Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken - Vol. 4 Ch. 15.4

[ThrowbackJTT]

pls kiss

Give it time. The manga is still behind the anime. I think the next arc is the sports festival arc

 

[ThrowbackJTT]

this chapter almost feels like an ending
wonder what the next arc is

Going by the anime, I think it's the sports festival arc

 

[Darkshade13]

it's almost amusing how wrong this statement is. The source material has more content after it happens than before it.

That's good to know. I've just been burned by so many series that drag and drag and drag and drag and then either get cancelled before they can resolve the main relationship, speedrun the confession because the axe is looming, or decide that the "proper" end point is to have them confess and then do like 3 pages of reactions and maybe an epilogue and that's it. I've always said that the confession doesn't need to be the end of the series, just the start of the next phase of the story and that if the author does their job and makes interesting characters without relying solely on the "will they or won't they?" tension then the possibilities are infinite.

 

[Indivinity]

Going by the anime, I think it's the sports festival arc

That arc is like two years away. The manga is only at Volume 2 Chapter 3 of the LN whereas that arc is the second half of Volume 4 of the LN. That arc seems closer for anime watchers because the anime adapted half of v3 in a single episode.

 

[Indivinity]

Especially considering how much more material the author still has planned even now and how committed he is to at least getting Mahiru's wedding dress illustrated.

Yup, that too xD Although *she
Saeki-san is a woman

 

[Indivinity]

That's good to know. I've just been burned by so many series that drag and drag and drag and drag and then either get cancelled before they can resolve the main relationship, speedrun the confession because the axe is looming, or decide that the "proper" end point is to have them confess and then do like 3 pages of reactions and maybe an epilogue and that's it. I've always said that the confession doesn't need to be the end of the series, just the start of the next phase of the story and that if the author does their job and makes interesting characters without relying solely on the "will they or won't they?" tension then the possibilities are infinite.

Those things only mainly happen to actual romance manga. This series is a manga adaptation of a Light Novel, so the situation is much different. The downside, however, is that releases are slow and even two years after serialization, the manga is only at Volume 2 Chapter 3 of the Light Novel, whereas Volume 10 of the LN is soon to release.

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

That arc is like two years away. The manga is only at Volume 2 Chapter 3 of the LN whereas that arc is the second half of Volume 4 of the LN. That arc seems closer for anime watchers because the anime adapted half of v3 in a single episode.

And huge chunks of V4 are missing entirely. If this series adds Chitose's and Yuuta's stories from the .5 books, it could be even longer.

 

[Indivinity]

And huge chunks of V4 are missing entirely. If this series adds Chitose's and Yuuta's stories from the .5 books, it could be even longer.

Those chapters would be adapted in After the Rain, not the main series manga

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

Those chapters would be adapted in After the Rain, not the main series manga

I would refer you to 16.1. Material can be included without being directly adapted.

 

[apstorm]

Damn, yeah, we're nearly to the point of skipping entire sections of the LN and Manga in the anime, I take it, based on what @ItsThatBriGuy and @Indivinity are saying. I know the next chapter (and the final segment of Episode 5 in the anime) deals with the rumor mill fallout around Mahiru's New Year's visit, but after that I'm less sure what's going on, as my memory of the latter parts of the anime's a bit hazy after a few months separated from my initial watching, and I'm only progressing through my current re-watch as I read the chapters relating to what's on the screen. I'm literally pausing as scenes/dialog show up, reading it in the manga, then moving forward, one line and/or page at a time. Doing a moment by moment comparison, so to speak.

A shame, too, since up to this point it hasn't really skipped all that much, but it sure as hell has been less impactful than the Manga has been. Really hoping the second season manages to spruce things up, whenever it finally does come, but I won't expect it.

I like when stories actually have the relationship start in the middle (or even early-ish on), like HoriMiya. There's also ToniKawa, but that's a bit of a special case, I figure. There's also two anime I've watched where the main couple start dating fairly early on, but they're supernatural mystery stories first and foremost, so it's not like the romance is the main draw of the narrative... but I still appreciate the fact that they become an item so readily and the relationship becomes an ongoing thing while mysteries are solved (Rascal Does Not Dream and Bakemonogatari, for reference).

 

[AnotherDuck]

I like when stories actually have the relationship start in the middle (or even early-ish on), like HoriMiya. There's also ToniKawa, but that's a bit of a special case, I figure.

I just generally dislike when the story stops right after. And even more if it stops before anything conclusive happens.

Should maybe get back to reading ToniKawa, but on the other hand, I don't want to spend too much time reading manga...

 

[apstorm]

I just generally dislike when the story stops right after. And even more if it stops before anything conclusive happens.

Should maybe get back to reading ToniKawa, but on the other hand, I don't want to spend too much time reading manga...

One thing to be said about ToniKawa is that it feels like a mostly RomCom with a mystery element, up until a certain turning point where the mystery is revealed and the story suddenly starts getting very serious and focus shifts so it's half a RomCom about a newly-met newlywed couple and half about what the mystery element from the first phase was revealed to be. Still plenty of adorable moments between the main couple, but there's definitely more dramatic and serious narrative arcs (a lot of which involve backstory elements).

Time also marches extremely slowly, where one of the months depicted in the story has taken 82 chapters from the initial mention that the month has started and the next month is mentioned, and the current in-story month has been going on for longer than that, far as I can tell. For reference, it's 300 chapters in and the couple has only been married for at least four months. Something about Hata Kenjiro and time to him being an illusion or made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. Also people saying the manga is about Hata flexing his married life on his readers.


And yeah, it's kind of unsatisfying when a story ends just after the relationship starts, when I feel like that's when things are just getting interesting. Moreso if it cuts off before that point, as was the case with two anime adaptations of manga I watched earlier this year (the shows were at least a couple years old- I rarely watch anime as they're coming out, and am usually reluctant to start manga that don't have a definitive stopping point, either).

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

There's also two anime I've watched where the main couple start dating fairly early on, but they're supernatural mystery stories first and foremost, so it's not like the romance is the main draw of the narrative... but I still appreciate the fact that they become an item so readily and the relationship becomes an ongoing thing while mysteries are solved (Rascal Does Not Dream and Bakemonogatari, for reference).

If you dig this vibe, give Dark Gathering a whirl.