Kono Koi wo Hoshi ni wa Negawanai - Vol. 5 Ch. 24

[MangaDex]

 

[Raknasuu]

I swear if that wedding dress ends up being a fake out...

 

[FionaWitch]

Every last suspenseful scene makes me anxious.

 

[kyowli]

This is the second to last chapter and while short, I think it's really sweet. I don't particularly think there's anything to be suspicious about the ending and am 98% sure it will be a happy ending, but knowing the author it's better to wait and see anyway LOL.

Fun fact: The JP title (この恋を星には願わない) is quite different from the English subtitle(There is No Love Wishing Upon a Star). When rendered directly, it means something along the lines of: "For this love, I won't wish it upon a star."

Because of the specific grammar used, it implies a silent follow-up: "I won't wish it upon a star... (but I will wish it to something/someone else)."

It invites the question: If not the stars, then to what/whom?

The implied question is referenced in the dialogue on Pages 14 and 15.

 

[Tcof]

This is the second to last chapter and while short, I think it's really sweet. I don't particularly think there's anything to be suspicious about the ending and am 98% sure it will be a happy ending, but knowing the author it's better to wait and see anyway LOL.

Thanks to this chapter, we now know the original title's phrasing implies the question "if not to the stars, then to what or whom will the wish be directed?"

Define happy ending. There will be a wedding, mean character doing fine for themselve. Do that make it tragedy, if it not dead set on certain someone or they doomed to all life time ?
Should Fuyuki not ever be happy, if it not granted by Eri. they going out now but there are still a whole life a head of them, so what if Eri and her didn't work out, she should be sad for life ?

Hence why i think the better lesson this work could show is: Fuyuki and Eri finally together, but it not last, and that is totally fine, they still have their whole life ahead

 

[cowbirdcowbird]

TITLE DROP HOLY CINEMA

 

[SrNevik]

This is the second to last chapter and while short, I think it's really sweet. I don't particularly think there's anything to be suspicious about the ending and am 98% sure it will be a happy ending, but knowing the author it's better to wait and see anyway LOL.

Thanks to this chapter, we now know the original title's phrasing implies the question "if not to the stars, then to what or whom will the wish be directed?"

It'll be fine. The ending is not setup for any kind of twist in that way. It wouldn't make sense to rug pull now. The marketing and merchandizing has not been ambiguous either. I'm interested in how they are in the future though. Expecting it to be equally sweet.

 

[thewomanliest]

wow this has been one emotional rollercoaster

 

[kyowli]

It'll be fine. The ending is not setup for any kind of twist in that way. It wouldn't make sense to rug pull now. The marketing and merchandizing has not been ambiguous either. I'm interested in how they are in the future though. Expecting it to be equally sweet.

That's what I think as well but upon discussing it with other people some are still worried Shinoa would pull a 360 and do an unexpected sad ending (based on her previous endings). However, in this case I personally just don't believe it's possible.

 

[SrNevik]

That's what I think as well but upon discussing it with other people some are still worried Shinoa would pull a 360 and do an unexpected sad ending (based on her previous endings). However, in this case I personally just don't believe it's possible.

Without going into details, those other short series had narrative buildup leading to a potentially and often expected negative ending. If this one ends with a rug pull it would be bad writing, not just a normal narrative choice.

There hasn't been a foundation for that set and much of its final chapters have been squarely in the genuine resolution stage without any hints of discord. If there was to be a hint of a bad ending, this chapter would have been the time and instead it did the opposite. The final chapter would have to be spent explaining the breakdown rather than actually resolving the story.

Also the marketing would look a bit almost cruel if that were the case. Even this morning she posted yet another wedding artwork of Fuyuki and Eri with the caption "Surprise," and happy. All the merch they're creating specifically to sell for the finale has all been happy and showing Fuyuki and Eri as a couple and sometimes in wedding attire etc. When people have expressed excitement for Eri and Fuyuki, the response has been to look forward to the finale. At some point that would become almost false advertisement.

Having said that, sometimes writers make weird decisions but I trust Shinoa.

 

[outinthegardener]

Blessed title drop as the story is ending. Undoomed Yuri, let's go!

 

[shinmera]

Aw, balm for the soul. Bless those two goobers.

 

[agolloh]

THE THING! SHE SAID THE THING!!! ✨ 😲 🫨 🔥 🦅

 

[Kamui]

That's what I think as well but upon discussing it with other people some are still worried Shinoa would pull a 360 and do an unexpected sad ending (based on her previous endings). However, in this case I personally just don't believe it's possible.

This is just silly, people can write more than one type of ending. Also, she has a pretty long one shot with an unambiguously happy ending. Not buts or ifs.

 

[Leemac13]

Justice for that senpai. She deserves to be happy.

 

[UdenEmpati]

This reminded me that Eri is older than Fuyuki.
And it would seem they've circled back to Eri being the one who reassures Fuyuki, who comforts her, who holds her hand.

When Fuyuki made her first wish, she almost seemed to become an older sibling; always running to Eri's side, but holding herself back and solving all of Eri's problems - and it makes sense; because that kept her in Eri's life. She was needed, and as long as she was needed, she could lock her feelings away and maintain that friendship.
And Eri affirmed that in her confession of every selfish ask and request, no matter how big or small.
And now with their ghosts around them, Eri has come full circle in taking Fuyuki's hand, like when they were children. Even as things have changed around them - staples of their youth gone, the bright day of childhood given way to the twilight of maturity - she repeats the pledge she made to Fuyuki, with an added reinforcement of what she'd said before:

That they would communicate, so that if things seemed like they headed toward troubled waters, they could figure it out together. No more being alone.

As a penultimate chapter, this felt brief, but it felt brief in the way that coming down from ecstasy can be brief - the sudden heady rush having passed, the quiet that follows all of the turbulent emotions and frantic energy, and you have that clarity that flows through in the wake of it all.
Which makes the hope in Fuyuki's words and the calm resolve in Eri's all the sweeter. "A moment of clarity" is often used when one's doubts or misgivings or realizations of things wrong have come to light - but here, it's simply a continued vow to not hide, to open up and remain connected.

And I think my favorite part was Fuyuki's confession over wishing her love away. Because it was the first instance of her running - from Eri, from her heart, from the risk of trying and failing.
But now, she will have to try, as will Eri, and together go day by day, slowly changing, continuing to grow and learn about themselves and one another. She's finally stopped trying to flee and take the easy--and more painful--way out, and the fact that it's Eri now granting her wish and not some far off point of light, feels correct in that.
Life is what you make of it. No higher body or being can magically turn things right; it takes work, it takes risk, it takes looking that fear in the face and pushing through if even the smallest chance of success exists. And so while it won't be simple....

I do think Fuyuki will have a happy life.



I cannot wait for the end. I am grateful for the journey that this has been, and for the growth I have had as a person along the way. Thank you for your time and effort and love working on this series.

 

[King_julien]

Thank you for the translation!

 

[rustyfeed]

thank you for the tl

my ship sinks i see.... maybe in another life, senpai will win

 

[RozemynePower]

Peak Yuri manga, I'm very satisfied. Some were very harsh on Eri and somewhat I was as well but she really cares about Fuyuki. I'm sure she will make our MC very happy.

Edit: Page 18 is the sweetest thing, love these two

 

[Brackass]

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