Sadly, Saki Biyori ends next month. It's been confirmed by the author, Kiyoshi Saya. According to Saya, the reason is simple: she run out of ideas for new jokes so she decided it was best to put an end to it. The last chapter was to appear this month but, since Saya is busy preparing the final volume, it's been postponed until March. The translated chapter below is the one from January.
Saya will continue to be involved with Saki by supervising any lines spoken in the Saga dialect (spoken by Mairu and Himeko in the original) and by providing swimsuit designs when necessary (like those from Saki ch119).
Eisui's Story 4:
Biyori ch74 (Mega)
Biyori ch74 (Mediafire)
EDIT: changed divine mirror > shrine in pages 2 and 3. See comments for details.
On the Shinohayu front, Chihiro's friend and Komosawa's vanguard Yukinaga Yuzuha will be the next cover character. And it looks like she's also a future Senriyama student, like Chihi herself!
Shinohayu ch54 (Mega)
Shinohayu ch54 (Mediafire)
What is "The Divine Mirror"? Shoumakyou? Yata-no-Kagami?
ReplyDeleteI think this could be a mistake in the original between two very similar kanji 神境 shinkyou=shrine and 神鏡 shinkyou=divine mirror. I didn't notice until you mentioned it but I think I'm going to change it now. It probably makes more sense.
DeleteOK, I've changed it. I'm pretty sure it was a mistake. Someone must have typed the wrong kanji.
DeleteEven tanoshii must end sometime.
ReplyDeleteWell that explains why the last few selected chapters are kinda plain in comparison to the older ones. Still kinda sad to see it end. Was hoping Saya to just go hiatus for a year or so instead of ending it. Looking forward to the last chapter(also hoping for bonus illustration).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the translation too!!
thx for translations.
ReplyDeleteWhat a heartfelt Shinohayu chapter. It felt genuine, and we were overdue a bit of focus on the yearning that Shino must be suppressing.
ReplyDeleteIt is quite hard to notice, but Shino's hair is longer and longer by a little. (not sure if it is just my imagination or not).
ReplyDeleteShe will eventually have long hair in High school as the first volume's cover showed.
I wonder if Shino was place in the last Game UwU
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