What makes you think he likes this arc?
It's crazy how you read someone calmly analyzing character's behavior instead of being mad at a fictional high school girl and immediately assume they love the arc.
I went and checked comments for 23 and only found one that said he could mean some sort of rivalry/catching up. Or which comment section do you mean?
And my point is that he told Seki nothing about it, zero. You are suggesting that he would talk a lot about his love, but that never happened in...
Because it'd be obvious to anyone just from the context
And in that scene he doesn't mention Hikari himself.
And later (in the story) he didn't tell Seki anything about his love interest, even though he brought her up.
No, seriously, every scene with him shows that he's not someone who will...
@story645 means the novel version of chapter 13.5.
But Yami likely only meant that scene at the love hotel (chapter 24), that's the only time when we saw him bring up Hikari of his own volition. In every scene after that Yuu was shown to be uncomfortable talking about Hikari, because it hurt...
That part wasn't in the manga, but it's still your own misinterpretation. Just from the way chapter 40 or chapter 43 played out you can tell that wasn't the case for him, his POV chapters are just more direct about it.
That's just factually incorrect, we have his POV chapters about it.
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/imasara-desuga-osananajimi-o-suki-ni-natteshimaimashita-ch-41-everything-falling-apart.2308230/post-27126570...
I get your point more clearly now. I don't think the inn would ever cross his mind, even if he genuinely started considering places like that, but I do agree with your point about him underestimating how much he matters to Hikari. And I think the same came up in chapter 40, but in relation to...
It was Yami who took the trains, Hikari only followed. I think it was written in that chapter, but Maruto also confirmed in his tweet about it.
They took a taxi to the inn afterwards, so I guess that's when Hikari was the one making decisions.
Sure, it's not random, but the point is that they...
She chose it because they were nearby, she wasn't planning to go there.
It worked with Yami and the bus stop because that's the place she met Yuu first and where she became friends with Hikari under questionable circumstances. So, the strongest memories and within their reach, not a random...
@ShiroiElTsukai @vipguy64 the page order is wrong, 6 and 7 should be swapped. 8 and 9 too.
That's a stretch. They have hundreds of shared memories, how is he supposed to guess she and Yami went in all sorts of random directions to arrive at the inn they once stayed at?
And that's why I included two of the things you listed in that one scenario.
Will you finally answer my original question or do you just want to "win the argument"?
Undermines which argument? I don't think I'm contesting anything here.
I'm reading those posts and they never say anything about...
Putting words in your mouth? I took one of the scenarios you yourself suggested would be satisfying and simply asked if that’s what you’d actually want.
What I usually see in these threads is that 99% of the hate comes from people on their moral high horses. They go on about how unsatisfying it...
This is addressing the premise, "the background". It's a "what if it was a different story".
And that would be satisfying? If Yuu's mother went "Sorry, I was too prideful to admit I made a wrong choice of abandoning you" +something about Miyuki, would you or others really find it a satisfying...