Thank you for reading the notes!! Lol I was thinking maybe no one is interested in flower language but I still wanna put it in so lol. Yeah when I saw the birth(day) flower I went straight to Sensei's twitter to check and bam!! It fits Odajima so well... especially the "partiality" part
OFC THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING THEM…. i love flower language and i love reading notes on things!!! it’s always really fun having that extra insight whether it’s an author’s note (as in this case) or a translator’s note. i just figured ever since i saw on twit that odajima’s birthday was 2/14 it was a reference to his arc about being finding truth in love but knowing it’s actually associated with pittosporum as a flower…. it’s perfect
Oh about Yano's birthday!! I found something on Sensei's Instagram lol. Sensei posted a picture of Yano (holding a present box w a small flower tucked in) with this caption "The flower is snowflake which is his birth(day) flower" (Sensei posted the same picture on twitter but the caption didn't mention this idk why lol). So in Japanese, the flower language for "snowflake" is (as one would have guessed lol) :「純潔」「汚れなき心」「純真な心」「美」= purity, pure heart, innocent mind, and beauty, etc.
Sensei also said the two will celebrate Yano's birthday in the upcoming (unreleased) chapters so yaaayyy haha
god they both love each other so much and want to change and improve FOR each other…….. i love them. my kids. ch2 is so so good i love yano being willing to step out and talk back to a teacher to defend odajima he’s gotten so much bolder…. i also do think it’s interesting seeing the cafeteria incident having a lasting impact on the narrative, im glad it’s sticking around (even if it’s a sad thing to see people treating odajima the way they are because of it, it’s good it wasn’t a dropped detail). the 1.5 extras are sooo nice too the one of them snuggling together in bed with odajima getting excited abt yano reciprocating his feelings…. wah.
also the note about pittosporum as a plant!!!! i love flower language thank you for including that interview detail…. as soon as i saw it listed as a feb14 flower it clicked that must be why odajima’s birthday is valentine’s day since i’ve thought that his birthday being then was an interesting pick….. i wonder if there’s any significance associated with yano’s birthday too. as always thank you for your translations kou! ^_^