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Ch 58

Here ya go - savor it though, because this is the last chapter we'll get for a while.

MediaFire || Mangadex

As always, if you see this chapter uploaded to a manga aggregate site (that isn't Mangadex) know it was without my permission.

I got a little carried away on the translator notes for this chapter so thank you in advance for letting me be indulgent, lol. I think probably the mark of a good translator is not needing translator notes but I also know that a lot of readers of Saezuru are interested in the Japanese language, too, so I thought including some context around the idioms etc would be nice.

Anyway, enjoy!

Yashiro is disappointed about the wait as well, but we can suffer together <3

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Here we go!

Hello folks, I have the goods.

You can find chapter 56 here. ^^

I made a translating choice that I hope doesn't make people angry, but here's your fair warning that I didn't translate 好きだよ as "I like you".

If you're looking for the other chapters I've translated you can find them here:

ch 55 ch 54 ch 53

D is so happy you've taken an interest in his life 💜

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It’s herrrre 😭✨

I’ll post a summary after I read it. The full chapter should be up in a few days 💛

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We are mere days away from Chapter 52! Spoilers are afoot! And soon they will be flooding our TL's with lovely images from our favorite mangaka!

Thank you to the tireless Team Steve! You have moved houses! You have moved countries! And you still pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, tightened your belts and cranked out a chapter! You are the glitter in my stars, the sunshine in my heart, and the rubber on my soles. Get some rest, if the teaser is any indication, we are going to need it!!!

Thank you as always to the Saezuru Fandom! This is a short chapter, and I almost considered just adding it 52, but...NAHHHHHHH!

Many Chookens died to bring you this chapter...

RIP Fandom, you were one of the good ones!

PRESENTING THE FIRST CHAPTER IN VOLUME 9!!!! WE ARE HERE!!!

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SPOILERS!!!!!!!

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

We have a date for Saezuru Drama CD 8!!!

August 23, 2023!!! And all the boys are back!!!

I’ll update on the extras and where to buy it all when more information comes!!

Whooooooooooooo!

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Saezuru Chapter 51 Summary (with pictures!)

Turn back now! Spoilers are afoot (hehe!)

As before, we begin where we left off...

Yashiro is stunned by Doumeki's anger. We finally see Doumeki's angry face here, I will hold that thought until a little later on when you will see it amped up even angrier. No sense frightening the children now.

This is the disjointed part. We don't see Doumeki put Yashiro in the car. While they are in the car, they are calm and Doumeki refuses to say anything to or even look at Yashiro in the mirror. We also don't see how they park and walk and ride up the elevator together.

Being that this is Japan, I assume that they have to have a modicum of decorum while out in public and that they would have behaved normally and calmly (the way they did when Doumeki carted Yashiro away from Inami and then they were passively tense in the elevator.) I assume that we are supposed to understand that things went the same and no sense having to rehash them. However, this leaves this very short chapter feeling a bit rushed. A one or two page montage would have been enough.

For someone about to be violated, Yashiro is pretty damn calm. Okay, okay, this IS Yashiro... but...

Moving on....

We also don't see how they enter Doumeki's apartment. Doumeki just throws Yashiro violently to the floor. Yashiro quips that, like before, Doumeki's place is empty.

Doumeki starts to take off his gloves and Yashiro knows that Doumeki's bare hands on his body are like magic wands of pleasure. Nip to his cat, as it were... Nice contrast of light and dark here.

Doumeki starts to undress Yashiro and Yashiro is beginning to feel a bit nervous. So he tries to thwart Doumeki's attempt.

Last chance...

Here is the angry face I warned you about...

Doumeki pins Yashiro's hands to the floor and yells at him not to even pretend to refuse him. This leaves Yashiro looking very scared.

Yashiro has never seen Doumeki this angry. Granted, angry Doumeki back in chapter 2, was during a time when Yashiro got off on that kind of thing. Current day Yashiro has never been faced with this Doumeki whose anger and unpredictable behavior is unsettling as he does plan to rape him.

That's when Yashiro finds out that Doumeki is actually a VAMPIRE! No, no... save that for the AU! Or hey, a nice Halloween extra!!! Doumeki bites Yashiro's nipple. No TUMBLR, I'm not going to show it. You and your community labels... how about labeling those porn bots who seem to still have free reign all over my TL! Bug them, why don'tcha!?

Moving on...

Yashiro just can't quit those hands as he starts to enjoy what's happening, he even gets into it by touching Doumeki's hair and reaching for Doumeki's shirt (not even in a "let's get this over with" way.) Yashiro is legitimately enjoying himself. That's when Doumeki stops him.

Yashiro asks him why and Doumeki's sheepish reply is "Nothing." Yashiro looks terrified. I wonder what was going through his mind when he pushes Doumeki up and yanks up his shirt to see what Doumeki is hiding.

Well done, Yoneda Kou. I think we are supposed to feel this sadness along with Yashiro. Doumeki has done the unthinkable. Doumeki has branded himself an outcast. He will never live a normal life in Japan. Tattoos are not allowed in onsens either, so Yashiro will have to buy one!

We never get a full or clear picture of the entire tattoo, so we don't know if it has meaning, or if Doumeki merely got anything to show his commitment. Based on his own unwillingness to let Yashiro see it, he probably got it as a way of marking himself so he would be sure to avoid seeing Yashiro again, because he had to know that Yashiro's reaction would be a violent one.

He was right.

For two pages, Yashiro beats the piss out of Doumeki. No words are spoken. Doumeki doesn't fight back. He allows Yashiro to release 4 years of pent up anger. Maybe Yashiro is actually releasing anger that goes deeper than that.

Finally, Doumeki catches Yashiro's wrist, and Yashiro is quiet.

Speechless and blank, Yashiro looks like a teenager who, for the first time, got to beat up the guy who was about to rape him.

Whether or not Doumeki realizes that Yashiro cared so much about him that he kicked his ass for being stupid is not known. They don't say anything to each other.

Doumeki sits up and straddles Yashiro's lap.

And they kiss...

Yashiro wakes up from his stupor and whether he realizes or not that Doumeki is now holding him gently because he loves him and always has is not known, because Yashiro doesn't try to stop him this time.

He grabs Doumeki and pushes him back, trading places and leaping into his arms.

Yeah, this ain't a dream, kids.

Chapter 52 is slated for release on May 31.

Exhale softly, fandom. We're here.

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Waiting patiently and nervously for news of it!

Hi @kayura452! Do you know about the record of the volume 8 from Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai Drama CD?

To be more imersive, I'd like to know how will be Hatano-san and Shingaki-san's interpretation of the actions and reactions that Doumeki and Yashiro had in this so important history issue.

Drama CD 8 has not been released yet but they did tease it on the Volume 8 cover.

It’s always a great mystery to how things will be interpreted. Sometimes when you think they will say something soft and emotional, Yashiro blurts it out like he doesn’t care. Lol. It makes you look at things a different way. We also find out who said what line when we think it was someone else due to the vagueness of Japanese.

I would expect 6 months or so after the volume release to see a release of the Drama CD.

For years we have waited patiently and nervously to see if Hatano-san will be a part of the recording because he is the hardest working man in voiceover and always on the road. And every year he makes it, despite all our worries.

Hang tight, I’m sure we’ll get an announcement soon.

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Very worth reading. Prepare the tissue.

First impressions of Chapter 51 from Twitter

Go give the love.

No pics but spoilers for the whole chapter. This is going to be a good chapter!

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At last, that's what we've all been waiting for!

from  @keito38202318 in twitter 

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Happy Saezuru Month!!!

We are 30 days away from Chapter 51 and the start of VOLUME 9!!!!

The publisher gifted everyone with an official Volume 8 icon!!

This month we will have THREE different extras!!

Will Yashiro confess??

Will Doumeki confess??

Will sex happen??

Are we finally going to see them as mutual lovers and partners?!

Is this the final volume? Or will there be a cliffhanger that that takes us into Volume 10?!

SPECULATORS…. LET’S GOOOOOOOOO!!

Official PV for Volume 8:

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

It's January 1st, 2023!!!!! Let's kick this year off RIGHT!!

For those of you who requested the pdf:

Happy New Year to everyone in the Saezuru Fandom! Thank you to all the Steves in the Steve Galaxy! We had so many people chiming in to assist us that I am humbled in your presence!

I hope our little contribution gets your year started off right, and gives you the energy to carry us all to March! Let's wish for Yoneda-Sensei's continued good health and success and let's raise our hands to the sky and give all our energy so she can make a huge genki-dama at the end of her pen and give us the best Volume 9 we can hope for!!

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Happy New Year 2023!!!!!! 2022 can suck it!! I still have one more day of it, but somewhere in the world it's a new day!! What are we going to do this year?? A wedding??? Ryuuzaki out of prison??? Time to build a town!?

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Happy Birthday to Yoneda Kou!!!

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Saezuru scanlating dilemmas

Hello, I have come up against an almost unsurmountable issue with Saezuru chapter 50.

Should we give Yashiro a little sleepy peepee?

Team Steve seems to be neither here nor there about it. I think Yashiro deserves to have one, even if it's hidden in shadow. I am not an artist (where have you gone FreeWilly!), but I don't hate what I did, and no two penises are alike (hint: Kido's erect penis barely fills Yashiro's hand. ;P And let's face it, they can't all be Doumeki...

See under the cut for the pros and cons of either and then tell me what you think. Cuz, I think I will include it even if it's just in the extra.

The Kou Original:

Yashiro struts out and we have a shadowy glance.

PROS AND CONS:

Keeping this version in the final means that we have not assumed how big Yashiro is when he's flaccid, and we haven't insulted Yoneda Kou by assuming that we know how Yashiro should look when he's sauntering around with a full-frontal. However, Yashiro becomes the sexiest Ken doll ever made.

The Steven Knock-off:

I remember hearing from people who attended the art gallery from 2017 where they were not allowed to take pictures, that Yashiro's penis was uncut (meaning uncircumcised) which if you've never seen one, it looks like a penis wearing a hoodie.

Very, very similar!!!

PROS AND CONS:

We are clearly committing to a size, and doing the math, Yashiro's erection, which we see in this chapter as well, is about twice what I have chosen to represent his little tired man. However, if we get it wrong we are blatantly misinforming a non-chapter buying public into a false sense of penile appreciation, because they will assume that this is what Yoneda Kou gave him and some people may be cruel, and no one is allowed to be cruel to Yashiro in this house!!

But in the end, does size really matter???

So let me know: Penis or No Penis or just include it in the extra because you are committing fraud there anyway! ;'D

Doumeki hates for Yashiro to be cold:

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Just thinking about the time Doumeki wrapped his hand around Yashiro's when they were eating porridge together:

and the way he put the spoon in his mouth ...

It's almost like a direct callback to this earlier scene in the hotel room, when their hands were interlocked on a different object:

And we all know what happened after that...

The best part about the porridge scene is when Yashiro asks Doumeki if it tastes good. Somehow I don't think he's referring to the food anymore.