I mean, Ch. 1 literally states the curtains have already been drawn. We know these ships are going to wreck, we're just here to watch it happen.
EDIT: dang it I should have labeled one of the Spartans as Inori, she's in-universe here for this, too.
It doesn't fit the timeline though (starting when uichi/yotsuba were in 5th grade), that's 2 years before the start of middle school.
The only thing given in the story so far that happened around that time was yotsuba changing orphanages and getting adopted, and some characters that have been...
Very first chapter, he starts to imagine that but stops quickly. Then Yotsuha herself appears on a time-traveling mission to make his life better, so it never happened again. I imagine in the timeline without Yotsuha, he stopped being able to fight the thoughts and it got to the point we see...
Eh, I don't to get into too specific details of my past on a website for Japanese manga, but it was an endurance sport where events were over an hour long. So, very different from the few minutes of a figure skating program. Can still find parallels in unusual places in this manga, though!
She...
I've never felt the need to comment before, but I saw some WILD takes on this thread so I finally feel the need to put in my two cents.
I used to be a competitive athlete many years ago. Nothing like figure skating, but even so, Medalist hooked me with the nostalgia and memories (both good and...
@jimmysuzuki Ch. 161 and "the dark pit of concentration" I took to mean that concentrating on Shogi has been his escape from life, and he only got to be as good as he did because he wanted to escape all the time. But now that he doesn't want to escape life, he can't concentrate as well as he...