#Volume 15

[shiuefha]

About the new volume...

The cups are from the same tea set, I guess? Henry had the teapot while Martha had the sugar and creamer.

Also, I guess these covers are supposed to be seen like this, right? Despite not being accurate for the volume order.

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Episode 3 synopsis, Manga vs Anime, The Butler, plotting

Ciel sets out to demand the debt Maurice Cole owes him, who framed him. In order to keep an eye on Maurice, who is from another dorm, Prince Soma is admitted as an exception. What became clear was that there’s another side of Maurice, the most beautiful boy in the school.

Here comes the part when the rivalry in the school gets ugly and dark. If you haven’t read the manga and or easily triggered, buckle up.

[piyoandpome]

Volumes 10-18 Covers

[a-forbidden-detective]

It didn’t occur to me that Toto is looking at the way Dr. Mofu sit on the park bench while the cat is there too.

Toto: (Why does she sit like that as if she owned the bench? *in his head*)

Dr. Mofu: I am the Queen and I own this place, err… bench. What do you think, Mr. Photographer?

Ron: I am too sexy for this bench.

Volume 15, DE edition

[meimi-haneoka]

Shocking: English edition of Clear Card volume 15

I'm very pleased to inform you guys that a friend showed me some pages from the English edition of volume 15 of Clear Card (which has just been released) and they fixed a whole lot of translation mistakes I had pointed out when the relative chapters came out in simulpub!!

(all images courtesy of Sarah/Rainbowbee - reposted with permission)

I saw around 20 pages and I was so happy to see not only the fixed translations, but also some lines rephrased in a better way to explain things more properly.

The one above made me emotional because in that correctly translated "that makes me so happy to hear!" there's the emotional load of an underlying "I have no idea how my daughter will look like once grown up and I'll never live enough to find out, so at least learning that from you makes me happy" that a "thank you!" just didn't convey (and then again, it was just incorrect).

Like, seriously, they even rephrased what Lilie said as to make more clear what Kaito's goal has been the whole time, and it conveys better that the lie he told Momo was for a good cause (because he knew she was a kind creature, he didn't want her to grow worried and try to stop him).

Finally they have mentioned Lilie's ring was a price she paid to save everyone's derriere!!!

Akiho was not supposed to remember about Momo, and that's been correctly restored here.

This is the volume where Lilie and Momo explained to Sakura part of what was happening to her, included some concepts difficult to understand, and it was pivotal they nailed it right.

This hasn't been the case with the past releases (the mistakes of the simulpub stayed most of the time, and some lines that were changed only ended up being more wrong), so I wasn't really hopeful or anything, but today they shocked me in a positive way.

I remind you that in this volume there are 2/3 pages that have been partially redrawn by CLAMP (with changed dialogues) in the part where Lilie talks, so I warmly suggest you to get it and check them out when you have the opportunity.

Now, I can't help but wonder if the japanese side got any hand in this sudden care for the translation. If the long months between releases (english volume 16 will only come in March 2025 despite the japanese one has been out since April of this year) is because Japan wants to supervise the translation. After all, Ohkawa did say in that famous Space (where they mentioned being aware of the translation mistakes) that she would've liked to try talking about this issue with the translation team.

And I can't help but also think about what we could've had if they had just put this amount of care from the beginning.

If they had proofread from the start. If they had translated all the words in a sentence and not lost some along the way.

If they hadn't stubbornly chosen to phrase everything regarding a certain character in a malicious way.

I'm crossing my fingers that Volume 16 will get the same amount of care, if not more. 🤞

[brave-symphonia]

I really love this panel.

Something about the smile on Luffy's face, as well as Nami's expression there.

Like, I feel like you get the sense that Nami is really trusting Luffy here, and Luffy understands just what's at stake if he messes up here.

For as goofy as he is and how cheerful he's being, Luffy understands the risks of taking Nami up the mountain, but he also knows this is probably their best shot.

[raspberrylix]

I was reading knb last year during Easter break and then dropped it for no apparent reason only to pick it up this Easter break and then spend it sleeping, probably having caffeine withdrawal

So hey, I picked it up again!

I dropped it not only mid game but also mid volume, which was an interesting choice, past me, took a while to remember what was going on

Can't remember why I couldn't pick it back up for that long, I love knb, I love reading physical, and I love this manga, and yet

[roseunspindle]

Sasuke so injured he can't move to save even himself...but naruto is hurt so he can suddenly catch him. 😁

[mcytblr-archive]

Early MCYTblr Interviews: kermiekermie

today's interviewee is @kermiekermie, who ran "Friend or Host", was a part of the "Block Men Simps" group chat, and has generally been an active member of MCYTblr for a long time! below is a transcript of the questions and answers.

Q: What was your general experience in MCYTblr? Does anything stand out to you immediately?

A: I think my general experience on mcytblr was pretty positive compared to some peoples. The one thing that really stands out is how young I was- i was 11 when i joined mcytblr in early-mid 2020. That didnt really change the way people treated me aside from the occasional teasing and babying, but I did make it a point to say I didn't want to be treated differently. Mcytblr was not my first time in a fandom space and I knew how to avoid creeps already so I never really had any truly negative experiences, honestly the only annoying things that happened were being banned from discords and blocked by people due to my age (which was completely understandable). The biggest memory I have of mcytblr is of course the Block Men Simps group chat, and the original members of the group chat are really the only tumblr mutuals I still keep up with (snail actually has my snapchat!) I still kind of view them as a sort of family, and they were there for me in what I consider an extremely low point of my life and really helped me take my mind off things. During quarantine, I didnt have any of my irls numbers or socials and my mom had just been diagnosed with breast cancer, so I quite literally NEVER left the house and tumblr was really the only social interaction I got for a solid year. And while that definitely impacted my social development (i still cant start a conversation with someone irl without feeling nauseous and shaky) i'm very grateful I had people to talk to throughout that.

Q: I understand that you were the one who set up "Friend or Host". What was the process of organizing a fandom event like that like?

A: Friend or host . god. Like I said, I was 11-12 throughout the majority of my time on mcytblr, and I had ZERO experience organizing anything and I had very little help from anyone else. I tried to make it work the best I could and got creative, but overall I don't think it was a very big success. Funnily enough, not everyone who participated in FOH knew my age and one of the winners actually blocked me afterwards they found out, which I still giggle about today.

Q: How did Friend or Host go?

A: I don't think FOH necessarily went bad, but if I had a little more help and better organization skills and planned it out further ahead of time, I think it would've gone better. It was still fun and I had a good time either way, but I can admit it was a little messy.

Q: What major events in the fandom do you remember? (Either from the MCYTers themselves or fandom-specific!)

A: Honestly, my memory of my time in the wider mcytblr community isnt all that great and I tend to get timelines a little messed up, but i DO remember being there for the creation of the original dreamceler copypasta. In the BMS group chat we were having our normal conversation and someone oncest got brought up at the same time as dream somehow, and thus Ginger wrote the extremely cursed dreamceler copypasta. This eventually evolved into an entire universe (the dreamceler cinematic universe?) with various different copypastas that eventually had to be archived because of how out of hand it got. Sometimes I still see the copypastas floating around and it kind of freaks me out every time. I also have a veryyyy vivid memory of the time I made the 2020 mcytblr election discord read OmegaNotFound on wattpad (do NOT research. for your own safety) and it was really amusing seeing everyones reactions.

Q: Do you remember any of the "kinnie" blogs?

A: oh MY the kinnie blogs!! i actually have dms with a couple of them plotting little jokes and such and I got involved with them quite often!! i actually ran a justaminx one for a couple days (yikes) and it wasnt really that believeable looking back. me and ginger as well as a couple other mooties loved spamming the ask boxes of them with piss jokes and such, and I feel like we played a pretty big role in how widespread and popular kinnie blogs became.

Q: What was the "Kroger Anon"?

A: oh my dearest kroger anon how I miss you…. I still dont know who the kroger anon actually WAS, but they would send rainbow colored advertising messages about Kroger to various mcytblr blogs at random intervals. Funny thing is, I dont live near any krogers and have never been to one in my life, but the anon messages kinda made me want to go. I miss kroger anon…. kroger anon if youre reading this come home please..

Q: What were common in-jokes in the fandom of that time? (Copypastas, headcanons, rumors, etc)

A: Common in-jokes is a hard one!! like i said earlier, my memory of my time in mcytblr isnt all that great or extensive and I could probably better answer this if I went through my archive but alas, I do not have the patience for that. Obviously we had the good ole tapeworm and pregnancy posts, dreamceler, and various other cursed copypastas and memes. One inside joke between the block men simps gc was "thinkign 👽" which came from a typo snail made that just kind of caught on and we would use every once in a while to giggle at. Other than that, I can't really think of any specific inside jokes.

Q: Is there anything else you remember or would like to talk about?

A: Something I really want to talk about is how much lurking I did!! on the outside I was definitely a normal parasocial mcytblr blog but I lurked on pretty much every corner of the fandom you could really think of. Obviously I have a ton of critblr and other controversial mutuals but I never really openly interacted with that side of mcytblr since it was pretty heavily debated and I am nothing if not conflict avoidant. I also did quite a bit of truthing that no one ever really mentioned which I guess I sort of appreciate. I think being in a fandom that involved actual real people ar that age for that long kind of screwed with me, and ive never really been able to be in a fandom for a piece of actual fiction because theyve just never gotten my interest in the same way, I guess. Even now, i was in grouptwt for quite a while (tgc podcast) and now im active on kpoptwt, which again, both of those fandoms are for actual real people. I dont think its the parasocial aspect either, ive never been super parasocial and have never had a problem criticizing the content creators I watch. Im really grateful for all the people I met on mcytblr, but I think the actual dream smp and the way I engaged with content overall negatively impacted how I interact with things now.

[everytsuyuasui]

Tsuyu Asui appearing on Volume 15’s Character Sheet

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Episode 4, Synopsis, The Butler, Colluding, Manga vs Anime

Ciel has gained the trust of P4. However, there is still no opportunity to approach the principal.

The P4 and their fellow students are excited about the inter-house cricket tournament.

When he brought up the topic of Derrick Arden, the P4's facial expression changed completely...

Collusion means a conspiracy, a secret agreement between parties.

We are approaching the cricket season.

[piyoandpome]

From Volume #15

[a-forbidden-detective]

Volume 15, RonToto and Kawasemi-san, the Kamakura edition*

No wonder Toto is looking at his left. Kawasemi ordered an ice cream that is Toto-coded while arranging gummy candies with a K on them. Ron is mad. Well, mostly bc of Kuromitsu.

*Like always, please link back when using the pics. TYSM.

[beththemudkip]

I’m all caught up! 😭 now I need to wait for volume 16

[brave-symphonia]

I really love this scene.

Because it really shows how Luffy isn't just this static, unchanging character from the beginning of the story to its end.

Like, he admits he was wrong here and takes it in, growing from the experience. His way would've gotten Nami killed, and he would've lost someone he really cared about.

I feel like there's a lot to be said about the way the sagas progress in the lead-up to Water 7.

Because Water 7 is the arc where Luffy really proves himself as a Captain, but if we look at the sagas preceding it, it feels like we can see Luffy being set up for his big test as a captain.

He gathers the crew throughout the East Blue saga, and then immediately after in the Alabasta saga he's paired up with Vivi. And she's shown again and again to be a good leader.

It feels like him travelling with Vivi was done in part to have him learn from her and grow as a captain for his own crew, by learning from Vivi in moments like this.

[meimi-haneoka]

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card volume 15 cover

On sale on November 13th, 2023.

160 pages, 550 yen for the normal edition.

The special edition will come with a set of 15 clear bookmarks (the first 4 were already printed years ago) included in a fancy case!

Price for the special edition: 3,300 yen.