Part 5 which is the last part of Volume 1 from Miss Akebono and the Shitty Admiral.

Volume 2 and 3 will be translated later.

Few pages from them are available already on Danbooru as per the samples from shino's pixiv from before, so I will just be translating the missing pages.

And wtf... Admiral Shino obeys Takao >3>

Shinhwalee said:

Part 5 which is the last part of Volume 1 from Miss Akebono and the Shitty Admiral.

Volume 2 and 3 will be translated later.

Few pages from them are available already on Danbooru as per the samples from shino's pixiv from before, so I will just be translating the missing pages.

And wtf... Admiral Shino obeys Takao >3>

I guess we know who his wife is. Either that, or she's the real base commander and he's just the figurehead.

Also, that expression of hers in panel 3,with one eye showing a pupil by the anger marks, while the the other doesn't...

Shinhwalee said:

Part 5 which is the last part of Volume 1 from Miss Akebono and the Shitty Admiral.

Volume 2 and 3 will be translated later.

Few pages from them are available already on Danbooru as per the samples from shino's pixiv from before, so I will just be translating the missing pages.

Thanks a lot Shinhwalee!
Hmm... I think we should do a summary in the pool to know what volume is from which pictures, that help to know where to begin exactly.

firechikara said:

Thanks a lot Shinhwalee!
Hmm... I think we should do a summary in the pool to know what volume is from which pictures, that help to know where to begin exactly.

Sounds good

I like the fact that Shino admiral actually respond to Takao the way he did. No one can go up against a caring lecture.

Jarlath said:

I guess we know who his wife is. Either that, or she's the real base commander and he's just the figurehead.

Disagree. He surely is the head of this base and his wife can really not be Takao. He may just listen well to her. As an advisor.

Demundo said:

I like the fact that Shino admiral actually respond to Takao the way he did. No one can go up against a caring lecture.

He also knows enough not to go against his secretary, who has the power of paperwork to screw him over?

Demundo said:
Disagree. He surely is the head of this base and his wife can really not be Takao. He may just listen well to her. As an advisor.

I still say that they're either married or at least she's his work-wife and they have that same rapport that a couple can have.

I still say that they're either married or at least she's his work-wife and they have that same rapport that a couple can have.

I support the notion that they are practically married. That's not the exchange between boss and secretary, but between a father and a mother. It couldn't be more perfect than having the admiral smoke a pipe and Takao wear an apron. Throw in a hearth for good measure.

Jarlath said:

He also knows enough not to go against his secretary, who has the power of paperwork to screw him over?

This may be the closest to the truth. I was thinking about this, and although I have no military experience myself, it seems to me that Takao here, and the secretary ship position in general, is basically the executive officer to the base's admiral - someone who takes care of the day-to-day operations and freeing up the commanding officer to pursue the larger strategic goals.

Normally, the discipline of lesser personnel like Akebono would be left entirely to Takao, and she'd be primarily responsible for maintaining unit discipline and cohesion. For the admiral to intervene directly (and particularly to condone Akebono's behavior which Takao deemed unacceptable) made Takao uncomfortable, as she felt he was undermining her vision on how to maintain order in the naval base.

In short, the subtext of Takao's admonition is "this is XO business, sir, please don't undermine me in front of the crew".

Mithiwithi said:

This may be the closest to the truth. I was thinking about this, and although I have no military experience myself, it seems to me that Takao here, and the secretary ship position in general, is basically the executive officer to the base's admiral - someone who takes care of the day-to-day operations and freeing up the commanding officer to pursue the larger strategic goals.

Normally, the discipline of lesser personnel like Akebono would be left entirely to Takao, and she'd be primarily responsible for maintaining unit discipline and cohesion. For the admiral to intervene directly (and particularly to condone Akebono's behavior which Takao deemed unacceptable) made Takao uncomfortable, as she felt he was undermining her vision on how to maintain order in the naval base.

In short, the subtext of Takao's admonition is "this is XO business, sir, please don't undermine me in front of the crew".

The problem is sometimes the CO has to intervene, especially when the person in question has caused morale issues (like the way Akebono keeps pushing Sazanami or that one time with Akatsuki), and the XO hadn't been able to fix the problem.

And the way he said."yes, ma'am" here isn't how a CO answers a subordinate. It's how a father shuts up after being scolded by the mother mid-lecture.