No.1612
>>1611Kitten Rokumon again.
No.1620
>>1619End 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.
No.1623
>>1620Woot.
thanks again for the storytime, OP.
No.1672
>>1671Per 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.
No.1684
>>1683Furinkan 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."
No.1686
>>1685Oh, 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"."
No.1689
>>1688I 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.
No.1702
>>1701End! 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.
No.1716
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).
No.1735
>>1716thanks for stopping by