Haha Naru Umi - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[Mashii52]

I need a whole series of them raising the child together

 

[RenTenshiki]

I am conflicted on how I feel after reading this. The misunderstanding of the two childhood friends is endearing and adorable. On the other hand the partner just hand waves the fact that the MC was sleeping around this whole time and got pregnant doing so. Feels like the two sides of the story don't mesh well for me.

 

[RouHeo]

I'm not used to such mature subject matter in manga, tbh. This is a strange mix of happy oneshot and sad oneshot, I'm just glad this wasn't tragedy yuri and it has a happy ending.

 

[KimKowabunga]

Now the other one needs to get pregnant too just to keep it fair

 

[Painasbread]

This story is very disgusting and wild. Just reading page nine is like a wtf moment for me.
This is nothing like what happens in real life.
The parents are nonexistent.

Edit disclaimer: She's already gotten past middle school, so most of what I said in the spoiler comes from a wrong assumption. But even if that's true, with the writing not making this clear and the drawing being petite and cute, it could totally be in middle school.
If you don't make it clear, you're kind of giving the image this happens in middle school, and that's a very disgusting image to give, even if it's unintended, and it's also not a token of good writing.

Spoiler

She fucked around enough to not know who the father is in MIDDLE SCHOOL??? That doesn't make sense ("Junior high schools (中学校 chūgakkō) (7th-9th grade) are for children aged twelve through fifteen years old.").
Who in their right mind would keep the baby when still being in middle school? It's drawn like a happy fairy tale; they're gonna get married and live happily ever after, but this is totally impossible in reality. Just to write a flirty love relationship of two females who discover themselves at this age.
Don't go feed this bs to your daughters.

Obviously they're both still living at their parents' place, but their parents or advising doctors don't exist in this story, and that's just not happening in reality.
They'll both have to drop out to pay rent; they won't have any way of sustaining themselves at this age like this. You don't want a future like that for the baby and yourself. No sane parent would allow this. I believe so, at least.

In the off chance her parents pay for her life and the baby's life until the girl can make a decent living on her own, well it would mean the parents can afford to do so and have a caretaker for the baby for the girl to make a life of herself at this time. Or one of the girls drops out to mitigate the cost. But you still fucked your prospects for this, at least for one of them. And all of this is still highly improbably happening. And it would happen with way more pain than how it's depicted in this story.
This is a ridiculous fantasy.

To conclude: I'm not a fan of the way things are used at all, just for a lovey-dovey story. I think this is dumb, unaware, and irresponsible writing.

 

[lolLMAOeven]

So Haru's a cuck, then. Ew.

 

[Burner5]

This story is very disgusting and wild. Just reading page nine is like a wtf moment for me.
This is nothing like what happens in real life.
The parents are nonexistent.
She fucked around enough to not know who the father is in MIDDLE SCHOOL??? That doesn't make sense ("Junior high schools (中学校 chūgakkō) (7th-9th grade) are for children aged twelve through fifteen years old.").
Who in their right mind would keep the baby when still being in middle school? It's drawn like a happy fairy tale; they're gonna get married and live happily ever after, but this is totally impossible in reality. Just to write a flirty love relationship of two females who discover themselves at this age.
Don't go feed this bs to your daughters.

Obviously they're both still living at their parents' place, but their parents or advising doctors don't exist in this story, and that's just not happening in reality.
They'll both have to drop out to pay rent; they won't have any way of sustaining themselves at this age like this. You don't want a future like that for the baby and yourself. No sane parent would allow this. I believe so, at least.

In the off chance her parents pay for her life and the baby's life until the girl can make a decent living on her own, well it would mean the parents can afford to do so and have a caretaker for the baby for the girl to make a life of herself at this time. Or one of the girls drops out to mitigate the cost. But you still fucked your prospects for this, at least for one of them. And all of this is still highly improbably happening.

I'm not a fan of the way things are used at all, just for a lovey-dovey story. I think this is dumb, unaware, and irresponsible writing.

She only started dating in middle school. She's a final year highschool student. You can tell because the uniform she has on in the panel where it talks about her dating is a different style from her current one, they are talking about college and the tracksuit the childhood friend/lover gives her is for a final year student.

 

[Micipus]

This is cute but the mc is very questionable... Like you're barely an adult but you want to keep a baby? immature mom will make the kid's life painful, it's obvious from her perspective that the mc is NOT ready for a child because she still has a childish mindset.

"oh she forgot our promise so I will fuck around to forget her!!"

It doesn't work like that. And this story also proves that she doesn't think for the long run. Like "I will keep this baby but that's it!" Raising a child is a big responsibility... like the love interest pointed out, the mc needs to think of multiple things + a dozen more that wasn't mentioned.

It is definitely not fair to the love interest... I'm surprised that she haven't even left her already. She's definitely not realistic but I think it's sweet meeting someone like her. Maybe like 1/1000 chance you'll meet someone like her. She has such a kind heart that it's becoming like dumb...

I like how the story progress, the love interest accepting her and even help her going through this and accepting this 'accident' as a part of her (new) life. I love the good ending and how the love interest doesn't leave the mc. But there's like almost zero chance that this will happen in real life. I think this story's writing is sweet, but bad.

 

[Shmeep]

Mixing childhood marriage promises with teen pregnancy makes for an odd cake. I'm not against the idea, but a oneshot feels a bit short for trying to process it all in a nuanced way.

Summarizing this as "person at their lowest realizes true love and is able to move forward with confidence and support" makes it a bit more digestible.

 

[Painasbread]

She only started dating in middle school. She's a final year highschool student. You can tell because the uniform she has on in the panel where it talks about her dating is a different style from her current one, they are talking about college and the tracksuit the childhood friend/lover gives her is for a final year student.

Well, then the decision to keep the child is a bit more understandable with that in mind. Not that it's what she should do or not, I wouldn't know.
I think it's advisable to not keep the child in the vast majority of cases, though. Because like I said, raising a child when learning, working or going to university is not doable without help. You have to afford that help and be lucky enough to get it.

That's not something that happens so easily in reality like how this story wants us to try and imagine.

 

[SilentMea]

This can stay a one shot, do situations like this happen in reality? Yes, do i want to read them in depth?... not particularly when it could have all been cleared up with 1 conversation, 1 mention of the promise. Its reminding me of the manga where the girl didn't want to date her friend because she said she didn't care about romance in elementary and took that energy in high school to keep rejecting that friends obvious hints. But turned up to 11 here because that happens and you go "oh yeah????? Then I'll fuck around to forget you!" Which i don't even like that in real life
However was interesting to see and i look forward to what this author cooks up with more adult leads because as of now she could do some diabolical storys i may enjoy with actual adult characters!

 

[Burner5]

Well, then the decision to keep the child is a bit more understandable with that in mind. Not that it's what she should do or not, I wouldn't know.
I think it's advisable to not keep the child in the vast majority of cases, though. Because like I said, raising a child when learning, working or going to university is not doable without help. You have to afford that help and be lucky enough to get it.

That's not something that happens so easily in reality like how this story wants us to try and imagine.

Yeah, normally it isn't wise to have a child until you have at least some source of steady income that doesn't require the mother to work for a long period of time. However, this story isn't going for realism (see how the child's father is not involved at all in the story, see how she doesn't know or even attempt to know who the father is and see how the financial/social/emotional downsides of childbirth aren't mentioned). Rather, it's more a dramatisation of what happens when people aren't clear with their emotions with a happy ending.

 

[ClarityX21]

Regret for reading this, even Netsuzou Trap still better than this sh*it

 

[ScarecrowB]

This was every single mom's wet dream, fucking around without finding out.

 

[Loliconi]

not gonna lie, I thought this would go differently but it did actually end up reading like a comedic and fantasy-esque approach towards teen pregnancy. Whatever.
Something like Haru wearing the ring as a necklace now that it (should) be too small and Umi seeing noticing after the pregnancy comes up and her sleeping around and throwing away her own ring to bring some kind of.. conflict? I don't want to call it repercussion tho.

The page explaining the title and what the author's intention might've (most probably) been did kinda salvage it for me and I can appreciate and enjoy what this is supposed to be (I think?) a lot more. TY for both that and the TL!

 

[metal4orce]

That was wild

 

[Haruka]

I am conflicted on how I feel after reading this. The misunderstanding of the two childhood friends is endearing and adorable. On the other hand the partner just hand waves the fact that the MC was sleeping around this whole time and got pregnant doing so. Feels like the two sides of the story don't mesh well for me.

Yeah it's quite disturbing.
Hard to feel it's a "cute misunderstanding" or a nice love story when it took only one thing to make her fuck enough people not to know who it could be.

 

[InsertBagelRelatedPunHere]

This is one of those stories that falls apart completely the second you pay attention to literally any detail in it.

 

[Yuri_Enjoyer_Deluxe]

Two moms strategy...

Interesting tactics... who would toughen up the little one is my curious question, as usually the man is the one that does that (not saying woman cant, just how it usually is)