announcement, please forgive me?)
So, there you have it. Not! will be concurrent in Yen Plus and GanGan as of January next year. FUCK YES. And hats off to Hassler-sensei and Ohkubo-sensei for making this awesomesauce a reality.
Okay, so, time for this month's recap! As you might recall, last month we ended with Eternal Feather declaring that she had figured out a way for Jackie to win Kim's affection.
And apparently this brilliant plan involves tamagoyaki.
"Tamagoyaki?" Tsugumi asks.
Eternal Feather does the glasses-glint thing. "Because word of Kim-san's bad behavior has spread among the students here, there's nobody left who's willing to ask her out anymore. But there are still quite a lot of people in her underground fanclub. I obtained this information from them, so I'm certain that it's accurate."
"Tamagoyaki is her favorite dish?" Me-Me says. "That's too cute!"
"I haven't the faintest idea what kind of dish this 'tamagoyaki' is," Agna says, "but preparing Kim-senpai's favorite dish for her in the most delicious manner is your best strategy for winning her affections. That girl is strangely tanuki-like, after all, so luring her with food may just work."
"But I... don't know if I can make tamagoyaki very well..."
In the background, Kana is holding up cards that say I ♥ and THE EGG.
"Then leave it to me!" Tsugumi cuts in enthusiastically. "Back home, my mom was busy a lot of the time, so I made a lot of lunches for my dad and my brother! I'm really good at cooking, as long as it's something simple! Like, I know how to add the milk at just the right time to make the eggs nice and fluffy, and stuff like that!"
"Oh my, Tsugumi-san," Eternal Feather teases, "with all that cute domesticity, it seems like you're trying with all your might to earn those 'future bride' points!"
Tsugumi blushes and laughs nervously.
"Even though she hasn't even decided on her partner yet, she's 'trying with all her might'...?" Agna says, glaring at Tsugumi.
"Huuuuuuuuuuh," Me-Me says, which is somehow even more damning.
"TRUE LOVE and MY PARTNER are two totally different issues!!" Tsugumi flips out.
So you say, but Agna and Me-Me clearly don't see it that way.
Suddenly Jackie bursts into the fray in support of Tsugumi. "SHE'S RIGHT!! THEY'RE DIFFERENT!! TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!"
This is the second-least convincing denial that Jackie has given us in this series so far.
"Wait," Tsugumi says. "Then why do you want to be Kim-senpai's partner in the first place?"
"Huh?" Jackie is so busted. But then she recovers quickly. "Mm~~~." She orally molests some ellipses. "How should I put this..."
Why CAN'T I stop thinking about Kim? From the moment I first noticed her, I haven't stopped wanting to be with her... Could this really be love? Is it because Kim's so boyish? No, that's not it... Kim isn't really that boyish, she's actually kind of glamorous, and we're both girls, so... ARGH, what am I thinking~~~?!
U~~~~~~~N. . . . . .
Aaaaaaaaaaand Jackie just lit herself on fire.
"Jacqueline-senpai is on fire!!" Tsugumi exclaims, donning the Captain Obvious hat.
There's a pun about literal moe to be made here, but I ain't gonna make it.
Next, some time later! Jackie is looking proudly down at a tray of beautiful tamagoyaki.
"Those look perfect!" Tsugumi says. "But then again, I guess it's no surprise that a lantern would be good at anything that involves using flame."
Somewhere close by, Kim is sniffing the air. She steps into the kitchen, hands raised and curled like tanuki paws. Something smells good...
"Oh! Tamagoyaki ♥"
For some reason, Me-Me is now carrying the tray of tamagoyaki. "Kim-senpai, would you like one? Jacqueline-senpai made them."
"Huh," Kim says. "In that case, I guess I'll try one."
She grabs one and puts it in her mouth.
"Ah!" Tsugumi says, trying to stop Kim. But it's too late.
"Actually, I was the one who made that one..." Agna says.
Which explains why Kim dramatically spits it out a split second later.
"JACKIE, YOU ASSHOLE!!" Kim runs away screaming.
Welp, that didn't work.
But Tsugumi is now more determined than ever! "OKAY!! New plan!! The most important thing for a girl is BEAUTY!!"
"?!" Jackie says. My thoughts exactly.
Tsugumi has an evil look on her face. "Jacqueline-senpai's best feature is her beautiful hair, so let's use that to appeal to Kim-senpai."
By which Tsugumi apparently means, let's all get naked and go to a public bath together.
IT'S OKAY GUYS, SHE TOTALLY DIDN'T STEAL THIS PLAN FROM WATCHING HENTAI ANIME AND IT IS TOTALLY GOING TO WORK.
So because God is a weaboo in the Ohkubo-verse, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there's a Japanese-style onsen somewhere in Death City. A few panels later, Tsugumi, Me-Me, Agna, Eternal Feather, Kana, and Jackie are naked in the bath together, when Kim finally takes off her clothes and sits down in the shower area outside of the bathtub. SHE'S HERE!! Tsugumi think-bubbles.
Kim looks around the bath nervously. "There sure are a lot of people here today..."
Tsugumi gives Me-Me and Agna a thumbs-up signal. They thumbs-up right back at her.
"SENPAI'S HAIR IS SO BEAUTIFUL!" Tsugumi loudly declares to Jackie. "Senpai, could you please explain to me the difference between rinse, conditioner, and treatment?"
Jackie sweatdrops, but plays along. "Rinse coats the surface of your hair and prevents friction between the strands. Conditioner also coats the surface of your hair and prevents frizzing more powerfully than rinse does. Treatment is the same as rinse, but it's powerful enough to penetrate inside of your hair. I use treatment every day on my hair."
"WOW!" Me-Me exclaims. "You have such an amazing memory!"
"I BET IF I BECOME JACKIE'S FRIEND, I CAN LEARN HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL TOO!" Tsugumi says while looking right at Kim.
"AND I'LL GET GLOSSY CUTICLES JUST LIKE HER!" Me-Me adds.
"BEAUTY IS IMPORTANT, EVEN FOR LOWLY COMMONERS!" Agna adds.
Kim angrily washes her hair. "Are you trying to imply something about my short hair?!" she glowers at the girls.
"EEP!" Tsugumi and Me-Me flounder.
But Agna is admiring Kim with the usual Agna-is-fetishizing-something-about-commoners look on her face. What a hearty way of washing her hair...
"Um...." Jackie says in response to Kim's accusation. NOT HELPING.
Kim rinses her hair angrily and stomps out of the bathing area. "Um," Tsugumi says, "won't you at least get in the bathtub for just a little--?"
"You're all too freakin' noisy in there! I'm outta here."
Jackie makes cry-face.
"OKAY, NEW PLAN!!" Tsugumi declares. "The most important thing for a girl is HOLIDAYS!! Just like for tanuki!!"
Jackie is ready to give up. "Just do whatever you want..."
"When I remember holidays, getting presents makes me happy!" Me-Me says, in support of Tsugumi.
"And yet somehow when Me-Me-san says it, it loses all persuasiveness..." Agna says.
"Eternal Feather-senpai..." Tsugumi turns toward her.
Eternal Feather places her glasses on her face. "Leave it to me!"
Some time later, in a dark, dark room! "What is this?" Tsugumi asks.
"Top secret classified documents about Kim-san," Eternal Feather answers.
"Oh," Agna says, reading it, "It has her favorite color, and... Eh?! This is... They even have her three sizes written here?!"
"Did you also get this from her fanclub?" Tsugumi asks.
"I did!! It seems as though there are several faculty members within the fanclub. This top-secret document was cobbled together from information leaked by those same faculty members."
Wow okay that's ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING and REALLY FUCKING CREEPY to think about, so I won't. Shibusen is a ~*magical*~ place where adult male teachers would NEVER stalk a twelve-year-old girl and actually get their hands on her three measurements for whatever reason. NOPE. THAT WAS NEVER REVEALED IN THIS MANGA. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ~ ~ ~
"Faculty members?" Tsugumi gasps. "Could Sid-sensei be one of them?!"
"That certainly can't be true," Agna says. "Ah... May I turn on the lights now?"
A narrative panel on the next page informs us: Actually, it was her! (The Girls' Dormitory Head RA)
Oh hey, remember her?
"If Tsugumi-san is Mary Smith from 'A Commoner of Flanders,' then Kim Diehl-san fits the role of the gang leader perfectly!" Misery says.
Meanwhile! "Doesn't that seem weird?" Jackie says. "It says that her birthday is on April 31st, but April only has thirty days..."
"Oh. You're right," Eternal Feather says.
"How disconcerting..." Agna says. "Our intent was to celebrate a holiday, but for an occasion as vital as her birthday to be left ambiguous like this..."
"Maybe Kim-san can't remember her real birthday," Me-Me postulates.
"No, that would be just you, Me-Me-san."
"I'm going to ask the other girls in the dorm what they know about Kim-senpai," Tsugumi declares.
The others follow a step behind her. "We're going too!"
Later! "The Witch of the Girls' Dorm? She's from Spain, isn't she? Or maybe it was Korea."
"No, her name isn't the Korean Kim," another girl corrects the first girl. "I heard that 'Kim' was just her nickname?"
Another girl wanders over. "What are you talking about?"
"We're trying to figure out where the Witch of the Girls' Dorm's home country is..."
"Wasn't she from Brazil?"
"I heard she was from Chechnya."
"No, she's from New Zealand, isn't she?"
Jackie listens to this, growing angrier.
"What's going on here?" Me-Me asks Tsugumi.
"Maybe we don't really need to know where she's from after all..." Tsugumi concedes.
And Jackie has finally had enough. "Let's stop prying into her personal information," she declares.
Meanwhile, Scorpion Witch!
Oh man I love her character design but sheebus, lady, don't you think you're overdoing it with the magatama symbols?
I mean, it's in her eyes, her hair, her earrings, and even the sleeves of her outfit. Yes yes I get that the magatama looks like the stinger of a scorpion's tale and that's why it's all over her, but still, there is such a thing as over-doing it. Um.
Although I really, really love the way that her braid is styled to look like a scorpion's tale.
"It seems as though pursuers from Shibusen are close to discovering our location..." Lackey Numero Uno says.
"Witches are Shibusen's mortal enemies, therefore we will inevitably be found," Shaula says. "All we can do is hide our lineage and live in secret. However," she says with a wicked smile, "that too will soon change. I will destroy Shibusen!!"
Meanwhile! Kim is lurking in an alley, somewhere in Death City. She leans against a wall and sighs. It's not like I wanted to be born a witch...
Suddenly, a puppy! The stray puppy nuzzles up against Kim's leg, but she kicks it away. "Go away!!" She turns away from it. "Don't treat me as if I'm a stray dog just like you. ...I'm alone because I like being alone."
Suddenly, scooter!
Scooter knocking over crap!
OH NOES BLOODY CRUSHED PUPPY
AAAAAAAH FUCK YOU OHKUBO OH MY FUCKING GOD
ALL MY CRY FACES RIGHT NOW
ALL MY CRY FACES
ALL OF THEM
TT_____________TT
"HEY!!" Kim yells at the motorcyclist. But he's gone. So Kim rushes over toward the puppy and lifts the fallen debris off it.
"HANG IN THERE!" Kim yells at the mangled puppy. "I'M GOING TO HEAL YOU RIGHT NOW!!"
And a few panels later...
HAPPY PUPPY JUMPS UP AND LICKS KIM'S FACE!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!
"H... Hey there..." Kim says, only half-heartedly trying to push the puppy away from her face. "Good boy, good boy..."
And then Kim realizes that somebody was watching her the whole time.
"Th... That's impossible..." Jackie gasps. "You healed its injuries..."
Kim's eyes go wide. She saw me?!
"Kim... Are you... Could you be...?"
"It's not like that!"
"But you used magic! Are you a real witch...?"
"I..." Kim says. "I couldn't stand witch society, so I managed to sneak away... If I enrolled at Shibusen then the witches would never be able to find me here... And as long as I'm with Shibusen I'll always know what they're up to, you know? In the outside world I would be in constant fear of being found by enemies from both sides, and I just can't live like that..."
Kim starts shaking. I never thought that Kim could be so terrified of anything... Jackie think-bubbles.
And then Kim starts crying. "I cut off my long hair that I used to be so proud of, I acted like a tomboy, I tried to keep everyone away from me, and it still wasn't enough... Why did some anal-retentive bitch like you have to..."
Jackie kneels down and touches Kim's shoulder. The reason why I can't stop thinking about Kim... I finally understand the reason why I can't leave her alone... "It's okay!!" Jackie says. "I'm an anal-retentive bitch. Just like you said. And I don't let anything slip out of my mouth, either!!"
Yes that is a completely horrible metaphor. You can thank Ohkubo for that one.
Kim blushes. "Dumbass! As if I can believe you just like that..."
Jackie pets the head of the puppy. I'm just like the dog that she tried to throw away. I can't leave her alone with this burden... "All right then," Jackie says, clapping her hands together. "How about I name my price for hush money, then? There's this amazing ice cream place that I've been wanting to try..."
Later, ice cream! But why are Tsugumi, Me-Me, and Agna there with them? They accomplished nothing in this chapter. NOTHING.
"Why are these three idiots here, too?!" Kim fumes. She digs into her tanuki-shaped wallet. "I don't have enough..."
"But Kim-senpai, don't you still have all that money from our part-time job at the pool?" Tsugumi asks.
Jackie is making cry-face again. And I wanted it to be just the two of us... Then she stops with the cry-face. But still... At least now I understand that what I feel for Kim isn't romantic love. Good. She sweatdrops. Good.
Kim taps Jackie's shoulder. Jackie turns around.
"What happened before is going to be a secret just for the two of us, okay?" Kim says, blushing in the most moe way possible.
Jackie's head explodes.
Yes, I totally believe that she has no romantic attraction to Kim whatsoever. I TOTALLY BELIEVE THAT.
"I mean, your only redeeming quality is that stubborness anyway," Kim says. "so don't ever break your promise, all right?"
To be continued next month!
Because Kurt Hassler has some words for y'all. (In a good way.)
(Please forgive the crap quality and small size of this screenshot, but I wanted to make myself feel a liiiiiittle bit less guilty about screencapping a page from a digital magazine that y'all are supposed to pay to be able to read. Er, it's only one page and it's basically just a news announcement, please forgive me?)
So, there you have it. Not! will be concurrent in Yen Plus and GanGan as of January next year. FUCK YES. And hats off to Hassler-sensei and Ohkubo-sensei for making this awesomesauce a reality.
Okay, so, time for this month's recap! As you might recall, last month we ended with Eternal Feather declaring that she had figured out a way for Jackie to win Kim's affection.
And apparently this brilliant plan involves tamagoyaki.
"Tamagoyaki?" Tsugumi asks.
Eternal Feather does the glasses-glint thing. "Because word of Kim-san's bad behavior has spread among the students here, there's nobody left who's willing to ask her out anymore. But there are still quite a lot of people in her underground fanclub. I obtained this information from them, so I'm certain that it's accurate."
"Tamagoyaki is her favorite dish?" Me-Me says. "That's too cute!"
"I haven't the faintest idea what kind of dish this 'tamagoyaki' is," Agna says, "but preparing Kim-senpai's favorite dish for her in the most delicious manner is your best strategy for winning her affections. That girl is strangely tanuki-like, after all, so luring her with food may just work."
"But I... don't know if I can make tamagoyaki very well..."
In the background, Kana is holding up cards that say I ♥ and THE EGG.
"Then leave it to me!" Tsugumi cuts in enthusiastically. "Back home, my mom was busy a lot of the time, so I made a lot of lunches for my dad and my brother! I'm really good at cooking, as long as it's something simple! Like, I know how to add the milk at just the right time to make the eggs nice and fluffy, and stuff like that!"
"Oh my, Tsugumi-san," Eternal Feather teases, "with all that cute domesticity, it seems like you're trying with all your might to earn those 'future bride' points!"
Tsugumi blushes and laughs nervously.
"Even though she hasn't even decided on her partner yet, she's 'trying with all her might'...?" Agna says, glaring at Tsugumi.
"Huuuuuuuuuuh," Me-Me says, which is somehow even more damning.
"TRUE LOVE and MY PARTNER are two totally different issues!!" Tsugumi flips out.
So you say, but Agna and Me-Me clearly don't see it that way.
Suddenly Jackie bursts into the fray in support of Tsugumi. "SHE'S RIGHT!! THEY'RE DIFFERENT!! TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!"
This is the second-least convincing denial that Jackie has given us in this series so far.
"Wait," Tsugumi says. "Then why do you want to be Kim-senpai's partner in the first place?"
"Huh?" Jackie is so busted. But then she recovers quickly. "Mm~~~." She orally molests some ellipses. "How should I put this..."
Why CAN'T I stop thinking about Kim? From the moment I first noticed her, I haven't stopped wanting to be with her... Could this really be love? Is it because Kim's so boyish? No, that's not it... Kim isn't really that boyish, she's actually kind of glamorous, and we're both girls, so... ARGH, what am I thinking~~~?!
U~~~~~~~N. . . . . .
Aaaaaaaaaaand Jackie just lit herself on fire.
"Jacqueline-senpai is on fire!!" Tsugumi exclaims, donning the Captain Obvious hat.
There's a pun about literal moe to be made here, but I ain't gonna make it.
Next, some time later! Jackie is looking proudly down at a tray of beautiful tamagoyaki.
"Those look perfect!" Tsugumi says. "But then again, I guess it's no surprise that a lantern would be good at anything that involves using flame."
Somewhere close by, Kim is sniffing the air. She steps into the kitchen, hands raised and curled like tanuki paws. Something smells good...
"Oh! Tamagoyaki ♥"
For some reason, Me-Me is now carrying the tray of tamagoyaki. "Kim-senpai, would you like one? Jacqueline-senpai made them."
"Huh," Kim says. "In that case, I guess I'll try one."
She grabs one and puts it in her mouth.
"Ah!" Tsugumi says, trying to stop Kim. But it's too late.
"Actually, I was the one who made that one..." Agna says.
Which explains why Kim dramatically spits it out a split second later.
"JACKIE, YOU ASSHOLE!!" Kim runs away screaming.
Welp, that didn't work.
But Tsugumi is now more determined than ever! "OKAY!! New plan!! The most important thing for a girl is BEAUTY!!"
"?!" Jackie says. My thoughts exactly.
Tsugumi has an evil look on her face. "Jacqueline-senpai's best feature is her beautiful hair, so let's use that to appeal to Kim-senpai."
By which Tsugumi apparently means, let's all get naked and go to a public bath together.
IT'S OKAY GUYS, SHE TOTALLY DIDN'T STEAL THIS PLAN FROM WATCHING HENTAI ANIME AND IT IS TOTALLY GOING TO WORK.
So because God is a weaboo in the Ohkubo-verse, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there's a Japanese-style onsen somewhere in Death City. A few panels later, Tsugumi, Me-Me, Agna, Eternal Feather, Kana, and Jackie are naked in the bath together, when Kim finally takes off her clothes and sits down in the shower area outside of the bathtub. SHE'S HERE!! Tsugumi think-bubbles.
Kim looks around the bath nervously. "There sure are a lot of people here today..."
Tsugumi gives Me-Me and Agna a thumbs-up signal. They thumbs-up right back at her.
"SENPAI'S HAIR IS SO BEAUTIFUL!" Tsugumi loudly declares to Jackie. "Senpai, could you please explain to me the difference between rinse, conditioner, and treatment?"
Jackie sweatdrops, but plays along. "Rinse coats the surface of your hair and prevents friction between the strands. Conditioner also coats the surface of your hair and prevents frizzing more powerfully than rinse does. Treatment is the same as rinse, but it's powerful enough to penetrate inside of your hair. I use treatment every day on my hair."
"WOW!" Me-Me exclaims. "You have such an amazing memory!"
"I BET IF I BECOME JACKIE'S FRIEND, I CAN LEARN HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL TOO!" Tsugumi says while looking right at Kim.
"AND I'LL GET GLOSSY CUTICLES JUST LIKE HER!" Me-Me adds.
"BEAUTY IS IMPORTANT, EVEN FOR LOWLY COMMONERS!" Agna adds.
Kim angrily washes her hair. "Are you trying to imply something about my short hair?!" she glowers at the girls.
"EEP!" Tsugumi and Me-Me flounder.
But Agna is admiring Kim with the usual Agna-is-fetishizing-something-about-commoners look on her face. What a hearty way of washing her hair...
"Um...." Jackie says in response to Kim's accusation. NOT HELPING.
Kim rinses her hair angrily and stomps out of the bathing area. "Um," Tsugumi says, "won't you at least get in the bathtub for just a little--?"
"You're all too freakin' noisy in there! I'm outta here."
Jackie makes cry-face.
"OKAY, NEW PLAN!!" Tsugumi declares. "The most important thing for a girl is HOLIDAYS!! Just like for tanuki!!"
Jackie is ready to give up. "Just do whatever you want..."
"When I remember holidays, getting presents makes me happy!" Me-Me says, in support of Tsugumi.
"And yet somehow when Me-Me-san says it, it loses all persuasiveness..." Agna says.
"Eternal Feather-senpai..." Tsugumi turns toward her.
Eternal Feather places her glasses on her face. "Leave it to me!"
Some time later, in a dark, dark room! "What is this?" Tsugumi asks.
"Top secret classified documents about Kim-san," Eternal Feather answers.
"Oh," Agna says, reading it, "It has her favorite color, and... Eh?! This is... They even have her three sizes written here?!"
"Did you also get this from her fanclub?" Tsugumi asks.
"I did!! It seems as though there are several faculty members within the fanclub. This top-secret document was cobbled together from information leaked by those same faculty members."
Wow okay that's ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING and REALLY FUCKING CREEPY to think about, so I won't. Shibusen is a ~*magical*~ place where adult male teachers would NEVER stalk a twelve-year-old girl and actually get their hands on her three measurements for whatever reason. NOPE. THAT WAS NEVER REVEALED IN THIS MANGA. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ~ ~ ~
"Faculty members?" Tsugumi gasps. "Could Sid-sensei be one of them?!"
"That certainly can't be true," Agna says. "Ah... May I turn on the lights now?"
A narrative panel on the next page informs us: Actually, it was her! (The Girls' Dormitory Head RA)
Oh hey, remember her?
"If Tsugumi-san is Mary Smith from 'A Commoner of Flanders,' then Kim Diehl-san fits the role of the gang leader perfectly!" Misery says.
Meanwhile! "Doesn't that seem weird?" Jackie says. "It says that her birthday is on April 31st, but April only has thirty days..."
"Oh. You're right," Eternal Feather says.
"How disconcerting..." Agna says. "Our intent was to celebrate a holiday, but for an occasion as vital as her birthday to be left ambiguous like this..."
"Maybe Kim-san can't remember her real birthday," Me-Me postulates.
"No, that would be just you, Me-Me-san."
"I'm going to ask the other girls in the dorm what they know about Kim-senpai," Tsugumi declares.
The others follow a step behind her. "We're going too!"
Later! "The Witch of the Girls' Dorm? She's from Spain, isn't she? Or maybe it was Korea."
"No, her name isn't the Korean Kim," another girl corrects the first girl. "I heard that 'Kim' was just her nickname?"
Another girl wanders over. "What are you talking about?"
"We're trying to figure out where the Witch of the Girls' Dorm's home country is..."
"Wasn't she from Brazil?"
"I heard she was from Chechnya."
"No, she's from New Zealand, isn't she?"
Jackie listens to this, growing angrier.
"What's going on here?" Me-Me asks Tsugumi.
"Maybe we don't really need to know where she's from after all..." Tsugumi concedes.
And Jackie has finally had enough. "Let's stop prying into her personal information," she declares.
Meanwhile, Scorpion Witch!
Oh man I love her character design but sheebus, lady, don't you think you're overdoing it with the magatama symbols?
I mean, it's in her eyes, her hair, her earrings, and even the sleeves of her outfit. Yes yes I get that the magatama looks like the stinger of a scorpion's tale and that's why it's all over her, but still, there is such a thing as over-doing it. Um.
Although I really, really love the way that her braid is styled to look like a scorpion's tale.
"It seems as though pursuers from Shibusen are close to discovering our location..." Lackey Numero Uno says.
"Witches are Shibusen's mortal enemies, therefore we will inevitably be found," Shaula says. "All we can do is hide our lineage and live in secret. However," she says with a wicked smile, "that too will soon change. I will destroy Shibusen!!"
Meanwhile! Kim is lurking in an alley, somewhere in Death City. She leans against a wall and sighs. It's not like I wanted to be born a witch...
Suddenly, a puppy! The stray puppy nuzzles up against Kim's leg, but she kicks it away. "Go away!!" She turns away from it. "Don't treat me as if I'm a stray dog just like you. ...I'm alone because I like being alone."
Suddenly, scooter!
Scooter knocking over crap!
OH NOES BLOODY CRUSHED PUPPY
AAAAAAAH FUCK YOU OHKUBO OH MY FUCKING GOD
ALL MY CRY FACES RIGHT NOW
ALL MY CRY FACES
ALL OF THEM
TT_____________TT
"HEY!!" Kim yells at the motorcyclist. But he's gone. So Kim rushes over toward the puppy and lifts the fallen debris off it.
"HANG IN THERE!" Kim yells at the mangled puppy. "I'M GOING TO HEAL YOU RIGHT NOW!!"
And a few panels later...
HAPPY PUPPY JUMPS UP AND LICKS KIM'S FACE!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!
"H... Hey there..." Kim says, only half-heartedly trying to push the puppy away from her face. "Good boy, good boy..."
And then Kim realizes that somebody was watching her the whole time.
"Th... That's impossible..." Jackie gasps. "You healed its injuries..."
Kim's eyes go wide. She saw me?!
"Kim... Are you... Could you be...?"
"It's not like that!"
"But you used magic! Are you a real witch...?"
"I..." Kim says. "I couldn't stand witch society, so I managed to sneak away... If I enrolled at Shibusen then the witches would never be able to find me here... And as long as I'm with Shibusen I'll always know what they're up to, you know? In the outside world I would be in constant fear of being found by enemies from both sides, and I just can't live like that..."
Kim starts shaking. I never thought that Kim could be so terrified of anything... Jackie think-bubbles.
And then Kim starts crying. "I cut off my long hair that I used to be so proud of, I acted like a tomboy, I tried to keep everyone away from me, and it still wasn't enough... Why did some anal-retentive bitch like you have to..."
Jackie kneels down and touches Kim's shoulder. The reason why I can't stop thinking about Kim... I finally understand the reason why I can't leave her alone... "It's okay!!" Jackie says. "I'm an anal-retentive bitch. Just like you said. And I don't let anything slip out of my mouth, either!!"
Yes that is a completely horrible metaphor. You can thank Ohkubo for that one.
Kim blushes. "Dumbass! As if I can believe you just like that..."
Jackie pets the head of the puppy. I'm just like the dog that she tried to throw away. I can't leave her alone with this burden... "All right then," Jackie says, clapping her hands together. "How about I name my price for hush money, then? There's this amazing ice cream place that I've been wanting to try..."
Later, ice cream! But why are Tsugumi, Me-Me, and Agna there with them? They accomplished nothing in this chapter. NOTHING.
"Why are these three idiots here, too?!" Kim fumes. She digs into her tanuki-shaped wallet. "I don't have enough..."
"But Kim-senpai, don't you still have all that money from our part-time job at the pool?" Tsugumi asks.
Jackie is making cry-face again. And I wanted it to be just the two of us... Then she stops with the cry-face. But still... At least now I understand that what I feel for Kim isn't romantic love. Good. She sweatdrops. Good.
Kim taps Jackie's shoulder. Jackie turns around.
"What happened before is going to be a secret just for the two of us, okay?" Kim says, blushing in the most moe way possible.
Jackie's head explodes.
Yes, I totally believe that she has no romantic attraction to Kim whatsoever. I TOTALLY BELIEVE THAT.
"I mean, your only redeeming quality is that stubborness anyway," Kim says. "so don't ever break your promise, all right?"
To be continued next month!
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AAAAAAAH FUCK YOU OHKUBO OH MY FUCKING GOD
ALL MY CRY FACES RIGHT NOW
ALL MY CRY FACES
ALL OF THEM
Ok i will never ever ever EVER READ THIS SERIES EVER
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Jackie.Shhh.
It's okay.
Just go. Be all alone with Kim.
It'll allll be okay.
And then say it's not romantic.
I don't think I've had my hopes raised and raised and then sunk for a ship that fast before. Damn.
Thank you for the recap!
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(Anonymous) 2011-10-17 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)Oh well, this was a good chapter, fun to see how Kim and Jackie grew closer.
And, one more thing.
Shaula has a scorpion theme, and she has the sign of scorpio.
And those "traitors" could presumably be normal people under mind control.
And due to the fact that Shaula is related to Medusa, there is a chance she could be, a "huge bitch"
So let's recap, Shaula is a mind-controlling, scorpion themed, possible huge bitch.
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And by the way, I am very uncomfortable with casual use of the word "bitch," even when describing fictional characters. It's misogynistic and quite frankly dumb. I kept "bitch" in my translation of Kim and Jackie's dialogue in this chapter because I wanted to stay true to the misogyny and vulgarity behind katabutsuonna, but that doesn't mean that I'm okay with the word being used in any other context. If nothing else, using "bitch" to describe anybody just makes you sound like a twelve-year-old.
So I'd appreciate it if we didn't use words like that in any comments on my journal any more, okay?
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(Anonymous) 2011-10-18 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)Didn't mean to come off as misogynistic when I said that.
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...Wait, I haven't seen the chapter. Could this puppy become that dog? Does Ohkubo have something against dogs?
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Either way both puppies ended up okay in the end. But still. :(
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And then... draws bloody crushed puppies. asjkasbjks
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Lol, thanks for the recap!
Of all the ways to introduce Kim's witchcraft to SENot! Ohkubo chose to have a puppy kicked, run over and nearly killed.
Well, whatever, I'm just happy wittle puppy isn't all mangled and nearly-dead anymore o(*U*)o
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oh god that is a completely horrible thought.
Lol, thanks for the recap!
You're welcome! :)
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W-well he hasn't tried anything with kittens yet right or if he did I've mentally scrubbed it from my mind >.<
Puppy mangling aside, aww, Jackie is adorable here. Though it make me wonder more and more what she thought of Kim and Ox getting together (
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Also Jackie is me. I'm convinced. Possible girl-crush feelings gooo!
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Jackie/Kim/Ox for me then
Thank you a lot for the recap!!! I will really miss them when SE ends
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"You have a perverted mind!" (old granny voice)
Oh forget it, they would have the mesaures to the fanclub anyway, no excuses.
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this one seems much longer than the previous ones...I still have yet to find it anywhere, so yay recap! And all the alluding-to-yuri moments and puppies! (NOT dead ones! -_-) and Kim being all cute there at the end! And why did her measurements get leaked to who? Is this just Ohkubo trying to give some kind of fan service, or is it just unintentionally creepy?
Thanks for the recap! ^_^
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...Did you try Google? Because it's pretty easy to find that way.
Is this just Ohkubo trying to give some kind of fan service, or is it just unintentionally creepy?
Oh, it's definitely both.
Thanks for the recap! ^_^
You're welcome! :)