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 No.863[View All]

Alright, it is Wednesday and I am gonna post the first volume of Rin-ne. Feel free to react or comment on any panel, though I appreciate if image replies are not used during the dump. Feel free to discuss anything related to Rin-ne after the dump.

Rin-ne is Rumiko Takahashi's return to comedy after Inuyasha. Rin-ne is VIZ's localized title, presumably chosen to assist in pronunciation. The original title is 境界のRINNE (Kyokai/Kyoukai no Rinne) which means Rinne of the Boundary. While it is not a megahit like some of her other huge series, I highly recommend it to fans of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura though it is obviously different.

I will be using scans of the official VIZ localization. Be aware that some of the larger images may have been edited to be lower quality due to image size limits.

In addition, I will be dumping the one short story by Rumiko Takahashi and Mitsuru Ikegami that came out around this time called "My Sweet Sunday". Today, the scans I have of the one shot are the official VIZ ones.
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>>1608
Hm…

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>>1610
Heh. Rumiko knows we got so many pages and we need it said, so why not just do it and make fun of it?

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>>1611
Kitten Rokumon again.

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>>1611
Kitten Rokumon again.

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>>1613
I'm not sure if these are specific references to anything. Well, one is obviously Picasso. The anime changed them up, so I don't have any notes from Furinkan about what the manga ones were.

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>>1614
Heh, the mew sound effect by no longer kitten Rokumon (since he had to express himself more clearly).

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>>1616
Ah, paint.

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>>1617
The sign is so great.

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>>1618
Goofballs.

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>>1619
End of chapter, end of volume. Happy end. Well, for some.

Feel free to use the thread to discuss anything Rin-ne related. I have some stuff I'll posting here and there for trivia's sake.

I normally would be returning next Saturday to dump Volume 4 of Rin-ne, but I will be out of town and unable to. I will be returning on Wednesday to dump Volume 4. WEDNESDAY. Not Saturday. Wednesday. I also will be dumping "Birds of Fate" in this thread a bit later.

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>>1620
Woot.
thanks again for the storytime, OP.

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>>1620
Thanks, OP

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運命の鳥 (Unmei no tori) or "Birds of Fate" was published on March 5th, 2009 in Big Comic Original. As such, it was published between the conclusion of Inuyasha and the beginning of Rin-ne.

This translation is a fanscan. Of course, as unofficial fanscans and translations, they have their own issues but at the least we don't have to worry about flipped art. This story has four pages of color and four pages of red tint. It seems the fanscans found the original printing of the story, which is great.

This is an unusual one compared to a lot of these one-shots. It is still about a middle-aged man, but the plot is very different than most of her middle-aged man stories.

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>>1671
Per Furinkan, "Master (マスター) is a common term for a manager of a cafe or bar in Japan. One could also call them a "barkeep" or "manager"."

マスター is just phonetically the English word Master. There may be some puns in the names in this story, but I don't have the original text to look up and Furinkan doesn't mention any. Sorry.

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>>1678
Not that you can tell with Rumiko's style.

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>>1679
When it comes to translation, I obviously can't be certain what terms are used. I assume the term used here was "女装家" the term for transvestite or crossdresser that I mentioned earlier this thread that stems from 女装, a word for women's clothing.

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>>1682
Buyer beware.

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>>1683
Furinkan has a long winded note regarding male hosts and host clubs. I'll just post it in full with the typo corrected.

"Male hosts pour drinks and will often flirt with their clients, more so than their female counterparts. The conversations are generally light-hearted; hosts may have a variety of entertainment skills, be it simple magic tricks or charisma with which to tell a story. Some host clubs have a dedicated stage for a performance, usually a dance, comedy sketch, etc. Hosts' ages usually range between 18 and the mid-20s. They will take a stage name, usually taken from a favorite manga, film, or historical figure, that will often describe their character. Men who become hosts are often those who either cannot find a white-collar job, or are enticed by the prospect of high earnings through commission. While hostess bars in Tokyo often have designated men out on the streets getting clients to come into their clubs, some hosts are often sent out onto the streets to find customers, who are referred to as catch (キャッチ, kyatchi), but these are usually the younger, less-experienced hosts. A common look for a host is a dark suit, collared shirt, silver jewelry, a dark tan, and bleached hair. Pay is usually determined by commission on drink sales with hosts often drinking far past a healthy limit, usually while trying to hide their drunkenness. Because the base hourly wage is usually extremely low, almost any man can become a host regardless of looks or charisma (depending on the bar). However, hosts who cannot increase their sales usually drop out very soon, because of the minimal wage. The environment in a host bar is usually very competitive, with tens of thousands of dollars sometimes offered to the host who can achieve the highest sales."

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>>1684
I find it interesting how Mai-san is drawn essentially identically to a woman in the Rumic style while the boys in the contest from Rin-ne were obviously boys in drag. Something about the eyes and eyebrows, I guess? Anyway, Mai-san and a bunch of student amateurs are obviously different, but I find it interesting to compare in terms of visual distinction.

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>>1685
Oh, Furinkan does have one note regarding names. It is in regards to the protagonist:

"Torii (鳥居) are the iconic red Japanese gates. When literally translated torii means "bird's perch"."

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>>1688
I don't know what gender identity Mai-san identifies with nor do I expect the Japanese version had specific male or female pronouns used to refer to Mai-san. However, I do not have the original Japanese text for this one-shot so I can not do a comparison.

Same in regards to the term used here in the final line of the page. I presume it is used here as the equivalent to お釜 or "okama". It is a complicated term with a lot of historical baggage, but it is used to refer to gay men, queer men, drag queens, particularly feminine men, etc.

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>>1691
Alive!

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>>1692
Small comfort.

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>>1696
Hmm?!

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>>1699
It wasn't the boyfriend being bad news.

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>>1700
Would you look at that.

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>>1701
End! All's well that ends well. I like this story, though I feel there could've been a bit more to it. It does touch upon how difficult it is to give advice and help people but it also shows that it is easy to misunderstand other people's situations. As such, I can't help but want a bit more from it. But life doesn't have an easy moral, I guess. Let me know what you thought of this one.

As mentioned before, I'll be back next WEDNESDAY with Volume 4 of Rin-ne.

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Well, 4chan is back up. I hope you guys enjoyed reading Rin-ne on /lum/. I did enjoy posting it, but I'll admit, posting on both /a/ and here would take a lot of time and while I appreciate all of you who read it here, I think there will be more people reading on /a/.

I will be returning on /a/ on 4chan next Wednesday with Volume 1 of Rin-ne (reposting what I've posted here).

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>>1716
thanks for stopping by



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