(Ms.) Tomo Kimura’s Translation/Tokyo Notes

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Volume 21 is scheduled to come out next February here.

My hair dryer is a “minus ion hair dryer”. The negative ions are supposed to prevent your hair from getting too dry. My air purifier produces negative ions for relaxation effects. There are even small USB gadgets that produces negative ions so you can alleviate your stress at your workplace.

If you search the Japanese youtube with “Neko Funjatta”, you’ll find enough videos of people playing this song. The song is relatively easy to memorize, because a lot of it is played on the black keys.

The “gloomy song” Kyoko’s singing is a parody of of a song composed by Yoshinao Nakata called “Memories of Summer”.

The opening lines go like this:

When summer comes, I remember
The faraway Oze, the distant sky

(Oze is a national park.)

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I must admit I had great fun translating Reino’s lines in this story arc. Warped characters add such flavor to this series.

Vol. 20 will be out Oct. 17 here.

And this is my 50th book.

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There is another expression that uses “boil and grill”, 煮ても焼いても食えない奴 (Nite mo yaite mo kuenai yatsu- Someone who’s inedible even if boil or grill the person). It’s used to refer to someone who drives a hard bargain, someone who’s a shrewd operator.

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