Today I worked on Sex Friend a bit.
Just like how the title is straightforward, the content (what the characters say) are straightforward too.
So reading it (especially if you read it out loud) is quite embarrassing.
But I don't know which is more embarrassing.
Straightforward lines or sexually graphic art?
Hmm. Maybe lines.
I remember it was really embarrassing to translate the lines of the girl characters in hentai games.
But looking at screencaps or images from the games weren't that bad.
I'm (still) working on With the Light #6, and this is the volume where Hikaru goes on a trip for his school.
I'm currently working on the part of the manga with a lot of naked bodies and bathing scenes.
Gee, it feels like one of those seinen manga made for older men.
Oh, wait.
Since all the naked bodies are boys and men, maybe it's more like yaoi.
Of course, the characters don't do anything sexual.
The naked bodies aren't depicted in a sexy way.
It's weird.
This is probably the first time I see a public bath depicted in manga that's not fighting/action (Ranma 1/2) or sex (hentai/yaoi).
Hmm.
I hope my editor at Company YP doesn't get mad at me for writing about With the Light like this...
Anyway, volume 6 is mostly about Hikaru's school trip.
I remember I went when I was a 5th grader too.
I went to Philadelphia and Washington DC or something.
I don't remember much about it...I remember the Lincoln Memorial a lot, but nothing else.
