comedy

Hi everyone,

Wow! It’s May already! Time flies. Well, here’s the fifth Chapter of Ima Ichiko’s Five Box Stories, “A Warm Box”. You can download it here at the web page.

I feel like this one has been neglected for a while. I didn’t have a regular editor for it so different people were doing chapters whenever they had time. I’d translated the fifth chapter a long time ago, but no one was available to work on it, so I kinda forgot about it. Then, out of the blue, someone sent me an email and offered to help get the ball rolling again. So please thank Liz for volunteering to edit. She did a great job and she’s hoping to do the rest of the volume, too, as soon as I translate it. (Hahaha… that’s the hard part for me.) Well, I hope you enjoy this story. It’s not one of Ima’s more dramatic and gripping works, but I was a little surprised by the serious tone in parts.

Hi again…

Here’s a new chapter from Kunie Sakai’s Falling in Love. Just skip to the web page to download.

Well, this was an interesting chapter for me. Before reading this, I knew nothing about racing or pachinko. I’m not much of a gambler. ^__^ I’d seen pachinko parlors in movies, but, until now, I didn’t know what they were. I had to do a lot of research, and, even now, I’m not quite sure how a pachinko machine works. Here’s the wikipedia article, if you’re curious. I also watched many, many videos on youtube. If you go to the site and type “pachinko” in the search box, you’ll get a lot of interesting videos, like this one, for example. (I feel a little weird linking to someone’s video randomly, so I may remove this soon. I like this one because it’s 2003, which is when this story was written and, I assume, takes place.) I don’t think my translation of the sound effects really captures what it sounds like in there. There’s a lot of electronic sounds and the crash of metal balls; it’s almost like white noise. If you’ve never seen a pachinko machine, I strongly suggest you browse around and watch some of these videos. They’re very interesting.

Thanks to Wondermilky and all the people (who shall remain unnamed) who answered my questions about horse racing. (I’m a little less ignorant now.)

FALLING IN LOVE | Sakai Kunie

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Josei Length: Manga Status: ongoing Marika is impulsive and hates to lose. She’s also a woman who falls in love easily. She falls for a sexy older man, a cool classmate, and a beautiful wealthy man. And the man she chooses in the end…? A romantic love story, from her college love to her marriage.

Downloads

Chapter One

Direct | Mediafire | Badongo

Chapter Two

Mediafire | Badongo

Coming soon

Chapter Three*

* Forthcoming. Please check Project Status for more details.

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