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looks like 事

Another reason for the author using katakana over kanji here might be that 麗 and 蓋 have lots of strokes, so they are a bit hard to draw with limited space, also younger readers might not be able to read them.

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学部の転籍も今更っぽいし審査も面倒だし I wouldn't use past tense since that makes the sentence sound like he's still talking about the time of the entrance exam, but thinking about a transfer when you're not even accepted yet doesn't make any sense. He's saying that it's too late now to transfer, and it'd be...

Since her beginnings as a talented child actress, she has appeared frequently on film and television, and enjoys nationwide popularity.

Re: Sentence check please 葉が八つに分かれたもみじ "a maple leaf with eight lobes" 天才子役として "as child actor prodigy", として means "as" and has nothing to do with している

- unlike "puppy love", 初恋 is not belittling or derogatory, so I'd simply go with first love - をとっくに済ませた finished, ended long ago. "put an end to" is too active and aggressive. - 人と -> "with people who...", "with someone who...". The structure of the sentence is 俺は ... 人と ... 付き合うのが好き "Well...

お前は優しいから because you are nice 酔ったノリでokして agreed while you were drunk なりゆきで with that course of events なりゆきで付き合ってるんじやないか aren't you going out because of that course of events I/(s)he wondered if you are just going out with me/him because you were drunk and too nice to refuse me/him?

号 is a suffix for numbers, or sometimes names, that identify things belonging to certain set, mostly (but not always) vehicles and issues of magazines or newspapers. E.g. 一号車 is bus number one if you're talking about buses, or carriage number one of a train. サイゾー２０１２年２月号 would be the Feb 2012...

なんの is a contraction of なるの: Does the brokenhearted one become unlucky? As if getting dumped wasn't bad enough already... It's the opposite. The one who rejected the other will become cursed, as much as he was loved. Even if the rejected one doesn't want to curse him.

バチ （罰）means "punishment", あたる（当たる） means "hit" or "strike". Verb in te-form + ほしい　（欲しい） means "want that [verb] happens". わ is a kind of particle that doesn't really have that much meaning (a bit like "well" in English) and is mostly used by women. Put together, the literal translation is "I...

In that case I'd go with a less literal translation like "Real men are drawn to power, not to women."

Grammatically, the sentence allows two readings: 1. Men feel an attraction to things that are more powerful than women. 2. Men are more attracted to powerful things than women are. In other words, men are more power-hungry than women. You say 2. is incorrect, but I don't see why it...

You sure about that? Isn't it more like "someone"? As in: Even though someone worked up their courage and told/asked you..." That someone could be the speaker, but also someone else.

モテる or もてる means "being popular with members of the opposite sex". -> "Well... do I look like I'm popular with girls?"