1/11 - Vol. 7 Ch. 20 - Shinomori Hayato

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And so they fucked happily ever after the end :)

It took me awhile to realize the format of how the story is told. Not a big fan it's all over the fucking place. I would advice you skip the majority of the chapters except for the one with the Dead girl and the girl Mc fucks
 
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17 more chapters after this, there better be a lot of fucking and prego'd happening with the newly we'd couple or we got a problem over here
 
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I advise against skipping all the chapters. While It's true that the story is told in a non-linear format, I think that this is a unique and refreshing way to tell episodic chapters. Each story is interesting and poignant and when you add them all together, you can see the three-dimensions of the characters' personality. If you're only interesting in the fucking and pregnancies, then by all means, that's also a way to enjoy this story. I just happen to like the different way that the protagonist influences others' lives.
 
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There's that saying, "it's about the journey", right?
That Andou will realize his and Shiki's dream isnt't the most important. Yes, it's essential, but the more important is how Andou will get there, how he will continue to have and impact and be impacted by others along the way. The author had the best decision in telling this story with no chronology.

Hope this little precious manga will continue and be translated.

And not least... I still have funny things about this.
Yeah, Shiki loved Andou, but not only in a romantic way. And Andou loved her back.
Would be wrong to make then "destined lovers", but even so... damn, I certainly hadn't the same impact as when I first watched Cross Game, but her death grew with me (though her back story was necessary), and makes me witch everything for some sort of magical, fantastic, and bullshit reason to bring her back. I want to see her coming back, maybe Andou and Nina will have a back and name her Shiki (or Tsuyoshi) and it'll be implied that it's Shiki's reincarnation.
Don't matter how, I just want to see that innocent soul well.
 
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Well, this felt pretty sudden, but it’s nice in its own way. It’s bittersweet since it feels like Sora and Shiki were made for each other, and yet fated to never be, and part of me can’t help but wish for her to somehow come back, regardless of how ridiculous the method.

The other part of me really appreciates that the author kept it real. Even though the start with Shiki’s spirit was wild, I’ve heard more than a couple real stories like that, which although impossible to prove and hard to believe, also don’t exactly seem to be lies.

Surprisingly, I’ve actually liked the non-linear storytelling. I do think the author has made a couple mistakes with it, either going too far ahead too early in, or, like in this chapter, going to a part of Sora’s life that I’d thought we’d already explored all the way.

I think just one more chapter, even a short one, showing how Sora came to partially move on from Shiki and start falling for Nina is really needed. He never seemed more than friendly to her in previous chapters, and there was no real hint about him having a wife as a pro, plus in both before and after, he still seemed very connected and concerned about Shiki, so it’s hard for me to imagine how this happened.
 
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Just wanted to reread this chapter and I ended up crying again lol

At Wreavant's message below, I think Sora and Shiki's relationship was strictly platonic, it's like two bros who love playing the same sport.
 

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