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Have at last finished translating Angel's Coffin, something I'd been working fitfully on since realizing that I had promised to translate some manga for a friend and then pretty much forgotten about that for a while.

I love Wikipedia. The manga deals with Mary Vetsera and the Mayerling incident, and for someone like me who only has the shallowest knowledge of European history, I wouldn't have even been able to get the names right without it. Well, I would have; it's just that I wouldn't have bothered.

...I think I liked the manga better when I read it breathlessly without pausing to deal with the politics or look anything up. But that's the way it goes; and Higuri Yuu does draw pretty boys.

Oh, and today is fox-wedding weather: rain while the sun shines, as I found out when I decided to go for a bike ride.