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Saezuru ch 60 sneak peek!

Y'all, all I wanna do is roll around in Saezuru, but life is making that difficult. 🥲

Yesterday ihr Hertz's twitter graced us with the unexpectedly passionate cover of chapter 60 as well as a sneak peek at one of the pages.

Translation of cover text: Even though I know you're (he's) not my subordinate anymore...

Oooookay, let's talk about that cover! I personally was surprised to see them together like this. Maybe at first glance it might appear to be a soft situation, but as I've seen others point out, the background is black and we all know that Yoneda-sensei uses that to signal pain ahead. ^^'

I wanted to talk about the text as well. The word "subordinate" is being emphasized really strongly. In the original Japanese it's in bold font and there's also an interesting smudge behind the word (that kind of reminds me of the Saezuru raven for some reason, lol). Alternatively, rather than interpreting the smudge as a kind of highlighting of the word it could be suggestive of a mark of removal, like someone was trying to blotch it out, but failed.

I wonder if this smudge is drawing our attention to Yashiro's failure to adjust to Doumeki's new role and their unfamiliar new power dynamic. Maybe Y wishes he could go back to a time when D was his subordinate. I think, for Y, having D as a subordinate rather than an equal is more convenient in a sense. He felt that he had the power to push D away if he wanted or pull him close if he wanted. But now, with D being closer to equal in status to Y, Y has lost that perceived control.

If you interpret the smudge as a failed attempt to blotch out or wipe away the word subordinate then you could say that it represents Y's futile desire to erase whatever past D and he had. If they could start fresh as equals, what kind of relief would that bring? But they can't, they do have a history and Y has to contend with the feelings that brings.

I think seeing the smudge as both a highlighting and an attempted removal is close to Y's true feelings about the situation. They're contradictory interpretations in a lot of ways and Y is a walking contradiction.

There's one more thing about the cover text I thought was interesting. Y used the particle 「のに」 ("even though" or "despite" or "but"). This implies that there's something more to that thought. Like, "I understand he's no longer my subordinate, but I just can't let him go" or "I know he's not my subordinate anymore, but I wish he were". We don't know what that "something more" is but it feels to me like a kind of regret or frustration that Y can't let go of the idea that D was once his subordinate. I also think the idea that Y can't let go is supported by the way his hands are grasping at D's shoulders.

We also got a peek at a whole page for chapter 60! Albeit, there's no Yashiro or Doumeki, save for a hand and a jacket lol. But it seems this chapter will feature some spiciness between the two, so that's always exciting. I was expecting a full blown continuation of the yakuza plot, lol. Hey, maybe we'll get both?

Anyway, I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts/feelings about the cover for ch 60! The new chapter is so close, just two more days until it comes out here in Japan!

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Saezuru volume 8 Pop up illustration ✨✨

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THE CONTRAST

p.s I never noticed that Doumeki looks so seductive in that cover he’s not only taking off his glove but his jacket and shoes too 😦

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🎉🥳🎂 Happy Birthday TJ (Oh Taejoon) 🥳🎉🎂 11/11.

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Adorable manhwa. 😍🤧

Joseph - Ian - TJ 😍

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WHIPPED ☺️

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Hello welcome from Twitter, here are my favorite flower illustrations I’ve done

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book quotes that i will never recover from

"he is half of my soul, as the poets say. " - song of achilles

"write me a letter telling me how to live the rest of my life without you." - how to make friends with the dark

"they were my birthday presents." - shatter me

"she had realized that she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes and the depth of his laugh." - clockwork princess

"my name is sam cortland... and i will not be afraid." - assassin's blade

"you chose me four years ago. would you choose me still?" - these violent delights

"we were all supposed to make it." - crooked kingdom

"i remember everything." - the invisible life of addie larue

"come home and shout at me. come home and fight with me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home." - cruel prince

"i wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows." - they both die at the end

"you hated the idea of me." - the final gambit

"bob says hello." - house of hades

"abuse can feel like love. starving people will eat anything." - nightfall

"i missed you only with an ocean between us. but if death was separating us... i would find you." - queen of shadows

"i loved him. i love him. as best i could." - we were liars

"i'm the villain, even in my own story. but you were supposed to play a different role." - finale

"i will find you again in the next world—the next life. and we will have that time. i promise." - a court of wings and ruin

"i spent half of my time loving her and the other half hiding how much i loved her." - the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

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“I was gonna start with holding your hands... but I guess I got the order all mixed up. Can I... keep going?”

🥺 I’m glad that Soo-young can came out from abusive and manipulative relationship, and now both Taesung and Soo-young share the same feeling, Taesung really treasure him. But Soo-young, being a good looking young man, everyone is after him... even Min Hyuk 🤣 seriously Min Hyuk...

do.not.let.Taesung.know.you.assaulted.Soo-young.when.he.was.drunk 🤣

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I love Park Taesung, king of dirty talk

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I’ve got the hots for this guy