Hi again! If you don't mind, could your spread the word that I'm translating the r18 otome Yoshiwara Higanbana with Visual Novel Reader? Thank you so much!
Oooh, nice!
For the people who don’t know, Yoshiwara Higanbana is an R18 otome game by a relatively new game company called MariaCrown, and it portrays a love story between an oiran (a prostitute who is highly regarded, mostly for her beauty) in a Yoshiwara brothel and the men who are involved with her.
Title: Tsunaida Koi no Kanaekata
Author/Artist: Yoshio Akira
Release: 2019
Status: Ongoing
LINK: GDRIVE
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I’m open to re-translation, but please use your own scans. Also, I might drop this if a more experienced team is or already has started translating this in English. Just a heads up. 👍 Please refer to my re-translations post to see if there already is a scan team re-translating this work in the same language you will be proposing.
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I didn’t know that it was going to happen this early! I just waltzed into chapter 2 thinking that it’s still going to be hearts and rainbows, but nooooooo.
I was initially waiting for chapter 4 to come out before I work on chapter 3 because I’m hoping that the drama ends at four even though it’s likely that it won’t. I’m still thinking if I should finish 3 and 4 before Hara-san’s birthday (September 16), but at this rate I’m not even confident that I’ll finish three. Also, the main reason I wasn’t able to put this out earlier was because - drum roll, please - I’M FUCKING SICK AGAIN. 👏👏👏 I’m honestly so sick and tired of being so sick and tired. 😩
If anyone of y’all got confused about the identity of the shounen at the employee candidate orientation and was about to bring out pitch forks thinking that he was going to be Hara-san’s fated partner, join me in the time out area and let us re-read Akai Ito. 😂 Hiro! Guard yo man!
Exclusive limited variant cover of the Polish edition of Captive Prince by Ulvar
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Book 2 of the Captive Prince series (Japanese version) with the illustrations of Chinatsu Kurahana = love, love, and more love.
Note: (excluding the cover photo and the first page) Showing 3 of the 7 illustrations in the book.
The Vaskian Boy by L_C_Weary
The Vaskians payed a visit to Delpha and they brought Damen’s kids too.
After the Bells by hazmesentir
Damen and Laurent talk, and do a little more than talking, and finally, a score is settled.
That I Might Be A Part of This by narie
Five ways Nicaise lives.
Note, this is a WIP with only 3 chapters currently.
Princes and Slaves by L_C_Weary
Isander overheard a conversation between the princes.
Pilot Fish by Jaydee_Faire
Nicaise Lives.
Hey, Look Up by Ruby_Wednesday
Nicaise escapes the palace with his life and a stolen letter. He does his best to help Prince Laurent but it’s hard when you’re young and angry and the prince gets distracted by things like vengeance and love.
War by caravanslost
Several years post-canon; Laurent unearths a plot; Damen is so Done he’d make Nikandros proud; flirting husbands.
With great effort, Laurent said, “There was a rumour.”
Damen waited, and then prompted, “Yes?”
Laurent exhaled, agitated. “They said you were just as likely to bed a man who held up against you in the arena as you were a pretty maid.”
Damen released Laurent from his grasp. It was not what he had expected to hear.
Counterclockwise by AzzleDazzle
In truth, it’s only instinct that allows Damen to block the swing. Instinct and, perhaps, a touch of deja vu. Instinct carries him through the fight, but this time, he knows the stumble is not a feint, and he does not press his advantage.
“Parley!” he calls in Veretian over the crash and ring and shouts that surround the two princes. Auguste steadies himself, looking confused as he stoops to pick up his sword. “I wish to call parley with you, Prince Auguste.”
Worth fighting for by womanroaring
Modern AU of Pet, where Ancel meets Berenger by working for him as an intern.
This, And More by allierrachelle
“We are in the final steps of unification, and you left your work behind and fled from Delfeur on a romantic whim?”
Damen, smirking despite himself and Laurent’s hardened disapproval, simply replied, “Yes.“
can you write more aimeric/jord? i absolutely adore the way you portray them!
Sure I can, especially for someone who would say something so nice! 😊
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“I love you.” The words were soft and heartfelt, and so Jord would never have imagined they would earn him such a violent reaction.
Aimeric, pinned beneath him, suddenly clawed at his shoulders, shoving him away with all the strength he had, hissing, “Don’t say that.”
For a long moment, Jord sat still and silent at the edge of the bed. Then, very softly, he asked, “What’s wrong?”
Aimeric glowered at him, then looked away.
Even from this distance, Aimeric’s distress was obvious: His eyes were wet, his nose pinked, his lower lip held too tightly between his teeth.
“Aimeric.” Jord kept his voice as gentle as he could manage. “Talk to me.”
“I don’t want to.”
“I can’t apologize if I don’t know what I did wrong.”
Aimeric stared at him for a moment, furrow-browed, before he rolled his eyes and sighed, “You didn’t do anything wrong.” It sounded like he hated himself for admitting it.
“Then what–”
Aimeric cut Jord off with a shaky sigh, saying, “You didn’t know. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Though there were so many questions at the tip of Jord’s tongue, he stayed silent, waiting for Aimeric to continue in his own time.
It didn’t take long.
Aimeric pulled his knees to his chest, curling into a little ball at the head of the bed and refusing to so much as glance at Jord. Eventually, he said, “I don’t like people saying that to me.” It was obvious what that was. “Brings back bad memories.”
“Aimeric.” The softness in Jord’s voice finally earned him eye contact. “Who hurt you?”
“Doesn’t matter.” Aimeric looked away again, turning his head to rest his cheek on his knee. “He doesn’t want me anymore.” Aimeric sighed, his pretty eyes slipping shut. “He said he loved me, and we’d be together forever, but he lied.”
“I would never lie to you.” Gingerly, Jord moved a bit closer to the head of the bed, immensely relieved when Aimeric didn’t skitter away. “You know that, don’t you?”
“No one is completely honest all the time.”
“Fair enough,” Jord admitted, “but when I said it, I meant it. I would never say something like that to you without meaning it.”
More to himself than to Jord, Aimeric murmured, “I know you wouldn’t.” Though he was still clearly hesitant, he closed the distance between them, curling into Jord’s chest, his head tucked beneath Jord’s chin, a careful hand pressed to Jord’s knee. Obviously unfamiliar with such things, Aimeric said, “I"m sorry.”
“Don’t be.” Brushing back a fall of dark curls, Jord pressed a kiss to Aimeric’s forehead. “I can’t promise you forever,” he said, “but I can absolutely promise I’ll be with you as long as you’ll have me.”
Aimeric laughed at him for that, pulling back and looking up with him with still-wet eyes. His smile was genuine, at least, and he scoffed, “I thought you couldn’t promise forever?”
Damen and Laurent have been trying to teach their baby how to call the dads. This is what they came up with. And they are very proud. And almost died from the cuteness.
Nikandros: …the fuck am i doing…
Hello, I would like to talk about Nikandros of Delpha. Yes, the one that frowns a lot. BUT YOU WOULD BE FUCKING FROWNING TO IF YOU WERE IN HIS SHOES OKAY. Nikandros is the youngest Kyros we know of! He trained and served at the Kings Meet! HE IS DAMEN’S - YOU KNOW THE FUTURE KING - BEST FRIEND AND MOST TRUSTED ADVISER. Even. All. The. Way. In. Delpha. And so - he loses his KING - SOMEONE HE’S PERSONALLY KNOWN HIS WHOLE LIFE. AND THEN HIS BEST FRIEND AND FUTURE KING IN A VERY SMALL WINDOW OF TIME. He warned Damen about Jokaste! But did that fucker listen? And he’s dead now and bitch is with Kastor??? So yeah he courts treason to hold onto something of Damen’s while he has to be loyal to this shitpot Kastor! BECAUSE NIKANDROS IS TOO GOOD AND IS ALWAYS LOYAL TO HIS COUNTRY. EVEN IN PAIN AND SUFFERING. NEED MORE PROOF?
He finds out his idiot of a best friend is ALIVE and FALLING IN LOVE with the Prince of Vere and he just GOES ALONG WITH IT. BECAUSE DAMEN IS ALIVE. AND THE RIGHTFUL KING EVEN IF HE’S FUCKING DUMB ABOUT BLONDES. And then, poor Nikandros watches his home be taken away from him and given to this Prince because Damen has feelings but also they do need help taking Ios. It’s not the worst plan but…Damen come on. and who do you think is doing all the planning and shit while Damen takes time to pine over this blonde asshole? Who do you think is making sure the King’s orders are being followed? We all known Damen is smart, but he was a bit distracted too, okay. And then! And! Then! He almost loses Damen again in the slave baths!!! And has to work with Laurent to make sure the country doesn’t go into turmoil while fearing his best friend might die! Again!!!
I could go on and on but Nikandros deserves all the respect! As one of the few fleshed out characters in CaPri that we have, he’s neglected! He is tired of all this shit! And for good reason! HE GETS TO FROWN AS MUCH AS HE WANTS OVER THIS SHIT.
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do jokaste stans ever get sore from reaching so far
I…I want to like her so bad because she is The Token Woman of the captive prince series but…
pacat openly stated that she wrote jokaste to be similar to laurent. she rly took pieces of laurent’s personality and deliberately copied and pasted them into jokaste. and then when people didn’t like jokaste because she showed up right out of the gate saying bitchy things to the protag, pacat was SURPRISED that people didn’t respond well to jokaste because she “wrote him to be similar to laurent!!” which is laughable in and of itself because Pacat has also said with her own mouth that she knew she’d have to write laurent in a way that was unlovable from damen’s POV. and it worked - a lot of readers rly DIDN’T like laurent at first. Pacat literally planned for him to seem cold and dislikable and then…was shocked when she transplanted that behavior into jokaste and readers ALSO didn’t like jokaste? makes sense.
anyway after Pacat was scandalized that people didn’t love jokaste, when the books later went to publishing Jokaste’s haircolor changed from brown to blonde to really hammer the point home that jokaste was written to be a fem laurent!! we love laurent so thus we love jokaste because they are the same!! individuality whomst?? unique character writing WHOMST??? A WOMAN WHO STANDS ON HER OWN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS AND PLOT W H O M S T?
so we go through most of the series believing that jokaste is just damen’s ex who betrayed him, and then the big reveal with regard to her characterzation was that - plot twist! - she wasn’t just a cold, witty villain. turns out, she was in love!! so the deepest character depth we get from her is quite literally “newsflash asshole! she was in love with a man the entire goddamn time!!” a man who, mind you, almost immediately moved on and fell head over heels for someone else, so. :/ tragic :/
and then after being hardly spoken of for most of capri and prince’s gambit, she shows up halfway through KR with a baby that wasn’t even damen’s MEANING IT WAS A COMPLETE NON-PROBLEM. laurent turned himself in KNOWING the baby wasn’t damens, KNOWING the regent couldn’t hold “damen’s son” over his head BECAUSE IT WASN’T HIS SON TO BEGIN WITH, freed jokaste, and yet STILL turned himself in. she really deadass showed up with a baby that ended up being a plot device and that was her entire role in KR.
so now she’s off in akielos with no power at all and as the single mother of an entire ass child that she may or may not have even wanted in the first place!! OH YEAH! THIS IS GOOD FEMALE CHARACTER WRITING!! REAL GOOD STUFF!!
people are so quick to make “i dislike jokaste” a matter of internalized misogyny, but her entire role in the story was to love damen, get damen to vere and…to have a uterus so that she could deliver her plot device son?? like! you wanna talk about internalized misogyny! jesus christ! jokaste is - by pacat’s own admission - just a fem laurent!! a witty blonde who loved damen & thus saved him!! SHE L I T E R A L L Y WASN’T EVEN WRITTEN TO HAVE A UNIQUE PERSONALITY!! THE ONE TOKEN WOMAN IN THE GODDAMN BOOKS IS CANONICALLY HALF THE PERSONALITY OF ONE OF THE MALE PROTAGS AND THE AUTHOR FUCKING!! SAID THAT W/ THEIR OWN MOUTH!!
HOW. HOW DOES THAT NOT PISS YOU OFF. how is DISLIKING that the misogynistic thing to feel?? HOW?? SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME BECAUSE I DON’T UNDERSTAND!!!
Whaaaaaaaaaaat
So, the thing is, I’m a nerd when it comes to the Middle East. I love the history, culture and aesthetic so much! Now we all know and love our fantasy version of France called Vere, but while I read Captive Prince, I couldn’t help to think that Pacat might have been influenced by the Middle East in her worldbuilding as well. I think it fits incredibly well into the Captive Prince world, so I decided to make a list of the things that drew my attention. I’m by no means an expert and I’m not refering to a specific country’s history here; of course, the “Middle Eastern culture” doesn’t exist, just like there is not a single “European culture”. Instead, I wrote down all the things that reminded me of certain aspects from different Middle Eastern countries.
https://my.w.tt/3aew1mHtML
We loved this K-drama.
