Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru!

good thing that in the end niu still go with kouki

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i REGRET NOTHING

 

 

he made bad movee

he should slap the Niu-brat first then give him the lecture

I agree 100% with you author, the B-cup are the true wonder of "realisticity"!

 

There's nothing wrong with girls being cool, so there's should also nothing wrong with boys being cute, right?

 

You're so goddamn adorable, Niu. If only you were the norm.

i REGRET NOTHING

So - okay, I've done a little digging.  And I really do not know how to read Japanese.  So if someone can read these two raw pages, that would be for the best for everyone.  (Spoilers contain raws that have been translated)
 

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Pg 91: 
Note the character "弟" which is the literal implication of "younger brother" - ie: Niu is, without question, male.  
 
Now, look at page 92:
The dialogue in question (or really worth looking into) is the top-right panel.  They mention something both about male (男) and female (女), but considering the placement, it would make sense to say something akin to "a male looking like a female/wearing female clothing"
 
Of course, if someone can actually read this, for the sake of correctness, someone yell at me.

It's pretty safe to assume that Niu has always been a boy, and merely became girly after achieving humanization. The translations do kind of confuse that issue though even further with chapter 10, having the owner refer to them as "you girls" when I believe the raws were gender neutral.

Personally, I'd translate and put together those four panels seen in page 92 like this, which is a bit different to how it's translated in that chapter:
1. For some reason,
2. Despite being a boy, he wished for the appearance of a girl, and because of that...
3. He became liked by a human boy. (might fudge it a bit to say something more like "He caught the attention of a human boy")
4. He would pick up any girly thing...

I'm by no means fluent yet, mind you. It's not really an attempt to criticize the other translation.

So - okay, I've done a little digging.  And I really do not know how to read Japanese.  So if someone can read these two raw pages, that would be for the best for everyone.  (Spoilers contain raws that have been translated)

 

I...I thought Niu was a female! >.<

and this is really cute >.<

 

I'm totally confused about Niu's gender... Miu makes that comment about Niu being her little brother, and it seems to hit a huge sore spot with Niu seemingly validating that claim, but then in chapter 8.5, Miu refers to Niu as her little sister, and brings up the events of that earlier chapter... I get the feeling there's some weird ambiguity here.

 

Miu lied about Niu's gender in order to humiliate her in front of the shopkeepers brother, to be sure that they didn't form a forbidden varied-human relationship. Niu overreacted out of embarrassment because of her crush, not because it was true.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would believe that this one page pretty much dictates what Niu's gender is: (Non-spoiler: Ch 4 Pg 7)

 

Niu is a boy?!

 

I had forgotten about this, glad to see an update

Oh hey, an update. Wasn't expecting that. 

I'm totally confused about Niu's gender... Miu makes that comment about Niu being her little brother, and it seems to hit a huge sore spot with Niu seemingly validating that claim, but then in chapter 8.5, Miu refers to Niu as her little sister, and brings up the events of that earlier chapter... I get the feeling there's some weird ambiguity here.

Miu lied about Niu's gender in order to humiliate her in front of the shopkeepers brother, to be sure that they didn't form a forbidden varied-human relationship. Niu overreacted out of embarrassment because of her crush, not because it was true.

I...I thought Niu was a female! >.<
and this is really cute >.<

I'm totally confused about Niu's gender... Miu makes that comment about Niu being her little brother, and it seems to hit a huge sore spot with Niu seemingly validating that claim, but then in chapter 8.5, Miu refers to Niu as her little sister, and brings up the events of that earlier chapter... I get the feeling there's some weird ambiguity here.

I...I thought Niu was a female! >.<

and this is really cute >.<

I like that in this manga, the middle schoolers look like... middle schoolers. A lot of manga and anime star middle school protagonists who all look like they are high school seniors.

Shounen: A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.

 

No where does it say the protagonist must be male.

 

 

It's, generally, marked Shounen if it's serialized in a shounen magazine...

one of the main characters is male

see http://vatoto.com/read/_/174130/bokura-wa-minna-ikiteiru_v1_ch5.5_by_kirei-cake/12

Cat lives only last a year?!  Glad nobody told my cat about that one.

...

a cat have 9 lives ...

and said 1 live is count as a year ...

so cat average live is about 9 years ...

(HOWEVER this also depend on type and genes tough)

 

 

Shounen: A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.

 

No where does it say the protagonist must be male.

...

yep, just see Symphogear anime ...

MC is girl (and partial yuri feeling too) but the fight is quite intense to the point it goes shonen ...

and the ultimate attack must be paid with great price ...

thus making the body get wounded all over (girl body get bleeding from mouth, nose, eyes and ears) ...

Cat lives only last a year?!  Glad nobody told my cat about that one.

the main protagonist is a girl, how could this be shounen?

Shounen: A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence.

 

No where does it say the protagonist must be male.

quite adorable

@VexV2 @Serafita And so does Saki haha.

@SnooSnoo your effort will be greatly appreciated.

Hmm... I have volumes 1 and 2 and have finished them both. Wonder if I should TL and up it. Then again :effort: lol.

Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh are both shounen manga and literally have nothing but girls as protagonists :3