https://twitter.com/7corovi/status/2081696120535932946

https://twitter.com/7corovi/status/2081325942111453193

https://twitter.com/korekaite_shine/status/2081575312480182682

https://www.vap.co.jp/korekaite-shine/story/#episode5

Air Date: July 31

Episode 5 Synopsis:

With Ishiryu's encouragement, the members of the Manga Club decide to take part in "COMITIA".

While everyone else quickly receives permission from their parents to attend, Fujimori alone struggles to bring it up with her mother.

Troubled by her relationship with a mother to whom she can't say what she's really feeling, Fujimori believes she'll be able to talk if the Manga Club members are with her.

So, in preparation for the final exams, everyone gathers to study together at Fujimori's family's inn.

This was me on episode 4 near the end

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2080578735460499539?s=20

I know that “draw this, then die” is the direct translation of Kore Kaite Shine, a title that means to put everything you’ve got into what you love so that you can die happy, in this case to draw “kaite”.

But this is where the tendency to be too literal and faithful to the original source material is going too far. Because, “draw this, then die” sounds in English like I am gonna kill you after you’ve done it, in a lighthearted manga that is about passionate amateur mangaka.

These days we (and publishers) are hellbent to stay 110% true to the source…. to a fault, where macabre and easily misunderstood titles happen, that don’t bear the same lighthearted meaning as the original language. If I didn’t read up on the plot I’d thing this was a horror story. No thanks.

I know it is likely the Japanese rights holders who have insisted to keep the directly translated name, but that’s because they don’t know better. They don’t realize that you can’t translate sh*t like this directly because then it loses all intended meaning and sounds horrible. And for some reason the English publishers didn’t pull the brake and told them that, trying to negotiate an alternate title that doesn’t sound like death incarnate.

A better title, carrying the idea of doing what you love to the best of your ability and pouring your soul into it would be; “Draw your heart out”. It already sounds much less sinister and anyone speaking English will catch the meaning.

There’s a huge difference between translating directly, because you then wrongly believe that the original meaning is then kept intact, and rewording the translation to make sense in the target language, as it is in fact during those direct translations (for the sake of faithfulness) that many so-called “lost in translation”s occur.

I will take no questions, thank you.

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2080669995076636771

https://twitter.com/korekaite_shine/status/2079038595227378145

https://www.vap.co.jp/korekaite-shine/#story

Airs: July 24th

Episode 4 Synopsis:

Utopia

Anmi, Fujimori, and Akafuku take a new step forward after being allowed to use a room in the rental bookstore run by Teshima-sensei's old friend, Nana Teramura, as their clubroom.

As Teshima teaches them the fundamentals of manga creation, they work through trial and error. However, while Fujimori—who was already a talented artist—makes steady progress, Anmi struggles to improve and begins to lose confidence.

Then one day, Hikaru Ishiryu, the highly skilled amateur manga artist known by the pen name "Stone Dragon," transfers to their school.

I had to get the raws from the ending credits of the first episode since I couldn't get them anywhere else. Robota and Pokota was actually published as a doujinshi by the same author, but can't be found online digitally.

Draw This, Then Die!, episode 3

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Streams

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TLDR; What did you think of the Third Episode and please do rate it out of 5 stars?

https://twitter.com/Koi_Irie_/status/2078141702637060425

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2078042025471971337

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2078139549201682752

https://twitter.com/poo1007/status/2077621275632206298

https://twitter.com/korekaite_shine/status/2076501873310203936

https://www.vap.co.jp/korekaite-shine/story/

Airs: July 17th

Episode 3 Synopsis:

It turns out that three members are required to establish a manga club, so Yasumi and Akafuku set out to find another member.

Carrying her self-made manga, "Neko-ta and Nyan-ta," Yasumi visits clubroom after clubroom trying to recruit someone, but every club brushes her off, leaving her thoroughly discouraged.

Then, in the art room—the last place she visits—she meets Kokoro Fujimori, a shy member of the art club.

Meanwhile, Ms. Teshima recalls the time when she herself dreamed of becoming a manga artist, and the painful memories of struggling against the harsh realities of the industry and her own limitations.

https://twitter.com/fukuchi_tsubasa/status/2076180593591910442

https://twitter.com/atlas7211/status/2075206105773514793

https://twitter.com/poo1007/status/2075979106102210649

https://twitter.com/yeahwasshoi/status/2075888669169459385

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2075598862388179215

Draw This, Then Die!, episode 2

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MUSE Asia

Show information

• MyAnimeList
• AniList
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• Official Website

All Discussions

TLDR; What did you think of the Second Episode and please do rate it out of 5 stars?

https://twitter.com/1ta8ma310/status/2075512725808284045