In our last translation tidbits section we mentioned Papakatsu, a type of prostitution that is relatively commonplace in Japan today, and as such, it's been the subject in many doujins featured on our site.
We revisit this topic in this week's TLK upload, starting with SKG by So-matou, a Precure doujin with a very familiar setting, Kanie is selling her body to an old, fat man in order to get some pocket change, but after coming across some trouble in the process of getting her work done, she has to ask Ookuma to come help "deal" with it. Precure is not the most popular franchise in the West, but looking at the massive amounts of doujins the series gets, it is definitely still going strong in Japan. It's probably only surpassed by huge FotM hits getting a massive surge in works and unbeatable all-timers like idol franchises and the big gachas.
Lastly, we have a Story About How I Hired And Creampied A Black Gal From A Famed Standing Girl Park by Pot Detox. It's also about a schoolgirl selling her body, with the added flavor of it being a kuudere-ish tanned gyaru, but in the end it's a pretty run-of-the-mill archetypal play. However, what makes it interesting is that I was wondering when this novel form of prostitution would make it onto the world of hentai, and we will be using this opportunity to connect this to the translation tidbit of today.
Standing girls (Tachinbo/立ちんぼ) is a slang term to refer to girls that are standing around in parks, stations and populated streets. They may look like they are just messing with their phones or loitering but they are actually waiting to get approached by a man for sexual services. The number of these girls has increased lately and it is considered a more effective and even safer form of prostitution, compared to compensated dating, for example. The term comes from the conjugated form of word for standing "tatsu" (立つ) and the suffix "nbo" added to make it a descriptive of someone (んぼ/坊), also seen in words like glutton "kuishinbo" (食いしんぼ)。 It originally meant someone standing around doing nothing, but the generally recognized primary meaning has changed to the current, dirtier meaning.
