Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 41 - Everything, Falling Apart

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and Yami knew she shouldn’t have gone to the festival. Just like everyone with a brain already knew.
Tangential but Yuu also worried that there would be problems and technically he has less reason to be there than Aya. Like it's Aya's school festival & he's just a guest & she almost definitely was planning to keep up the nonchalant facade if she ran into him. Like completely losing it at him was clearly not in her plan considering she was trying to hold it together for the first half of their convo. Basically this is my "Yuu also knew he shouldn't have gone and should get equal flack" rant.

Hanging out with Hikari and the two others (I never remember their names) had caused Yami to be better.

The drum I've been beating since the Aya/Yuu chapters is that Hikari is so much better for Aya than Yuu was. I think largely b/c, as I think this chapter and the previous clearly show, Hikari understands Aya and Yuu doesn't.

I don't blame her for hesitating to tell Hikari because
3) at this point, Yami has probably figured out that Yuu hasn't told Hikari and might also be keeping quiet out of loyalty/amends to Yuu. Plus w/ all her resentment, there's no telling if the convo then might not have gone down the same as it is in this chapter - like she also just may not want Hikari to think she's the jealous not over it ex.

Which again, right I've been hard core team "tell your friends important things before it blows up in everyone's faces", but like I find Aya's reasons for holding back at least as sympathetic as Yuu's (probably more).
 
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the fact anyone defends yami proves how shit these forums are. you are literally either a) a virgin or b) a woman. i saw so many posts tearing yuu apart, and right away i knew i was reading comments from people who have never been in a relationship before. i have been in situations extremely similar to yuu, and crazy girls arent fun like the meme makes them out to be. yami is a literal bpd whore and her existence makes everyone around her suffer. yuu and hikari would both be better off if yami never existed.
 
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the fact anyone defends yami proves how shit these forums are.
Understanding != defense

i have been in situations extremely similar to yuu, and crazy girls arent fun like the meme makes them out to be.
Yuu should have maybe gotten to know her b/f he slept his way into a relationship w/ her? Like "here's my family drama, no wait I'm lying" is a 🚩 so it's not like she was hiding her drama all that well. Which not victim blaming - like half of counseling is owning your agency when you are in trash/abusive situations so you get the tools to not fall back into those relationships.

You've been in Yuu's shoes, well I've been in Hikari's. Stuck in the middle of messes created by insecure, immature, conflict averse, have no plan folks - and it's just deeply frustrating when the whole mess could've been prevented by a conversation. Which, most conflicts just aren't good guy/bad guy. Usually they're like this manga - a series of choices that mostly seemed right/reasonable/justified at the time but in hindsight overlooked something really important - here Hikari's feelings at being kept in the dark.
 
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Understanding != defense


Yuu should have maybe gotten to know her b/f he slept his way into a relationship w/ her? Like "here's my family drama, no wait I'm lying" is a 🚩 so it's not like she was hiding her drama all that well. Which not victim blaming - like half of counseling is owning your agency when you are in trash/abusive situations so you get the tools to not fall back into those relationships.

You've been in Yuu's shoes, well I've been in Hikari's. Stuck in the middle of messes created by insecure, immature, conflict averse, have no plan folks - and it's just deeply frustrating when the whole mess could've been prevented by a conversation. Which, most conflicts just aren't good guy/bad guy. Usually they're like this manga - a series of choices that mostly seemed right/reasonable/justified at the time but in hindsight overlooked something really important - here Hikari's feelings at being kept in the dark.
i completely agree that hikari is by far getting the short end of the stick. what i dont agree with is that its all yuus fault, and i think its bullshit that people will defend yami all day and just shit on yuu. he is as much of a victim of yami being a bpd whore as hikari is.
 
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what i dont agree with is that its all yuus fault, i think its bullshit that people will defend yami all day and just shit on yuu
Ehh, I haven't really seen anybody seriously say 'Yami did nothing wrong' and a lot of the folks who are critical of Yuu are also critical of Yami. I think it's a credit to the author that they wrote characters with such high agency that the characters actions and motivations are interesting to discuss.

Lately my posts skew "here's why I think Yami did X & Yuu is also in the wrong b/c he chose to do Y" b/c of the posts I'm responding to, but I also fully believe in the flip side - Yami is choosing to be awful to Hikari, Yami chose to hide her feelings and family from Yuu, Yuu didn't tell Hikari about Aya at the time b/c he understandably wasn't confident about the relationship, Yuu didn't tell Hikari about the kiss b/c he was still processing what Aya said to him, Yuu confessed even though the timing sucked b/c he just had a frying pan over the head of how being w/ a girl he didn't love b/c he wasn't over Hikari hurt the both of them, etc.
 
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I can't speak for Litreara but I, too, thought it was after-the-fact narration because as much as I dislike Yami I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt that she wouldn't do something so low as to kiss Yuu on purpose when she knew Hikari was watching.

I can't believe she did that and now in this chapter she somehow thinks if she lies out her ass that Hikari and her will magically be friends again.

Hikari's a better person than I am as I'd be slamming Yami's face into some desks right about now.
Ngl, I too thought Yami wouldn't go down that low in hell to do 'that' knowing Hikari was there, I thought that last part was an after-the-fact narration, but in the novel she outrights says she 100% knew she was there and still did that, I don't know if she subconsciously wants everyone to be as unhappy as her because of the relationship his mom has had or wtf is on her mind, but she is auto destructing herself and she totally deserves it sadly. #JusticeforYuu
 
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I usually just lurk in these threads, but as someone who sympathizes with Yuu, I think I should say my piece lol. This story is going on a hiatus so probably a good enough time. Im probably one of,if ANY who find him really relatable because of similar circumstances. So his actions make perfect sense to me.


Yuu's defining character trait is his INSECURITY issues. I say this as someone with kinda similar personal experience. Its not him having low emotional intelligence like readers are accusing him of. Its not that he doesnt think about anyone else. We can clearly see in the novel that he did notice Hikari was acting strange, also that Aya was hiding something during their relationship. No, the difference comes from the fact that he didnt fully believe that Aya even liked him romantically.


Think about it, Yuu and Yami basically met on roadside, as complete strangers. Yami literally only wanted to bone him because she was in a bad mental state as an escape for her, even Yuu saw through this. Then during when they first tried to have sex, she did not even look him in the eyes. She was like she wasnt even doing it wholeheartedly. Even when she gets the physical aspect properly crossed, shes still avoidant and distant when it was about revealing anything sensitive or personal. She even pushed back on his attempts to get closer. Keep in mind this was after Yuu utterly failed at getting with Hikari (in his mind). Putting myself in his shoes, I would 100% feel that Aya was only looking for an emotional escape and not committed relationship. This feeling got lesser as time progressed and he started falling in love with her, but somewhere at the back of his mind he constantly felt uneasy and thought she was going to leave him because he is not worth it. Then one fine day she suddenly disappears from his life and blocks all his attempts to contact her. Obviously he would come to the conclusion that she just got tired of him. For him,going to search her doesnt make sense. She dumped him for a reason. Even I wouldn't ,its not about what I feel but respecting what she feels. He likely also pinned the reason for Aya leaving him being that he still had feelings for Hikari. Which explains him not getting into any relationship after Aya's imploded.

THIS IS THE REASON why he so easily accepted Aya's words of her getting tired of him. That is something he had been believing all along, but the encounter only sealed it for him. It was not because he didnt care about Aya. It was not because he didnt care about her that he accepted her family situation he just didnt feel it was his place to butt in as someone who Aya didnt see worthy as. That is also why he wanted to stay friends with Aya, he wasnt hoping for a second fallback option for him, he just saw it as natural because Aya didnt see him as romantic partner anymore but she didnt say she hated him. There is no second thoughts there he is wearing his heart on sleeve.



Similarly him not telling Hikari about Aya is merely because of his past experiences. He already has supposed experience of his ex dumping him what he believes because of his past hangover. Not only that he finds out his ex and crush are even best friends. Idk about u guys but I would 100% think telling Hikari is a death sentence if I was there, because I would also have had to tell her that Aya dumped me because she got tired of me. That is the BIGGEST red flag for any girl, coming directly from your best friend. Hikari would also come to know that (according to Yuu) him not forgetting Hikari caused the relationship to fall off, so Hikari would also think (according to Yuu) that he would never forget Aya. Yuu likely completely blames himself for the failure of Aya's relationship. Worst case scenario, Hikari may become estranged from him as a whole because she sided with Aya completely.



I find it shocking readers here think indecisiveness defines his character, that is not at all the read I got from him. He has never run away from making a choice. He just doesnt think he is someone worth loving so he greatly underestimates the feelings both girls have for him. But the boy doesnt have eyes for both girls.

P.S. I also saw comments saying he never tried to get with Hikari, we dont know if he did or not, we know he had 3 heartbreaks with her so the first heartbreak likely was him trying from his side indirectly but not being reciprocated
100 % agree , whilst yuu can be seen as at fault for some stuff like the ghosting and confessing at the wrong time , it really feels like some people in this thread just want him to suffer lol , hope we get a yuu pov chapter once this manga comes back because out of all of them , i feel like yuu is by far the one that’s least fleshed out and the one we know far less as to how he thinks , this might be what makes it easier to assume that he’s doing stuff out of pure self interest rather than a mixture of insecurity plus some sense was , never attribute malice to what can be explained by stupidity , or in this case a mixture of insecurity and denseness ,

(i thought a new chapter would be released tommorow , forgot about the fucking break , )
 
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Okay so I started reading this today. I have to say I like both Hikari AND Aya I think she hasnt done anything wrong I mean she didnt know Ta-kun was the one Hikari was in love with. However I fucking hate Ta-kun. How can he have the audacity to tell Hikari that he always loved her when he KNOWS its a lie. I mean if he always loved Hokari why fuck and get all coupely with Aya? And he seems to still have some kind of feelings for Aya, so confessing to Hikari while srill having feelings for another girl is just a bitch move. Idealy both girls would just reject him and start beeing lesbian together
 
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Honestly I'm taking Yami's side here. Like it sucks that Hikari had to find out this way but she doesn't OWN Yuu. He's a free man who can date and fuck anyone he wants. Yami met Yu before she met Hikari and Loooong before they became best friends. So what? She's supposed to just step aside and let her friend fumble the guy she likes. If there was nothing still between them the kiss wouldn't have happened. But it did. Hikari was too late and now she's feeling hurt because yuu didn't wait for her and yami snatched him up. Life doesn't revolve around your petty crushes. If you don't have the conviction to get through this revelation then maybe her feelings were shallow after all.
 
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By the way seems we're getting some bonus novel chapter white the manga is on hiatus

https://x.com/sa_ra_na_mi/status/1938885083403895198?


https://note.com/saranami/n/n7a0eb474a93d

Apparently it's going to be important seems like it's showing Yuu and Hikari first meeting and is done from Yuu's POV

Tried running it through chat GPT like @Litreara does but only like 95% sure I did it right never used chat GPT before

Our two families—The Takamuras and the Shirasakas—moved into neighboring identical prefab houses in March, the year Hikari and I were about to start elementary school.

Just before that, at the end of February, I came down with a terrible case of chickenpox right before graduation from kindergarten and the move. I couldn’t even say goodbye to my kindergarten friends and ended up moving into this house without closure.

Even after the move, in April, my body was still covered in the aftermath—rashes and scabs from the illness. As a result, I barely attended school and ended up in something like self-imposed truancy right after starting first grade.

My face, arms, and legs were still covered in ugly spots. I hated the idea of going to school, being seen in the neighborhood, or even stepping out into the yard. I cried and refused every time. My parents were clearly at their wit's end, but they didn’t scold or force me. They just let me be.

So for a while, I shut myself in my room, spending my days lying in bed, staying up at night because I couldn’t sleep, completely free—yet not happy at all.

Then, on one Sunday, that miserable daily routine shattered.


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"Ah! There you are!"
"Huh…?"

That day, bored as usual, I casually opened the window of my room for the first time since we moved in. Just on a whim.

But the view outside wasn’t some wide, open scenery. It was the wall of another identical house—typical of prefab homes—and directly across from my window was another window.

And in that window was… not a reflection, but a girl about my age, resting her chin on her hand, staring right at me.


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"Heyyy, hey! What’s with all those spots on you?"
"Wha—?!"

The very first time we saw each other, she—Hikari Shirasaka—blurted out a question about the marks left on my body by my illness.

It was pure, innocent curiosity from a child. I know that now that I’ve gotten to know her well. There’s no doubt about that.

But for a shy first-grade boy, being asked something like that out of nowhere by a girl he just met? It was… well, brutal.


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"...uh…"
"Huh?"
"Uuuu…waaahhhh!"
"Wha—EHHHHH?!"

I cried—so loudly the neighbors could probably hear me. Both our families were stunned.

Afterward, Hikari’s parents found out why I cried and rushed over to our house to apologize, bowing repeatedly. They even scolded Hikari harshly in return, making her cry too, and then my parents felt terrible… It was a whole mess of apologies and guilt.

Still, that intense first meeting ended up kickstarting over ten years of close friendship between the Takamura and Shirasaka families.

To this day, whenever both families get together for dinner or an outing, this story always comes up. Hikari gets mad, I get embarrassed, and everyone laughs. It's a classic.


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The next morning, the doorbell rang. When Mom opened the door… there she was.
Hikari, with her school bag on, grinning ear to ear—completely ignoring the mood—and asking me to walk to school with her.


---

At school…


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"Hey, look at this kid! He’s covered in gross spots!"
"Ugh, gross! Stay away, man!"
"……"

Led by Hikari, I nervously made it to the classroom… only to be immediately hit with jeers from the boys.

Sure, the rashes had scabbed over and weren’t contagious anymore—but no first-grader could know that.

One by one, boys started mocking me. Before I knew it, ten of them had joined in, shouting and laughing.

I was about to cry again, thinking, “I never should’ve come…”


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"YOU CAN’T SAY STUFF LIKE THAT! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!"

Her voice echoed through the entire classroom—maybe even reached the staff room.

The girl who brought me here, Hikari, stood there, face bright red, yelling.


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"It’s a disease anyone can catch! You could all get it too!"
"It really hurt, okay?! He put on medicine, toughed it out, and now he finally made it to school!"
"That makes him amazing! Way more amazing than any of you!"

…Those words sounded really familiar.

Yeah. It was almost word-for-word what her parents had scolded her with the day before.

So, no, those weren’t her own words. It wasn’t some deep understanding or insight.
She was just parroting what her mom and dad had told her.

And maybe… she hadn’t even truly understood it herself.


---

But even so…
That clumsy, borrowed, self-righteous speech of hers—

I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.


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During first period, the teacher used the whole class to explain my condition in detail.

The boys who teased me had to apologize in front of everyone. (Honestly, probably traumatized them too.)
Justice was served. And Hikari? She wore a smug look the whole time.


---

That was the day I had my fateful encounter—and fell in love for the first time.

Looking back now, there’s plenty to critique in how she handled things.
When I told this story to four of my friends, three of them said, “You fell for her over THAT?”

But I didn’t care.

Back then, I was saved by her clumsiness… and by the way she stood up for me without needing a reason.


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"From now on, if anything ever happens, tell me, okay? Ta~kun!"
"Y-yeah… thanks, Hikari-chan."

…That said, she didn’t actually remember my real name correctly.

And so began my life as “Ta~kun,” her childhood friend.


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Takamura Yuu, first grader at the time.

Back then, I never imagined she’d be such an impossible girl to win over…
Or that I’d turn out to be such a hopeless romantic clinging to my feelings.


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Also was said in a tweet we're getting another chapter on July 14
https://x.com/sa_ra_na_mi/status/1939459112279965739?t=pJzC50WsC5Yi1cA93uLtOw&s=19


Edit: Litreara sorry for pinging you I wasn't thinking when I put that @ before your username lol
 
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I've found if I copy the Japanese text on note.com/saranami and put the following prompt on ChatGPT it gives me a decent enough outcome. Prompt: "Please translate the following text from Japanese to English. Please format it with screenplay-style dialogue, making it easier to read like a scene from an anime." Don't make fun of me for saying please to an AI lol.

Of course! Here is your translation adapted into screenplay-style dialogue, formatted to feel like a scene from an anime — warm, emotional, and character-focused:


EXT. SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD – SPRING – DAY

A pair of nearly identical houses sit side by side. The camera pans to a modest, sunlit room where a YOUNG BOY (YUU, 6) peers out from behind a closed curtain.

YUU (V.O.)
It was the March before first grade when the Takamura and Shirasaka families moved into these matching houses—side by side.

FLASHBACK – INT. BEDROOM – DAY

Young YUU lies in bed, scratching at the fading spots of a chickenpox outbreak.

YUU (V.O.)
A month earlier, I’d come down with a nasty case of chickenpox. I never even got to say goodbye to my kindergarten friends before we moved.
Even after April came, I still had scabs all over my face and body.
I couldn’t bring myself to go outside... or even step into the garden.

His parents stand worried in the doorway, whispering, unsure of what to do.

YUU (V.O.)
My parents must’ve been at their wits’ end. But they never forced me. Never scolded me.
They just let me stay in, doing whatever I wanted... which turned out to be a whole lot of nothing.

INT. BEDROOM – DAY (PRESENT)

YUU sits on his bed, bored, tired, lonely. He stands up, hesitates, then pushes open the window for the first time.

YUU (V.O.)
Then one Sunday... everything changed.

A GIRL’S VOICE (O.S.)
Ah! There you are!

YUU (startled):
Eh!?

Across the narrow space between the houses, a girl about his age leans out her window, chin resting in her hand, grinning.

YUU (V.O.)
No pretty view. Just the same prefab wall. The same layout. The same window.
Only—this time—it wasn’t just a window.

GIRL:
Hey, hey! What’s with those spots all over your face?

YUU (V.O.)
Her second sentence. We’d just met and—bam—straight to the disease.

YUU:
...uh...

GIRL:
Huh?

YUU:
UWAHHHHHHHH!!

GIRL:
EH!? WHAAAT!?

Cue both households erupting into chaos as both sets of parents rush to figure out what just happened.

YUU (V.O.)
I cried so loud both living rooms heard me. Her parents apologized so much it felt like we should’ve been apologizing.
Then they scolded her too harshly and she started crying...
...so my parents apologized back.

YUU (V.O.)
It was a disaster. But honestly? That one crazy incident somehow pulled our families together.
Even now, it’s the go-to story anytime we have dinner together.


INT. TAKAMURA HOUSE – FRONT DOOR – NEXT MORNING

DING-DONG!

YUU’S MOTHER opens the door. There stands HIKARI (the girl from yesterday), wearing her backpack and beaming like the sun.


YUU (V.O.)
The very next day, she came over—completely ignoring the awkwardness—and invited me to school.


INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – CLASSROOM – MOMENTS LATER

YUU and HIKARI walk in. Several BOYS notice YUU and immediately point and jeer.

BOY 1:
Whoa! What’s up with this guy? He’s covered in gross spots!

BOY 2:
Ew, ew, back off! Don’t touch me, dude!

YUU (V.O.)
The scabs had healed, but first graders don’t know the difference.
As soon as one boy started, the others followed.
And I... I felt that same tight sadness rising up.
The one from last weekend. The one that meant tears were coming.

HIKARI (furious):
YOU CAN’T SAY STUFF LIKE THAT!!!

The room falls silent. Her voice echoes—loud enough to shake the teacher’s lounge.

HIKARI (red-faced, yelling):
That’s a normal sickness anyone can get, okay!?
Any of YOU could get it too!

HIKARI:
It really hurt, you know! He had to tough it out, put on medicine, and get better so he could come to school!

HIKARI (beaming with pride):
So that makes him amazing! Way more amazing than you all!

YUU (V.O.)
I recognized those words.
She was just parroting the scolding her parents gave her the day before.
There wasn’t any deep meaning behind it.
She probably didn’t even really understand what she was saying.

YUU (V.O.)
But still...
Her clumsy, second-hand, totally over-the-top defense of me—
I thought it was the coolest thing in the whole world.


INT. CLASSROOM – LATER THAT DAY

The TEACHER spends an entire lesson explaining chickenpox in detail. The boys who teased YUU bow their heads and apologize in front of the class.

YUU (V.O.)
The teacher used all of first period to explain what chickenpox was.
The boys who mocked me had to apologize in front of everyone.
I’m pretty sure it traumatized them more than it did me.

Cut to HIKARI, looking proud beyond belief.

YUU (V.O.)
Hikari couldn’t stop grinning.
She’d won. Her version of justice had been served.


EXT. SCHOOLYARD – SUNSET

YUU and HIKARI walk together. The light is warm. Their backpacks sway.

HIKARI (brightly):
From now on, if anything happens—just come to me, okay, Ta~kun!

YUU (blushing):
O-Okay...
Thanks, Hikari-chan.

YUU (V.O.)
...Though, she didn’t even remember my real name at the time.

YUU (V.O.)
And that’s how my life as “Ta~kun,” her childhood friend, began.


INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT

Teenaged YUU now lies in bed, staring at the ceiling. The glow of memory lingers.

YUU (V.O.)
Takamura Yuu.
First grade me had no idea...
That she would turn out to be the hardest boss in the game...
And that I would still be hung up on her all these years later.
 
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Apparently it's going to be important seems like it's showing Yuu and Hikari first meeting and is done from Yuu's POV
Good decision from them I think. Kinda saves us from a long Yuu flashback in the (main) manga, while still covering their past and potentially explaining some of the first volume parts where we need Yuu's POV.
 
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I've found if I copy the Japanese text on note.com/saranami and put the following prompt on ChatGPT it gives me a decent enough outcome. Prompt: "Please translate the following text from Japanese to English. Please format it with screenplay-style dialogue, making it easier to read like a scene from an anime." Don't make fun of me for saying please to an AI lol.

Of course! Here is your translation adapted into screenplay-style dialogue, formatted to feel like a scene from an anime — warm, emotional, and character-focused:


EXT. SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD – SPRING – DAY

A pair of nearly identical houses sit side by side. The camera pans to a modest, sunlit room where a YOUNG BOY (YUU, 6) peers out from behind a closed curtain.

YUU (V.O.)
It was the March before first grade when the Takamura and Shirasaka families moved into these matching houses—side by side.

FLASHBACK – INT. BEDROOM – DAY

Young YUU lies in bed, scratching at the fading spots of a chickenpox outbreak.

YUU (V.O.)
A month earlier, I’d come down with a nasty case of chickenpox. I never even got to say goodbye to my kindergarten friends before we moved.
Even after April came, I still had scabs all over my face and body.
I couldn’t bring myself to go outside... or even step into the garden.

His parents stand worried in the doorway, whispering, unsure of what to do.

YUU (V.O.)
My parents must’ve been at their wits’ end. But they never forced me. Never scolded me.
They just let me stay in, doing whatever I wanted... which turned out to be a whole lot of nothing.

INT. BEDROOM – DAY (PRESENT)

YUU sits on his bed, bored, tired, lonely. He stands up, hesitates, then pushes open the window for the first time.

YUU (V.O.)
Then one Sunday... everything changed.

A GIRL’S VOICE (O.S.)
Ah! There you are!

YUU (startled):
Eh!?

Across the narrow space between the houses, a girl about his age leans out her window, chin resting in her hand, grinning.

YUU (V.O.)
No pretty view. Just the same prefab wall. The same layout. The same window.
Only—this time—it wasn’t just a window.

GIRL:
Hey, hey! What’s with those spots all over your face?

YUU (V.O.)
Her second sentence. We’d just met and—bam—straight to the disease.

YUU:
...uh...

GIRL:
Huh?

YUU:
UWAHHHHHHHH!!

GIRL:
EH!? WHAAAT!?

Cue both households erupting into chaos as both sets of parents rush to figure out what just happened.

YUU (V.O.)
I cried so loud both living rooms heard me. Her parents apologized so much it felt like we should’ve been apologizing.
Then they scolded her too harshly and she started crying...
...so my parents apologized back.

YUU (V.O.)
It was a disaster. But honestly? That one crazy incident somehow pulled our families together.
Even now, it’s the go-to story anytime we have dinner together.


INT. TAKAMURA HOUSE – FRONT DOOR – NEXT MORNING

DING-DONG!

YUU’S MOTHER opens the door. There stands HIKARI (the girl from yesterday), wearing her backpack and beaming like the sun.


YUU (V.O.)
The very next day, she came over—completely ignoring the awkwardness—and invited me to school.


INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – CLASSROOM – MOMENTS LATER

YUU and HIKARI walk in. Several BOYS notice YUU and immediately point and jeer.

BOY 1:
Whoa! What’s up with this guy? He’s covered in gross spots!

BOY 2:
Ew, ew, back off! Don’t touch me, dude!

YUU (V.O.)
The scabs had healed, but first graders don’t know the difference.
As soon as one boy started, the others followed.
And I... I felt that same tight sadness rising up.
The one from last weekend. The one that meant tears were coming.

HIKARI (furious):
YOU CAN’T SAY STUFF LIKE THAT!!!

The room falls silent. Her voice echoes—loud enough to shake the teacher’s lounge.

HIKARI (red-faced, yelling):
That’s a normal sickness anyone can get, okay!?
Any of YOU could get it too!

HIKARI:
It really hurt, you know! He had to tough it out, put on medicine, and get better so he could come to school!

HIKARI (beaming with pride):
So that makes him amazing! Way more amazing than you all!

YUU (V.O.)
I recognized those words.
She was just parroting the scolding her parents gave her the day before.
There wasn’t any deep meaning behind it.
She probably didn’t even really understand what she was saying.

YUU (V.O.)
But still...
Her clumsy, second-hand, totally over-the-top defense of me—
I thought it was the coolest thing in the whole world.


INT. CLASSROOM – LATER THAT DAY

The TEACHER spends an entire lesson explaining chickenpox in detail. The boys who teased YUU bow their heads and apologize in front of the class.

YUU (V.O.)
The teacher used all of first period to explain what chickenpox was.
The boys who mocked me had to apologize in front of everyone.
I’m pretty sure it traumatized them more than it did me.

Cut to HIKARI, looking proud beyond belief.

YUU (V.O.)
Hikari couldn’t stop grinning.
She’d won. Her version of justice had been served.


EXT. SCHOOLYARD – SUNSET

YUU and HIKARI walk together. The light is warm. Their backpacks sway.

HIKARI (brightly):
From now on, if anything happens—just come to me, okay, Ta~kun!

YUU (blushing):
O-Okay...
Thanks, Hikari-chan.

YUU (V.O.)
...Though, she didn’t even remember my real name at the time.

YUU (V.O.)
And that’s how my life as “Ta~kun,” her childhood friend, began.


INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT

Teenaged YUU now lies in bed, staring at the ceiling. The glow of memory lingers.

YUU (V.O.)
Takamura Yuu.
First grade me had no idea...
That she would turn out to be the hardest boss in the game...
And that I would still be hung up on her all these years later.
Thanks! Only skimmed over it, but this seems to have come out better than the translation it gave me!

Good decision from them I think. Kinda saves us from a long Yuu flashback in the (main) manga, while still covering their past and potentially explaining some of the first volume parts where we need Yuu's POV.
Yeah I agree happy about it this was basically my exact prediction on what the next arc was gonna be so guess I was half right! Only thing that worries me slightly is if it gives alot of important insight on Yuu and his past with Hikari people missing it since it's not in the manga
 
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Only thing that worries me slightly is if it gives alot of important insight on Yuu and his past with Hikari people missing it since it's not in the manga
A lot of people are missing the main novel chapters too, which often have important details that manga version skips. It's no big deal, you can always reference something from the novel in discussions and link it just to show where it can be found.
Sad that the guy who was translating novel chapters stopped. MTL is awkward sometimes.
 
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By the way seems we're getting some bonus novel chapter white the manga is on hiatus

https://x.com/sa_ra_na_mi/status/1938885083403895198?


https://note.com/saranami/n/n7a0eb474a93d

Apparently it's going to be important seems like it's showing Yuu and Hikari first meeting and is done from Yuu's POV

Tried running it through chat GPT like @Litreara does but only like 95% sure I did it right never used chat GPT before

Our two families—The Takamuras and the Shirasakas—moved into neighboring identical prefab houses in March, the year Hikari and I were about to start elementary school.

Just before that, at the end of February, I came down with a terrible case of chickenpox right before graduation from kindergarten and the move. I couldn’t even say goodbye to my kindergarten friends and ended up moving into this house without closure.

Even after the move, in April, my body was still covered in the aftermath—rashes and scabs from the illness. As a result, I barely attended school and ended up in something like self-imposed truancy right after starting first grade.

My face, arms, and legs were still covered in ugly spots. I hated the idea of going to school, being seen in the neighborhood, or even stepping out into the yard. I cried and refused every time. My parents were clearly at their wit's end, but they didn’t scold or force me. They just let me be.

So for a while, I shut myself in my room, spending my days lying in bed, staying up at night because I couldn’t sleep, completely free—yet not happy at all.

Then, on one Sunday, that miserable daily routine shattered.


---

"Ah! There you are!"
"Huh…?"

That day, bored as usual, I casually opened the window of my room for the first time since we moved in. Just on a whim.

But the view outside wasn’t some wide, open scenery. It was the wall of another identical house—typical of prefab homes—and directly across from my window was another window.

And in that window was… not a reflection, but a girl about my age, resting her chin on her hand, staring right at me.


---

"Heyyy, hey! What’s with all those spots on you?"
"Wha—?!"

The very first time we saw each other, she—Hikari Shirasaka—blurted out a question about the marks left on my body by my illness.

It was pure, innocent curiosity from a child. I know that now that I’ve gotten to know her well. There’s no doubt about that.

But for a shy first-grade boy, being asked something like that out of nowhere by a girl he just met? It was… well, brutal.


---

"...uh…"
"Huh?"
"Uuuu…waaahhhh!"
"Wha—EHHHHH?!"

I cried—so loudly the neighbors could probably hear me. Both our families were stunned.

Afterward, Hikari’s parents found out why I cried and rushed over to our house to apologize, bowing repeatedly. They even scolded Hikari harshly in return, making her cry too, and then my parents felt terrible… It was a whole mess of apologies and guilt.

Still, that intense first meeting ended up kickstarting over ten years of close friendship between the Takamura and Shirasaka families.

To this day, whenever both families get together for dinner or an outing, this story always comes up. Hikari gets mad, I get embarrassed, and everyone laughs. It's a classic.


---

The next morning, the doorbell rang. When Mom opened the door… there she was.
Hikari, with her school bag on, grinning ear to ear—completely ignoring the mood—and asking me to walk to school with her.


---

At school…


---

"Hey, look at this kid! He’s covered in gross spots!"
"Ugh, gross! Stay away, man!"
"……"

Led by Hikari, I nervously made it to the classroom… only to be immediately hit with jeers from the boys.

Sure, the rashes had scabbed over and weren’t contagious anymore—but no first-grader could know that.

One by one, boys started mocking me. Before I knew it, ten of them had joined in, shouting and laughing.

I was about to cry again, thinking, “I never should’ve come…”


---

"YOU CAN’T SAY STUFF LIKE THAT! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!"

Her voice echoed through the entire classroom—maybe even reached the staff room.

The girl who brought me here, Hikari, stood there, face bright red, yelling.


---

"It’s a disease anyone can catch! You could all get it too!"
"It really hurt, okay?! He put on medicine, toughed it out, and now he finally made it to school!"
"That makes him amazing! Way more amazing than any of you!"

…Those words sounded really familiar.

Yeah. It was almost word-for-word what her parents had scolded her with the day before.

So, no, those weren’t her own words. It wasn’t some deep understanding or insight.
She was just parroting what her mom and dad had told her.

And maybe… she hadn’t even truly understood it herself.


---

But even so…
That clumsy, borrowed, self-righteous speech of hers—

I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.


---

During first period, the teacher used the whole class to explain my condition in detail.

The boys who teased me had to apologize in front of everyone. (Honestly, probably traumatized them too.)
Justice was served. And Hikari? She wore a smug look the whole time.


---

That was the day I had my fateful encounter—and fell in love for the first time.

Looking back now, there’s plenty to critique in how she handled things.
When I told this story to four of my friends, three of them said, “You fell for her over THAT?”

But I didn’t care.

Back then, I was saved by her clumsiness… and by the way she stood up for me without needing a reason.


---

"From now on, if anything ever happens, tell me, okay? Ta~kun!"
"Y-yeah… thanks, Hikari-chan."

…That said, she didn’t actually remember my real name correctly.

And so began my life as “Ta~kun,” her childhood friend.


---

Takamura Yuu, first grader at the time.

Back then, I never imagined she’d be such an impossible girl to win over…
Or that I’d turn out to be such a hopeless romantic clinging to my feelings.


---

Also was said in a tweet we're getting another chapter on July 14
https://x.com/sa_ra_na_mi/status/1939459112279965739?t=pJzC50WsC5Yi1cA93uLtOw&s=19


Edit: Litreara sorry for pinging you I wasn't thinking when I put that @ before your username lol
Thanks for the ping! I meant to check yesterday but got sidetracked by a far superior form of literature—and completely forgot.

To add to your post, here's what Maruto posted on his X account:

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今回からしばらく続くこのお話、実はシリーズの重要な根幹となるお話なのですが、あまりに華やかさに欠けるためお蔵入りになるところでした。という訳で種明かしの回、夕編スタートです #さらなみ

This story, which will continue for a while starting from this installment, is actually a crucial core part of the series, but it almost got shelved for being too lacking in flashiness. And so, here begins the reveal arc: the Yuu Arc starts now. #Saranami

So it’s going to be Yuu’s arc... Let’s see if Maruto finally shows what these girls find so special about him, because so far, I just don’t see it. Haven’t read it yet—gonna do my MTL and post it.
 

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