Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa (My Monster Secret)

Fricking awesome tagline right there.

chapie out.where we play the game of life.

wow,calling each other by the first names already?

Shirou is such a good guy,letting that slide not good enough to stay for the scolding tho.

dat game

ya know,i'm impressed Mr Shiragami hasn't realized he's the biggest threat to Youko's secret being revealed.guessnit runs in the family.

and the drama is probably something silly xP don't recall any future mention of it in the raws.probably dropping out of school.

aaaand a new character shows up.most definitely a demon,right?

Well it would be about time. Youko was already halfway into it in chap 55 after all.

And here comes my fave characteeeeer. /o/ Show that poor excuse of a demon who rules the school how things are done in the business!

though since everyone already saw the cover of volume 8, it's pretty much a case of It Was His Sled, sadly…

edited 2nd Jan '15 4:23:33 AM by Lyendith

hah,the volume covers are funny. (warning :Karen spoilers.)

New year just started, and this chapter is about the New Year. Coincidence!

That game of Life went off the rails.

Hm, guess The Shiragami's love live wasn't all sugar and rainbows. Of course...

And a new challenger has arrived, tasked with the same thing as Shirou... ...Despite her badass introduction, the world of idiots will welcome her with open arms. New year, new idiot.

Yay, Karen introduced!

Although, looking it the raws (SPOILER for chapter 61), Karen dresses as a demon because Akane stole her halo and uses it as a room light, and the "troubles" Shiradad mentioned is really just Akane pranking the hell out of him.

You know, Akane being "the reason for all this" really applies to the entire series...

So Shiradad was more normal-sized in high school, huh?

It was said in chap 55 that he grew up a suddenly in 3rd year actually.

… By the way, would The Idiot from Osaka apply to Youko? —'.`—

edit: Now if someone has a better idea…◊

edited 2nd Jan '15 12:56:17 PM by Lyendith

chapter 59 out

kinda fillerish chapter,but still fun

so many misfortune gods

poor Akari xD

Confession: I've been shipping Mikan x Oka for quite a while now, and this chapter does nothing to hamper it. Yeah, even if their interactions only consist of Oka teasing Mikan and her throwing him in return. That's still more interaction than the rest of Asahi's bros and the girls.

Asahi's bros really need to have some spotlight. I know from the RA Ws Shima will get some (he'll be paired with...a rather unexpected character), but still no spotlight chapter for the other two.

I don't think so. From what I've seen, The Idiot from Osaka is a specific character stereotype who covers way more than just being an idiot and speaks with a Kansai dialect.

Hum yeah, thought so…

Not my favorite chapter (I just can't manage to like those glasses) but like Shadow said, Oka and Mikan have a surprisingly good dynamic going on. Oka definitely needs a spotlight chapter, yeah… how many characters can keep their position unaltered while being thrown into a shooting booth?

I like to think of him as a sort of male pendent to Shiho: the guy who stays in the background, silently mocking the other characters' stupidity.

edited 6th Jan '15 8:58:35 AM by Lyendith

Also interesting that Oka apparently knows Asahi since middle school while the other two only met him in high school. And remember way back in Chapter 2, Oka is the one who knows how to handle Evil Queen Mikan when Asahi can't do anything. Something's definitely up with him.

So gods of (mis)fortune are pigeons wearing human-sized glasses, or glasses using pigeons as forms of locomotion. Okay!

I don't know how it is in Japanese or English, but in French a "pigeon" is a fool whom you can take advantage of easily − so by extention, an idiot. Wonder if there is any subliminal message here.

Oh, I had forgotten that detail. For that matter… there's also that scene at the end of chap 68, where he's pretty much transparently admitting he has a crush on her…

edit: ah, just a little question regarding Akari − I translated "独身力" (dokushin-ryoku) by "Single Power" (single as in celibate), but I'm not sure that makes sense syntaxically… —'.`—

edited 6th Jan '15 12:40:05 PM by Lyendith

aren't those doves technically?just a practical application of their ability to summon them.

oh yeah,do the bats,crowas and doves that vampires,demons and fortune gods summon respectively count as familiars?

edited 6th Jan '15 12:47:33 PM by alekos23

Nice . Can't wait to see that chapter translated, although I also look forward to some Karen shenanigans in the meanwhile.

I don't think Japanese differentiate between pigeons and doves.

edited 6th Jan '15 7:43:58 PM by TrueShadow1

raw for 94 is out.

can't say i quite get what happened,but Akane was hilarious.

Chap 94 is in the continuity of 93.

All I will say is "try hard Genjirou" and "get a clue already, Karen". And poor Youko is still waiting outside, hungry as hell.

edited 9th Jan '15 11:28:23 AM by Lyendith

Just to ask, anyone knows if there are any scanlations of this? It's called Toumei Ningen no Tsukurikata ("How to Make an Invisible Man"), a one-shot about a girl who receives a mysterious mail telling her that, if she answers it, she can become invisible. It's been released 8 months ago and it's apparently more serious than Jitsu wa... the cover is pretty fascinating...

edited 15th Jan '15 7:43:53 AM by Lyendith

Latest chapter: Glorious Akane being glorious as always. Now that's a REAL demon.

Someone give Karen a hug already ;__;

This chapter kind of condenses all of Masuda's graphical genius. That passage where she goes back in Evil Demon mode with the exact same graphic effects but with Asahi pointing out that it strangely doesn't work anymore... That's why I would love to read a serious story from this guy (like Toumei Ningen seems to be): he clearly knows how to draw dramatic scenes, but uses these effects for comedy instead in Jitsu wa.

Another thing that I noticed in this series... the author never uses Super-Deformed. There are funny faces of course like Youko's >口< or Akane's =D, but the characters never turn into chibis. Which, for what I know, is pretty rare in a slice-of-life comedy...

edited 16th Jan '15 9:57:19 AM by Lyendith

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when she tried to start up the evil routine, but by that point her true nature shined through and it became impossible to picture her as serious. I think what happens in that page is that, on top of being as menacing as in the previous ones, there's the added effects of the crows and whatnot, which is a bit over-the-top. And there's also Asahi on the foreground, sweatdropping slightly, which together create the effect that she's no longer threatening.

You're also right about the author never using Super-Deformed characters. I think this is because, although the premise is that it's a supernatural romantic comedy, the manga's focus is almost entirely on the comedy in a slice-of-life format - in other words, the story is of a certain genre, but in the style of another, which works out fantastic.

I can't say I'm all that moved whenever there's serious moments here and there, because a voice on the back of my head reassures me that things will become silly in a chapter or two. Because of this, I dunno if this style would work well with a serious story, though. As you say, here he uses the seriousness in art as a contrast for shenanigans. It's the gap between what it seems and what it is that entertains, most of all. I'd really like to see Toumei Ningen before judging anything else, though.

edited 16th Jan '15 10:42:21 AM by Crinias

Wow, that was almost terrifying for a moment there. Almost.

Who knew you could enslave people with WAGES?!

That would be the modern civilized world in a nutshell.