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Tonari no Kashiwagi-san

Alt Names:	となりの柏木さん โต๊ะข้างๆนี่แหละน่ารัก Cerca de Kashiwagi-san Di Samping Kashiwagi-san 邻桌的柏木同学 My Neighbor Kashiwagi Next to Kashiwagi-san Кашиваги-сан рядом со мной
Author:	Shimotsuki Kinusa
Artist:	Shimotsuki Kinusa
Genres:	Comedy Romance School Life Seinen Slice of Life
Type:	Manga (Japanese)
Status:	Ongoing
Description:	A guy named Yuuto (an otaku) is interested in a web artist known as "Sayane." Recently a girl at school named Kashiwagi Kotone over-heard a conversation about Yuuto liking the web art of Sayane; but it turns out the Sayane is Kashiwagi!?! Yuuto hasn't figured that out yet... but he got a job at his favorite anime shop and caught Kashiwagi in that anime shop... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Time_Kirara_Forward Published in a Seinen magazine - please do not edit demographic to Shounen!
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Albel

Sep 03 2016 12:37 PM

Holy...

I went in expecting more of the same.

vhirx

Sep 03 2016 11:14 AM

Silly response to the mechanical pencil ninja people and ye of little faith in the merits of footwear:

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Looks like fewer of you than I expected understand my writing style to see all the little jokes. Sigh. Here's a rant about how stupid the mechanical pencils are and how amazing socks are. Ahem...

Yes, anything can be expensive. I used to work in New York next to a place that sold $300 ties and down the street from a place that sold $75 cigar cutters. I know where you can get $100+ chopstick sets, $200 cufflinks, and all manner of ludicrously expensive tchotchkes, doodads, and whatsits. Hell, you can go to Coach and get a CARBINER for $150. Yes, I understand that anything can be high quality, can be made of superb materials, etc. Unless you're giving that tie to someone with a peculiar bent towards that particular item, they all make shitty gifts, regardless of their price. (Get a gift receipt for that shit.) Do we know that either of them are stationary fiends? No. We know that Kotone's a digital artist (though that hasn't been brought up much in the last, I don't know, 40 chapters or so) who draws on her computer. So maybe there's a thin link there. Maybe. But that's a huuuuge stretch. But maybe. MAYBE. Yuuto though? No, dumb, bad gift.

Socks, on the other hand, keep your feet warm. That's important. Sergeant Dan was all about socks. Remember? Ever try walking around in freezing cold or sopping wet feet? How about a hanging toenail? Miserable, right? Now, imagine frostbite or infection. And socks are even more important in Japan, where many homes don't even have real central heating, where you're relying on space heaters and kerosene stoves for warmth in the winter, where the refrigerator is for keeping things warm and making sure they don't freeze. Japan taught me about socks. Oh yeah. Since I NEVER knew when it was gonna rain, I always carried around a collapsible umbrella... and a second pair of socks. So socks are important, socks can be useful to anyone, and premium socks can get ludicrously expensive for items we all know will eventually wind up in the hands of the fiendish sock monster. Trust me. I know. I'm a sock guy. Not because I buy the ludicrously expensive ones but because Japan taught me the importance of socks. Thus, I buy thick, warm, comfy ones that will keep my feet warm on the coldest, most frigid day. And they're pricier than what you get at Target or Walmart.

But you know what?

However utile, however much I adore socks, however much I'm willing to protest their value to the world, unless those Christmas socks were meant to be ironic and came attached to a coupon for nookie, a ticket to Space Camp, etc. or perhaps contained at their bottom keys to a Tesla (hell, even a nice Vespa), a new Skagen, or something along that line, if I'm 17 years old and the love of my life is giving me just socks for Christmas, I'm going to be pretty fucking pissed. And remember... I'm a sock guy!

Of course, now that I'm somewhere around double that number in age and no one buys me Christmas presents excepting bottles of delicious liver poison or weird fucking cheeses I give to my idiot of a brother-in-law, I might be thrilled if someone bought me a pair of socks. Heck, they've just saved me enough bucks to supersize my coffee. At the very least, they've made me temporarily less wary of the approach of that nefarious sock monster. Maybe they've postponed laundry day. Huzzah!

But that's neither here nor there. And neither socks nor mechanical pencils make for fucking Christmas presents in this man's book.

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More serious, structural discussion on the impact and import of gifting:

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The fact that a pivotal scene in this manga revolves around a shared Christmas present as an expression of their mutual feelings is nice-ish. It's not bad. The fact that a mechanical pencil was chosen when neither mechanical pencils nor stationery in general have any relation to any previous development is weak. Yes, they're "for exams." Utile. More on this in a second.

If Kinusa had this scene mapped out in his head, then why not take the time to lay some groundwork amidst the plethora of fluff filler that's plagued the rest of this series? With even a LITTLE bit of planning, even a little bit more work, this scene could have hit home in a way it simply doesn't here. I'm not talking about 40 chapters worth of planning. Even one or two one-page scenes or minor hints dropped around chapter 65 or 70 or so could have worked. Look at how something like Magi no Okurimono handles each and every item, else how Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai turns a minor gift given from a character with all of two pages worth of lines into something that you think about for the rest of the series.

But this is a throw-in. They both say that they're utile gifts with no further purpose behind them. Okay. Yes, exams are important. Yes, they're both somewhat obsessing about these exams. Yes, pencils are one of the few items that an exam student can carry with him or herself into the exam room. Oh, wait. That's interesting. Imagine if Yuuto had a line like that. "Kashiwagi-san, I want to walk with you everywhere. I want to stay beside you. I know I can't be in that exam room with you, but I hope my feelings can. Here's something you can take with you, something that can remain tonari, my Kashiwagi-san." (Tonari meaning "next to." See what I did there?) Yeah, it's corny, but even something like that invests the gift with some real emotional significance. Maybe Kinusa pulls this rabbit out of the hat later on down the line.

But as of right now, the meaning of the act of gifting is in the match, in the "evenness" of their feelings. But then that match itself is immediately downplayed. There's not even any roller coaster here.

Look, I clean, typeset, and translate this series. It's uniquely enjoyable for technical reasons you probably wouldn't find very interesting. I do my best with this thing. I really do. There's a reason I take a few weeks to work on each of these. The word play, puns, little details as far as tweaks in typesetting, emphasis, etc., are all there. I'm desperately trying to bring out the best in this series (and that technical challenge itself is one of the reasons I enjoy working on it), but the missed opportunities in this series absolutely drive me up the wall. As far as I'm concerned, this whole chapter Yuuto and Kotone-wise is a disaster.

Meh.

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kuraiaku

Sep 03 2016 09:17 AM

By the way...

Spoiler
What the fuck?! Why did they get each other mechanical pencils?! Either they're the most boring people in the world or the worst gifters.

Kazuki gets a scarf. Saya gets a ____ in a box. Tina got all kinds of stuff... including a whole series worth of manga... which Yuuto honestly expects her to add that heavy shit to her luggage on an international flight?! (See what I mean about being a terrible gifter?!) And Yuuto gives his dream girl... a mechanical pencil. Fucking hell.

I'd rather have socks.

Well for an artist, pencils are precious. And on the other hand, the MC just doesn't care what kind of item he got as long as he got the gift from her. Both of them are genuinely happy with their respective present. I personally think it's fitting gift with their personality.

It's just a matter of who are the person you're giving gift to, for example some people likes practical things while other people likes expensive things. A boring gift for you doesn't mean it's boring gift for someone else.

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cottonycloud

Sep 03 2016 08:11 AM

By the way...

Spoiler
What the fuck?! Why did they get each other mechanical pencils?! Either they're the most boring people in the world or the worst gifters.

Kazuki gets a scarf. Saya gets a ____ in a box. Tina got all kinds of stuff... including a whole series worth of manga... which Yuuto honestly expects her to add that heavy shit to her luggage on an international flight?! (See what I mean about being a terrible gifter?!) And Yuuto gives his dream girl... a mechanical pencil. Fucking hell.

I'd rather have socks.

Pencils are serious business. Same thing for calculators, like my Casio fx-es 115 Plus. For some stationery is a serious hobby.

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Daktyl

Sep 03 2016 06:47 AM

To be fair, technically Mugi isn't in the friend zone any more, although he was for a long, long . . . long, time. Now he's in the sexless zone. Has a girlfriend, lives with her, he wants her, theoretically she wants him (for reasons unknown), but has now been stringing him along for uncounted years anyway just because.

That's why I dropped Pastel a while ago. Too many chapters of the same crap over and over for no reason other than "because I said so" from the author.

On-topic: Is... is this the legendary progress I've heard so much about? I was beginning to think it wasn't real!

sneezemonkey

Sep 03 2016 06:17 AM

By the way...

Spoiler
What the fuck?! Why did they get each other mechanical pencils?! Either they're the most boring people in the world or the worst gifters.

Kazuki gets a scarf. Saya gets a ____ in a box. Tina got all kinds of stuff... including a whole series worth of manga... which Yuuto honestly expects her to add that heavy shit to her luggage on an international flight?! (See what I mean about being a terrible gifter?!) And Yuuto gives his dream girl... a mechanical pencil. Fucking hell.

I'd rather have socks.

http://www.montblanc.com/en-us/collection/writing-instruments.filter.html?&filters=271082455

These are some of the nicest pencils that cost a few hundred. Obviously these are out of their price range but depending where they bought theirs, may be more desirable than socks.

'sides,

Spoiler

Purple Library Guy

Sep 03 2016 06:12 AM

No one ever, in manga or reality, has gotten or will get a longer friend zone than Mugi. Even K1 got occasional small satisfaction, and there was a logical/satisfying explanation at the end.

If Pastel ends before life on earth does, it'll be "because reasons" and the epilogue will show a couple of kids that were probably fathered by John Redcorn. Mugi certainly won't have anything to do with it.

To be fair, technically Mugi isn't in the friend zone any more, although he was for a long, long . . . long, time. Now he's in the sexless zone. Has a girlfriend, lives with her, he wants her, theoretically she wants him (for reasons unknown), but has now been stringing him along for uncounted years anyway just because.

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God Ginrai

Sep 03 2016 05:39 AM

By the way...

Spoiler
What the fuck?! Why did they get each other mechanical pencils?! Either they're the most boring people in the world or the worst gifters.

Kazuki gets a scarf. Saya gets a ____ in a box. Tina got all kinds of stuff... including a whole series worth of manga... which Yuuto honestly expects her to add that heavy shit to her luggage on an international flight?! (See what I mean about being a terrible gifter?!) And Yuuto gives his dream girl... a mechanical pencil. Fucking hell.

I'd rather have socks.

Spoiler

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vhirx

Sep 03 2016 04:12 AM

By the way...

Spoiler

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Ver.Million

Sep 03 2016 04:10 AM

About damn time.

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arimareiji

Sep 03 2016 04:06 AM

after reading the series the MC get the longer friendzone than mugi (pastel)

No one ever, in manga or reality, has gotten or will get a longer friend zone than Mugi. Even K1 got occasional small satisfaction, and there was a logical/satisfying explanation at the end.

If Pastel ends before life on earth does, it'll be "because reasons" and the epilogue will show a couple of kids that were probably fathered by John Redcorn. Mugi certainly won't have anything to do with it.

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Cephei

Sep 03 2016 04:05 AM

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My OTP right here.

vhirx

Sep 03 2016 03:51 AM

Volume 11 completed. Chapter 77 on schedule... US East Coast time.

Information regarding volume 12:

Spoiler

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lavindar

Aug 18 2016 06:20 AM

I would really like if the story would keep going with then in college, showing their progress with a relationship, and with a new set of side characters, because lets recognize that the side characters of this manga have had awesome stories.

Akmal Karakuri

Aug 16 2016 10:29 PM

Im the only one keep reading this just for Fukuda and Kazuki ships?

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lumpur

Aug 15 2016 03:24 PM

To Kazuki and Yuuto: you have to be a special kind of sadist to tell what a present is before giving it

oldwonderman

Aug 13 2016 04:11 PM

he probably reads the comments for the same reason most fans do, so we can see meaningful comments about the manga, share impressions, and enjoy being part of a larger fanbase, not listen to kids whine about how they cant read descriptions or tags and just run around going TROLOLLOLOL I DUNT LIKE UR MANGAZ NURD!

yeah agree with you, so much kids so little brains

Serph

Aug 13 2016 04:28 AM

Tina & Kou >>>>>>>>>>> every other couple of this manga (and of many others) and by a distance that has to be measured in light years.

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arimareiji

Aug 13 2016 03:39 AM

Tina ship is currently doing its victory lap idk what you're talking about

True, but my Tina harem ship has almost finishing slipping below the surface. Kazuki x Fukuda is fine like it is, but Sakuraba and Kashiwagi should drop all the angst and give in before they end up on a reef.

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Purple Library Guy

Aug 13 2016 01:54 AM

Scheduling information for ensuing chapters and volume 12:

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The next scheduled releases for Tonari no Kashiwagi-san for One Snowshoe purposes are:

August 12th – Chapter 76
September 2nd – Chapter 77 (volume 11 end)

My scheduling when I first picked up the series was prescient. Chapter 77′s release will put us in very good shape for the release of volume 12 on September 12th. We’ll try to release chapter 78 within a week or two thereafter and continue with the series on at least a biweekly pace.

Monday, September 12th is also the day I have penciled in as the ideal ending point to release the final two chapters of Kodomo wa Wakatte Agenai. So the timing may allow me to allocate the many hours I presently devote to that each week to Tonari no Kashiwagi-san instead. We’ll see.

I notice that today's release represents a scanlator making and sticking to a schedule. I think we ought to celebrate such an impressive, unusual event.