I used my Wacom Bamboo to look up kanji (no furigana here!) while reading the third part of Akira Yomoyama’s doujinshi series 自転車男子に恋をした (“I fell in love with a male bicyclist”). It took 2,5 hours for me to finish it, but then I was simultaneously watching Nacer Bouhanni get a double puncture, catch up again and finally win the very slippery Stage 4 of Giro d’Italia (so many people fell in the end!).
Very nice, sweet and simple story as usual, and perfectly drawn. They went to the same bicycle shop (chain?) that I visited last autumn: Y’s Road:
Soma-kun’s date Hoshino-san wanted to buy a road bike, but Soma-kun was reluctant to help her so she was afraid she would buy the wrong bike. But Soma-kun assured her that there wasn’t a single bad bike in this shop, so whatever bike she chose, she wouldn’t make a mistake.
- 巨人（きょじん）giant
- 体育会系 athlete
- 罰（ばつ）punishment
- はた迷惑・な nuisance to other people
- 原付（げんつき）moped
- ノーヘル = ノーヘルメット no helmet
- 逆走（ぎゃくそう）running backwards (?)
- 野郎（やろう）ass
- チャリンコ（チャリ）bike
- しなやか・な supple, flexible (limbs)
- サラサラ silky (hair)
- ツヤツヤ glossy (skin)
- 体型（たいけい）body type
- 適度（てきど）・な moderate
- つき方 ?
- 超（ちょう）ultra- (例：超目立つ）
- 派手（はで）・な flashy
- 律儀（りちぎ）に dutifully
- 高橋 尚子
- 野口 みずき
- 有酸素（ゆうさんそ）運動 aerobic exercise
- 日焼け (sun) tan
I looove realism!
- 用途（ようと）use
- 予算（よさん）budget
- …に応じる depends on …
- 種類 type, category
- 試乗車（しじょうしゃ）test car/bike
- 原稿（げんこう）manuscript
- 輝き（かがやき）sparkle
And here’s when I read the second volume: