Oooh boy, that's a big pair of secrets.

In the follow up tweet, is he referring to Sasamori Tomoe?

Heh, I've seen this kind of encounter used as the premise of many hentai doujinshi.

On an unfortunate note, the first follow-up tweet defies my attempts at making sense of it.

DreamFromTheLayer said:

In the follow up tweet, is he referring to Sasamori Tomoe?

Apparently, yes. The featured girl is practically a dead-ringer for this one.

MarqFJA87 said:

On an unfortunate note, the first follow-up tweet defies my attempts at making sense of it.

I feel like the -shio is referring to the times when the Tawawa Mondays used to be Himura Kiseki drawing Ushio from KanColle.

Shinogu said:

I feel like the -shio is referring to the times when the Tawawa Mondays used to be Himura Kiseki drawing Ushio from KanColle.

It is. It isn't cut off, it's straight-up the kanji for Ushio's name. It can be read as just "shio", but context heavily implies it's referring to Ushio.

Many of Sasamori Tomoe's characters look like they came straight out of the Tawawaian universe or vice versa. It makes sense.

Took me a depressingly long time to realize he recognized her by her moles.

Calmaify said:

Oooh boy, that's a big pair of secrets.

"It's a secret to EVERYBODY."

Getting a lot of new characters showing up recently, though most seem to have only appeared for a single appearance. The potter, the nursery teacher, the manager/boss, and the flower shop worker, and now this schoolgirl.

They're all very nice, but I kind of hope that we'll get some actual plot/continuation with at least some of them, rather than just a line of one-offs.

That devilish smile is perfect.

The quiet ones have the lioness within~

So... this girl has been posting racy pictures online, pretending to be an adult?

Madcat6204 said:

So... this girl has been posting racy pictures online, pretending to be an adult?

Yep.

OK, besides me accidentally overwriting DreamFromTheLayer's translation, why is 笹森先生を崇めよ translated as "Revere Sasamori-sensei" (imperative tense) rather than "I revere Sasamori-sensei" (present tense)? How do you know that 崇めよ is indeed the imperative form rather than 崇め suffixed with the particle version of よ indicating certainty/emphasis?

Dakkan said:

Getting a lot of new characters showing up recently, though most seem to have only appeared for a single appearance. The potter, the nursery teacher, the manager/boss, and the flower shop worker, and now this schoolgirl.

They're all very nice, but I kind of hope that we'll get some actual plot/continuation with at least some of them, rather than just a line of one-offs.

The thing is, this is exactly how Tawawa was in the beginning, until Ai-chan was introduced. Not sure why she became a recurring character, though, but it did a lot of good for this franchise.

MarqFJA87 said:

The thing is, this is exactly how Tawawa was in the beginning, until Ai-chan was introduced. Not sure why she became a recurring character, though, but it did a lot of good for this franchise.

True, but in the beginning of Tawawa it was more just pin-up images, while nowadays they're mini-comics. There's a story (however brief), a bit of characterization and personality, etc...

Eh, I've probably just been spoiled by the various arcs that have popped up (Maegami's marriage/pregnancy, Jitome's developing relations with her fiance/cousin, Kakyou and the student she's tutoring, Cheer and her boy/friend). Like I said, I'm hoping to see more, but not really expecting it too much.

MarqFJA87 said:

OK, besides me accidentally overwriting DreamFromTheLayer's translation, why is 笹森先生を崇めよ translated as "Revere Sasamori-sensei" (imperative tense) rather than "I revere Sasamori-sensei" (present tense)? How do you know that 崇めよ is indeed the imperative form rather than 崇め suffixed with the particle version of よ indicating certainty/emphasis?

Because we don't say so in Japanese. If we want to say "(I) certainly revere" in Japanese, it would be "(私は)崇めるよ", combining the imperfective (plain) form of the verb with よ. We can only interpret 崇めよ as the imperative form of a group 2 verb.

Brightlight said:

Because we don't say so in Japanese. If we want to say "(I) certainly revere" in Japanese, it would be "(私は)崇めるよ", combining the imperfective (plain) form of the verb with よ. We can only interpret 崇めよ as the imperative form of a group 2 verb.

Agreed. There are no grammar rules I know of that allow the verb stem + yo to be anything other than the imperative form, and definitely not a verb attributed to the speaker. Even an invitational "let's revere Sasamori-sensei (together)" would generally be 崇めよー at its most truncated.

Brightlight said:

Because we don't say so in Japanese. If we want to say "(I) certainly revere" in Japanese, it would be "(私は)崇めるよ", combining the imperfective (plain) form of the verb with よ. We can only interpret 崇めよ as the imperative form of a group 2 verb.

RedHen35 said:

Agreed. There are no grammar rules I know of that allow the verb stem + yo to be anything other than the imperative form, and definitely not a verb attributed to the speaker. Even an invitational "let's revere Sasamori-sensei (together)" would generally be 崇めよー at its most truncated.

TIL. :)

Still, I find rather odd that Himura is using the imperative here.