Kesa mo Yuraretemasu - Ch. 40 - Tonight, Things Begin To Move Forward

[gamria]

What their name straight up anagram of Orihime and Hikoboshi !?

To quote myself from an earlier post:

To give better context, the celebration of Tanabata is inspired by the Chinese Qixi Festival, based on the legend that this is the day when the deities and lovers Hikoboshi and Orihime are able to meet once a year from across the heavens, and thus the original olden Qixi Festival served as a Valentine's of sorts.

• Hoshino Hikoichi / 星野 彦一 - the "彦/Hiko" and "星/Hoshi" in his name references 彦星/Hikoboshi.
• Himeori Nayu / 姫織 七夕 - flipped around, 織姫/Orihime. Furthermore, 七夕 is straight up a reference to Tanabata (term literally meaning "Evening of the Seventh")

The original tale, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is in itself is inspired by Chinese astronomy, when two stars (known in the west as Altair and Vega respectively) pass by each other from across the Milky Way once a year. Lovers who can only see each other for a brief time, not unlike our pair who can only briefly see each other for 20 minutes per day.

...but, is 20 minutes all the time they'll have, now and forevermore?

 

[MaTu94]

I foolishly expected them to recognize they're in love but well, they're innocent and go slow, at least it's progress and luckily it'll go faster from now on though the texting fase is dangerous, you can get stuck on friendship due to familiarity but it'll obviously not be the case even if they use it for tension in future chapters.
For a second I thought this'd be the end with a friendship open ending and best wishes from the readers.

Thanks a lot for the scanlation ^.^

 

[MaTu94]

To quote myself from an earlier post:

Very interesting, thanks for the info.

 

[hsolja]

Wooooooo!!! Had the biggest grin working this!!
On another note, the cleaner for this series, @hsolja, this will be the last chapter he'll be working on this series. Life has become a little too busy for him, but we wish him all the best! Thanks for all your hard work mate, I know how hard this series is to clean, but you made it look easy!

thanks for the translation!

 

[elroid]

This is so peak. And it is only just officially befriending

TAMAYAAAAAAAAA

 

[undeadman]

So peak it got me making noises like I'm eating my pillow

 

[Esax_08]

Only 15 hours and this chapter already more comments than most previous chapters…

Lunch break can’t come fast enough

 

[mattserino]

FRIENDS??? All that drama for friends and contact info?
Would you kindly fuck off author?

 

[knewworld]

i swear that more often than not, i feel like i'm reading a Shounen because of how intense each chapter is .

 

[mangadexer01]

TAAAAMAAAAYAAAAA!!! OH MY GAAWWWDDD SMILING EAR TO EAR RIGHT NOW!!

But tbh, I thought the story would end there. How will things change now that they've gone past the first hurdle of young love?!
AhhhH!!! It's sugar to my veins!!

 

[Makinya]

With her touching his hand like that, Japan's population suddenly grew by a full generation.
Let me give a more insightful comment about this chapter: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Mrnuage]

Let's see how it will continue now. Will it accelerate and we'll see them going to the aquarium, amusement park, eating cakes and all these usual romance manga stuff, or do the author prefer having a slower pace where sending a message to say "hi" will be an ordeal?

 

[someonevibing]

peak

 

[glassedboi]

ABSOLUTE TAMAYAAAAA

 

[WhyIsCaptcha99]

It took 40 gawd damn chapters for this?!?? 💀🔫

 

[YamiryuuZero]

THEY DID IT!!!! Now they can talk as much as they want!!!!

And the three stooges won't be able to hear their conversation in private.

 

[Kababman]

TAMAYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[Oculunus]

TAMAYAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[Oculunus]

Slow-burn romance so slow it took them 40 chapters to confirm they are friends

 

[Mivy]

GUYS THEY DID OMG OMG and page 15-16 amazing faces from our spectators