It's too late to compliment my outfit with 今更
Vocabulary Explanation: After all this time with 今更
Ayumu heavily compliments Urushi on her looks wearing a sweater that’s a little too big. He quietly congratulates himself, and when Urushi questions him on it, Ayumu explains that he’s regretted his inability to find the words to compliment her outfit during their New Year’s shrine visit.
- 歩:
- 「今なら初詣の時のもうまく言えます。どうですか」
- “I can properly say it now for the New Year's shrine visit. How about it?”
- うるし:
- 「い いいよ。 今さら…！！」
- “It's okay. It's too late!”
- Literal: “I-it's fine. Now, after all this...!!”
- “It's okay. It's too late!”
Key Points
- 今さら marks something as coming after the proper timing has already passed.
- Urushi means a delayed compliment about the shrine-visit outfit would no longer land the way it should have then.
- In this context いいよ means “it’s okay” as a refusal, not enthusiastic approval.
- Urushi is embarrassed and trying to stop Ayumu from continuing.
- Ayumu says he could express the compliment properly now.
- That contrast sets up Urushi’s 今さら, because the relevant moment was the New Year’s shrine visit.
Vocabulary
時 (Time)
時 refers to time, as in duration or a specific moment.
今更 (Now, after all this time)
今更 is a phrase that means “it would have been better if it had happened sooner, but now it’s too late” or “to do something now, after all this time”. It is often used to imply that it is “too late” to do anything about a situation.
初詣 (First shrine visit of the year)
初詣 means the first shrine or temple visit of the New Year. It is one of the most familiar seasonal uses of 詣 in modern Japanese.
See Also
- Kanji: Now and the present with 今