Kakkoii Onnanoko to 12-centi no Yakusoku - Ch. 57 - Introductions

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I'm very fond of this manga, but I just have to quibble with something here. I get to page 5 of this chapter and Ibuki's mom is talking on the phone to Tomo's mom like it's the first time ever, and then the parents are meeting for the first time and stuff. WTF? Tomo and Ibuki have been inseparable since they were kids, how did their parents completely avoid contact all these years?
 
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I'm very fond of this manga, but I just have to quibble with something here. I get to page 5 of this chapter and Ibuki's mom is talking on the phone to Tomo's mom like it's the first time ever, and then the parents are meeting for the first time and stuff. WTF? Tomo and Ibuki have been inseparable since they were kids, how did their parents completely avoid contact all these years?
It's possibly a Japanese thing, like that trope of summer break magically preventing schoolmates from meeting up more than once or twice in a month.
 
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Thank you for your hard work translating this manga. :hearts: :hearts::hearts:
Let's hope someone will pick it up!
 
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WTF? Tomo and Ibuki have been inseparable since they were kids, how did their parents completely avoid contact all these years?
The story started in their first year of high school, four years after the titular promise was made, which Chapter 1 establishes as basically the start of their friendship, for which Chapter 2 frames their typical proximity as being in neighboring classes the whole time.

Tomo implicitly hadn't invited Ibuki over to his house before the end of Chapter 11. Chapter 12 establishes that she hadn't met any of his siblings or his mother, and his mother had only known of her by Tomo's accounts before that visit; he briefly spoke to Ibuki's mother on the phone before that, and from the looks of it Ibuki's mom is a working single parent with no other children.

Not everybody brings their school friends over to their house between the ages of 12 and 16. Add to this Ibuki having had two different isolating gender-performance dynamics in that time, and it's unlikely for her to have had any friends over to her house while her mom was home in that time.
 
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Man, as a SEAn I can't comprehend (and am kinda jealous of) parents being happy that their child found a partner at that age. Most people hide their relationships as long as possible until they're very sure they're in for long term, and when they're old enough. It's super common for parents to express disapproval, the main reason being to focus on studies (at least in Singapore)
 

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