#sounds of life

[levbolton]

found a meme and replaced all the mainstream boring titles with factual good series not enough people talk about

[tessenpai]

Sensei allowed me to translate this year’s New Year’s art into English and Spanish! 😭❤️

Happy New Year, everyone! May Kono Oto Tomare bring us another year of joy😊

[mojinchiimanga]

[murasaki-cha]

I actually almost started to cry, there are goosebumps all over my body and tears in my eyes. Honestly what got me so bad is thr fact that every single member played in the order they joined, it was like I was experiencing all this journey from the beginning and it was so emotional😭😭😭😭

There is no sound whatsoever, this is a manga, yet I still felt the sound in my soul and I just could somehow hear them.😭😭😭💕💕💕

[haru-rain]

Kono oto tomare deserves to be more popular...

The characters are well-developed and touching, as are the relationships between them.

I shed so many tears reading the manga :')

The drawings are sublime, even the paneling is great.

Sometimes I think that if the anime had been more beautiful in terms of drawing and animation, Kono oto tomare would be more popular, but maybe I'm wrong.

In any case, I really hope the anime gets a sequel !! Because even if it could have been better, just seeing the characters with colors, listening to the music and the voices of excellent seiyuu is worth it !

And I also hope, from the bottom of my heart, that one day Kono oto tomare will get the popularity it deserves <3

[oratokyosaigunda]

Jump SQ. cover 2024年10月 issue

[hebrewbyinbal]

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🎶 The Sounds of Tel Aviv! 🎶

Living in Tel Aviv is like having a soundtrack of life playing all around you!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB7UVy4xd4K/?igsh=bTFpYXZhcGZsaXQx

Imagine stepping out in the morning, and you’re greeted by the sizzle of fresh shakshuka cooking at a nearby café. The hum of bicycles and scooters whizzing by mixes with laughter and chatter spilling out from every corner. You’ll even catch a random drum circle on the beach or the strum of a guitar near Dizengoff Square!

Afternoon brings the sounds of the shuk, with vendors calling out in Hebrew, Arabic, and sometimes English, luring you in with spices, falafel, and fresh pita. And as the sun sets, you’ll hear the city come alive with music pouring from bars and live street performances, making every night feel like a celebration.

In Tel Aviv, life isn���t just lived—it’s heard! 🎵

[princeedwivedi]

I love how Takinami says that the drinks can be tea next time. There's going to be a next time!!!

He refused to accept any homemade chocolates from others but accepted hers.

He recognises her talent and has so much faith in her. I love them!!

They'd make a cute couple

[bigmeatpete69420]

Sleepless nights but at least I got to hear this beautiful guy

[secondlifep]

It is always nice to go visit a friend, especially when you are having one of those days.

[choujinx]

KONO OTO TOMARE! (2012-?) by sakura amyuu

[aspiring-holistic-otaku]

Season 2 Ramble#7 - All About Art

As the title suggests and as you probably guessed, this month's episode is all about art. I'm talking dancing, singing, modeling, drawing, whatever. You name it and surprisingly enough there's probably a manga for it. You can listen in with the link above or check the link in my bio for your preferred platform 🥂

Given the ever growing forms of art, its heavily subjective nature + my very limited perception and so on, I invite my friend Jen onto the show so I don't pigeonhole you all into my views and preferences via my reads.

So how this episode goes down is that the first segment is the usual listicle type beat, alternating between me and Jen, with the usual split of stuff read this month and stuff read before but since it's the two of us I thought I'd save y'all the long talking and have us only give details on the top 1s and kinda just summarize the other stuff we mention. Then for the second segment we'll have a little back and forth interview type beat in place of the usual rambles and then some outtakes from our test calls leading up to the episode to wrap up the whole thing.

Things read this month:

Top 1(me)

Shiori Experience(story & art by Yuuko Osada, ongoing with 66 chapters)

The main premise is that plain Jane highschool teacher Shiori, gets her life flip twisted upside down, when one day she's possessed by the ghost of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Pretty sweet deal tbh, especially if you're a music fan, which she is, but ofc there's a catch. If she doesn't become a legend before 27 she dies.

Great cast, pretty solid story and the two intersect really well as the main plot is driven by her trying to scrounge up and then develop a band. So it's been pretty balanced so far in that as different members join we get to see them develop individually as well together as a band. Pretty solid story as I said, it draws a pretty good range of emotions out of you but what pushed it to number 1 was definitely the phenomenal art, specifically their illustration of sound. Going from a gentle wave, to an explosive eruption it's really cool to see the different sounds of different bands or even the different songs of the same band. Cannot recommend this manga enough, it truly is an amazing experience.

Two Honourable Mentions:

Blue Giant

Basically this kid wants to be the greatest jazz player in the world, he plays a mean sax and you can maybe kinda think of it as equal but opposite to the movie whiplash. As in yh they both have dudes trying to do the virtually impossible, both facing their fair share of hardships and so on but blue giant just has this super contagious uplifting vibe, especially the main character dai. he's a real one fr.

Smile Down The Runway

This is about fashion and the story revolves around 2 folks, chiyuki a model that's too short and ikuto, a designer that's too broke. Both have dreams of one day making it to the Paris fashion week runway (which starts next month irl btw). Read this pretty late in the month but it was so good I pretty much just blazed through it. Won't say much but the art was amazing and the designs were actually flames.

a manga that was surprisingly good:

Wandance

As the name suggests it's about dancing, largely of the hip hop based variety, they make a lot of cool references to modern artists from dj cream to Freddy Gibbs to Kendrick and basically it's about a dude who finds it hard to speak finding joy in being able to express himself through dance. On that note I gotta mention this month apparently makes 50 years of hip hop, shout out the genre and its offshoots fr but let the record show it all started right here in Jamaica. (It was surprising because for me the art style reminded me of a ton of manga I just didn't like)

a manga I didn't get to but looks cool:

Paradise Kiss

Another fashion manga and that's all I can say

[unfortunately Jen had a lot of emergencies at work and didn't type up anything so I had to just summarize her stuff but you can listen in to hear what she had to say in detail]

Top 1(Jen) - Blue period

Two Honourable Mentions - Sounds of life and PPPPPP

Things read before this month:

Top 1(me)

Blue Period (story & art by tsubasa yamaguchi, ongoing with 61 chapters out in English)

Highschool delinquent yatora makes the last minute and arguably terrible career choice to become an artist. can't fight him though as clinging to a long life unable to be authentic to yourself reeks of misery. In any case the story so far follows him from high school to college, and we take a pretty indepth look at art, what it is and what it means to be good at it. Pretty bold move of the author to be honest.

Also want to mention the author has a self titled 4 chapter collection of short stories that you can check out as well, literally just found out and read earlier today, pretty neat read

Two Honourable Mentions:

Bakuman

Spoke on this last episode so I won't say much but it's a manga about making manga and it was the top one of its section last month

Akane Banashi

Something that was an honourable mention last month, really really good and would have been top 1 in its section of not for bakuman. It's about a traditional Japanese art called rakugo which is basically a one man play, because it's in the honourable mention slot I don't speak much on it but honestly really really really good

[Jen hadn't really read much art stuff before this month but she did mention Barakamon and Rakugo Shinjuu ]

Thanks for listening/reading so far and you can listen in for the little interview and outtakes 🍻

[tessenpai]

Kono Oto Tomare! Chapter 140 Scans and Rough TL

Disclaimer: Please DO NOT use this translation to make your own TL of the chapter!! The KOT TL group works very hard to give you the most accurate translation, that does as much justice to the original script as possible. This is a ROUGH translation. That means is faulty and there must be mistakes in certain places. This is just for impatient people like myself to get a grasp on what is going on in the chapter! You can REFERENCE my TL if you want to discuss the chapter but never USE it as it was your own.

Scans: Kono Oto Tomare! Chapter 140 – Rawkuma

Page 1

Takezou [thoughts]: Here comes the final push!!!

Side text: The hearts and the hands, together...!!

Chapter title: #140 -Harmony

Page 2 & 3

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Page 10

Chika [thoughts]: Next up is Momoya's...

Satowa [thoughts]: Momoya-kun's--

Page 11

Kota[memory]: So tomorrow, just do what you like best, Momoya.

Page 12

Suzuka [thoughts]: An arpeggio?

Suzuka [thoughts]: -No, this is...

Page 13

Thoughts: "The 9th Sound" from

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Page 15

Thoughts: -The Roar of the Dragon

Page 16

Principal[memory]: Eh...?

Granny Nishina[memory]: Heh,

Granny Nishina[memory]: I can hear a dragon's cry.

Granny Nishina[memory]: No friends.

Granny Nishina[memory]: The cry of a lonely dragon.

Chika [thoughts]: This is... The part Hozuki did in Ryuusegun--...

Takezou [thoughts]: Why is Momoya-kun---

Chika [memory]: Let me tell you about our first performance!!!

Chika [memory]: If it wasn't for that performance, none of us would be here!

Phone Screen: "Ryuusegun"

Page 17 & 18

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Page 19

Suzuka: ---Ha...

Suzuka: Haha

Principal [thoughts]: In Ryuusegun, it was "The cry of a lonely dragon"

Granny Nishina [thoughts]: But this sound is like--

Page 20

Granny Nishina [thoughts]: I can hear those children laughter.

Page 21

Suzuka: Go...!

Suzuka [thoughts]: It's time to sweep over them all.

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Side text: The nine of them, together, ran towards this sound: Harmony!!

---Kono Oto Tomare! will be on a break next month!---

[mojinchiimanga]

[murasaki-cha]

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING!!! IT'S ACTUALLY FINALLY FREAKING HAPPENING!!!! LETS FREAKING GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[megane-boys]

Today's Megane is: Takaoka Tetsuki from Kono Oto Tomare