Most of these covers are safe for work, except for the facial expressions and half-open shirt of the first one. Enjoy!
Amanda: Methinks something is lost in translation.
Sarah: Um. Yes?
Where did you find that majesty?
Elyse: I just did an actual spit take
Amanda: I was searching for I Hate Fairyland Vol 2 and that’s what came up. Clearly not the same thing.
BUT SHE ONLY LIKES THE FINGERS, NOTHING ELSE.
Fingers or gtfo.
Sarah: Dare I ask where and WHY the fingers?
Redheadedgirl: You know where and why the fingers.
He’s clearly talented with them.
Sarah: So if you like a guy, do you have to cut off his fingers?
Maybe his fingers are the problem.
Amanda: Well maybe if it didn’t have those sweet, sweet fingers, she could go back to hating him.
Redheadedgirl: I kinda want to read it.
I do want to read it.
Amanda: This looks like it’d be in 3D if you had those glasses.
Carrie: I admit it – I like the colors.
But it looks less like she’s part wolf and more like she skinned the wolf and made a cape.
Sarah: Is that Amy Adams?
Redheadedgirl: No, it’s Isla Fisher.
Sarah: They’re the same 43% of the time.
Elyse: It looks like the title card from an 80s movie where they slowly superimpose the wolf over here and techno music plays in the background.
Amanda: Or like an Animorphs cover!
Redheadedgirl: It looks like it should be one of those changeable hologram thingies.
Sarah: From Jill, without comment.
Is what’s next to me a food baby?
OR THE ALIEN FROM ALIEN?
Alien Alien food baby?
Redheadedgirl: Hello my baby, hello my darlin’…..
Sarah: Hello distended aaaaaabs
Amanda: Definitely looks like a food baby to me.
But can I also say that it’s always nice to see a dude without a waxed chest on a cover.
Sarah: I was just thinking that. Points for nice chest hair.
Elyse: I like a hirsute man
Sarah: Roger that.
Amanda: BEARS ARE LOOSE! Watch out!
Carrie: We told you to keep guns off wall street but no, you had to keep attacking bulls instead. Now look at this mess.
Sarah: There is so much cut and paste and the light is coming from three different directions and it’s the end of the world because the animals are fighting each other and I need to go lie down now.
Book cover 1: there is a very obvious joke to be made here, but I feel like it’s too early in the morning to go there. Here’s a hint: think of the famous KFC motto…
Book 2: looks like a poster for Cats, the musical. “Memory, all alone in the mooooonlight”
Book cover 3: awww, I just want to rub his little tum tum!
Book cover 4: it looks like the guy on that cover is wondering whether or not he can outrun the woman. Once the animals turn on the humans, it’s every man for himself!
The woman is preparing to shove him into the fray and leg it!
*checks* Nope, cover 2 isn’t 3D. (I’d say I’m disappointed, but I’m still hoping 3D will go away again.)
The people on the last cover do not look alarmed enough for either of those animals roaming around, much less both fighting in front of them.
And, as failed symbolism, do bull and bear markets really fight each other? I thought it was just that you had a bull or a bear market. Which is probably better illustrated with them being those two people who can’t stand each other, but both both ended up at the same party and don’t want to ruin it, so keep leaving the room when they spot the other one.
Cover one: 感じちゃうのは、大嫌いな彼の指だけ。
Yep, “I only like the fingers of the guy I hate” is a mistranslation. It’s “feel”, not “like”. I don’t know whether the attached auxiliary verb means “fully experience”, “end up”/”can’t help…” or what, but I am NOT asking my Japanese teacher.
Cover four:
REM quote? “The bull and the bear are marking their territories…” (‘Daysleeper’)
@Zyva: the “feel” translation is definitely supporting evidence for RedHeadedGirl’s interpretation of where and why the fingers.
As for “The Unforgettable Wolf”: looks like someone at Harlequin just discovered Photoshop filters.
The Unforgettable Wolf: Worse… cosplay… ever!
The Brooklyn Streets Meet Wall Street cover is highly inaccurate. Trader types are rarely seen away from their desks/headsets/bluetooth in the daylight. They also would not ignore money on the Street despite the bull and bear getting in the way.
The wolf nose looks more like a pig snout to me. Maybe not a domesticated pig, but a pig, definitely. I for real thought it was going to be a three little pigs retelling.
@ Althea Claire Duffy. I do agree with RedHeadedGirl’s theory, heh heh. Looks like it’s not an unusual thing in the ‘smut’ subgenre of manga.
Speaking of ‘smut’, there is a manga with an erotic novelist heroine, called “Peach Heaven!” It’s imperfect. I find the bawdy humour hilarious, but the sexual politics standards can be a bit lax. But you get a lot more pages – though less R-rated – than with short smut one-shots, so competing in that field, it easily wins out in terms of ‘bang for your buck’.
Speaking of fingers, does the woman in the last one have Barbie hands?
Brooklyn/Wall Street cover: she looks like she’s about to pick his pocket and he doesn’t even notice because he’s being all Master of the Universe.
The way the shirt and jacket are draped in cover #3 makes the guy look pot bellied. o.O
I can’t totally tell on my smartphone screen, but it looks like there’s something very wrong with the hands of the woman on the last cover. Like maybe she’s a Barbie doll with a human face cropped in. Which would explain her laissez-faire attitude to the wild animals fighting in front of her.
@Zyva – more bang for your buck? Haha, I see what you did there.
I thought the tip of the wolf’s nose was a monkey face at first.
BAHAHAHAHAHA! These are HILARIOUS! Your conversations are almost as good as the horrible covers/titles. And, my goodness, that first one! I wish I actually BELIEVED that it was just lost in translation … But somehow, I don’t think so, given some of the stories I’ve been told by friends who studied abroad in Japan :O
“The Unforgettable Wolf” is a young Hillary Rodham. Which…actually explains nothing about the past year.