Late today, and only one section of the extras because I hate trying to translate his jokes, it’s so hard :(

But it’s good to know they’ve still been tallying the Valentine’s Day Ranking even during the hiatus.

Valentine’s Day Ranking 2017 - 2018

First Place

A man who has been gloomy for close to 2 years

Mikumo Osamu - The Four-eyes who goes down wrong paths

Second Place

A piece of foresight to start with

JIn Yuuichi - A stopper for wavering

Third Place

Izumi Kouhei - A demand for tenacious Bullet Idiots

Fourth Place

Kazama Souya - Forever 158cm

Fifth Place

Satori Ken - That one, that one~

Sixth Place

Arafune Tetsuji - More or less gets what’s going on

Seventh Place Tie

Tachikawa Kei – A blade tester for rookies

Kuga Yuuma – Sempai Neighbour

Miwa Shuuji – A person with a heavy past

Tenth Place Tie

Ninomiya Masataka – First time in the top 10

Arashiyama Jun – Arashiyama-san on commentating

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The Top 3 Including Multiple Votes:

1st – Utagawa Ryou

2nd – Mikumo Osamu

3rd – Jin Yuuichi

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I’m grateful to receive presents every year for Valentine’s Day even during the hiatus, and 2 years of tallying has been accumulating, so this time it’s a combined ranking. If we do this every year then the extra pages will likely be constantly filling up, so I think we will announce this ranking about once every 5 volumes or so.

The stuff we received have been deliciously portioned out with all the staff.

The Ashihara who had lost a little weight for a time has regained quite a bit of the roundness of his bygone days.

I am very thankful.

So the descriptions are either based on quotes from the manga (Arafune and Satori said some version of their descriptions, Miwa’s description was said to him - though that quote was more like heavy-making in Japanese but it doesn’t scan very well in English) or based on memetic phrases etc. Sorry they’re not very witty in English orz

In conclusion, I wonder if Ashihara will ever stop making short jokes about Kazama. Though stability isn’t necessarily a bad thing, for one thing I’m glad to see the Utagawa stan is still doing her(his?) thing.